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• 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
• 100K Celebration Podcast Recording

  In preparation for Jenkins 100K celebration, I’m going to record a one-time podcast with Dean Yu, Andrew Bayer, and R. Tyler Croy. My current plan is to go over the history of the project, how big the community was back then, how we grow, where we are now, and maybe a bit about future. But if you have any other suggestions/questions that...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi February 24, 2015
• Jenkins Celebration Day is February 26

  Congratulations! The Jenkins project officially went over the 100K active users mark sometime in January. As of January 31, we were at 102,992. YOU are one of the 100K active users! As discussed on a couple recent project meetings, we have designated February 26 as Jenkins Celebration Day. To make some noise, here is what we are doing starting NOW: Write a blog...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi February 9, 2015
• FreeBSD project use of Jenkins for OS testing

  This is a guest post by Craig Rodrigues The FreeBSD project produces a modern operating system derived from BSD Unix. In the past 6 months, we have set up Jenkins at https://jenkins.freebsd.org/, to continuously build FreeBSD as developers add new code to the project. This has helped us identify and fix build breaks very quickly. We have gone even farther by integrating Jenkins,...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi October 20, 2014
• Planned changes in Jenkins User Conference contact information collection

  + + One of the challenges of running Jenkins User Conferences is to balance the interest of attendees and the interest of sponsors. Sponsors would like to know more about attendees, but attendees are often weary of getting contacted. Our past few JUCs have been run by making it opt-in to have the contact information passed to sponsors, but the...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi July 9, 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
• Acceptance test project progress report

  Over the past 30 days or so, the acceptance test project has made a great progress. This project consists of a reusable harness that can be used by plugin developers and users to write functional test cases. These tests can be run against Jenkins instances that are deployed in all sorts of different ways, and can interact with complex real fixtures....

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi May 27, 2014
• InfoQ CI survey 2014

  InfoQ has been running a CI server survey for more than a month now, and here is the current result: + + Jenkins has gotten more than 70% of the votes, once again proving the wide adoption among developers. If you are one of those who picked Cruise Control into the "considering" section, I’d encourage you to look around a bit...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi April 11, 2014
• JUC: Call for Volunteers to Join the Organizing Committee (and Venues!)

  This is a guest post from Alyssa Tong, who drives JUC organizations around the world. If you missed JUC Palo Alto on Oct 23, 2013 the videos are now available. We are off to planning JUC 2014. It is hard to believe this will be the 4th annual JUC in the Bay Area. The growth in the Jenkins community since the first...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi November 20, 2013