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• Blue Ocean July development update

  The team have been hard at work moving the needle forward on the Blue Ocean 1.0 features. Many of the features we have been working on have come a long way in the past few months but here’s a few highlights: Goodbye page refreshes, Hello Real Time updates! Building upon Tom's great work on Server Sent Events (SSE) both Cliff and Tom worked on making the all the screens...

  James Dumay July 19, 2016
• Sending Notifications in Pipeline

  This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. Rather than sitting and watching Jenkins for job status, I want Jenkins to send notifications when events occur. There are Jenkins plugins for Slack, HipChat, or even email among others. Note: Something is happening! I think we can all agree getting notified when events occur is preferable to having to constantly monitor them just in case. ...

  

  Liam Newman July 18, 2016
• Publishing HTML Reports in Pipeline

  This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. Most projects need more that just JUnit result reporting. Rather than writing a custom plugin for each type of report, we can use the HTML Publisher Plugin. Let’s Make This Quick I’ve found a Ruby project, hermann, I’d like to build using Jenkins Pipeline. I’d also like to have the code coverage results published with...

  

  Liam Newman July 1, 2016
• GSoC: External Workspace Manager Plugin alpha version

  Currently it’s quite difficult to share and reuse the same workspace between multiple jobs and across nodes. There are some possible workarounds for achieving this, but each of them has its own drawback, e.g. stash/unstash pre-made artifacts, Copy Artifacts plugin or advanced job settings. A viable solution for this problem is the External Workspace Manager plugin, which facilitates workspace share and reuse across multiple...

  Alexandru Somai June 30, 2016
• Migrating from chained Freestyle jobs to Pipelines

  This is a guest post by R. Tyler Croy, who is a long-time contributor to Jenkins and the primary contact for Jenkins project infrastructure. He is also a Jenkins Evangelist at CloudBees, Inc. For ages I have used the "Build After" feature in Jenkins to cobble together what one might refer to as a "pipeline" of sorts. The Jenkins project itself, a major consumer of Jenkins,...

  

  R. Tyler Croy June 29, 2016
• Faster Pipelines with the Parallel Test Executor Plugin

  This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. In this blog post, I’ll show you how to speed up your pipeline by using the Parallel Test Executor Plugin. So much to do, so little time…​ In my career, I’ve helped many teams move to continuous integration and delivery. One problem we always encounter is how to run all the tests needed to...

  

  Liam Newman June 16, 2016
• New display of Pipeline’s "snippet generator"

  Those of you updating the Pipeline Groovy plugin to 2.3 or later will notice a change to the appearance of the configuration form. The Snippet Generator tool is no longer a checkbox enabled inside the configuration page. Rather, there is a link Pipeline Syntax which opens a separate page with several options. (The link appears in the project’s sidebar; Jenkins 2 users will not...

  Jesse Glick May 31, 2016
• Introducing Blue Ocean: a new user experience for Jenkins

  In recent years developers have become rapidly attracted to tools that are not only functional but are designed to fit into their workflow seamlessly and are a joy to use. This shift represents a higher standard of design and user experience that Jenkins needs to rise to meet. We are excited to share and invite the community to join us on a project we’ve been...

  James Dumay May 26, 2016
• Refactoring a Jenkins plugin for compatibility with Pipeline jobs

  This is a guest post by Chris Price. Chris is a software engineer at Puppet, and has been spending some time lately on automating performance testing using the latest Jenkins features. In this blog post, I’m going to attempt to provide some step-by-step notes on how to refactor an existing Jenkins plugin to make it compatible with the new Jenkins Pipeline jobs. Before we get...

  Chris Price May 25, 2016