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Plugin of the Month – August 2026: Dark Theme Plugin

Welcome back to the Plugin of the Month series, where we highlight useful and impactful tools from the Jenkins ecosystem. August is here, bringing high temperatures and long, bright days. While we can’t turn down the sun outside, we can certainly give your eyes a break inside. When you spend hours looking at build logs, pipeline statuses, and administrative panels, a bright white...

Stefan Spieker August 18, 2026
Nested layout for pipeline graph view

The pipeline graph view just got a new layout that renders nested pipelines in full detail.

Jakob Ackermann June 1, 2026
Plugin of the Month – May 2026: Coverage Plugin

Welcome back to the Plugin of the Month series, where we highlight useful and impactful plugins from the Jenkins ecosystem. For May 2026, we’re featuring the Coverage Plugin. Quality assurance is a pillar of modern CI/CD. Knowing how much of your code is actually tested—and how effectively those tests find bugs is crucial for maintaining a healthy codebase. This month, we are highlighting the...

Stefan Spieker May 15, 2026
Plugin of the Month – April 2026: Pipeline Graph View

Welcome back to the Plugin of the Month series, where we highlight useful and impactful plugins from the Jenkins ecosystem. For April 2026, we’re featuring the Pipeline Graph View Plugin. A Modern Pipeline Visualization The Pipeline Graph View plugin provides a clean and modern visualization of Jenkins pipelines directly in the standard Jenkins UI. It is designed to give users a clear overview of...

Stefan Spieker April 6, 2026
Redesigned Credentials in Jenkins

We’re introducing a fresh new look for the Credentials plugin, one of the most widely used Jenkins plugins and the foundation for securely storing and supplying credentials across Jenkins. So what’s new? Integration with the new Manage Jenkins UI This update brings the plugin into Jenkins’ experimental Manage Jenkins UI, aligning credential management with the broader interface modernization underway in Jenkins core. Jenkins has been rolling...

Jan Faracik
Tim Jacomb April 2, 2026
Revamped Build Monitor plugin

We’re excited to announce a major update to the Build Monitor plugin - a complete redesign that refreshes its big-screen view with a cleaner, more modern interface for following build statuses. So what’s new? Rewritten and redesigned Originally created for Jenkins 1 and powered by AngularJS, the plugin has now been completely rebuilt in React. The redesign uses components from the Jenkins Design Library and aligns...

Jan Faracik March 19, 2026
Revamped Tests UI in Jenkins

The JUnit plugin has received a major redesign, focusing on a cleaner and more consistent UI. This work draws directly from the Pipeline Graph View plugin and the Jenkins Design Library, bringing much-needed polish to one of Jenkins' oldest plugins. So what’s new? New user interface The plugin has been redesigned to make test results easier to understand at a glance. Pages have been streamlined, components...

Jan Faracik October 16, 2025
Redesigning Jenkins (Part Two)

We'll dive deeper into the design decisions behind some of the new UI features, how we're improving the developer experience, and what we're doing to ensure compatibility across the plugin ecosystem without slowing down progress.

Jan Faracik July 24, 2025
Revamped Pipeline visualization in Jenkins

We’re excited to announce a major update to the Pipeline Graph View plugin - a complete redesign that introduces a modern, user-focused interface that enhances pipeline visualization, customization, and performance. So what’s new? Rewritten and redesigned The plugin has been completely rebuilt with a clean, modern interface using the latest version of React. We’ve put a lot of effort into simplifying the plugin’s structure - switching...

Jan Faracik May 2, 2025