The Jenkins project provides a download mirror infrastructure allowing to download Jenkins packages and plugins from a download server close to your location. How Does it Work? When a download request is emitted to either mirrors.jenkins.io or get.jenkins.io, an HTTP redirect response to a mirror download server is answered. The Jenkins infrastructure uses a database of existing mirror servers provided by volunteers and donators to select the...

The Postman API Platform is redefining how APIs are built, managed, and consumed. An important aspect of API management is continuous building, testing, and deployment with CI/CD tools. With the latest release of Postman, we bring the API builds closer to your API by integrating with Jenkins. Observe your Jenkins builds While you iterate over your APIs, the Jenkins builds are triggered multiple times. While some of you may...

A remote code execution vulnerability has been identified in the Spring Framework. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2022-22965. Spring officially reacted early in an early announcement. SpringShell in Jenkins Core and Plugins The Jenkins security team has confirmed that the Spring vulnerability is not affecting Jenkins Core. There is no impact because we are using Stapler as a servlet, and neither Spring MVC nor Spring WebFlux. An analysis was done...

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 for all three Jenkins...

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 three Jenkins awards: Most Valuable...

I regularly go, as all Jenkins admin do, to my system’s Plugin Management page to see what plugins can be upgraded. Although I am running the latest LTS version, I can’t update some key plugins (for example the JUnit plugin). This is even more intriguing as some are part of the plugins installed by default by the setup wizard. No "install" tick box and the plugin is...

This year, the Duchess community embraced a new challenge: working on women’s presence in Open Source while participating in Jenkins during the Hacktoberfest, a yearly event. Huge congrats to all the contributors! 🥳 Note: This blog is a translation, the source blog post is located here https://www.duchess-france.org/duchess-hacktoberfest-2021/ Anne-Laure Gaillard Interview Hello Anne-Laure, can you introduce yourself? LinkedIn After a PhD in Computer Science and a few years in Software Development, I...

Summary Jenkins bundles Guava, a core Java library from Google. Beginning with Jenkins 2.320 (released on November 10, 2021), Jenkins has upgraded the Guava library from 11.0.1 (released on January 9, 2012) to 31.0.1 (released on September 27, 2021). Plugins have already been prepared to support the new version of Guava in JEP-233. Use the Plugin Manager to upgrade all plugins before and after upgrading to Jenkins 2.320. Motivation Many security-conscious organizations...

Congratulations to all Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2021 students! On behalf of the Jenkins org team, we would like to thank all participants: students, mentors, applicants, and dozens of other contributors who participated in GSoC this year. In 2021, the Jenkins project participated in GSoC as part of the Continuous Delivery Foundation’s GSoC mentor organisation. Within the CDF GSoC mentor organisation, we had six students working...

There are many ways to set up your Jenkins environment, and depending on the configuration you choose, there are different best practices and options to optimize your environment. In this blog, I’m going to focus on Jenkins Health Advisor by CloudBees as a way to fine-tune your environment. It’s a free tool that can help administrators understand and manage their Jenkins controller. If you’re a CloudBees customer,...