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GSoC 2026 final term - Retooling Jenkins.io Web Success Stories
Hello everyone! This post marks the successful completion of my Google Summer of Code 2026 Retool jenkins.io website Success Stories project. The project focused on modernizing the Jenkins Success Stories website by migrating it from Gatsby to Vite, improving performance, streamlining the story submission workflow, and enhancing the overall user experience. It has been an incredible learning experience, and I’m grateful to the...
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Windows Server 2019 Agent Containers End of Life
Jenkins core stopped supporting Windows Server 2019 container images in Jenkins 2.569 and Jenkins 2.568.1. It is now time to drop Windows Server 2019 container images for the inbound agent container images and the SSH agent container images. Effective August 21, 2026, the Jenkins project will no longer deliver container images based on Windows Server 2019. We will continue to deliver container images...
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Plugin of the Month – August 2026: Dark Theme Plugin
Welcome back to the Plugin of the Month series, where we highlight useful and impactful tools from the Jenkins ecosystem. August is here, bringing high temperatures and long, bright days. While we can’t turn down the sun outside, we can certainly give your eyes a break inside. When you spend hours looking at build logs, pipeline statuses, and administrative panels, a bright white...
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Navigating My First Jenkins Security Advisory: A Maintainer’s Journey
Navigating My First Jenkins Security Advisory: A Maintainer’s Journey As a maintainer of the job-config-history plugin, I have always appreciated the community and the robustness of the Jenkins ecosystem. However, recently I had the opportunity to experience a different, and perhaps more critical, side of open-source maintenance: the Jenkins security process. Back on April 13, 2026, I received a notification in Jira regarding...
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Plugin of the Month – July 2026: Disk Usage Simple
Welcome back to the Plugin of the Month series, where we highlight useful and impactful tools from the Jenkins ecosystem. Last month, we explored the Build Discarder Plugin, focusing on how a smart global policy can automatically clean up old builds and prevent hard disk waste. How do you locate the specific jobs or folders that are silently hoarding gigabytes without SSHing...
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GSoC 2026 Midterm - Retooling Jenkins.io Web Success Stories
Hello everyone! I’m Vatsal Verma, working on Retool jenkins.io website Success Stories project. The project’s vision is to modernize the Jenkins Success Stories website by migrating it from Gatsby to Vite, improving performance, streamlining the story submission workflow, and enhancing the overall user experience. For a detailed overview, please refer to the please refer to the project page. We’ve just crossed the midterm...
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GSoC 2026 Midterm - Plugin Modernizer Stats Visualization
Hello everyone! I’m Pratik Mane, working on the Plugin Modernizer Stats Visualization project as part of Google Summer of Code 2026 with Jenkins. We’ve reached the midterm and I’m excited to share what has been accomplished so far, what I’ve learned and what lies ahead. Table of Contents What We’ve Accomplished So Far What I’ve Learned Challenges I Faced What’s Next? Acknowledgements Useful Links What We’ve Accomplished So Far Data...
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GSoC 2026 Midterm: AI Chatbot to Guide User Workflow
Hi everyone 👋, I’m Daniele, the Google Summer of Code 2026 contributor currently working on the AI Chatbot to Guide User Workflow plugin. The coding phase began over a month ago, and I have a lot to tell you about the progress made. During this first half of the GSoC, I’ve been focusing on Data Storage, Hybrid Retrieval, the Frontend UI and the...
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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:...