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GSoC 2026 Midterm Update: Improving Evaluation and Retrieval for the Jenkins AI Chatbot

Hello everyone! I’m Mallikarjun G D, and this is my midterm update for my GSoC 2026 project, Continue AI-Powered Chatbot for Quick Access to Jenkins Resources. In my community bonding blog, I outlined three main areas for the coding period: an LLM-as-Judge evaluation pipeline, GraphRAG-based retrieval, and a Build Failure Diagnosis Agent. At the midterm point, the first major piece is now in place:...

Mallikarjun G D July 10, 2026
Introducing jenkinsfilelint: Catch Jenkinsfile Errors Before You Commit

Have you ever pushed a Jenkinsfile change only to discover a syntax error after Jenkins has started running the pipeline? Or had to wait through a full CI cycle just to learn that you have missed a closing bracket? I have built jenkinsfilelint to catch these problems early — right at commit time, before the code ever reaches the CI. What...

Xianpeng Shen June 8, 2026
Nested layout for pipeline graph view

The pipeline graph view just got a new layout that renders nested pipelines in full detail.

Jakob Ackermann June 1, 2026
GSoC 2026 Community Bonding Wrap-Up: Continuation of AI-Powered Chatbot for Jenkins Resources

Hello everyone! I’m Mallikarjun G D, a second-year B.E. Computer Science and Design student at Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, Bengaluru (India). This summer I’m a GSoC 2026 contributor with Jenkins, working on Continue AI-Powered Chatbot for Quick Access to Jenkins Resources. Project Description This project is a continuation of a Jenkins plugin that embeds an AI chatbot into the Jenkins UI, allowing users to...

Mallikarjun G D May 26, 2026
Jenkins 2026 Community Award Winners

cdCon 2026 just wrapped up in Minneapolis and this included announcing the winners of the Continuous Delivery Foundation and Jenkins Community Awards. The CD Foundation provides awards for the Top CDF ambassador, contributor, documenter, and end user. Anyone that is part of the CD Foundation can be nominated for these. Additionally, as a graduated project, Jenkins has three of its own awards: Most Valuable...

Mark Waite May 26, 2026
JetBrains Report Highlights Jenkins as a Popular CI/CD Tool in 2026

A recent JetBrains blog post, "Best CI/CD Tools for 2026: What the Data Actually Shows", provides an overview of CI/CD tool adoption and trends. According to the report, Jenkins continues to play a major role in the ecosystem, with a 28% adoption rate, ranking just behind GitHub Actions. This highlights that Jenkins remains a widely used and trusted solution across organizations of...

Kris Stern April 6, 2026
Redesigned Credentials in Jenkins

We’re introducing a fresh new look for the Credentials plugin, one of the most widely used Jenkins plugins and the foundation for securely storing and supplying credentials across Jenkins. So what’s new? Integration with the new Manage Jenkins UI This update brings the plugin into Jenkins’ experimental Manage Jenkins UI, aligning credential management with the broader interface modernization underway in Jenkins core. Jenkins has been rolling...

Jan Faracik
Tim Jacomb April 2, 2026
Revamped Build Monitor plugin

We’re excited to announce a major update to the Build Monitor plugin - a complete redesign that refreshes its big-screen view with a cleaner, more modern interface for following build statuses. So what’s new? Rewritten and redesigned Originally created for Jenkins 1 and powered by AngularJS, the plugin has now been completely rebuilt in React. The redesign uses components from the Jenkins Design Library and aligns...

Jan Faracik March 19, 2026
Announcing the new Jenkins Bug Bounty Program

It is with great pleasure that we announce the new Jenkins Bug Bounty Program! The European Commission (EC OSPO) has partnered with YesWeHack to launch bug bounty programs for several open source projects. The Jenkins project was selected as a valuable asset for public administration across the European Union. The program will run for one year, rewarding security researchers who find and responsibly...

Wadeck Follonier December 10, 2025