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  Security Scan Probe

  Introduction The Jenkins Security team offers a GitHub action that automatically scans the plugin source code during Continuous Integration and reports security issues. The Jenkins community considers using such tools to ensure a high-security level for plugins as a good practice. The Security Scan probe identifies whether the plugin is configured to execute the security action. Importance of the Probe This probe is essential from...

  

  Jagruti Tiwari July 16, 2023
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  Post Mortem of the 7th July 2023 Jenkins Infrastructure Outage

  On Friday 7th of July 2023, the Jenkins infrastructure suffered a major outage from 11:05am UTC until 15:25pm UTC with complete downtime of the following public services: accounts.jenkins.io fallback.get.jenkins.io get.jenkins.io incrementals.jenkins.io javadoc.jenkins.io plugin-health.jenkins.io plugin-site-issues.jenkins.io plugins.origin.jenkins.io plugins.jenkins.io rating.jenkins.io repo.azure.jenkins.io reports.jenkins.io stories.jenkins.io uplink.jenkins.io weekly.ci.jenkins.io www.origin.jenkins.io We also had complete downtime of the following non-public services: ldap.jenkins.io previews of *.jenkins.io pull requests (infra.ci.jenkins.io) In addition, there was disruption (partial or complete) of the following services: ci.jenkins.io infra.ci.jenkins.io issues.jenkins.io plugins.jenkins.io repo.jenkins-ci.org www.jenkins.io The public IPs of these services changed (DNS records...

  

  Damien DUPORTAL July 12, 2023
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  Jenkins June 2023 Newsletter

  Key Takeaways Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, and derivatives like CentOS 7, reach early end of life. Upgrades and improvements of Jenkins components continue with significant progress towards the eventual removal of Prototype.js from Jenkins core. Thanks to a kind donation from Launchable, pull requests to Jenkins core now complete their evaluation builds in 2 hours rather than the 6 hours that were...

  

  Damien DUPORTAL

  

  Mark Waite

  

  Bruno Verachten

  

  Wadeck Follonier

  

  Kevin Martens July 10, 2023
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  New Public IPv4 for Jenkins Mirrors

  The Jenkins project packages and plugins are hosted through a network of mirror servers (provided by our sponsors) close to your location. It provides a "HTTP redirector" service hosted behind the get.jenkins.io, mirrors.jenkins.io and mirrors.jenkins-ci.org domains, with a new public IP: `20.119.232.75` 20.7.178.24 (as per /blog/2023/07/12/jenkins-mirrors-postmortem-outage/) since the 12th of June 2023. The former redirector service and its previous IPv4 will be...

  

  Damien DUPORTAL June 22, 2023
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  How to remove deprecated plugins from Jenkins while using Docker

  The Jenkins plugin ecosystem is highly active, and it’s not uncommon to come across deprecated plugins. This can be both positive and negative. On the positive side, it signifies that the plugin is no longer necessary since its functionality has been integrated into Jenkins core or rendered obsolete by new features or technologies. On the downside, deprecation could indicate that the plugin is...

  

  Bruno Verachten

  

  Kevin Martens June 20, 2023
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  Jenkins May 2023 Newsletter

  Key Takeaways Jenkins plugin updates released to fix security vulnerabilities, advisory published on May 16. JDK8 support has been dropped in favor of JDK11 as the default for running Jenkins agents. Ssh-agent release 5.0.0 introduces breaking changes. Contributed by: Wadeck Follonier A Security Policy was added for the Docker images of the project. Due to multiple reports about CVEs present in the Docker images the project...

  

  Alyssa Tong

  

  Damien DUPORTAL

  

  Mark Waite

  

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  Wadeck Follonier June 20, 2023
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  End of life operating systems

  Beginning with Jenkins 2.407, May 30, 2023 and Jenkins 2.401.2, June 28, 2023, Jenkins administrators will be warned if they are running Jenkins on an operating system that is within 6 months of its end of life date. The warning includes the date when Jenkins will no longer be supported on that operating system version. It advises the administrator to upgrade to...

  

  Mark Waite May 30, 2023
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  Introducing Ashutosh Saxena as the GSoC 2023 Contributor Working on Docker Based Jenkins Quickstart Examples

  Hello, Jenkins community! I am really excited to be a GSoC 2023 contributor for Docker-based Jenkins quickstart examples project. In this blog post, I will take you through the details of the project in the following: Project Description The Docker-based Jenkins Quickstart Examples project aims to provide a quick and easy way for users to get started with Jenkins using Docker. By providing...

  

  Ashutosh Saxena May 26, 2023
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  GitHub sponsors the Jenkins project

  The Jenkins project has used GitHub since 2007. GitHub has been our source code hosting and management platform for almost as long as Jenkins has existed. Jenkins core and all its plugins live on GitHub. We are pleased to announce that GitHub sponsors the jenkinsci GitHub organization with enterprise features, such as autolink references. If you are a Jenkins plugin maintainer, you can now...

  

  Alexander Brandes May 25, 2023