About me My name is Samat Davletshin and I am from HSE University from Moscow, Russia. I interned at Intel and Yandex, and cofounded a startup project where I personally developed front-end and back-end of the website. I am excited to participate in GSoC with Jenkins this summer as a chanсe to make a positive change for thousands of users as well as to learn from great mentors. Abstract Although powerful,...

This is a guest post by Chris Price. Chris is a software engineer at Puppet, and has been spending some time lately on automating performance testing using the latest Jenkins features. In this blog post, I’m going to attempt to provide some step-by-step notes on how to refactor an existing Jenkins plugin to make it compatible with the new Jenkins Pipeline jobs. Before we get to the fun stuff,...

About myself My name is Alexandru Somai. I’m following a major in Software Engineering at the Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. I have more than two years hands-on experience working in Software Development. I enjoy writing code in Java, Groovy and JavaScript. The technologies and frameworks that I’m most familiar with are: Spring Framework, Spring Security, Hibernate, JMS, Web Services, JUnit, TestNG, Mockito. As build tools and continuous integration, I’m using...

I am pleased to announce that we have partnered with Microsoft to migrate and power the Jenkins project’s infrastructure with Microsoft Azure. The partnership comes at an important time, after the recent launch of Jenkins 2.0, Jenkins users are more readily adopting Pipeline as Code and many other plugins at an increasing rate, elevating the importance of Jenkins infrastructure to the overall success of the project. That strong and continued growth...

Recently, the Jenkins project announced the release of Jenkins 2.0, a first major release after 10 years and 655 weekly releases. This has been a major milestone for Jenkins and its growing community of developers, testers, designers and other users in the software delivery process. With its rising popularity and wide adoption, the Jenkins community continues to grow and evolve into the millions. Jenkins community meetup activity has risen to an...

A few weeks ago, my colleague Brian Dawson and I were invited to present on Scaling Jenkins for Continuous Delivery with Microsoft Azure in Microsoft’s Reactor space. Azure is Microsoft’s public cloud offering and one of the many tools available to Jenkins users for adding elastic compute capacity, among other things, to their build/test/deploy infrastructure. While our presentations are applicable to practically any cloud-based Jenkins environment, Thiago Almeida and Oguz Pastirmaci from Microsoft...

We just released security updates to Jenkins that fix a number of low and medium severity issues. For an overview of what was fixed, see the security advisory. One of the fixes may well break some of your use cases in Jenkins, at least until plugins have been adapted: SECURITY-170. This change removes parameters that are not defined on a job from the build environment....

Last week we hosted our first ever Online JAM with the debut topic of: Jenkins 2.0. Alyssa, our Events officer, and I pulled together a series of sessions focusing on some of the most notable aspects of Jenkins 2 with: A Jenkins 2.0 keynote from project founder Kohsuke Kawaguchi An overview of "Pipeline as Code" from Patrick Wolf A deep-dive into Pipeline and related plugins like Multibranch, etc from Jesse Glick and Kishore Bhatia An overview of...