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  Welcome Google Summer of Code 2022 Contributors!

  On behalf of the Jenkins GSoC team and mentors, We would like to welcome Dheeraj Singh Jodha, Yiming Gong, Hrushikesh Rao, and Vihaan Thora. They will be working on Google Summer of Code projects in the Jenkins organization, and they have already done some contributions. This year we have the following projects: Plugin Health Scoring System - Provide a 'plugin health indicator' for plugin maintainers and Jenkins administrators. Contributor: Dheeraj Singh...

  

  Alyssa Tong

  

  Jean-Marc Meessen May 20, 2022
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  DigitalOcean sponsors the Jenkins project

  The Jenkins infrastructure team has extended the reach of the ci.jenkins.io agents. We’re grateful that DigitalOcean has donated $2760 to the Jenkins project. The donation has allowed us to run jobs from ci.jenkins.io on an additional cluster hosted by DigitalOcean. Easy setup We defined a new Kubernetes cluster on DigitalOcean with the DigitalOcean Terraform provider. The infrastructure is defined as code in our DigitalOcean infrastructure...

  

  Mark Waite

  

  Hervé Le Meur May 4, 2022
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  She Code Africa Contributhon 2022!

  The She Code Africa Contributhon started April 5, 2022. The She Code Africa Contributhon is a boot camp where African women are paid to work with open source organizations on selected projects with dedicated mentors. This program aims to create a more diverse, inclusive, and innovative culture within the African open source ecosystem by matching African women in technology with sponsor and...

  

  Mark Waite April 11, 2022
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  Jenkins Contributor Awards - Nominations Extended

  Jenkins Contributor Awards for 2022 are being run by the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) along with many other CDF Community Awards. The nominations are open and are being accepted using GitHub issues to make the process transparent. Any contributor is eligible! The deadline to nominate someone has been extended to April 11, 2022. Voting will open later in April. Nominate contributors or vote with reactions/comments...

  

  Continuous Delivery Foundation March 29, 2022
• Linux installation packages migrated from System V init to systemd

  Beginning with Jenkins 2.335 and Jenkins 2.332.1, the Jenkins project is migrating from System V init(8) to systemd(1) in its official Debian, Red Hat, and openSUSE packages. The official Docker image and Helm chart remain unchanged. For up-to-date information, refer to the Managing systemd services page in the documentation. Background Beginning in 2008, the Jenkins (then Hudson) project has delivered Linux OS installation packages...

  Basil Crow March 25, 2022
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  Jenkins Contributor Awards - Nominations Open

  Jenkins Contributor Awards for 2022 will be run by the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) along with many other CDF Community Awards. The nominations are currently open and are being accepted using GitHub issues to make the process more transparent. Any contributor is eligible! The deadline to nominate someone is March 29, 2022. Voting will open in April. Nominate contributors or vote with reactions/comments for all...

  

  Continuous Delivery Foundation March 22, 2022
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  Java 17 Preview is available in Jenkins 2.339+

  Please refer to the Java requirements documentation for up-to-date details on how to run Jenkins on Java 17. Jenkins, one of the leading open-source automation servers, does not yet officially support Java 17. On September 14, 2021, OpenJDK 17 was released. This is a Long-Term-Support (LTS) release, and it will stay around for years. The Jenkins project is eager to offer full support of...

  Basil Crow March 21, 2022
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  Google Summer of Code 2022… Here We Come!

  We are thrilled to announce that Jenkins has been accepted to Google Summer of Code 2022! This will be Jenkins' sixth year as a mentoring organization. Congratulations to all 203 accepted open source participating organizations! For the past 5 years as a mentoring organization, Jenkins boasts mentorship of 27 GSoC students by 80+ mentors, that’s bringing together over 107 strangers for a common idea - Jenkins. At...

  

  Alyssa Tong

  

  Jean-Marc Meessen March 8, 2022
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  Jenkins GSoC 2022: The Return of Students as Mentors

  Since 2005, the Google Summer of Code program has connected 18,000+ new open source contributors from 112 countries with 17,000+ mentors from 118 countries. Google Summer of Code has produced over 40 million lines of code for 746 open source organizations. The Jenkins project has been a mentoring organization for five years, successfully mentored 27 GSoC students by ~80 mentors, not to mention countless...

  

  Alyssa Tong February 16, 2022