The Jenkins Blog

Kohsuke Kawaguchi

Kohsuke is the creator of Jenkins.

Jenkins 2 hits LTS

It’s been almost three months since we’ve released Jenkins 2.0, the first ever major version upgrade for this 10 year old project. The 2.x versions since then has been adopted by more than 20% of the users, but one segment of users who haven’t seen the benefits of Jenkins 2 is those who has been running LTS releases. But that is...

Kohsuke Kawaguchi July 7, 2016
Jenkins 2.0 is here!

Over the past 10 years, Jenkins has really grown to a de-facto standard tool that millions of people use to handle automation in software development and beyond. It is quite remarkable for a project that originally started as a hobby project under a different name. I’m very proud. Around this time last year, we’ve celebrated 10 years, 1000 plugins, and 100K installations. That was a good...

Kohsuke Kawaguchi April 26, 2016
Upcoming in office hours: Jenkins 2.0

I hope many of you have had a chance to see the Jenkins 2.0 thread. I’m going to use the office hours next Wednesday to go through this proposal. This is still primarily for developers in the project, as it’s "just" a proposal with lots of details unspecified. It’s more meant to help people understand where I’m coming from and what goals...

Kohsuke Kawaguchi October 1, 2015
Jenkins User Conference West Day 1

Boy, what a day! This is the 5th annual JUC in San Francisco bay area, and the crowd is getting bigger. I brought the LEGO Jenkins + CloudBees logo mosaic that we built at the CloudBees San Jose office: The community booth was very busy. We have people like Dean Yu (board), Andrew Bayer (board), Mark Waite (git), Jesse Glick (workflow and...

Kohsuke Kawaguchi September 3, 2015
Take the 2015 Jenkins Survey!

Just as in past years, we are running a survey this year, to get some objective insights into what our users would like to see in the Jenkins project. Obviously, the developers in the project deal with individual bug reports and feature requests all the time, but sometimes those day-to-day issues distract you from a bigger picture. This year, we kept...

Kohsuke Kawaguchi September 1, 2015
Bay Area Jenkins Area Meet-up kick-off gathering today

A week ago we reported that Uday is looking at organizing a regular Jenkins meet-up in Silicon Valley. This has made a progress since then, and this evening we’ll get together to figure out logistics for the first meet-up: Time August 5th, Wednesday 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Location Starbucks, 750 Castro St, Mountain View, CA 94041 The agenda is: Determine the date for the first...

Kohsuke Kawaguchi August 4, 2015
Bay Area Jenkins Area Meet-up is looking for you

Uday made a blog post yesterday that he is looking at organizing a regular Jenkins meet-up in the Silicon Valley Bay Area dubbed "Bay Area Jenkins Area Meetup (JAM)." As a first step, he wants to have a kick-off meeting, to get more insights and opinions about what the topics could be and what people want to hear. I’m really looking...

Kohsuke Kawaguchi July 25, 2015
JIRA migration this weekend

In continuing my infra upgrade work, this weekend I’ll be migrating JIRA to another server. This will make upgrade more manageable and testable. The service will be disrupted for a few hours. Check out our @jenkinsci on Twitter for up-to-the-minute status. Once the migration is done, the next step is to upgrade them....

Kohsuke Kawaguchi April 24, 2015
Good bye Java6

+ + About two years ago, we bumped our runtime JRE requirement from Java5 to Java6. And so the time has come once again for us to finally move on to Java7. Because of all the new language features, many of us the developers really wanted to move right on to Java8, but after much discussion we settled to move...

Kohsuke Kawaguchi April 6, 2015