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• Critical security advisory in Jenkins core

  We’ve identified and fixed a critical security vulnerabilities in Jenkins core. This affects all the releases of Jenkins to date (main line releases up to 1.452 and LTS up to 1.424.3.) Please upgrade to the new releases at your earliest convenience, especially if your Jenkins is internet facing. For more details about the vulnerabilities, affected versions, and so on, please consult the...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi March 6, 2012
• Building Jenkins plugins with Gradle

  Until now, Jenkins plugins written in Java or Groovy could only be built with Maven, using the maven-hpi-plugin to generate a proper manifest and archive which Jenkins can consume. But starting now, you can also use Gradle! See the wiki for information on how you can use Gradle and the new gradle-jpi-plugin to build, test and release your Java or Groovy...

  Andrew Bayer January 4, 2012
• Jenkins survey result and what UI improvement would you like?

  "> Jenkins community survey result is in, which shows a number of interesting stats for us developers, such as 82% of people saying their Jenkins is mission critical, or the spread of distributed builds, especially compared to my earlier similar usage analytics. But just as interesting is the free-form answers to questions like "If there was anything you could you change about...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi December 23, 2011
• Community-contributed localizations to be bundled in Jenkins 1.443

  In 1.430, we added the translation assistance plugin in the hope of increasing the contribution from the community. It’s been 3 months, and I’ve finally took the opportunity to integrate them into Jenkins. The result is pretty amazing. Before this, we had 26 languages, with wildly varying degree of completeness, such as French, Japanese, German, etc. This is still pretty good,...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi December 2, 2011
• JRuby Branch merged!

  Yesterday, Kohsuke announced that the 'jruby' branch of jenkins-core had been merged to master. This doesn’t mean that we’re done and that you can go forth and write pure ruby plugins…​ not by any stretch of the imagination. Instead, what it does mean, is that the Jenkins mainline is much more friendly to runtime analysis of classes with which it is...

  Charles Lowell August 8, 2011
• Ruby Plugins Hack Session Notes 6/23/2011

  You know that the night is going to be productive whenever @kohsukekawa shows up, and last night was no exception. We talked about problems on the horizon, potential solutions, and then I spent the last half hour ripping a bit of code. The truth of the matter is that most of the changes that have to be done to Jenkins core...

  Charles Lowell June 24, 2011
• Ruby Plugins Hack Session 5/27/2011

  After a one week hiatus, we returned to the weekly hack session on a mission light up the sky with fire! Attendees Charles Lowell, Rasheed Abdul-Aziz, Hiroshi Nakamura Discussion/Accomplished How to manage the different ScriptingContainers inside the Jenkins renamed the experimental repo where we’ve been doing all of our development from fog.hpi to the more aptly name [https://github.com/cowboyd/jenkins-ruby-plugins-playground] started a separate gem for housing the support...

  Charles Lowell May 27, 2011
• Ruby Plugins Hack Session 5/12/2011

  [Editor’s Note: For the past few weeks Jenkins community member Charles Lowell has been working with Kohsuke on adding support for building plugins in Ruby. As part of this effort, Charles has been hosting weekly hack sessions via WebEx] As always, last night’s Ruby Plugins hack session was a pleasure. Below is a quick notation of what items were discussed and/or...

  Charles Lowell May 12, 2011
• Hamburg hackathon a great success!

  Thanks to the kindness of BigPoint GmbH and Kutzi, we had the first Jenkins Hackathon in Europe, in a very large and airly conference room in their Hamburg campus, on a nice sunny Sunday of May 1st. About 10 people came, including the static code analysis plugin fame Ullrich Hafner, Androd emulator plugin fame Christopher Orr, the instant messenger plugin...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi May 4, 2011