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2022 was a fruitful year for Jenkins! Across the Jenkins project, we experienced growth and strong contributions. We want to share deep gratitude to the corporate sponsorships and individual contributions that made it possible to take Jenkins to the next level. We also look forward to welcoming new friends to collaborate with us in working together to make Jenkins even better. There’s still a lot to do within...

Table of Contents Pre-requisites Java Jenkins user Docker Create a new node in Jenkins Node creation in the UI Node configuration Run your Jenkins agent as a service In this tutorial, we will review how to start a Jenkins agent as a Linux service with systemd. When using Docker for my agents, entering the correct options on the command line should cause the agents to restart automatically. Sometimes, such as when you want to use...

🚀 Java Platform update Jenkins has required Java 11 or newer since 2.361.1 LTS (released on September 7, 2022) and has supported Java 17 since 2.346.1 LTS (released on June 16, 2022). At the time, more users were running Jenkins on Java 8 than on Java 11, and a negligible number of users were running Jenkins on Java 17. In recent months, usage of Java 11 has surpassed usage of...

Maintenance with downtime of JFrog Artifactory (repo.jenkins-ci.org) December 18, 2022 December 18, 2022: our sponsor JFrog will proceed to perform maintenance of our "jenkinsci" Artifactory instance. Expect a complete downtime of about 6 hours due to the nature of this maintenance. The maintenance involves cloud migration from Google Cloud to Amazon Web Services. Impacts Only Jenkins contributors will be impacted, as no releases or builds on ci.jenkins.io or on...

'Tis the season of gift giving and what better way than to give the gift of mentorship. Jenkins is a big supporter and contributor of programs like Google Summer of Code (GSoC), She Code Africa, and Outreachy. We believe in the value and advancements in helping new, and in many cases under-represented contributors to the open source. There is also a special 'je ne sais quoi' that...

November 2022 Welcome to the Jenkins Newsletter! This is a compilation of progress within the project, highlighted by Jenkins Special Interest Groups (SIGs) for the month of November. Got Inspiration? We would love to highlight your cool Jenkins innovations. Share your story and you could be in the next Jenkins newsletter. View previous editions of the Jenkins Newsletter here! Happy reading! Highlights: Congratulations to the new officers and members of the...

The Jenkins project would like to take a moment and share deep gratitude to our sponsors. Sponsorship of the Jenkins project is key to the maintenance and development of Jenkins. There are different ways in which our sponsor organizations support the Jenkins project, such as infrastructure, necessary development tools, funding, and providing mirrors to connect Jenkins to the community. For supporting Jenkins distribution, build, test, and deployment...

We are happy to see a lot of questions on how to prepare efficiently to submit a powerful project submission. This is key to be selected and participate in the coming Google Summer of Code (GSoC). This blog post is addressed to those who ask these questions. First of all, welcome to the Jenkins Community! Thank you for your interest in Jenkins in general and for GSoC 2023...

Hello all, voter registration and candidate nominations for the 2022 Jenkins elections are now complete. Thanks to everyone who registered to vote and to all those who submitted nominations. Special thanks to the candidates that have accepted the nominations. As in years past, when a particular role receives only one nomination, an election is not required. This year, all the board and officer positions are uncontested, with one...

As November continues, we want to share some highlights from Hacktoberfest 2022! This year’s edition was incredibly busy with lots of interesting ideas, great work, new Jenkins contributors, and returning contributors. We want to thank all of the contributors and mentors for all of their hard work, as none of this would be possible without them. Hacktoberfest is an event to highlight and celebrate open-source projects like...