We are looking for volunteers to join the small infra team here at the Jenkins project. We are the butlers of the butler that get Mr.Jenkins going. We’ve been managing our servers through puppet, and have been slowly folding pieces one at a time to puppet, but there’s still a lot of snowflake services that need proper operationalization. So to fix them up, PuppetLabs folks generously...

+ One of the few plugins that I still personally maintain is Active Directory plugin. In the past few months, I’ve been making steady improvements in this plugin, thanks to various inputs and bug reports given to me from the ClodBees customers. One of the recent fixes was to get the "remember me" feature finally working for Active Directory. This requires a relatively new Jenkins 1.556,...

One of the new efforts in Jenkins this year is the acceptance test harness for Jenkins. We will be doing the Jenkins office hours next week to go over this and sync up and coordinate between people in the community that are trying to work on this. It’ll be April 23rd 11am PT (see what this time is in your time zone) on Google Hangout at...

InfoQ has been running a CI server survey for more than a month now, and here is the current result: + Jenkins has gotten more than 70% of the votes, once again proving the wide adoption among developers. If you are one of those who picked Cruise Control into the "considering" section, I’d encourage you to look around a bit more. You can still vote from their...

The final LTS release of the 1.532.x line is out today. You can download it from the usual location. Changelog is here. Starting with the next 1.554.x LTS, the release model will switch to the train model, where we commit to dates and get whatever we can ship by that date. You can see the scheduled dates in our event calendar. Backporting window for 1.554.1 is...

+ Nio NIO-based Java Web Start (JNLP) agent handling is coming to 1.560. This will help you run a large number of JNLP agents more efficiently. A connected JNLP agent used to occupy one thread on the controller, but now it occupies none. Combined with the earlier change that eliminated threads from idle executors, now you can connect thousands of agents. All you have to do is...

+ I recently had an opportunity to visit a big Jenkins user on site, and one of the things they’ve told me is that building projects in the Maven job type is substantially slower than doing the same with the freestyle project type. This is partly expected, because this job type does more for you. For example, it automatically archives your build artifacts, fingerprints all the...

+ If you have agents that connect through Java Web Start (such as agents installed as Windows services), we have a good news for you. In case of a connection loss, this type of agents has been designed to automatically attempt to reconnect to the controller. This makes sense because you want these agents to remain online all the time, even if your janitor trips over...