This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. Introduction With all the new developments in Jenkins Pipeline (and Declarative Pipeline on the horizon), it’s easy to forget what we did to create "pipelines" before Pipeline. There are number of plugins, some that have been around since the very beginning, that enable users to create "pipelines" in Jenkins. For example, basic job chaining worked well in many cases, and the Parameterized Trigger...

The regressions discovered after release have now been resolved and this post has been updated with the correct plugin version numbers. See this post for more details. We are announcing the SCM API 2.0.x and Branch API 2.0.x release lines. Downstream of this there are also some great improvements to a number of popular plugins including: GitHub Branch Source BitBucket branch source Git Mercurial Pipeline Multibranch GitHub Organization Folders There are some gotcha’s that Jenkins administrators will need to...

In the next few months, Jenkins will require Java 8 as its runtime. Back in last November, we discussed interesting statistics showing that Jenkins was now running Java 8 on a majority of its running instances. Timeline Here is how we plan to roll that baseline upgrade in the next few months. Now: Announce the intention publicly. April, 2017: Drop support for Java 7 in Jenkins weekly. With the current rhythm, that means...

As we get closer to Blue Ocean 1.0, which is planned for the end of March, I figured it would be great to highlight some of the good stuff that has been going on. It’s been a busy-as-usual week as everyone comes back from vacation. A couple of new betas went out this week. Of note: input to Pipelines is now supported, a much asked for feature (see below) A...

This week, we released the second beta of the new Declarative Pipeline syntax, available in the Update Center now as version 0.8.1 of Pipeline: Model Definition. You can read more about Declarative Pipeline in the blog post introducing the first beta from December, but we wanted to update you all on the syntax changes in the second beta. These syntax changes are the last compatibility-breaking changes to the syntax before the...

The largest Jenkins event, Jenkins World is coming to San Francisco, California on August 28 - 31, 2017, at the Marriott Marquis. This conference will feature two days of hands-on training, workshops, and certification exams followed by two more days with five tracks of technical sessions from Jenkins and DevOps experts from around the world. Inspire your peers and colleagues by sharing your expertise and experience as one of...

Jenkins 2.40 was released earlier this week, and readers of the changelog will have noticed that it now includes the ability to show security warnings published by the configured update site. But what does that mean? In the past, we’ve notified users about security issues in Jenkins and in plugins through various means: Emails to the jenkinsci-advisories mailing list (which I recommend you subscribe to), blog posts, and, recently, emails...

This is a cross post by Veaceslav Gaidarji, open source developer and contributor to the Jenkins and Bitrise projects. Some time ago I encountered a LIFX smart bulbs. These are the bulbs with a chip inside - 50% bulb, 50% chip. There are mobile applications for easy configuration and remote control of the bulb. Nothing special here, it simply works and is very convenient to have such bulbs in dormitory. Brilliant idea time 99%...