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September 2011

IPS Packages of Jenkins for Solaris/OpenIndiana

Submitted by kohsuke on Tue, 2011-09-20 07:00

Image Packaging System (IPS) is a new package manager Sun has developed for OpenSolaris. While I have my doubts about whether a brand-new package manager was a good way of spending engineering resources, OpenSolaris had a number of very nice features that made it a convincing platform to run Jenkins, thanks to SMF, ZFS, and zones. So I used to produce IPS packages for Jenkins. I lost the ability to do this as I left Oracle and lost access to a Solaris system, but a recent blog post renewed my interest.

So I'm happy to announce that the Jenkins project has started producing IPS packages for the releases. With this addition, the Jekins project now produces 9 packages on different platforms (10, if you count Ruby as a separate platform :-)

2011 Donation Drive

Submitted by rtyler on Mon, 2011-09-19 07:00

Since the end of April, Jenkins has been officially part of the SPI (Software in the Public Interest), an umbrella organization which offers a useful level of legal status for the project.

Up until recently we had not taken proper advantage of this new legal umbrella, thankfully that's changed as we're now capable of accepting donations!

For the project this is a big step forward as it will allow us to offset the cost of servers for the project, bandwidth, SSL certificates and other costs incurred as part of running such a large open source project.

Trivia: The machine that this page is being served from originally started out as "hudson labs", purchased and colocated by abayer, kohsuke and myself.


Since we're now able to accept donations, we're kicking off a donation drive to help recover some of the costs incurred this summer (which I've discussed previously). Our immediate goal is to raise $5130 to recoup bandwidth costs, if you can spare some change, head on over to the SPI online donation page and help us out :)

Jenkins Long-Term Release 1.409.2 is out

Submitted by kohsuke on Wed, 2011-09-14 08:05

We just posted the updated Long-term Release (LTS) of 1.409.2.

Just as a recap, with LTS releases, we plan on providing a release train that only has backported changes. 1.409.2 contains a handful of important bug fixes since 1.409.1. For more about LTS, see this wiki page.

Thanks to the heroic effort of those who are involved, namely Vojtech Juranek and a bunch of heroes, this release went through a rather rigorous testing, including all the automated tests we have plus a considerable number of manual eye-ball tests.

To download, click the "Long-Term Support Release" tab from the top page. If you've already been using LTS, you should start receiving update notifications soon.

Call for Testers: Upcoming LTS update

Submitted by rtyler on Thu, 2011-09-01 06:00

A couple of months ago Jenkins embarked on an new project, the Jenkins "LTS" (Long Term Support) release line. A LTS branch of development is common in most major open source projects, especially those with substantial corporate adoption, so this was a great step for the project as a whole.

We're now coming up on the second LTS release, which will be an incremental update to the previous one (1.409.1) with only the most important fixes back-ported to the branch.

Now is when we need your help.

We need testers and interested parties from the community to help verify the stability of the planned LTS update, 1.409.2, which is now in the release candidate stages.

The testing of 1.409.2 has been spearheaded by community member vjuranek who has created this fantastic test matrix to help coordinate testing of release candidates.

The LTS project is entirely community driven, so your input is invaluable in making these releases successful.

If you're interested in helping, speak up on the -dev mailing list and start pitching in on the test matrix!