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  Jenkins March 2023 Newsletter

  Highlights Jenkins 2.397 and 2.387.2 are both using new Linux repository signing keys. The Pipeline graph view plugin continues to evolve and improve as a Pipeline visualization replacement for Blue Ocean. The number of pull requests merged for jenkins.io crossed into triple digits this month (101). Contributed by: Mark Waite Jenkins' installers for Debian and Red Hat have all been signed with new PGP private...

  

  Alyssa Tong

  

  Damien DUPORTAL

  

  Kevin Martens

  

  Mark Waite

  

  Bruno Verachten

  

  Kevin Guerroudj April 12, 2023
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  DigitalOcean and Jenkins partnership continues to grow!

  The Jenkins project wants to acknowledge and share massive thanks to DigitalOcean for their continued sponsorship. Between August 2022 and March 2023, Jenkins had been using roughly $1,300 credits a month. During March, we encountered a severe increase in our DigitalOcean workloads. This was a result of much heavier reliance on DigitalOcean, as we worked to resolve other infrastructure concerns. In addition to this...

  

  Kevin Martens April 12, 2023
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  Building Android apps with Jenkins: an introduction

  Why is mobile CI/CD special? In 2020, a surprising 33% of professional mobile app developers were not using Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) practices, which is 18% more than web developers. There are several reasons why this is the case: Unique needs: Unlike web applications, mobile applications have different requirements, which means that mobile CI/CD requires a different approach and dedicated tools. Tightly controlled ecosystems:...

  

  Bruno Verachten

  

  Kevin Martens April 7, 2023
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  Android and Jenkins: what is the limit?

  After reading the title, you may be thinking "Wait, what? Is Jenkins somehow limited in building Android apps?" You can relax, as I may have phrased it incorrectly. We’re not talking about building Android apps with Jenkins, which has no limitations as far as I know. We’re talking about building something with Jenkins, using an Android device as a Jenkins node, or potentially as...

  

  Bruno Verachten

  

  Kevin Martens March 30, 2023
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  miniJen and RISCV

  Short Introduction What is miniJen? It’s the smallest Jenkins multi-cpu-architectures instance known to this day. It’s composed of a 4 arm Cortex-A55 core RockChip controller (aarch64), a 4 arm Cortex-A7a core AllWinner agent (armv7l), a 4 arm Cortex-A53 core AllWinner agent (aarch64), and a single RV64GCV core AllWinner agent (RISC-V). A bit of personal history I’ve been an arm fanboy for years, it all started...

  

  Bruno Verachten

  

  Kevin Martens March 10, 2023
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  Jenkins February 2023 Newsletter

  Highlights FOSDEM 2023 insights Jenkins is a mentor organization for Google Summer of Code Several container image updates Jenkins Awards voting is now open Contributed by: Alyssa Tong FOSDEM 2023 Returning to FOSDEM for the first in-person event since COVID was both exciting and nostalgic for our Jenkins contributors. It was exciting to see the same crowd size and enthusiasm by attendees. Many thanks to the wonderful FOSDEM organizers...

  

  Alyssa Tong

  

  Damien DUPORTAL

  

  Kevin Martens

  

  Mark Waite

  

  Kevin Guerroudj

  

  Bruno Verachten March 9, 2023
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  Jenkins Contributor Awards - Voting Open

  The 2023 Jenkins award nomination period has ended and voting is now open! Voting will take place until March 28, when the voting period closes, and the winners will be announced at this year’s cdCon. 2023 Award categories and nominees This year we have three awards, each with several nominees: Most Valuable Jenkins Advocate: Alexander Brandes Alex Earl Bruno Verachten Jean-Marc Meessen Kris Stern Mark Waite Most Valuable Jenkins Contributor: Alexander Brandes Damien...

  

  Kevin Martens March 9, 2023
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  miniJen is alive!

  The Jenkins multi-architecture CPU instance What is that contraption? Nope, it’s not a robot of some sort, it won’t move by itself. It’s not Cerebro from Professor Xavier; no, it can’t fly either. What you’re looking at is a Jenkins instance. It is composed of a controller (the “brain” or conductor) and three agents (the workers or musicians if we continue a little further with...

  

  Bruno Verachten March 3, 2023
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  How to build an unsigned Jenkins MSI on your Windows machine

  Should you ever need to rebuild a Jenkins MSI on your Windows machine, here is a way to do it. Pre-requisites Jenkins WAR file First, you should download the Jenkins war file that will be inside the MSI file. You can access it from the official Jenkins website or from the Jenkins update center. Check the Jenkins download page to download the latest weekly version...

  

  Bruno Verachten

  

  Alexander Brandes

  

  Kevin Martens February 28, 2023