Editor’s Note: The following is a write-up courtesy of Jesse Farinacci This past week I had the pleasure of attending the Jenkins User Conference in NYC. A hundred other like-minded continuous integration enthusiasts and I packed a very posh Marriott Marquis for a full day of Jenkins excitement. Famed Hudson and Jenkins founder Kohsuke Kawaguchi delivered the opening address to a crowded room. I’m sure everyone knows...

The first stop of Jenkins User Conference world tour this year was Paris, where there’s a considerable concentration of Jenkins developers and users (sometimes those of us on the other side of the Atlantic call them "the French gang") The event was held a day before Devoxx France, in the hope that we attract more attendance. I believe there are 100+ people that actually showed...

Because I work on Jenkins day in day out, it’s easy for me to forget that most people don’t pay /that/ much attention to Jenkins. If you fit that category, and if you want to stay on top of the latest happenings in Jenkins, don’t miss Volume 2 of Continuous Information, the CloudBees Newsletter for Jenkins. This issue…​ Features details about the 6 upcoming Jenkins User...

For years, we’ve been hearing about covert installations of Jenkins by groups of developers within larger companies. Rogue engineers, frustrated by the lack of continuous integration would download jenkins.war and run it off their workstation. As time went on, word-of-mouth within the organization spread Jenkins far and wide. Today we announce an initiative to help support these rogue agents: the Jenkins CIA. CIA being short for Continuous Integration Ambassador of course. If...

It is interesting having an open source project that is sufficiently old to start generating "lore" of some form or another. Jenkins is starting to get to be that age, having been started over 6 years ago. One of the most commonly asked questions, is about Jenkins' use of "blue balls" to indicate success by default. This is enough of an "issue" for some users...

We’ve identified and fixed a critical security vulnerabilities in Jenkins core. This affects all the releases of Jenkins to date (main line releases up to 1.452 and LTS up to 1.424.3.) Please upgrade to the new releases at your earliest convenience, especially if your Jenkins is internet facing. For more details about the vulnerabilities, affected versions, and so on, please consult the security advisory. (See our page...

With the JUC Paris 2012 call for papers open, it’s important to mention that we are also looking for sponsors for the various Jenkins User Conferences that are being planned around the world right now! Currently there are four conferences being put together right now: JUC Paris JUC New York JUC San Francisco JUC Antwerp If your company is heavily invested in Jenkins or interested in reaching the kind of...

(Editor’s note: Apologies for the delay in getting this wrap-up out, it’s been quite a busy month!) This year has already been full of milestones, the first of which being our first birthday as an open source project. The second major milestone for the project was that we went to FOSDEM 2012, arguably the largest volunteer-organized and operated open source conference on the planet. We had...