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Brownout on Update Center (updates.jenkins.io): 26 and 27 September 2024

Summary (TL;DR) Note: this is a follow up of the 11 and 12 September 24 hours brownout. The service https://updates.jenkins.io will switch its implementation to a new system during 1 day: From Thursday 26 September 2024 from 07:00am UTC until Friday 27 September 2024 07:00am UTC All Jenkins users are impacted but should not see any functional change as we removed the HTTP to...

Stéphane Merle September 25, 2024
Brownout on Update Center (updates.jenkins.io): 11 and 12 September 2024

Summary (TL;DR) Note: this is a follow up of the 6 and 9 September brownouts. The service https://updates.jenkins.io will switch its implementation to a new system during 1 day: Wednesday 11 September 2024 from 02:00pm UTC until Thursday 12 September 2024 02:00pm UTC All Jenkins users are impacted but should not see any functional change. ⚠️ Please, check that your organization respects the advertised DNS...

Stéphane Merle September 10, 2024
Brownout on Update Center (updates.jenkins.io): 6 and 9 September 2024

Summary (TL;DR) The service https://updates.jenkins.io will switch its implementation to a new system during 1 hour twice: Friday 6 September 2024 from 07:00am UTC until 08:00am UTC Monday 9 September 2024 from 02:00pm UTC until 03:00pm UTC All Jenkins users are impacted but should not see any functional change. ⚠️ Please, check that your organization respects the advertised DNS TTL or you might be stuck...

Damien DUPORTAL September 4, 2024
Jenkins requires Java 17 or newer

Summary Beginning with the Jenkins 2.463 weekly release (scheduled for release on June 18, 2024), Jenkins requires Java 17 or newer. The Jenkins 2.452.x LTS line will continue to require Java 11 or newer, as will the LTS line (possibly 2.462.1) that is scheduled for release on July 24, 2024, whose baseline will be 2.462 (the last weekly release to support Java 11) or...

Basil Crow June 11, 2024
Jenkins 2024 Community Award Winners

cdCon 2024 just wrapped up in Seattle and this included announcing the winners of the Continuous Delivery Foundation and Jenkins Community Awards. The CD Foundation provides awards for the Top CDF ambassador, contributor, documenter, and end user. Anyone that is part of the CD Foundation can be nominated for these. Additionally, as a graduated project, Jenkins has three of its own awards: Most Valuable...

Kevin Martens April 19, 2024
Jenkins 2023 Recap

Contributed by: Wadeck Follonier The Jenkins Security team has multiple missions, with the most visible to users being the publication of advisories. In 2023, the team published 17 advisories: 4 included Jenkins core, and 13 were solely about plugins. In total, 211 vulnerabilities were announced. In terms of reporting trends, we have seen an increase in people reporting CVEs originating from dependencies. Our position on...

Damien DUPORTAL
Mark Waite
Bruno Verachten
Wadeck Follonier
Kevin Martens
Alyssa Tong January 25, 2024
Jenkins November 2023 Newsletter

Key Takeaways Basil Crow joins the Jenkins Governance Board. A Jenkins Contributor Summit will be held prior to FOSDEM. The Contributor Spotlight site is now live. Contributed by: Mark Waite Basil Crow joins the Jenkins governance board in December 2023. He’ll serve for a two-year term. Thanks to Basil for his willingness to serve. More details of the 2023 governance board and officer changes are available in a...

Damien DUPORTAL
Mark Waite
Bruno Verachten
Kevin Martens
Alyssa Tong December 15, 2023
Log from Jenkins Jobs to GitHub Pull Requests as Checks

You have a GitHub repo and a Jenkins server. The Jenkins server has jobs for running unit tests, computing code coverages, and executing static analyses. Every time someone opens a PR to your repo, you ask them to run those jobs, take screenshots of the results, and paste these screenshots to the PR description as a proof of quality. That’s too much waiting...

Mingyang Li December 6, 2023
Jenkins October 2023 Newsletter

Key Takeaways JDK21 is available on the infrastructure and in official Docker images too. 💥Breaking change: set Java 17 as default for LTS. Prototype has been removed as of weekly 2.426 Contributed by: Wadeck Follonier Core security advisory published on October 18 https://jenkins.io/security/advisory/2023-10-18/ Includes an essential Jetty update that provided multiple fixes. Plugin security advisory published on October 25 https://jenkins.io/security/advisory/2023-10-25/ Multiple high score vulnerabilities in various plugins During Hacktoberfest, the Content...

Damien DUPORTAL
Mark Waite
Bruno Verachten
Wadeck Follonier
Kevin Martens
Alyssa Tong November 10, 2023