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• Advancing the Jenkins GUI: Configuring Items in Jenkins

  https://youtu.be/1Qn4jEwAeGc Above is the screencast associated with this blog post If you have ever used Jenkins you are familiar with what I am about to described, wading your way through job configuration page, looking for the settings that are important, and, depending on your plugin use, wondering where all these other setting came from and what they do. Depending on how long you...

  Gus Reiber July 15, 2015
• Good bye Java6

  + + About two years ago, we bumped our runtime JRE requirement from Java5 to Java6. And so the time has come once again for us to finally move on to Java7. Because of all the new language features, many of us the developers really wanted to move right on to Java8, but after much discussion we settled to move...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi April 6, 2015
• Google Apps SSO no longer supported in Jenkins OpenID plugin

  This is a guest post from Owen Mehegan (aka autojack) In 2014 Google announced that they will be shutting down their OpenID 2.0 authentication endpoint and replacing it with Google+ Sign-in, a library built on top of OpenID Connect. The old Google endpoint will shut down on April 20th, 2015! Accordingly, if you are using the Jenkins OpenID plugin to authenticate...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi March 6, 2015
• Workflow plugin is 1.0

  Jenkins started with a notion of jobs and builds at heart. One script is one job, and as you repeatedly execute jobs, it creates builds as records. As the use case of Jenkins gets more sophisticated, people started combining jobs to orchestrate ever more complex activities. A number of plugins have been developed to enable all sorts of different ways to...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi December 3, 2014
• Workflow plugin code walk-through

  Jesse and I will walk through the source code of the workflow plugin, highlights key abstractions and extension points, and discuss how they are put together. If you are interested in developing or retrofitting plugins to work with workflows, I think you’ll find this session interesting. The event will be on Google Hangout tomorrow. The time of the day is the same...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi August 28, 2014
• Official Jenkins LTS docker image

  (This is a guest post from Michael Neale) Recently at the Docker Conference (DockerCon) the Docker Hub was announced. The hub (which includes their image building and storage service) also provides some "official" images (sometimes they call them repositories - they are really just sets of images). So after talking with all sorts of people we decided to create an official Jenkins image...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi August 12, 2014
• User Interface Refresh

  This is a guest post from Tom Fennelly Over the last number of weeks we’ve been trying to "refresh" the Jenkins UI, modernizing the look and feel a bit. This has been a real community effort, with collaboration from lots of people, both in terms of implementation and in terms of providing honest/critical feedback. Lots of people deserve credit but, in...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi August 11, 2014
• Workflow plugin tutorial: writing a Step impl

  The other day I was explaining how to implement a new workflow primitive to Vivek Pandey, and I captured it as a recording. The recording goes over how to implement the Step extension point, which is the workflow equivalent of BuildStep extension point. If you are interested in jumping on the workflow plugin hacking, this might be useful (and don’t forget...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi July 8, 2014
• Thinking about moving on to Servlet 3.0

  + + One of the current efforts under way in the dev list is driven by Tom Fennelly et al, who is working on introducing a series of small ball improvements to the user interface in Jenkins. If this is something you are interested in (and who aren’t?), you should see Kevin Burke’s manifest that sets out the plan of...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi June 9, 2014