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  Prototype removed from Jenkins 2.426

  Following up on my previous post about removing Prototype from Jenkins, Prototype has been removed from the 2.426 weekly release and will be removed from the November LTS release. This removal required changes in about 60 plugins. Use the Plugin Manager to upgrade all plugins before and after upgrading to Jenkins 2.426. A migration of this scope would not have been possible without the...

  Basil Crow October 9, 2023
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  Supercharge Your Jenkins Workflow with Mergify

  Introduction In the modern software development landscape, continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) are no longer just trendy buzzwords. They are vital components of the development cycle. Two tools that are often associated with these operations are Jenkins and Mergify. Jenkins, an open-source automation server, is used to automate parts of the development process, including building, testing, and deploying applications. Mergify, on the other...

  

  Julien Danjou September 26, 2023
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  Jenkins August 2023 Newsletter

  Key Takeaways Jenkins project reports growth of 79% in Jenkins Pipeline, used to propel software delivery. Contributed by: Wadeck Follonier Andrea Chiera completed his 3 months internship within the Security team, auditing 100 plugins and finding 20+ vulnerabilities. Summer Internship in Jenkins security Thank you very much for your involvement and also to the team for mentoring him. A Plugin security advisory was published on August...

  

  Damien DUPORTAL

  

  Mark Waite

  

  Bruno Verachten

  

  Wadeck Follonier

  

  Kevin Martens

  

  Alyssa Tong September 21, 2023
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  A glimpse of the future

  You’ve all seen it before: the bitter sting of botched predictions. Flying cars, nuclear ovens in the kitchen, killer robot dogs, and lunar living - all expected to be part of our daily lives by now. Well, some of these wild dreams did come to pass, but I’m not about to roll the dice and predict what our world will look like...

  

  Bruno Verachten August 30, 2023
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  Summer Internship in Jenkins security

  Context Jenkins is an open-source CI/CD solution that is extensible with a wide range of plugins that can be installed using the Jenkins plugin distribution repository or via manual installation. This extensibility is a powerful feature of Jenkins, but it is a critical aspect that has to be secured to avoid risks and vulnerabilities that can impact the Jenkins system. The internship took...

  

  Andrea Chiera

  

  Kevin Guerroudj

  

  Wadeck Follonier August 23, 2023
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  Jenkins July 2023 Newsletter

  Key Takeaways A Jenkins Core security advisory was published on July 26 The official documentation has migrated to Java 17 Operating system end of life notifications have been added Contributed by: Wadeck Follonier During July, there were two Security Advisories published: Plugin security advisory published on July 12 Multiple high-score vulnerabilities A total of 16 plugins were affected Jenkins core and plugins security advisory published on July 26 The highest...

  

  Damien DUPORTAL

  

  Mark Waite

  

  Bruno Verachten

  

  Wadeck Follonier

  

  Kevin Martens

  

  Alyssa Tong August 2, 2023
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  Java 17 usage in Jenkins.io Documentation

  Jenkins has fully supported Java 17 since the 2.357 weekly release and 2.361.1 Long Term Support release. For this reason, we have transitioned to using Java 17 in the Jenkins user handbook. This includes the installation guides, Pipeline documentation, and Pipeline syntax. Refer to the GitHub issue for additional information and insight. Background Debian 12 was released on June 10, 2023, and it no longer...

  

  Kevin Martens August 1, 2023
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  Post Mortem of the 7th July 2023 Jenkins Infrastructure Outage

  On Friday 7th of July 2023, the Jenkins infrastructure suffered a major outage from 11:05am UTC until 15:25pm UTC with complete downtime of the following public services: accounts.jenkins.io fallback.get.jenkins.io get.jenkins.io incrementals.jenkins.io javadoc.jenkins.io plugin-health.jenkins.io plugin-site-issues.jenkins.io plugins.origin.jenkins.io plugins.jenkins.io rating.jenkins.io repo.azure.jenkins.io reports.jenkins.io stories.jenkins.io uplink.jenkins.io weekly.ci.jenkins.io www.origin.jenkins.io We also had complete downtime of the following non-public services: ldap.jenkins.io previews of *.jenkins.io pull requests (infra.ci.jenkins.io) In addition, there was disruption (partial or complete) of the following services: ci.jenkins.io infra.ci.jenkins.io issues.jenkins.io plugins.jenkins.io repo.jenkins-ci.org www.jenkins.io The public IPs of these services changed (DNS records...

  

  Damien DUPORTAL July 12, 2023
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  Jenkins June 2023 Newsletter

  Key Takeaways Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, and derivatives like CentOS 7, reach early end of life. Upgrades and improvements of Jenkins components continue with significant progress towards the eventual removal of Prototype.js from Jenkins core. Thanks to a kind donation from Launchable, pull requests to Jenkins core now complete their evaluation builds in 2 hours rather than the 6 hours that were...

  

  Damien DUPORTAL

  

  Mark Waite

  

  Bruno Verachten

  

  Wadeck Follonier

  

  Kevin Martens July 10, 2023