The annual DevOps World, formerly known as DevOps World | Jenkins World is next week - Sept 22-24, with workshops on Sept 25. Just like other events this year, DevOps World pivoted to a virtual event but that doesn’t mean there is a shortage of sessions or networking opportunities. There will be over 50 Jenkins/open source sessions and opportunities to virtually connect with over...

This article describes our observations during Windows testing of the Jenkins 2.249.1 release candidate. Upgrade testing Jenkins 2.249.1 is a new long term support release with user interface improvements and changes in Windows support. It is the first long term support release to drop support for Microsoft.NET framework 2.0. The end of support for Microsoft.NET framework 2.0 was announced in the Windows Support Updates blog post. The Windows support...

The Jenkins project has been around for over fifteen years and is the defacto platform for CI/CD. One of the reasons it continues to be so ubiquitous is that Jenkins constantly evolves and offers flexibility to integrate other tools that work well for your solution. At CDCon, on October 7-8, there are two particular Jenkins talks that will focus on new directions that the Jenkins...

This blog post is about our phase 3 progress on GitHub Checks API Project, you can find our previous blog posts for phase 1 and phase 2. At the end of this summer, the GSoC journey for GitHub Checks API Project comes to an end as well. In this blog post, I’ll show you our works during the last month: Pipeline Support Rerun Request Support Git SCM Support Documentation All the...

Hello everyone, This is the final blog post for the Custom Distribution Service project during the Google Summer of Code timeline. I have mixed feelings since we are almost near the finish line for one of the most amazing open source programs out there. However, it is time to wrap things up for this project and achieve a state where the project can be built upon and...

Since the beginning of the project, the core value which drove its progress was "To enhance the user experience for running Jenkins jobs by reducing the overall execution time". To achieve this goal, we laid out a path: Compare the two existing git implementations i.e CliGitAPIImpl and JGitAPIImpl using performance benchmarking Use the results to create a feature which would improve the overall performance of git plugin Also,...

Hello, world! GSoC 2020 Phase 3 has ended now and it was a great period for the Jenkins Windows Services - YAML Configuration Support project. In this blog post, I will announce the updates during the GSoC 2020 - Phase 2 and Phase 3. If you are not already aware of this project, I would recommend reading this blog post which was published after GSoC 2020...

Good to see you all again ! This is my final blog post about coding phase 3 in Jenkins Machine Learning Plugin for GSoC 2020. Being at the end of GSoC 2020, we had to finish all the pending issues and testing before a stable release in the main repository. Throughout this program, there were lots of learning and hard work will make this plugin valuable...