Since the end of April, Jenkins has been officially part of the SPI (Software in the Public Interest), an umbrella organization which offers a useful level of legal status for the project. Up until recently we had not taken proper advantage of this new legal umbrella, thankfully that's changed as we're now capable of accepting donations! For the project this is a big step forward as it will allow us to...

We just posted the updated Long-term Release (LTS) of 1.409.2. Just as a recap, with LTS releases, we plan on providing a release train that only has backported changes. 1.409.2 contains a handful of important bug fixes since 1.409.1. For more about LTS, see this wiki page. Thanks to the heroic effort of those who are involved, namely Vojtech Juranek and a bunch of heroes, ...

A couple of months ago Jenkins embarked on an new project, the Jenkins "LTS" (Long Term Support) release line. A LTS branch of development is common in most major open source projects, especially those with substantial corporate adoption, so this was a great step for the project as a whole. We're now coming up on the second LTS release, which will be an incremental update to the previous one (1.409.1)...

As we announced yesterday, we are organizing a Jenkins User Conference, and we are delighted to announce its Call for Papers is now open. We are looking forward to receiving amazing proposals from infrastructure experts to novice developers in the Jenkins community. Use your creativity. Share and showcase your unique approach to utilizing Jenkins technology. We do not encourage overt marketing pitches. We encourage...

Yesterday, Kohsuke announced that the 'jruby' branch of jenkins-core had been merged to master. This doesn't mean that we're done and that you can go forth and write pure ruby plugins… not by any stretch of the imagination. Instead, what it does mean, is that the Jenkins mainline is much more friendly to runtime analysis of classes with which it is not familiar. The problem When analyzing...

We've done meetups, we've done sessions, we've done workshops, now it's about time we went ahead and did user conference don't you think? Our pals over at CloudBees (Harpeet specifically) have taken the initiative in starting to organize just that: a Jenkins User Conference on October 2nd. If you have your calendar at the ready, you'll notice that October 2nd is the Sunday before JavaOne kicks...

Let me preface this entire post with this: I love Contegix. While working on some infrastructure tasks I had long-since put-off for the Jenkins project, I noticed something this weekend that scared the hell out of me. At some undetermined time, our MirrorBrain installation stopped redirecting to our mirror network. Absolutely zero downloads were being redirected, meaning that cucumber, the 1U machine graciously colocated by Contegix had served up far more bits than...

You know that the night is going to be productive whenever @kohsukekawa shows up, and last night was no exception. We talked about problems on the horizon, potential solutions, and then I spent the last half hour ripping a bit of code. The truth of the matter is that most of the changes that have to be done to Jenkins core have already been made,...