Mark Waite
Mark is a member of the Jenkins governing board, a long-time Jenkins user and contributor, a core maintainer, and maintainer of the git plugin, the git client plugin, the platform labeler plugin, the embeddable build status plugin, and several others. He is one of the authors of the "Improve a plugin" tutorial.
Key Takeaways Jenkins project reports growth of 79% in Jenkins Pipeline, used to propel software delivery. Contributed by: Wadeck Follonier Andrea Chiera completed his 3 months internship within the Security team, auditing 100 plugins and finding 20+ vulnerabilities. Summer Internship in Jenkins security Thank you very much for your involvement and also to the team for mentoring him. A Plugin security advisory was published on August...
DevOps World Tour is coming to a city near you with events in multiple locations across the US, UK, and Asia. Jenkins project contributors will be attending and presenting in each city on the tour. Tim Jacomb - London Tim Jacomb will be presenting in London. Tim is a lead software engineer at Kainos and has been the the Jenkins release officer since December...
JFrog has been a sponsor of the Jenkins project for many years. We’re delighted that they continue to sponsor the Jenkins project and continue to provide our artifact hosting service, repo.jenkins-ci.org. Releases, incremental development builds, and snapshots of Jenkins core, Jenkins tooling, Jenkins plugins, and Jenkins infrastructure components are hosted on JFrog Artifactory. The worldwide Jenkins community has been well served for many...
A Jenkins job mistakenly rebuilt the Linux container images for recent Jenkins weekly releases and recent Jenkins LTS releases. Users that downloaded some of those Linux container images received container images that could not run the Jenkins controller. The incorrect container images would fail to run with the message that Jenkins is not supported with Java 8. Running with Java 8 from /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8-openjdk/jre, which...
Key Takeaways A Jenkins Core security advisory was published on July 26 The official documentation has migrated to Java 17 Operating system end of life notifications have been added Contributed by: Wadeck Follonier During July, there were two Security Advisories published: Plugin security advisory published on July 12 Multiple high-score vulnerabilities A total of 16 plugins were affected Jenkins core and plugins security advisory published on July 26 The highest...
Key Takeaways Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, and derivatives like CentOS 7, reach early end of life. Upgrades and improvements of Jenkins components continue with significant progress towards the eventual removal of Prototype.js from Jenkins core. Thanks to a kind donation from Launchable, pull requests to Jenkins core now complete their evaluation builds in 2 hours rather than the 6 hours that were...
Key Takeaways Jenkins plugin updates released to fix security vulnerabilities, advisory published on May 16. JDK8 support has been dropped in favor of JDK11 as the default for running Jenkins agents. Ssh-agent release 5.0.0 introduces breaking changes. Contributed by: Wadeck Follonier A Security Policy was added for the Docker images of the project. Due to multiple reports about CVEs present in the Docker images the project...
Beginning with Jenkins 2.407, May 30, 2023 and Jenkins 2.401.2, June 28, 2023, Jenkins administrators will be warned if they are running Jenkins on an operating system that is within 6 months of its end of life date. The warning includes the date when Jenkins will no longer be supported on that operating system version. It advises the administrator to upgrade to...
Key Takeaways There was one security advisory this month announcing vulnerabilities regarding Jenkins plugins. Cloud Cost Controls with improved resource cleanups and VM usage optimization to face the increased rate of builds on ci.jenkins.io. Thanks to DigitalOcean for their continued support and ($8,400 credit) sponsorship of Jenkins. Ppc64le docker agent images are now available. Jenkins at cdCon + GitOpsCon! Contributed by: Wadeck Follonier In April, there was...