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• Active Directory plugin improvements

  + + 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...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi April 16, 2014
• Upcoming Jenkins Office Hours: Acceptance Test Harness

  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)...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi April 15, 2014
• Jenkins 1.532.3 LTS is released

  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...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi April 11, 2014
• InfoQ CI survey 2014

  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...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi April 11, 2014
• More scalable agents

  + + 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...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi April 9, 2014
• Maven job type performance improvements in Maven plugin 2.2

  + 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...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi April 4, 2014
• Your Java Web Start slaves will be always clean

  + + 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,...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi April 1, 2014
• Call for Sponsors: 2014 Jenkins User Conferences

  Jenkins User Conference (JUC) season is upon us! It’s a busy year for the Butler — he’s hosting conferences all over and looking for sponsors to help: Boston — June 18 Berlin — June 25 Herzelia, Israel — July 16 Bay Area (California) — October (date TBD) Mr. Jenkins and the JUC Organizing Committee want to invite you and your company to sponsor a JUC this year. Show your support for the Jenkins community and...

  Lisa Wells March 21, 2014
• Jenkins User Conferences This Year

  Over the past three years, the Jenkins User Conference is held annually in the Bay Area with a few events in different locations around the world. The Jenkins User Conference has established a reputation as a focal point for the Jenkins community to come together to share new ideas and best practices. Each year we have experienced the growth and...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi March 19, 2014