Jenkins Essentials has been renamed to Jenkins Evergreen since this was written. Jenkins Essentials is about providing a distribution of Jenkins in less than five minutes and five clicks. One of the main ideas to make this a reality is that Jenkins will be autoconfigured with sane defaults for the environment it is running in. We are happy to report we recently merged the change that provides...

I am happy to announce that we have recently released an alpha version of Remoting Kafka Plugin to the Experimental Update Center. You can check the CHANGELOG to see the features included in this initial release. Overview Current versions of Jenkins Remoting are based on the TCP protocol. If it fails, the agent connection and the build fails as well. There are also issues with traffic...

We recently released version 1.3 of Declarative Pipelines, which includes a couple significant new features. We’re going to cover these features in separate blog posts. The next post will show the new ability to restart a completed Pipeline run starting from a stage partway through the Pipeline, but first, let’s look at the new sequential stages feature. Sequential Stages In Declarative 1.2, we added the ability to define stages...

About API tokens Jenkins API tokens are an authentication mechanism that allows a tool (script, application, etc.) to impersonate a user without providing the actual password for use with the Jenkins API or CLI. This is especially useful when your security realm is based on a central directory, like Active Directory or LDAP, and you don’t want to store your password in scripts. Recent versions of Jenkins also make...

This blog post gives an introduction to the new design for the login and signup forms and Jenkins is (re)starting pages introduced in Jenkins 2.128. The first part of the blog post is an introduction to the new design and UX for Jenkins users. The later part is talking about extensibility in a more technical manner, aimed at plugin developers. Overview The recent changes to some core pages...

Last week I participated in the Jenkins & Java 10 Online Hackathon. It was my first Jenkins hackathon and I roped in Jonah Graham to do some pair-programming. The hackathon featured JDK Project Jigsaw committers Mandy Chung and Paul Sandoz, as well as Jenkins creator Kohsuke Kawaguchi. It was a great opportunity for me to learn a lot about Jenkins and Java 10. Why Java 10? With the Java 8 EoL data looming, the...

Jenkins Essentials has been renamed to Jenkins Evergreen since this was written. It’s been far too long since we posted an update on Jenkins Essentials. While it’s not quite ready for users to start trying it out, we continue hacking away on all manner of changes to support the safe and automatic upgrades of a running Jenkins environment. In the meantime, Jenkins contributor Baptiste Mathus took some time to introduce and demonstrate...

I use macOS day to day, and often struggle to keep my devtools up to date. This isn’t any fault of packaging or tools, more just that I get tired of seeing the beachball: The demands on dev machines grow, developers are now working across a more diverse set of technologies than just a JVM or a single scripting language these days. This keeping up to date is...