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• Extreme Feedback Lamp, Switch Gear style

  This is a guest post by Aske Olsson Extreme feedback is an incredibly powerful way to drive quality and accelerate your developer fast feedback loop. Having eXtreme Feedback Devices (XFDs) hooked up to your Jenkins jobs gives everyone on your team instant insight into the current software state. At customer after customer we’ve seen extreme feedback devices drive significant incremental productivity gains,...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi September 5, 2013
• 2 version control plugins in beta testing before a major release

  Git plugin and TFS plugin are calling for interested parties to try out their 2.0 beta binaries before they get released. Git plugin 2.0 contains a major refactoring and UI simplifications, and TFS plugin contains a rewritten polling logic that does not require a workspace. If you think you’d benefit from these changes, please head to their respective beta testing page and...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi August 1, 2013
• Faster agent classloading

  + Jenkins comes with the remoting library that it uses to communicate between a controller and agents. This is a pretty awesome library, I think, which served us well. One of the things this remoting layer does it to transfer the Java byte code on demand from the controller to agents on demand. This approach helps us keep agent deployment simple,...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi July 24, 2013
• Office hours this week: Git plugin refactoring

  This Wednesday’s Jenkins office hours is all about the Git plugin refactoring that’s going on. Git plugin is one of the most popular plugins out there, and it’s been around for quite some time. Combine that with the fact that there are so many different ways to use Git, it was inevitable that Git plugin became quite a capable but complex...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi July 1, 2013
• Reducing the # of threads in Jenkins: SSH agents

  As the usage of Jenkins expands, we started seeing users who run multiple 100s of agents on one controller, and thus it became a lot more important for us to scale well to even larger number of agents. While I was looking at the thread dump of a large system, I started noticing that there are a large number of threads...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi June 21, 2013
• Giving Back to the Community: 3 Ways to Keep Jenkins Growing

  With more than 600 plugins, Jenkins has a vibrant community and we’re dependent on YOU to keep it that way. Here are 3 ways you can give back to the community to ensure that everyone benefits and Jenkins keeps growing…​ Giving it back to the community #1: vendor+community=win Jenkins is becoming ubiquitous enough that tool vendors and service providers often find their...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi May 6, 2013
• Los Altos Hackathon This Friday

  What better way to end the year than to come join a little Jenkins hackathon this Friday afternoon with Kohsuke (the core developer), Max Spring (Jenkow plugin), and hopefully other Jenkins hackers? We’ll do this at CloudBees Los Altos office, starting around Friday 1pm. View CloudBees Los Altos office in a larger map Our plan is to primarily hack on the Jenkow plugin,...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi December 19, 2012
• Office hours next week: metadata plugin

  The last Jenkins office hour of the year hosts Robert Sandell and Tomas Westling, who will go over newly open-sourced metadata plugin from Sony Mobile Communications (more about this story on their website). This team from Sony Mobile has been known for several other popular plugins, including the Gerrit trigger plugin. And I think this latest batch of plugins will...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi December 13, 2012
• Sponsor Jenkins bugs with Freedom Sponsors

  (This is a guest post by Tony França) Hi all, my name is Tony, I’m the creator of (FreedomSponsors) and today I want to talk how Jenkins has inspired me to build it. Before starting, I’d like to thank the Jenkins crew for letting me publish this guest post in their blog. On top of that, thank you for maintaining Jenkins as well...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi November 14, 2012