Multiple Jenkins plugins received updates today that fix several security vulnerabilities, including multiple high severity ones. We strongly recommend updating the following plugins as soon as possible: Blue Ocean Pipeline: Groovy Plugin Script Security Plugin Less severe security updates have been released for these plugins: Config File Provider Plugin Datadog Plugin Deploy to container Plugin DRY Plugin Pipeline: Input Step Plugin Static Analysis Utilities Plugin Additionally, the OWASP Dependency-Check Plugin recently also received a security update. For...

This is a guest post by Mark Waite, who maintains the git plugin, the git client plugin, and is a technical evangelist for CloudBees, Inc. While developing the "Intro to Plugin Development" workshop for Jenkins World 2017, I was impressed by the many Jenkins plugin development videos, tutorials, and guides. Here are some of my favorite plugin development topics and links. Plugin tutorial videos Jenkins Online Meetup Plugin Development Part 1 -...

This is a guest post by Alyssa Tong, who runs the Jenkins Area Meetup program and is also responsible for Marketing & Community Programs at CloudBees, Inc. There are less than four weeks left until Jenkins World 2017. As usual, Jenkins World would not be complete without the Jenkins projects' "Ask the Experts". If you are new to Jenkins World, the Jenkins project booth will be located on the expo...

This is a guest post by Alvin Huang, DevOps Engineer at FireEye. As a security company, FireEye relentlessly protects our customers from cyber attacks. To act quickly on intelligence and expertise learned, the feedback loop from the front lines to features and capabilities in software must be small. Jenkins helps us achieve this by allowing us to build, test, and deploy to our hardware and software platforms faster, so...

I am pleased to announce Microsoft PowerShell support for Jenkins Pipeline! As of Durable Task 1.14 and Pipeline Nodes and Processes Plugin 2.12, you will now be able to run Microsoft PowerShell scripts directly in your Jenkins Pipeline projects. This blog post covers the basics of getting started with Microsoft PowerShell in Pipeline and provides some basic examples. Introduction to Microsoft PowerShell PowerShell is Microsoft’s open source and cross platform...

This is a guest post by Guillaume Laforge, Developer Advocate for Google Cloud Last week, I had the pleasure to speak at the Jenkins Community Day conference, in Paris, organized by my friends from JFrog, provider of awesome tools for software management and distribution. I covered how to scale Jenkins with Kubernetes on Google Container Engine. For the impatient, here are the slides of the presentation I’ve given: But let’s step back a...

This is a guest post by Mandy Hubbard, Software Engineer/QA Architect at Care.com. Imagine this: It’s 4:30pm on a Friday, you have a major release on Monday, and your Jenkins server goes down. It doesn’t matter if it experienced a hardware failure, fell victim to a catastrophic fat-finger error, or just got hit by a meteor - your Jenkins server is toast. How long did it take to perfect your Pipeline, all your...

This is a guest post by Kevin Burnett, DevOps Lead at Rosetta Stone. Have you experienced that thing where you make a change in an app, and when you go to check on the results of the build, you find an error that really doesn’t seem relevant to your change? And then you notice that your build is the first in over a year. And then you realize that...