This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. Declare Your Pipelines! Declarative Pipeline 1.0 is here! This is the third post in a series showing some of the cool features of Declarative Pipeline. In the previous post, we converted a Scripted Pipeline to a Declarative Pipeline, adding descriptive stages and post sections. In one of those post blocks, we included a placeholder for sending notifications. In this blog post, we’ll...

This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. Declare Your Pipelines! Declarative Pipeline 1.0 is here! This is the second post in a series showing some of the cool features of Declarative Pipeline. In the previous blog post, we created a simple Declarative Pipeline. In this blog post, we’ll go back and look at the Scripted Pipeline for the Publishing HTML Reports in Pipeline blog post. We’ll convert that Pipeline to...

This is a guest post by Emily Chang, Technical Author at Datadog. A modified version of this article was originally posted on the Datadog blog. If you’re using Jenkins to continuously integrate changes into your projects, it’s helpful to be able to quickly identify build failures and assess their impact on other components of your stack. Datadog’s plugin helps users monitor and alert on the performance of...

In January we announced the release of SCM API 2.0. After the original release was published we identified four new high-impact issues. We decided to remove the new versions of the plugins from the update center until those issues could be resolved. The issues have now been resolved and the plugins are now available from the update center. Summary for busy Jenkins Administrators Upgrading should make multi-branch projects much better....

This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. Introduction With all the new developments in Jenkins Pipeline (and Declarative Pipeline on the horizon), it’s easy to forget what we did to create "pipelines" before Pipeline. There are number of plugins, some that have been around since the very beginning, that enable users to create "pipelines" in Jenkins. For example, basic job chaining worked well in many cases, and the Parameterized Trigger...

The regressions discovered after release have now been resolved and this post has been updated with the correct plugin version numbers. See this post for more details. We are announcing the SCM API 2.0.x and Branch API 2.0.x release lines. Downstream of this there are also some great improvements to a number of popular plugins including: GitHub Branch Source BitBucket branch source Git Mercurial Pipeline Multibranch GitHub Organization Folders There are some gotcha’s that Jenkins administrators will need to...

This week, we released the second beta of the new Declarative Pipeline syntax, available in the Update Center now as version 0.8.1 of Pipeline: Model Definition. You can read more about Declarative Pipeline in the blog post introducing the first beta from December, but we wanted to update you all on the syntax changes in the second beta. These syntax changes are the last compatibility-breaking changes to the syntax before the...

This is a cross post by Veaceslav Gaidarji, open source developer and contributor to the Jenkins and Bitrise projects. Some time ago I encountered a LIFX smart bulbs. These are the bulbs with a chip inside - 50% bulb, 50% chip. There are mobile applications for easy configuration and remote control of the bulb. Nothing special here, it simply works and is very convenient to have such bulbs in dormitory. Brilliant idea time 99%...

This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. The JUnit plugin is the go-to test result reporter for many Jenkins projects, but the it is not the only one available. The xUnit plugin is a viable alternative that supports JUnit and many other test result file formats. Introduction No matter the project, you need to gather and report test results. JUnit is one of the most widely supported formats...

This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. Testing web applications across multiple browsers on different platforms can be challenging even for smaller applications. With Jenkins and the Sauce OnDemand Plugin, you can wrangle that complexity by defining your Pipeline as Code. Pipeline ♥ UI Testing, Too I recently started looking for a way to do browser UI testing for an open-source JavaScript project to which I...