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  Welcome Basil Crow - new Jenkins Governance Board member

  We would like to announce changes in the Jenkins Governance Board. There has been no election this year, because there was only one candidate per seat. Please welcome Basil Crow! At the same time, Oleg Nenashev retires from the board. We would like to thank Oleg for his contributions to the Jenkins project and the community. As a regular leader in GSoC, Jenkins Contributor...

  

  Alexander Brandes December 8, 2023
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  Log from Jenkins Jobs to GitHub Pull Requests as Checks

  You have a GitHub repo and a Jenkins server. The Jenkins server has jobs for running unit tests, computing code coverages, and executing static analyses. Every time someone opens a PR to your repo, you ask them to run those jobs, take screenshots of the results, and paste these screenshots to the PR description as a proof of quality. That’s too much waiting...

  

  Mingyang Li December 6, 2023
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  [Google Summer of Code 2024] A Call for Mentors

  We are happy to announce that Jenkins is preparing to participate in its eighth (8th) year in Google Summer of Code (GSoC). What is Google Summer of Code? Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a global, online mentoring program focused on introducing new contributors to open-source software development. GSoC contributors work on a 10-22 weeks-long programming project with the guidance of mentors from...

  

  Kris Stern

  

  Alyssa Tong

  

  Bruno Verachten

  

  Jean-Marc Meessen December 5, 2023
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  Introducing the Jenkins Contributor Spotlight

  The Jenkins project has evolved constantly over the years, thanks to the tireless efforts of the Jenkins community. There are numerous contributors that work behind the scenes to ensure that Jenkins is functioning and staying on the cutting edge, in addition to being voices within the community and advocating for Jenkins. It is with this sentiment in mind that we want to...

  

  Kevin Martens November 29, 2023
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  Jenkins October 2023 Newsletter

  Key Takeaways JDK21 is available on the infrastructure and in official Docker images too. 💥Breaking change: set Java 17 as default for LTS. Prototype has been removed as of weekly 2.426 Contributed by: Wadeck Follonier Core security advisory published on October 18 https://jenkins.io/security/advisory/2023-10-18/ Includes an essential Jetty update that provided multiple fixes. Plugin security advisory published on October 25 https://jenkins.io/security/advisory/2023-10-25/ Multiple high score vulnerabilities in various plugins During Hacktoberfest, the Content...

  

  Damien DUPORTAL

  

  Mark Waite

  

  Bruno Verachten

  

  Wadeck Follonier

  

  Kevin Martens

  

  Alyssa Tong November 10, 2023
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  Jenkins Contributor Summit in Brussels

  We are happy to announce that we will hold a Jenkins Contributor Summit in Brussels prior to FOSDEM. FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas, and collaborate. Every year, thousands of developers of free and open-source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels. For the 2024 event, FOSDEM will occur between February 3...

  

  Jean-Marc Meessen November 10, 2023
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  Introducing the 2 + 2 + 2 Java support plan

  Summary tl;dr Jenkins 2.426.1 LTS will support Java 11, 17, and 21. In Fall 2024, Jenkins will require Java 17 or 21 and drop support for Java 11. Thereafter, Jenkins will support each Java LTS release for approximately four years; i.e., Jenkins will support two Java LTS releases at any given time. Background Java’s historically slow release cadence has accelerated significantly in recent years. At present, Java feature...

  Basil Crow November 6, 2023
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  Back of the Napkin Guide to Updating Jenkins, for the uninitiated

  . Prologue Here’s a brief account of my journey to update my Jenkins Servers. Think of this as a "back of the napkin" guide that I used to research and upgrade my Jenkins Servers, which had been left unattended for far too long. I know many of you are seasoned experts - I wasn’t. I’ve included references that I found useful in my research, but...

  

  Marc Phillips October 31, 2023
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  What is the plugin health score?

  Short story long As of October 24th, there is a new tab named Health Score on each plugin page of plugins.jenkins.io. This new tab provides the plugin’s health score, along with every aspect that contributed to its score. The score is meant to be unbiased and all plugins are evaluated the same way. Here is what it looks like: . Back to the beginning This project started...

  

  Adrien Lecharpentier October 25, 2023