Thank you to Netflix for sponsoring the yummy burrito bar and offered up their brand new auditorium to host Jenkins Developers and Users Meetup group on Dec 16. We had 96 RSVPs which was impressive. Our speaker for the evening was Akshay Dayal, Software Engineer at Google. Akshay’s session was about Scaling Jenkins - how and why Google decided to scale their existing Jenkins cluster (OSS) to meet their security/availability...

While we are gearing up for FOSDEM 2016 early next year in Brussels, I wanted to remind the Jenkins community about our Travel Grant Program. We’re a little late on mentioning it, but the board has allocated the money to help Jenkins contributors travel to Brussels to participate in FOSDEM and the Jenkins Contributor Summit which we will be hosting the day after, Feb...

A lot of people are using the Workflow plugin, but as with any scripting environment, users often have to start from scratch and learn the same lessons and shortcuts that other users have already learned. While there are blog posts from developers and users in various places, and some samples in the Workflow plugin documentation, more examples and tips and tricks are always, always...

We released Jenkins updates today that include important security fixes: 1.641 and 1.625.3. For detailed information about the security content of these updates, see the security advisory. One of these fixes, SECURITY-95, results in possible problems in plugins such as Maven Plugin, Javadoc Plugin, and HTML Publisher Plugin, so make sure to read all about that in the documentation. Please note that the update site may...

Note: This is a guest post by Kishore Bhatia. Kishore works for CloudBees, building custom frameworks with Open Source software and helping customers solve engineering problems around continuous delivery and DevOps at scale. This year some great new Jenkins features came out of the butler’s goodie bag - amongst them, the most important one being the ability to realize continuous delivery pipeline as code! The features...

Last week we hosted our first Hacksgiving event, a two-day virtual hackathon with a number of recorded sessions and plenty of pull requests submitted, I would say it was a success! I would like to thank everybody who took the time to watch, chat and present in the Hacker Hangout. Now that everybody has had time to recover from the turkey and travel, we have...

Next week in the US we have a national holiday where, generally speaking, lots of turkey gets converted into left-over turkey sandwiches. For many software developers the Thanksgiving holiday also represents a lull in project schedules, freeing up some time to hack on pet projects or even contribute to open source projects. Taking a cue from the Adopt a Plugin program that Daniel wrote about...

We just released Jenkins 1.638 and 1.625.2 which contain important security fixes, including a fix for the zero-day vulnerability published on Friday. Please see the security advisory for more information. Want to be kept up to date on Jenkins security releases, including advance notice on scheduled security updates? Subscribe to the jenkinsci-advisories mailing list!...