Alyssa Tong
Member of the Jenkins Advocacy and Outreach SIG. Alyssa drives and manages Jenkins participation in community events and conferences like FOSDEM, SCaLE, cdCON, and KubeCon. She is also responsible for Marketing & Community Programs at CloudBees, Inc.
What better way to kick off the new year, than by returning for an in-person event at one of the most popular open source gatherings of all, FOSDEM! On February 4 & 5, contributors from the Jenkins project and thousands of other open-source enthusiasts traveled from around the world to flock to FOSDEM. Located in Brussels, Belgium, FOSDEM is an opportunity to...
Highlights Jenkins in GSoC planning is in full steam ahead. General availability of new development tools on ci.jenkins.io: Maven, JDK, Playwright. 98 pull requests were merged from 38 different authors in January. Jenkins 2.375.2 released January 11, 2023. Over 350 positive ratings. A sandbox bypass vulnerability was corrected among 37 other vulnerabilities. The security team recommends users to upgrade. Debian 12 (“bookworm”) will not deliver OpenJDK 11 Contributed by:...
2022 was a fruitful year for Jenkins! Across the Jenkins project, we experienced growth and strong contributions. We want to share deep gratitude to the corporate sponsorships and individual contributions that made it possible to take Jenkins to the next level. We also look forward to welcoming new friends to collaborate with us in working together to make Jenkins even better. There’s still a...
'Tis the season of gift giving and what better way than to give the gift of mentorship. Jenkins is a big supporter and contributor of programs like Google Summer of Code (GSoC), She Code Africa, and Outreachy. We believe in the value and advancements in helping new, and in many cases under-represented contributors to the open source. There is also a special 'je...
November 2022 Welcome to the Jenkins Newsletter! This is a compilation of progress within the project, highlighted by Jenkins Special Interest Groups (SIGs) for the month of November. Got Inspiration? We would love to highlight your cool Jenkins innovations. Share your story and you could be in the next Jenkins newsletter. View previous editions of the Jenkins Newsletter here! Happy reading! Highlights: Congratulations to the new officers...
Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a global, online mentoring program focused on introducing students and new contributors to open source software development. GSoC contributors work on a 10-22 weeks programming project with the guidance of mentors from their open source organization. During GSoC, participating contributors are paired with mentors from open source organizations, gaining exposure to real-world software development techniques. GSoC contributors...
October 2022 Welcome to the Jenkins Newsletter! This is a compilation of progress within the project, highlighted by Jenkins Special Interest Groups (SIGs) for the month of October. View previous editions of the Jenkins Newsletter here! Happy reading! Security Update One security advisory during October about plugins 28 impacted plugins 8 without fixes, as explained in our process 4 plugins were suspended from distribution Due to the corrections applied for...
The Jenkins project participated in Google Summer of Code 2022. Congratulations to all participants and we thank all participants for their contributions. Now that the event is over, this page contains an archive of the 2022 specific information. Projects All four projects have been successfully completed in 2022. You can find the project information on the project pages: Plugin Health Scoring System by Dheeraj Singh Jodha Jenkinsfile...
September 2022 Welcome to the Jenkins Newsletter! This is a compilation of progress within the project, highlighted by Jenkins Special Interest Groups (SIGs) for the month of September. Happy reading! Security Update Two security advisories during September with "special" nature for Jenkins core One was only impacting very specifically configured instance The other was only impacting three successive weekly releases Infrastructure Update Dropping JDK8 from all agents and controllers...