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• Installing plugins has always been easy, now it's fast too!

  As one of the "men behind the scenes" of the Hudson project, a lot of my contributions tend to be in writing articles or handling infrastructure, anything to ensure folks like Kohsuke can continue to make Hudson great without being distracted by inane system administration tasks. This past week, one of my long-running infrastructure projects has finally "gone live," making...

  

  R. Tyler Croy January 8, 2011
• Weekend Update with Andrew Bayer

  [Ed. note Andrew was not involved in selecting this post’s title - rtyler] I wanted to give the Hudson community a quick update on the current status of the issues Tyler has discussed in the earlier posts here. Friday afternoon, Kohsuke, CloudBees CEO Sacha Labourey and myself jumped on a conference call with Hudson contributor/Oracle employee Winston Prakash, Oracle manager Denis Tyrell...

  Andrew Bayer December 5, 2010
• HudsonMobi dons a black turtleneck and jumps to iOS4

  Last time I talked about HudsonMobi 2.0 there were some hiccups with the QR code which made me pretty irritated. Now the leading mobile app for Hudson users has regained my trust with their latest release for iOS 4, the latest incarnation of Apple’s mobile operating systems for iPhones and iPod Touches. Since I fall into the category of subhumans who...

  

  R. Tyler Croy September 5, 2010
• Hudson / Sauce OnDemand webinar

  On September 1st, I’ll be presenting in a Sauce Labs webinar about Hudson and Sauce OnDemand. The talk will discuss how Hudson can be used with Sauce OnDemand, naturally, but it’ll also cover broader Hudson/Selenium integrations. Please register to this free event, and looking forward to seeing to you virtually....

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi August 20, 2010
• Hudson Anonymous Usage Data

  In late 2008, the Hudson team released version 1.264 which added an anonymous reporting feature (you can opt-out in the "Manage Hudson" screen). The reporting feature has been sending information back to the Hudson team to help us understand how Hudson is used in aggregate; the info being reported includes the number of jobs configured, agent configurations, what plugins (and...

  Andrew Bayer August 17, 2010
• Hudson 1.372 sets sail

  Last Friday the Hudson team rolled out a small 1.372 with two enhancements following the critical 1.371 release on Monday. Not a whole lot to say about this release other than go get it! Enhancements Persist matrix-based security settings in a consistent order (issue 7138) Jobs can now use boolean expression over labels to control where they run. You can go grab the latest...

  

  R. Tyler Croy August 17, 2010
• HudsonMobi 2.0 hits the Android Market

  The folks over at LMT Software just released their HudsonMobi 2.0 to the Android market. This release of HudsonMobi brings a lot of the features to Android that iPhone/iPad users of HudsonMobi have enjoyed for some time. Features unleashed to Android users in this revision of the app are: Full Android user-experience with Menu and back controls Embedded artifact viewer! For archived build...

  

  R. Tyler Croy August 16, 2010
• Big Security Fix! Hudson 1.371 Released

  Hot on the heels of Hudson 1.370, which was released last Friday, the Hudson team released 1.371 which addresses a critical vulnerability in all Hudson versions prior to 1.371. The vulnerability was disclosed by InfraDNA in the following security advisory, which details the issue: This critical vulnerability allows an attacker to use CLI commands that they are otherwise unauthorized for. CLI...

  

  R. Tyler Croy August 10, 2010
• Hudson 1.368 Released!

  Regular readers will recognize that I’ve been slacking off quite a bit lately with my release announcements, my apologies. With the release of 1.368 on Sunday, which fixed a few fairly important bugs, I figured I’d dusty off my blogging fedora and give this a shot. This release has three bug fixes in it which were causing some issues for some...

  

  R. Tyler Croy July 27, 2010