A couple of weeks ago, Tyler mentioned some developer improvements in Essentials that had been recently introduced: the ability for ci.jenkins.io builds to get deployed automatically to an “Incrementals” Maven repository, as described in JEP-305. For a plugin maintainer, you just need to turn on this support and you are ready to both deploy individual Git commits from your repository without the need to run heavyweight traditional Maven releases, and to depend directly on similar commits...

This sort of slid under the radar in the middle of some bigger changes for the JEP-202 reference implementation, so I wanted to call it out now. Arguably this could deserve a retroactive JEP, though I would rather fold it into a JEP for JENKINS-49651 (see below). As of Jenkins 2.118, or plugin parent POM 3.7, you can mark any Java member (class, method, constructor, field, or I suppose also...