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Kohsuke Kawaguchi

Kohsuke is the creator of Jenkins.

Critical security advisory in Jenkins core

We’ve identified and fixed a critical security vulnerabilities in Jenkins core. This affects all the releases of Jenkins to date (main line releases up to 1.452 and LTS up to 1.424.3.) Please upgrade to the new releases at your earliest convenience, especially if your Jenkins is internet facing. For more details about the vulnerabilities, affected versions, and so on, please consult the...

Kohsuke Kawaguchi March 6, 2012
"Thank you" page for Windows/OS X installers

I’ve tweaked the website so that downloading the Windows and Mac installers will navigate the browser to "thank you/what’s next" page. These pages have links to Wiki that educate the users on where/how the installer will run Jenkins. Hopefully this makes it little easier for new users to get started on Jenkins. I’ve tested the new mechanism with IE, Safari, and...

Kohsuke Kawaguchi January 5, 2012
Adding diagrams to Wiki

Thanks to the kindness from Gliffy, we can now add diagrams to Wiki pages, in a way that enables collaborative edits. See more info, including a sample diagram in a Wiki page....

Kohsuke Kawaguchi December 28, 2011
Jenkins survey result and what UI improvement would you like?

"> Jenkins community survey result is in, which shows a number of interesting stats for us developers, such as 82% of people saying their Jenkins is mission critical, or the spread of distributed builds, especially compared to my earlier similar usage analytics. But just as interesting is the free-form answers to questions like "If there was anything you could you change about...

Kohsuke Kawaguchi December 23, 2011
Fundraising drive update: thank you everyone!

"> Our earlier appeal for donation was a drastic boost to our fund-raising drive, (and looking at the twitter reactions, it feels like the Wikipedia parody we put on Jenkins on Jenkins helped spread the words — I guess jokes do work! And I’m happy to report that we’ve successfully raised over $12000 as of today. That’s more than enough to pay...

Kohsuke Kawaguchi December 19, 2011
Holiday appeal: please help Jenkins pay the project expense

As we approach the holiday season, which is when people start to feel more charitable, at least in the U.S. So I’d like to make one more plea, that the Jenkins project needs your help in paying its expense, and that we are still about $1000 shy of the goal we need to get to. So if you can, please...

Kohsuke Kawaguchi December 5, 2011
Community-contributed localizations to be bundled in Jenkins 1.443

In 1.430, we added the translation assistance plugin in the hope of increasing the contribution from the community. It’s been 3 months, and I’ve finally took the opportunity to integrate them into Jenkins. The result is pretty amazing. Before this, we had 26 languages, with wildly varying degree of completeness, such as French, Japanese, German, etc. This is still pretty good,...

Kohsuke Kawaguchi December 2, 2011
A dead bug is a good bug

As if getting a Kindle for reporting bugs and getting an AppleTV for filing a survey aren’t enough, you can also win an iPad for fixing an issue. So if you’ve been thinking about tinkering with Jenkins code base but haven’t done so yet, this is a great opportunity to get going. There’s documentation about how to get started, and there’s...

Kohsuke Kawaguchi November 4, 2011
Jenkins Community Survey

+ + There’s currently a survey running to get a better sense of our use base. Those inputs help us steer the effort wisely, so we appreciate your taking time to fill it in. The result would be more useful if larger number of people participate, so feel free to encourage others to fill it in as well. In the same...

Kohsuke Kawaguchi November 3, 2011