A lot of us has grown fond of our loyal butler Mr.Jenkins over time, which was created by Frontside and chosen as a result of a logo contest. In the true open-source style, the logo has since evolved into many different derivative works, such as a plugin, a 3D model, and a bobble head. Our friends at CloudBees are running a #BreakingBuilds social media contest...

Jenkins started with a notion of jobs and builds at heart. One script is one job, and as you repeatedly execute jobs, it creates builds as records. As the use case of Jenkins gets more sophisticated, people started combining jobs to orchestrate ever more complex activities. A number of plugins have been developed to enable all sorts of different ways to compose jobs, and many...

Jenkins User Conference in Bay Area is this Thursday, and one of the new things this year is the mobile app. + There’s an Android version as well as an iPhone version. I’ve installed it locally, and it’s very handy for checking the agenda, get more info about speakers and sponsors....

This is a guest post by Craig Rodrigues The FreeBSD project produces a modern operating system derived from BSD Unix. In the past 6 months, we have set up Jenkins at https://jenkins.freebsd.org/, to continuously build FreeBSD as developers add new code to the project. This has helped us identify and fix build breaks very quickly. We have gone even farther by integrating Jenkins, Kyua, and Bhyve. Kyua is a...

Another day, another SSL vulnerability! Google has announced a vulnerability in SSL v3, and if you are using the "Winstone" servlet container built into Jenkins, and if you are using the HTTPS connector with the --httpsPort option (it is off by default), then you are vulnerable to this problem. I’ve just issued a security advisory on this. If you haven’t already subscribed to the Jenkins...

(This is a guest post from Daniel Spilker) Jenkins supports building plugins using Gradle for a while now. Last week a new version of the Gradle JPI plugin has been released to iron out some issues. The Gradle JPI plugin enables a 100% groovy plugin development environment with Groovy as primary programming language, Spock for writing tests and Gradle as build system. Have a look at...

+ I suspect many of you have been impacted by CVE-2014-6271 (aka "shellshock" bash vulnerability.) We had our share of updates to do for various *.jenkins-ci.org servers. Java application servers in general (including one that ships in Jenkins) do not fork off processes like Apache does to serve requests, so the kind of CGI attacks you see on Apache does not apply. We are currently unaware...

+ The usual suspects, such as CloudBees, XebiaLabs, SOASTA, PuppetLabs, et al are doing a Jenkins-themed continuous delivery event series called "cdSummit." The event is free, has a nice mix of user/vendor talks, and has an appeal to managers and team leads who are working on and struggling with continuous delivery and automation. I’ve spoken in the past events, and I enjoyed the high-level pitches from...