Please refer to Running Jenkins on Java 11 documentation to have the up-to-date details on how to run Jenkins on Java 11. Guidelines in this blogpost are rendered obsolete by the Java 11 Support Preview Availability announcement on Dec 13, 2018 and by the Java 11 GA release on Sep 25, 2018. See the Java support page for up-to-date information about running Jenkins with Java 11. The Jenkins project...

On behalf of the Jenkins Events Team, I would like to invite you to the “Jenkins & Java 10 Online Hackathon” which will take place from June 18th to 22nd. We will be working together on Jenkins core and plugins in order to find and fix compatibility issues, share experiences and have some fun. Everybody is welcome to join, independently of their Jenkins experience and amount of time...

On behalf of the Jenkins GSoC team and mentors, I would like to welcome Shenyu Zheng, Udara De Silva, Pham Vu Tuan and Abhishek Gautam. They will be working on Google Summer of Code projects in the Jenkins organization, and they have already done some contributions. This year we have the following projects: Code Coverage API Plugin - create a new API Plugin to unify existing Code Coverage plugins and provide new features. Student: Shenyu...

This is a post about a major change in Jenkins, which is available starting from Jenkins 2.102 and Jenkins LTS 2.107.1. This is a change with a serious risk of regressions in plugins. If you are a Jenkins administrator, please read this blogpost and upgrade guidelines BEFORE upgrading. I would like to provide some heads-up about the JEP-200 change, which is included into the new Jenkins LTS 2.107.x baseline. Background For many years Jenkins...

We are happy to announce that Jenkins project has been accepted to Google Summer of Code 2018. This year we invite students and mentors to join the Jenkins community and work together on various initiatives: core, plugins, development tools and infrastructure. Our mentors have already created some project ideas. For example, you are welcome to work on the new Configuration-as-Code initiative or to help creating standard API for Code Coverage...

This year the Jenkins project is interested in participating in Google Summer of Code (GSoC). As in 2016/2017, we are looking for mentors. So yes, we are looking for you :) What is GSoC? GSoC is an annual international program which encourages college-aged students to participate with open source projects during the summer break between classes. Students accepted into the program receive a stipend, paid by Google, to work on well-defined projects to...

Jenkins project congratulates all users and contributors with the New Year! Let’s take a look at some changes this year. Highlights We released major features like BlueOcean and Declarative Pipeline These features offer a new user experience in Jenkins Web UI, powered by Jenkins Pipeline. In Jenkins 2.54 we updated the Java minimal requirement to Java 8 (announcement). Plugin CI has been moved to our Jenkins-on-Jenkins instance. All plugins are being built...

Once again it’s October in our calendars. It means that the regular Hacktoberfest event is back! During this one-month hackathon you can support open source and earn a limited edition T-shirt. Jenkins project offers an opportunity to participate in the project and to get reviews and help from Jenkins contributors. How do I sign up? Sign-up to Hacktoberfest on the event website. Everything is set, just start coding! What can I do? There...

Updated on Jan 10, 2019: The deprecated protocols were removed in Remoting 3.40+ and Jenkins 2.214+. See JENKINS-60381: Remove old for more information and links. There are upcoming changes in Jenkins "core" which may require extra steps when upgrading Jenkins. If you use configuration management for Jenkins agents, please read this announcement carefully. If you have ever seen messages like "Channel is already closed" or "Remote call failed"...

On behalf of the GSoC Org Admin team I am happy to announce that we are going to apply to Google Summer of Code (GSoC) again this year. In GSoC high-profile students work in open-source projects for several months under mentorship of organization members. We are looking for mentors and project ideas. So yes, we are looking for you :) Conditions As a mentor, you will be asked to: lead the...