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Kevin Martens

Kevin Martens is part of the CloudBees Documentation team, helping with Jenkins documentation creation and maintenance.

Jenkins Elections Announcement

Hello all, voter registration and candidate nominations for the 2022 Jenkins elections are now complete. Thanks to everyone who registered to vote and to all those who submitted nominations. Special thanks to the candidates that have accepted the nominations. As in years past, when a particular role receives only one nomination, an election is not required. This year, all the board and officer positions...

Kevin Martens November 17, 2022
Hacktoberfest in Jenkins 2022

As November continues, we want to share some highlights from Hacktoberfest 2022! This year’s edition was incredibly busy with lots of interesting ideas, great work, new Jenkins contributors, and returning contributors. We want to thank all of the contributors and mentors for all of their hard work, as none of this would be possible without them. Hacktoberfest is an event to highlight and...

Kevin Martens November 17, 2022
Jenkins Board and Officer Elections 2022

We are excited to announce the 2022 Jenkins Governance Board elections! The nomination and voter registration period is now open. Nominations can be submitted for two governance board positions, and all five officer positions (Security, Events, Release, Infrastructure, and Documentation). Many thanks to Gavin Mogan and Ewelina Wilkosz for serving on the Jenkins Governance Board. We also want to thank Damien Duportal as Infrastructure...

Kevin Martens October 20, 2022
Digital Ocean and Jenkins partnership continues to grow!

We are excited to announce that the relationship between DigitalOcean and Jenkins continues to grow! We want to thank DigitalOcean for providing such incredible support to the Jenkins project. DigitalOcean has provided a substantial donation of $18,000 to the Jenkins project. This is in addition to their previous sponsorship. Combining these, DigitalOcean has granted over $20,000 to the Jenkins project. The funding aspect is clear,...

Kevin Martens September 19, 2022
SVG icon migration (breaking changes!)

Summary Beginning with Jenkins weekly v2.333 (released on January 31, 2022) and Jenkins LTS v2.346.1, Jenkins core has upgraded from GIF and PNG icons to SVG icons. Plugins that will be affected by this change are tracked in a spreadsheet found in JENKINS-68251. Plugins that do not interact with icons are unaffected by this change. Background Scalable vector graphics (SVG) icons provide a more attractive...

Kevin Martens June 20, 2022