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  Supercharge Your Jenkins Workflow with Mergify

  Introduction In the modern software development landscape, continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) are no longer just trendy buzzwords. They are vital components of the development cycle. Two tools that are often associated with these operations are Jenkins and Mergify. Jenkins, an open-source automation server, is used to automate parts of the development process, including building, testing, and deploying applications. Mergify, on the other...

  

  Julien Danjou September 26, 2023
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  GSoC Building Jenkins.io with alternative tools

  This blog showcases all the work done in the project Building Jenkins.io with Alternative Tools during Google Summer of Code 2023. Table of Contents About Project Coding Phase 1 Coding Phase 2 Future Improvements Acknowledgments Useful Links About Project The Jenkins documentation site is generated as a static website using Awestruct from AsciiDoc sources. One of the drawbacks of the current build method is that the technical documentation is not...

  

  Vandit Singh September 24, 2023
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  Incremental Build Detection Probe

  Introduction The Incremental Build Detection Probe was developed as a part of Google Summer of Code 2023 for the plugin health scoring system project. Incremental builds aid in continuous delivery of plugins, deploying only the modules affected by new commits [1]. Jenkins core and plugins can be deployed incrementally, rather than waiting for the developer to manually deploy the release [2]. This probe identifies...

  

  Jagruti Tiwari September 22, 2023
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  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...

  

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  Bruno Verachten

  

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  Alyssa Tong September 21, 2023
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  Renovate Probe

  Introduction Bots are used to automate tasks in a plugin. The Plugin Health Scoring System tracks usage of two bots - Dependabot and Renovate. Dependabot looks for dependencies that are outdated in a plugin. It can also raise a security alert if a security breach is found, like when the code depends on an insecure package. Renovate provides automated dependency updates. It can also schedule PRs...

  

  Jagruti Tiwari September 20, 2023
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  Hacktoberfest 2023

  Once again, Hacktoberfest is back! During this October event, everyone can celebrate and support open source by contributing changes. This year’s edition is special because it is Hacktoberfest’s tenth anniversary. Once again, the Jenkins community will participate in the event, and we invite you to contribute to Jenkins projects. We also encourage maintainers to welcome and help newcomers in the project. The event is a...

  

  Jean-Marc Meessen September 20, 2023
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  Jenkins Board and Officer Elections 2023 - Nominations Open

  We are excited to announce the 2023 Jenkins Governance Board and officer elections! Nominations Nominations can be submitted for two governance board positions, and all five officer positions (Security, Events, Release, Infrastructure, and Documentation). During the registration period, we invite community members to nominate candidates by sending a message to the election-committee group. In your message, please include the name of the nominee, the...

  

  Alexander Brandes September 18, 2023
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  Detecting deprecated JSR-305 imports Probe

  Introduction This blog post describes the latest addition to the plugin health scoring system developed as part of my Google summer of Code Project: a probe that detects usages of the JSR-305 framework in plugins. The JSR-305 framework provides annotations to detect software defects. Its executive committee voted it as dormant since May 2012. It is important to stop using the framework for the...

  

  Jagruti Tiwari September 9, 2023
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  DevOps World Tour 2023

  DevOps World Tour is coming to a city near you with events in multiple locations across the US, UK, and Asia. Jenkins project contributors will be attending and presenting in each city on the tour. Tim Jacomb - London Tim Jacomb will be presenting in London. Tim is a lead software engineer at Kainos and has been the the Jenkins release officer since December...

  

  Mark Waite September 6, 2023