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Kevin Martens

Kevin Martens is part of the CloudBees Documentation team, helping with Jenkins documentation creation and maintenance.

Jenkins November 2023 Newsletter

Key Takeaways Basil Crow joins the Jenkins Governance Board. A Jenkins Contributor Summit will be held prior to FOSDEM. The Contributor Spotlight site is now live. Contributed by: Mark Waite Basil Crow joins the Jenkins governance board in December 2023. He’ll serve for a two-year term. Thanks to Basil for his willingness to serve. More details of the 2023 governance board and officer changes are available in a...

Damien DUPORTAL
Mark Waite
Bruno Verachten
Kevin Martens
Alyssa Tong December 15, 2023
Introducing the Jenkins Contributor Spotlight

The Jenkins project has evolved constantly over the years, thanks to the tireless efforts of the Jenkins community. There are numerous contributors that work behind the scenes to ensure that Jenkins is functioning and staying on the cutting edge, in addition to being voices within the community and advocating for Jenkins. It is with this sentiment in mind that we want to...

Kevin Martens November 29, 2023
Jenkins October 2023 Newsletter

Key Takeaways JDK21 is available on the infrastructure and in official Docker images too. 💥Breaking change: set Java 17 as default for LTS. Prototype has been removed as of weekly 2.426 Contributed by: Wadeck Follonier Core security advisory published on October 18 https://jenkins.io/security/advisory/2023-10-18/ Includes an essential Jetty update that provided multiple fixes. Plugin security advisory published on October 25 https://jenkins.io/security/advisory/2023-10-25/ Multiple high score vulnerabilities in various plugins During Hacktoberfest, the Content...

Damien DUPORTAL
Mark Waite
Bruno Verachten
Wadeck Follonier
Kevin Martens
Alyssa Tong November 10, 2023
Jenkins September 2023 Newsletter

Key Takeaways JDK21 is around the corner Contributed by: Wadeck Follonier A plugin security advisory was published on September 6. Security Advisory 2023-09-06 This included multiple high score vulnerabilities in various plugins. A core security advisory was published on September 20. Security Advisory 2023-09-20 Multiple vulnerabilities were corrected in core. This advisory also included fixes for a plugin. Contributed by: Mark Waite Voter registration is now open for the 2023 Jenkins...

Damien DUPORTAL
Mark Waite
Bruno Verachten
Wadeck Follonier
Kevin Martens
Alyssa Tong October 12, 2023
Jenkins August 2023 Newsletter

Key Takeaways Jenkins project reports growth of 79% in Jenkins Pipeline, used to propel software delivery. Contributed by: Wadeck Follonier Andrea Chiera completed his 3 months internship within the Security team, auditing 100 plugins and finding 20+ vulnerabilities. Summer Internship in Jenkins security Thank you very much for your involvement and also to the team for mentoring him. A Plugin security advisory was published on August...

Damien DUPORTAL
Mark Waite
Bruno Verachten
Wadeck Follonier
Kevin Martens
Alyssa Tong September 21, 2023
Jenkins July 2023 Newsletter

Key Takeaways A Jenkins Core security advisory was published on July 26 The official documentation has migrated to Java 17 Operating system end of life notifications have been added Contributed by: Wadeck Follonier During July, there were two Security Advisories published: Plugin security advisory published on July 12 Multiple high-score vulnerabilities A total of 16 plugins were affected Jenkins core and plugins security advisory published on July 26 The highest...

Damien DUPORTAL
Mark Waite
Bruno Verachten
Wadeck Follonier
Kevin Martens
Alyssa Tong August 2, 2023
Java 17 usage in Jenkins.io Documentation

Jenkins has fully supported Java 17 since the 2.357 weekly release and 2.361.1 Long Term Support release. For this reason, we have transitioned to using Java 17 in the Jenkins user handbook. This includes the installation guides, Pipeline documentation, and Pipeline syntax. Refer to the GitHub issue for additional information and insight. Background Debian 12 was released on June 10, 2023, and it no longer...

Kevin Martens August 1, 2023
Jenkins June 2023 Newsletter

Key Takeaways Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, and derivatives like CentOS 7, reach early end of life. Upgrades and improvements of Jenkins components continue with significant progress towards the eventual removal of Prototype.js from Jenkins core. Thanks to a kind donation from Launchable, pull requests to Jenkins core now complete their evaluation builds in 2 hours rather than the 6 hours that were...

Damien DUPORTAL
Mark Waite
Bruno Verachten
Wadeck Follonier
Kevin Martens July 10, 2023
How to remove deprecated plugins from Jenkins while using Docker

The Jenkins plugin ecosystem is highly active, and it’s not uncommon to come across deprecated plugins. This can be both positive and negative. On the positive side, it signifies that the plugin is no longer necessary since its functionality has been integrated into Jenkins core or rendered obsolete by new features or technologies. On the downside, deprecation could indicate that the plugin is...

Bruno Verachten
Kevin Martens June 20, 2023