The end of a year is a great time to step back from the daily grind to look at the big picture. Across the industry, the relentless march toward more automation still continues on. We are writing software faster than ever, but the demand for software seems to be going up even more, and I feel more and more businesses and executives are keenly aware...

Please refer to Installing Jenkins documentation to have the up-to-date details on how to run Jenkins on Java 11. This is a joint blogpost prepared by the Java 11 Support Team. On Dec 18 (4PM UTC) we will be also presenting the Java 11 Preview Support at the Jenkins Online Meetup (link) Jenkins, one of the leading open-source automation servers, still supports only Java 8. On September 25 OpenJDK...

There are now three different Docker Hub repositories that are or have been used as the "official" Jenkins image. This article aims at providing a clarification about which one is the current official one (as of December 2018 :-)). The official one docker pull jenkins/jenkins i.e. https://hub.docker.com/r/jenkins/jenkins/ is the right repository to use. I also documented some time ago on my blog the recommended way to run Jenkins using...

This year marks the first time the Jenkins project is participating in Outreachy. Outreachy is a program similar to Google Summer of Code (GSoC) where interns work on open source projects for a paid stipend. The key difference is that Outreachy reaches out to underrepresented groups and those who face systemic bias or discrimination in the technology industry in their home country. Once I learned about this...

The time has come - KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2018 has arrived. The conference has completely sold out and the schedule is jam packed with interesting talks. If you’re among those with tickets, here are a couple Jenkins related events that might interest you: On Wednesday at 3:40pm, Carlos Sanchez will be presenting Jenkins X: Continuous Delivery for Kubernetes in Tahoma 3/4 @ TCC. On Tuesday at 2:35pm, Jonathan...

We just released security updates to Jenkins, versions 2.154 and LTS 2.150.1, that fix multiple security vulnerabilities. Since 2.150.1 is the first release in the new LTS line, we also released 2.138.4, a security update for the previous LTS line. This allows administrators to install today’s security fixes without having to upgrade to the new LTS line immediately. For an overview of what was fixed, see the...

This year, the Jenkins organization participated in the Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit at the Google office in Sunnyvale on Oct 12, 13 and 14, 2018. The GSoC Mentor Summit is where mentors of all organizations participating in the GSoC program are invited each year to learn and network with mentors from other organization, and make GSoC a better program. This is the second time Jenkins mentors...

In a past blog post, Delivery Pipelines, with Jenkins 2, SonarQube, and Artifactory, we talked about pipelines which result in binaries for development versions, and in Delivery pipelines, with Jenkins 2: how to promote Java EE and Docker binaries toward production, we examined ways to consistently promote applications toward production. In this blog post, I continue on both by discussing more details on security related quality gates and bringing...