In continuing my infra upgrade work, this weekend I'll be migrating JIRA to another server. This will make upgrade more manageable and testable. The service will be disrupted for a few hours. Check out our @jenkinsci on Twitter for up-to-the-minute status. Once the migration is done, the next step is to upgrade them....

I have some exciting news -- The agendas have been posted for the Jenkins User Conferences (JUC) to be held at U.S. East (Alexandria, VA) and Europe (London). Take a look here to learn more about the talks, speakers and schedules. As always, there is a great lineup of presenters ready to share their Jenkins stories: Peter Vilim will be presenting “Proving a First Class...

The 2015 JUC World Tour dates are rapidly approaching. Since the community has grown so tremendously since last year, the JUC in each city will be the largest gathering of Jenkins users in that region. Kohsuke will, as always, be the opening keynote speaker at each JUC. But, with the conference going from one to two days, I am happy to announce that ...

About two years ago, we bumped our runtime JRE requirement from Java5 to Java6. And so the time has come once again for us to finally move on to Java7. Because of all the new language features, many of us the developers really wanted to move right on to Java8, but after much discussion we settled to move to Java7 first and then to...

For the past few weeks, I've burnt a lot of midnight oil to get Confluence containerized. The goal is to make Confluence upgrade more manageable and testable. In the proces, I've not only containerized Confluence, but also containerized some other services, including mock LDAP server, to be able to test the copy of the production Confluence dataset against newer versions of Confluence before upgrading...

It's that time of the year again: 2015 Jenkins User Conference Registration is OPEN for all cities. This year, we are making some changes to JUC — JUC will be a two-day event in three out of the four cities across the globe. You will get opportunities to network with other users and developers in the community, learn more about how other people are...

The deadlines to speak at a 2015 Jenkins User Conference are fast approaching. Don’t miss out on this great opportunity to share your Jenkins tips, tricks, stories, and know-how with the community! Submit your proposal by the below deadlines to have your talk considered by a panel of Jenkins experts: Please note: The deadline to submit a speaking proposal for East Coast US (DC) and...

This is a guest post from Owen Mehegan (aka autojack) In 2014 Google announced that they will be shutting down their OpenID 2.0 authentication endpoint and replacing it with Google+ Sign-in, a library built on top of OpenID Connect. The old Google endpoint will shut down on April 20th, 2015! Accordingly, if you are using the Jenkins OpenID plugin to authenticate users with the ‘Google...