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  Four students and their master project in Jenkins security

  Context Jenkins is a CI/CD solution and as such, it is critical that the open source plugins that constitute an integral part of it don’t expose the systems they are used on to any security risks and vulnerabilities. It is in that context that we worked as an audit/code review team to track and report such flaws and problematic practices. We worked in...

  Justin Philip

  

  Kevin Guerroudj

  Quentin Parra

  Marc Heyries June 21, 2021
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  Jenkins IRC moves to Libera Chat

  We are happy to announce that the Jenkins community has moved all its official IRC channels to Libera chat. We have started our migration on May 26 as a response to the hostile takeover of hundreds of open source community channel by the new Freenode management. As decided by the Jenkins governance meeting on June 16th, Libera Chat IRC channels are the only official channels...

  

  Mark Waite

  

  Oleg Nenashev June 17, 2021
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  New eBook: Jenkins is the Way for IT and software developers

  A little over a year ago, we launched JenkinsIsTheWay.io, a website whose sole purpose is to share Jenkins user stories with the developers and engineers in our community. Over a hundred of you have already shared your innovations, and they just keep coming. It comes as no surprise that many of the submitted stories are from IT consultants...

  

  Alyssa Tong June 10, 2021
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  Apache Commons Digester library removal (breaking changes!)

  Keeping up with our goal to clean up some of the technical debt inside Jenkins Core and reduce the maintenance overheads, we are happy to report we were able to remove a long-deprecated Apache Commons Digester library. Jenkins Core does not depend anymore on Apache Commons Digester v.2.1, a version that has been released in 2010. Some plugins will require update to...

  

  Baptiste Mathus June 4, 2021
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  Configure Plugins with JCasC

  This blog post is for anyone interested to know how to configure a plugin using the Jenkins Configuration as a Code (JCasC) plugin, more specifically, this blog will guide you to get the YAML equivalent of a plugin’s configuration and use it to do some changes to the plugin without using the Jenkins UI. If you’re a beginner at JCasC and...

  

  Dheeraj Singh Jodha May 20, 2021
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  Jenkins Contributor Awards - Nominations Open

  This year, the Jenkins Contributor Awards 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 this time around! The deadline to nominate someone is May 14, 2021, and voting will open in...

  

  Continuous Delivery Foundation April 23, 2021
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  Easily reuse Tekton and Jenkins X from Jenkins

  What is Tekton? Tekton is a powerful and flexible open-source framework for creating CI/CD systems, allowing developers to build, test, and deploy across cloud providers and on-premises systems. Why use Tekton? Tekton pipelines have a number of benefits: they are cloud native and designed from the ground up for kubernetes each Tekton Pipeline is fully declarative and completely self described; it does not depend on...

  

  James Strachan April 21, 2021
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  Jenkins Operator becomes an official sub-project!

  We are happy to announce that Jenkins Operator officially became an official Jenkins sub-project. What does it mean for the project? Becoming an official part of the Jenkins project was a major step towards better alignment with the overall Jenkins’ roadmap and more opportunities to increase adoption of the Jenkins Operator project. Finally, with a dedicated team at VirtusLab actively maintaining the project...

  Bartek Antoniak

  Sylwia Brant April 15, 2021
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  Welcome the She Code Africa Contributhon participants!

  The She Code Africa Contributhon started April 1, 2021. The She Code Africa Contributhon is a boot camp where African women are paid to work with open source organizations on selected projects with dedicated mentors. This program aims to create a more diverse, inclusive, and innovative culture within the African open source ecosystem by matching African women in technology with sponsor and...

  

  Mark Waite April 7, 2021