Changelog for 2.60.1

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security fix
major bug fix
bug fix
major enhancement
enhancement

Community feedback:

no major issues
notable issues
required rollback

What's new in 2.60.1 (2017-06-21)

2.60.1 is the first Jenkins LTS release that requires Java 8 to run. If you're using the Maven Project type, please note that it needs to use a JDK capable of running Jenkins, i.e. JDK 8 or up. If you configure an older JDK in a Maven Project, Jenkins will attempt to find a newer JDK and use that automatically. If your SSH Build Agents fail to start and you have the plugin install the JRE to run them, make sure to update SSH Build Agents Plugin to at least version 1.17 (1.20 recommended).

Changes since 2.60:

Fix for NullPointerException while initiating some SSH connections. (regression in 2.59) (issue 44120)

Notable changes since 2.46.3:

Jenkins (controller and agents) now requires Java 8 to run. (issue 27624 , issue 42709 , pull 2802, announcement blog post)
Update Groovy to 2.4.8 to address memory leak issue. Pipeline: Groovy needs to be upgraded to 2.28 or higher to prevent regressions. (issue 33358 , issue 42189 )
Upgrade the Windows Agent Installer module from 1.6 to 1.7. This change picks major updates in Windows service management logic. (full changelog, guide to upgrading old Windows service agents)
Windows services: Upgrade the bundled Windows Service Wrapper from 1.18 to 2.0.2. (full changelog)
Windows services: Enable Runaway Process Killer by default in new agent and controller installations. (issue 39231)
Windows services: Enable auto-upgrade of Remoting on newly installed agents if they are connected by HTTPS. (issue 39237)
Windows services: Add support of shared directories mapping in Windows agent services. (Shared Directory Mapper documentation)
Windows services: Integrate various stability and performance fixes in Windows Service Wrapper from 1.18 to 2.0.2. There are many fixes around configuration options and process termination. (full changelog)
Packaging: Do not invoke recursive chown in JENKINS_HOME during the RPM post-install step unless owned by a different user. (issue 23273)
Use case-insensitive search by default for new and anonymous users. (issue 42645)
Searching in the Build History widget takes into account user preferences (case sensitivity by default). (pull 2683)
Allow searching by build parameter values in the Build History widget. (issue 40718)
Update the Trilead SSH library to get support of new Mac, Key, and Key Exchange Algorithms. (issue 33021 , issue 26379 , issue 31549 , issue 42959 , issue 43979 , issue 44046 )
When creating temporary files, use the jenkins prefix instead of the old hudson one. (pull 2778)
Update German, French and Russian localizations. (pull 2777, pull 2787, pull 2798)
Removed localizations with very low coverage: Albanian, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Esperanto, Galician, Georgian, Gujarati, Hindi, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Kannada, Macedonian, Marathi, Mongolian, Occitan, Punjabi, Sinhala, Tamil, Telugu, Thai. (pull 2813)
Internal API: Add the ability for ItemListener to veto copy operations; make Run#compareTo work across jobs; save Jenkins after calling setSecurityRealm or setAuthorizationStrategy. (issue 34691 , issue 42319 , pull 2762, pull 2782, pull 2790, pull 2805)