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Kohsuke Kawaguchi

Kohsuke is the creator of Jenkins.

Workflow plugin is 1.0

Jenkins started with a notion of jobs and builds at heart. One script is one job, and as you repeatedly execute jobs, it creates builds as records. As the use case of Jenkins gets more sophisticated, people started combining jobs to orchestrate ever more complex activities. A number of plugins have been developed to enable all sorts of different ways to...

Kohsuke Kawaguchi December 3, 2014
Mobile App for Jenkins User Conference Bay Area

Jenkins User Conference in Bay Area is this Thursday, and one of the new things this year is the mobile app. + + There’s an Android version as well as an iPhone version. I’ve installed it locally, and it’s very handy for checking the agenda, get more info about speakers and sponsors....

Kohsuke Kawaguchi October 20, 2014
FreeBSD project use of Jenkins for OS testing

This is a guest post by Craig Rodrigues The FreeBSD project produces a modern operating system derived from BSD Unix. In the past 6 months, we have set up Jenkins at https://jenkins.freebsd.org/, to continuously build FreeBSD as developers add new code to the project. This has helped us identify and fix build breaks very quickly. We have gone even farther by integrating Jenkins,...

Kohsuke Kawaguchi October 20, 2014
CVE-2014-3566 "poodle" impact on Jenkins

Another day, another SSL vulnerability! Google has announced a vulnerability in SSL v3, and if you are using the "Winstone" servlet container built into Jenkins, and if you are using the HTTPS connector with the --httpsPort option (it is off by default), then you are vulnerable to this problem. I’ve just issued a security advisory on this. If you haven’t already...

Kohsuke Kawaguchi October 15, 2014
Gradle-fy your Jenkins Plugin Project

(This is a guest post from Daniel Spilker) Jenkins supports building plugins using Gradle for a while now. Last week a new version of the Gradle JPI plugin has been released to iron out some issues. The Gradle JPI plugin enables a 100% groovy plugin development environment with Groovy as primary programming language, Spock for writing tests and Gradle as build system....

Kohsuke Kawaguchi October 6, 2014
CVE-2014-6271 impact on Jenkins

+ Restrictive_Sign-Stop-Security_Check.svg/240px-Singapore_Road_Signs-Restrictive_Sign-Stop-_Security_Check.svg.png" alt="image"> + I suspect many of you have been impacted by CVE-2014-6271 (aka "shellshock" bash vulnerability.) We had our share of updates to do for various *.jenkins-ci.org servers. Java application servers in general (including one that ships in Jenkins) do not fork off processes like Apache does to serve requests, so the kind of CGI attacks you see on Apache...

Kohsuke Kawaguchi September 25, 2014
More Jenkins-related continuous delivery events in Chicago, Washington DC, and San Francisco

+ The usual suspects, such as CloudBees, XebiaLabs, SOASTA, PuppetLabs, et al are doing a Jenkins-themed continuous delivery event series called "cdSummit." The event is free, has a nice mix of user/vendor talks, and has an appeal to managers and team leads who are working on and struggling with continuous delivery and automation. I’ve spoken in the past events, and I...

Kohsuke Kawaguchi September 24, 2014
Jenkins in JavaOne 2014

There’ll be several talks that touch Jenkins. The first is from me and Jesse called Next Step in Automation: Elastic Build Environment [CON3387] Monday 12:30pm. Then later Tuesday, there’s Building a Continuous Delivery Pipeline with Gradle and Jenkins [CON11237] from Benjamin Muschko of Gradleware. Thursday has several Jenkins talks. One is The Deploy Factory: Open Source Tools for Java Deployment [CON1880] from...

Kohsuke Kawaguchi September 24, 2014
Jenkins Workflow Summit RSVP

As was discussed some time ago, the workflow summit is being organized, and it’s open for RSVP. Due to the overwhelming demand, I’ve increased the capacity this time to 50, but this is an unconference where everyone needs to participate, which means we really cannot have too many people without changing the dynamics of the event. So please make sure you are...

Kohsuke Kawaguchi September 17, 2014