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Kevin Martens

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

How to build an unsigned Jenkins MSI on your Windows machine

Should you ever need to rebuild a Jenkins MSI on your Windows machine, here is a way to do it. Pre-requisites Jenkins WAR file First, you should download the Jenkins war file that will be inside the MSI file. You can access it from the official Jenkins website or from the Jenkins update center. Check the Jenkins download page to download the latest weekly version...

Bruno Verachten
Alexander Brandes
Kevin Martens February 28, 2023
Jenkins Contributor Awards - Nominations Open

The Jenkins project is a part of the Continuous Delivery Foundation, which gives out awards to recognize all the work from this community and the progress made in the name of Continuous Delivery. View the award guidelines, definitions, and previous winners: here. 2023 Award Categories CDF Awards Continuous Enthusiast → Nominate someone Top CDF Ambassador → Nominate someone Top CDF Contributor → Nominate someone Top Documenter →...

Continuous Delivery Foundation
Alyssa Tong
Kevin Martens February 23, 2023
Thoughts on FOSDEM 2023

What better way to kick off the new year, than by returning for an in-person event at one of the most popular open source gatherings of all, FOSDEM! On February 4 & 5, contributors from the Jenkins project and thousands of other open-source enthusiasts traveled from around the world to flock to FOSDEM. Located in Brussels, Belgium, FOSDEM is an opportunity to...

Alyssa Tong
Alexander Brandes
Jean-Marc Meessen
Stéphane Merle
Bruno Verachten
Kevin Martens February 21, 2023
Jenkins January 2023 Newsletter

Highlights Jenkins in GSoC planning is in full steam ahead. General availability of new development tools on ci.jenkins.io: Maven, JDK, Playwright. 98 pull requests were merged from 38 different authors in January. Jenkins 2.375.2 released January 11, 2023. Over 350 positive ratings. A sandbox bypass vulnerability was corrected among 37 other vulnerabilities. The security team recommends users to upgrade. Debian 12 (“bookworm”) will not deliver OpenJDK 11 Contributed by:...

Alyssa Tong
Kevin Martens February 7, 2023
Jenkins 2022 Recap

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...

Alyssa Tong
Kevin Martens
Bruno Verachten January 12, 2023
Create a new Jenkins node, and run your Jenkins agent as a service

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...

Bruno Verachten December 27, 2022
Jenkins Sponsor Appreciation

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,...

Kevin Martens November 24, 2022
Jenkins Elections Announcement

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...

Kevin Martens November 17, 2022
Hacktoberfest in Jenkins 2022

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...

Kevin Martens November 17, 2022