The Jenkins Blog

Kohsuke Kawaguchi

Kohsuke is the creator of Jenkins.

Report bugs and win Kindle

CloudBees is running a 60-days "bring me bugs" contest for the Jenkins project where you may win a Kindle and Amazon gift cards for a bug report you made during the contest period. See the linked site for details about how to enter into the drawing. Greg Moy from Electronic Arts has already won for the first week, but there...

Kohsuke Kawaguchi October 21, 2011
IPS Packages of Jenkins for Solaris/OpenIndiana

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...

Kohsuke Kawaguchi September 20, 2011
Jenkins Long-Term Release 1.409.2 is out

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...

Kohsuke Kawaguchi September 14, 2011
Jenkins User Conference: Call for Papers

As we announced yesterday, we are organizing a Jenkins User Conference, and we are delighted to announce its Call for Papers is now open. We are looking forward to receiving amazing proposals from infrastructure experts to novice developers in the Jenkins community. Use your creativity. Share and showcase your unique approach to utilizing Jenkins technology. We do not encourage overt marketing...

Kohsuke Kawaguchi August 9, 2011
Jenkins Long-Term Support Release

We have released 1.409.1, our first long-term support (LTS) release, from the Jenkins project. The idea of the LTS release is to provide a second release line the favors more stability and bug fix only maintenance. This release line branches off from a bit old Jenkins release (in this case 1.409), and we will only put important backported bug fixes. We’ll...

Kohsuke Kawaguchi June 16, 2011
Hamburg hackathon a great success!

Thanks to the kindness of BigPoint GmbH and Kutzi, we had the first Jenkins Hackathon in Europe, in a very large and airly conference room in their Hamburg campus, on a nice sunny Sunday of May 1st. About 10 people came, including the static code analysis plugin fame Ullrich Hafner, Androd emulator plugin fame Christopher Orr, the instant messenger plugin...

Kohsuke Kawaguchi May 4, 2011
Windows installers are now available

Good portion of Java developers use Windows, so we tend to think the opposite is true, that a good portion of Windows folks use Java. But this is not true. As Jenkins gains traction among .NET developers, it’s becoming increasingly clear that Java is very alien to them. They naturally have no idea of what a war file means, and often...

Kohsuke Kawaguchi March 23, 2011
Jenkins hits 1.400

Jenkins is now at 1.400 (as of last Monday, yes, I know. But better late than never…). As with 1.300 and 1.200, this release doesn’t particularly signify any substantial major release, but nonetheless it is a milestone for those of us who are involved in the project — I think repeating something 400 times is something one can be proud...

Kohsuke Kawaguchi March 13, 2011
Upcoming Jenkins events in Tokyo

I’ll be visiting Tokyo again for the week of 2/21 for a number of events. Tokyo Jenkins User Meetup The Japanese Jenkins user community may not be as visible from outside but very strong. This is the 2nd meet up in Tokyo, and once again we maxed out the 80 people room capacity in just a few days (but you can still...

Kohsuke Kawaguchi February 14, 2011