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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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  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
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  Jenkins May 2023 Newsletter

  Key Takeaways Jenkins plugin updates released to fix security vulnerabilities, advisory published on May 16. JDK8 support has been dropped in favor of JDK11 as the default for running Jenkins agents. Ssh-agent release 5.0.0 introduces breaking changes. Contributed by: Wadeck Follonier A Security Policy was added for the Docker images of the project. Due to multiple reports about CVEs present in the Docker images the project...

  

  Alyssa Tong

  

  Damien DUPORTAL

  

  Mark Waite

  

  Bruno Verachten

  

  Wadeck Follonier June 20, 2023
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  Jenkins 2023 Contributor Award Winners

  At cdCon last week in Vancouver, May 8–9, the Jenkins Contributor Award winners were announced along with fifteen (15) other CDF Award winners. This is an annual award program where Jenkins contributors are nominated and voted by their peers within the Jenkins community. Thank you to everyone who nominated and voted and to CDF for hosting this program. And special thanks...

  

  Alyssa Tong May 16, 2023
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  Jenkins April 2023 Newsletter

  Key Takeaways There was one security advisory this month announcing vulnerabilities regarding Jenkins plugins. Cloud Cost Controls with improved resource cleanups and VM usage optimization to face the increased rate of builds on ci.jenkins.io. Thanks to DigitalOcean for their continued support and ($8,400 credit) sponsorship of Jenkins. Ppc64le docker agent images are now available. Jenkins at cdCon + GitOpsCon! Contributed by: Wadeck Follonier In April, there was...

  

  Alyssa Tong

  

  Damien DUPORTAL

  

  Kevin Martens

  

  Mark Waite

  

  Bruno Verachten

  

  Wadeck Follonier May 10, 2023
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  Welcome Google Summer of Code 2023 Contributors!

  On behalf of the Jenkins GSoC org admin team and mentors, we would like to welcome Harsh Pratap Singh, Jagruti Tiwari, Vandit Singh, and Ashutosh Saxena. 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: GitLab Plugin modernisation - Cleaning and modernizing the extensively used GitLab plugin. Contributor: Harsh Pratap Singh from...

  

  Alyssa Tong

  

  Jean-Marc Meessen May 4, 2023
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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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  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