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Enforced HTTPS for Update Center

Summary (TL;DR) The service https://updates.jenkins.io will enforce HTTPS protocol beginning Wednesday 06 August 2025. All Jenkins users are impacted but should not see any functional change. Any plain-HTTP request made to the Jenkins update center will be redirected to the same location but upgraded to HTTPS scheme. What is the "Update Center"? Jenkins Update Center is a web server at the core of the Jenkins...

Damien DUPORTAL August 4, 2025
GSoC 2025 Midterm - An AI Agent for Jenkins Failure Diagnosis

Hello, Jenkins Community! I’m Chirag Gupta, and this is the midterm update for my Google Summer of Code 2025 project: "Domain-specific LLM based on actual Jenkins usage using ci.jenkins.io data. The project’s vision is to accelerate the often complex process of diagnosing build failures in Jenkins using AI. For a detailed overview, please refer to the project page. We’ve just crossed the midterm...

Chirag Gupta August 3, 2025
GSoC Midterm Update, Modernizing and Stabilizing the Jenkins Tekton Plugin

Hello everyone! I’m Maeve, a Computer Science student at Lehigh University, currently participating in Google Summer of Code 2025. My project involves modernizing the Jenkins Tekton Plugin to create a stable, production-ready integration between Jenkins and Kubernetes-native Tekton pipelines. As we reach the midpoint of the coding period, I wanted to share the progress and achievements from the first half of this exciting...

Maeve Ho July 28, 2025
Redesigning Jenkins (Part Two)

We'll dive deeper into the design decisions behind some of the new UI features, how we're improving the developer experience, and what we're doing to ensure compatibility across the plugin ecosystem without slowing down progress.

Jan Faracik July 24, 2025
GSoC Midterm Update, Building an AI-Powered Chatbot

Hello everyone! I’m Giovanni Vaccarino, and I’m working on the AI-Powered Chatbot for Quick Access to Jenkins Resources project as part of Google Summer of Code 2025. This project focuses on developing a Jenkins plugin that integrates an AI chatbot to help users quickly find relevant Jenkins documentation, plugins, and community resources. We’ve just crossed the midpoint of July, so I’d like...

Giovanni Vaccarino July 24, 2025
YourKit sponsors the Jenkins project

We’re proud to welcome YourKit as a new sponsor of the Jenkins project! YourKit has generously provided free licenses for the YourKit Java Profiler to Jenkins core maintainers and active contributors. This tool is a powerful asset when analyzing performance regressions, debugging memory leaks, or resolving concurrency issues in Jenkins core and plugin code. YourKit supports open source projects with innovative and intelligent...

Alexander Brandes July 10, 2025
JetBrains sponsors the Jenkins project

We’re excited to welcome JetBrains as a new sponsor of the Jenkins project! JetBrains has generously provided free annual All Products Pack subscriptions to Jenkins core maintainers and active contributors. This subscription grants access to the full suite of JetBrains IDEs, including IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate Edition, which is widely used by Jenkins developers for writing, debugging, and maintaining the project’s codebase. JetBrains: Tools...

Alexander Brandes July 10, 2025
🌟 Celebrating the 2025 Jenkins Contributor Award Winners

At cdCon 2025 in Colorado this week, we proudly recognized outstanding contributions within both the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) and the Jenkins community. These awards celebrate exceptional ambassadors, contributors, documentation champions, and users who drive CI/CD excellence. 🎖️ Jenkins Project Honors Jenkins presented three distinguished awards: Jenkins Security MVP Most Valuable Jenkins Contributor Most Valuable Jenkins Advocate 🏅 Award Recipients Most Valuable Contributor: Jan Faracik Jan has...

Alyssa Tong June 25, 2025
Meet Chirag Gupta, GSoC 2025 Contributor Building an LLM for Jenkins Failure Diagnosis

Hello, Jenkins Community! I’m Chirag Gupta, and I’m incredibly excited to announce that I’ve been selected for the Google Summer of Code 2025 program to work with the Jenkins project! It’s an honor to contribute to such a cornerstone of the open-source CI/CD landscape. My project, "Domain-specific LLM based on actual Jenkins usage using ci.jenkins.io data," aims to create a specialized Large...

Chirag Gupta June 11, 2025