The Jenkins Blog

Kevin Martens

Kevin Martens is part of the CloudBees Documentation team, helping with Jenkins documentation creation and maintenance.

Jenkins July 2023 Newsletter

Key Takeaways A Jenkins Core security advisory was published on July 26 The official documentation has migrated to Java 17 Operating system end of life notifications have been added Contributed by: Wadeck Follonier During July, there were two Security Advisories published: Plugin security advisory published on July 12 Multiple high-score vulnerabilities A total of 16 plugins were affected Jenkins core and plugins security advisory published on July 26 The highest...

Damien DUPORTAL
Mark Waite
Bruno Verachten
Wadeck Follonier
Kevin Martens
Alyssa Tong August 2, 2023
Java 17 usage in Jenkins.io Documentation

Jenkins has fully supported Java 17 since the 2.357 weekly release and 2.361.1 Long Term Support release. For this reason, we have transitioned to using Java 17 in the Jenkins user handbook. This includes the installation guides, Pipeline documentation, and Pipeline syntax. Refer to the GitHub issue for additional information and insight. Background Debian 12 was released on June 10, 2023, and it no longer...

Kevin Martens August 1, 2023
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
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
Jenkins April 2023 Newsletter

Key Takeaways There was one security advisory this month announcing vulnerabilities regarding Jenkins plugins. Cloud Cost Controls with improved resource cleanups and VM usage optimization to face the increased rate of builds on ci.jenkins.io. Thanks to DigitalOcean for their continued support and ($8,400 credit) sponsorship of Jenkins. Ppc64le docker agent images are now available. Jenkins at cdCon + GitOpsCon! Contributed by: Wadeck Follonier In April, there was...

Alyssa Tong
Damien DUPORTAL
Kevin Martens
Mark Waite
Bruno Verachten
Wadeck Follonier May 10, 2023
Building Android apps with Jenkins: release management

The previous blog post of this series discusses what I think makes CI/CD for mobile app development a unique kind of animal, and my first steps in building Android apps with Jenkins. We were left with a working declarative pipeline per branch, one Docker image per branch too, and an application binary ready to be deployed. Ready? Release management I was able to find...

Bruno Verachten
Kevin Martens May 2, 2023
Jenkins March 2023 Newsletter

Highlights Jenkins 2.397 and 2.387.2 are both using new Linux repository signing keys. The Pipeline graph view plugin continues to evolve and improve as a Pipeline visualization replacement for Blue Ocean. The number of pull requests merged for jenkins.io crossed into triple digits this month (101). Contributed by: Mark Waite Jenkins' installers for Debian and Red Hat have all been signed with new PGP private...

Alyssa Tong
Damien DUPORTAL
Kevin Martens
Mark Waite
Bruno Verachten
Kevin Guerroudj April 12, 2023
DigitalOcean and Jenkins partnership continues to grow!

The Jenkins project wants to acknowledge and share massive thanks to DigitalOcean for their continued sponsorship. Between August 2022 and March 2023, Jenkins had been using roughly $1,300 credits a month. During March, we encountered a severe increase in our DigitalOcean workloads. This was a result of much heavier reliance on DigitalOcean, as we worked to resolve other infrastructure concerns. In addition to this...

Kevin Martens April 12, 2023
Building Android apps with Jenkins: an introduction

Why is mobile CI/CD special? In 2020, a surprising 33% of professional mobile app developers were not using Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) practices, which is 18% more than web developers. There are several reasons why this is the case: Unique needs: Unlike web applications, mobile applications have different requirements, which means that mobile CI/CD requires a different approach and dedicated tools. Tightly controlled ecosystems:...

Bruno Verachten
Kevin Martens April 7, 2023