For years, we’ve been hearing about covert installations of Jenkins by groups of developers within larger companies. Rogue engineers, frustrated by the lack of continuous integration would download jenkins.war and run it off their workstation. As time went on, word-of-mouth within the organization spread Jenkins far and wide. Today we announce an initiative to help support these rogue agents: the Jenkins CIA. CIA being short for Continuous Integration Ambassador of course. If...

It is interesting having an open source project that is sufficiently old to start generating "lore" of some form or another. Jenkins is starting to get to be that age, having been started over 6 years ago. One of the most commonly asked questions, is about Jenkins' use of "blue balls" to indicate success by default. This is enough of an "issue" for some users...

We’ve identified and fixed a critical security vulnerabilities in Jenkins core. This affects all the releases of Jenkins to date (main line releases up to 1.452 and LTS up to 1.424.3.) Please upgrade to the new releases at your earliest convenience, especially if your Jenkins is internet facing. For more details about the vulnerabilities, affected versions, and so on, please consult the security advisory. (See our page...

With the JUC Paris 2012 call for papers open, it’s important to mention that we are also looking for sponsors for the various Jenkins User Conferences that are being planned around the world right now! Currently there are four conferences being put together right now: JUC Paris JUC New York JUC San Francisco JUC Antwerp If your company is heavily invested in Jenkins or interested in reaching the kind of...

(Editor’s note: Apologies for the delay in getting this wrap-up out, it’s been quite a busy month!) This year has already been full of milestones, the first of which being our first birthday as an open source project. The second major milestone for the project was that we went to FOSDEM 2012, arguably the largest volunteer-organized and operated open source conference on the planet. We had...

+ (English text follows the French text) Après le succès de la Jenkins User Conference l’an dernier à San Francisco et à l’intérêt qu’elle a soulevé, nous organisons cette année la JUC dans quatre grande villes à travers le monde. La premiére étape de cette tournée est la JUC 2012 à Paris, le 17 avril. La conférence aura lieu la veille de Devoxx France dans les...

On February 2nd, 2011 the first release of Jenkins, version 1.396, was made available for public consumption. Thus marking a new beginning for many of us who had come to rely on this very versatile piece of software and wanted to see it continue to thrive. Along with some other bug fixes, the 1.396 release of Jenkins included a very important changelog item: Fixed a trademark...

A slick highlight video from the Jenkins User Conference, 2011 was posted recently which captures some great quotes from a number of the fantastic speakers who participated in the inaugural JUC. I’ve embedded the video below, enjoy!...