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• IPS Packages of Jenkins for Solaris/OpenIndiana

  Image Packaging System (IPS) is a new package manager Sun has developed for OpenSolaris. While I have my doubts about whether a brand-new package manager was a good way of spending engineering resources, OpenSolaris had a number of very nice features that made it a convincing platform to run Jenkins, thanks to SMF, ZFS, and zones. So I used to...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi September 20, 2011
• 2011 Donation Drive

  Since the end of April, Jenkins has been officially part of the SPI (Software in the Public Interest), an umbrella organization which offers a useful level of legal status for the project. Up until recently we had not taken proper advantage of this new legal umbrella, thankfully that’s changed as we’re now capable of accepting donations! For the project this is a big step forward as it...

  

  R. Tyler Croy September 19, 2011
• Jenkins Long-Term Release 1.409.2 is out

  We just posted the updated Long-term Release (LTS) of 1.409.2. Just as a recap, with LTS releases, we plan on providing a release train that only has backported changes. 1.409.2 contains a handful of important bug fixes since 1.409.1. For more about LTS, see this wiki page. Thanks to the heroic effort of those who are involved, namely Vojtech Juranek and a...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi September 14, 2011
• Call for Testers: Upcoming LTS update

  A couple of months ago Jenkins embarked on an new project, the Jenkins "LTS" (Long Term Support) release line. A LTS branch of development is common in most major open source projects, especially those with substantial corporate adoption, so this was a great step for the project as a whole. We’re now coming up on the second LTS release, which will be an incremental update to...

  

  R. Tyler Croy September 1, 2011
• Jenkins User Conference: Call for Papers

  As we announced yesterday, we are organizing a Jenkins User Conference, and we are delighted to announce its Call for Papers is now open. We are looking forward to receiving amazing proposals from infrastructure experts to novice developers in the Jenkins community. Use your creativity. Share and showcase your unique approach to utilizing Jenkins technology. We do not encourage overt marketing...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi August 9, 2011
• JRuby Branch merged!

  Yesterday, Kohsuke announced that the 'jruby' branch of jenkins-core had been merged to master. This doesn’t mean that we’re done and that you can go forth and write pure ruby plugins…​ not by any stretch of the imagination. Instead, what it does mean, is that the Jenkins mainline is much more friendly to runtime analysis of classes with which it is...

  Charles Lowell August 8, 2011
• Jenkins User Conference

  We’ve done meetups, we’ve done sessions, we’ve done workshops, now it’s about time we went ahead and did user conference don’t you think? Our pals over at CloudBees (Harpeet specifically) have taken the initiative in starting to organize just that: a Jenkins User Conference on October 2nd. If you have your calendar at the ready, you’ll notice that October 2nd is the...

  

  R. Tyler Croy August 8, 2011
• Mirror, mirror on the wall

  Let me preface this entire post with this: I love Contegix. While working on some infrastructure tasks I had long-since put-off for the Jenkins project, I noticed something this weekend that scared the hell out of me. At some undetermined time, our MirrorBrain installation stopped redirecting to our mirror network. Absolutely zero downloads were being redirected, meaning that cucumber, the 1U machine graciously colocated by Contegix had served...

  

  R. Tyler Croy July 18, 2011
• Ruby Plugins Hack Session Notes 6/23/2011

  You know that the night is going to be productive whenever @kohsukekawa shows up, and last night was no exception. We talked about problems on the horizon, potential solutions, and then I spent the last half hour ripping a bit of code. The truth of the matter is that most of the changes that have to be done to Jenkins core...

  Charles Lowell June 24, 2011