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Moving Jenkins to a New Frontier of Performance with Java 11 - DevOps World 2022

It’s 2022, and the Jenkins project is approaching 18 years old, boasts over 1,800 plugins and over 1 million users around the world, and is widely considered the most popular automation server in use today. The latest hurdle we’ve cleared was delivering Java 11 support, partially motivated by Oracle’s ending of public support for Java 8 back in March of 2022. Starting...

Ryan Smith August 31, 2022
Let's celebrate Java 11 Support on Jenkins

This is a joint blog post prepared by the Java 11 Support Team: Adrien Lecharpentier, Ashton Treadway, Baptiste Mathus, Jenn Briden, Kevin Earls, María Isabel Vilacides, Mark Waite, Ramón León and Oleg Nenashev. We have worked hard for this and it’s now here. We are thrilled to announce full support for Java 11 in Jenkins starting from Jenkins 2.164 (released on Feb...

Adrien Lecharpentier March 11, 2019
Java 11 Support Preview is available in Jenkins 2.155+

Please refer to Installing Jenkins documentation to have the up-to-date details on how to run Jenkins on Java 11. This is a joint blogpost prepared by the Java 11 Support Team. On Dec 18 (4PM UTC) we will be also presenting the Java 11 Preview Support at the Jenkins Online Meetup (link) Jenkins, one of the leading open-source automation servers, still supports only Java...

Oleg Nenashev December 14, 2018
What I learned from the Jenkins & Java 10+ Hackathon

Last week I participated in the Jenkins & Java 10 Online Hackathon. It was my first Jenkins hackathon and I roped in Jonah Graham to do some pair-programming. The hackathon featured JDK Project Jigsaw committers Mandy Chung and Paul Sandoz, as well as Jenkins creator Kohsuke Kawaguchi. It was a great opportunity for me to learn a lot about Jenkins and Java 10. Why Java 10? With the Java...

Tracy Miranda June 27, 2018
Jenkins & Java 10+ Online Hackathon. Day 2 Update

This week we have a Jenkins & Java 10 Online Hackathon. This is an open online event, where we work together on Jenkins core and plugins in order to find and fix compatibility issues, share experiences and have some fun. Everybody is welcome to join, independently of their Jenkins experience and amount of time they have available. After the kick off on Monday Jenkins contributors have...

Oleg Nenashev June 19, 2018
Running Jenkins with Java 10 and 11 (experimental support)

Please refer to Installing Jenkins documentation to have the up-to-date details on how to run Jenkins on Java 11. Guidelines in this blogpost are rendered obsolete by the Java 11 Support Preview Availability announcement on Dec 13, 2018 and by the Java 11 GA release on Sep 25, 2018. Refer to Java support page for up-to-date information about running Jenkins with Java 11. The Jenkins...

Oleg Nenashev June 17, 2018
Jenkins & Java 10+ Online Hackathon (Jun 18-22)

On behalf of the Jenkins Events Team, I would like to invite you to the “Jenkins & Java 10 Online Hackathon” which will take place from June 18th to 22nd. We will be working together on Jenkins core and plugins in order to find and fix compatibility issues, share experiences and have some fun. Everybody is welcome to join, independently of their Jenkins experience...

Oleg Nenashev June 8, 2018