After first
announcing the
Jenkins 2.0 effort last fall, we are pleased to announce the availability of
the first Jenkins 2.0 alpha builds. For months we have had builds
available from the jenkins_2.0
branch of development, but the "alpha" builds mark Jenkins 2.0 being
officially made available for testing and feedback.
Download 2.0-alpha now
Jenkins 2.0 Highlights
Pipeline as Code
The new Pipeline functionality in Jenkins allows you
to define configuration as code, which can be checked in and version controlled
along with the rest of your project’s source code.
Defining your pipeline’s configuration as code makes it easier to create a
simple "build and test" pipeline, while enabling more advanced and complex
pipelines through the expressive Groovy-based domain specific language.
Out of the box experience
For new users, Jenkins 2.0 starts off with set of recommended plugins, seen in
the image above, to help get you started with the right set of tools to get up
and running with Jenkins quickly.
For the more adventurous users, the Jenkins 2.0 initial setup process
also allows you to pick and choose exactly the plugins you want to meet
your specific needs.
Totally backwards compatible
Jenkins 2.0 is a drop-in replacement of the Jenkins 1.x series of releases
and fully backward compatible. There will be practically no reason not to
upgrade once 2.0 is released in the next couple of months.
Tell us what you think!
We’re very interested in your feedback on what you think of the Jenkins 2.0
preview releases.
If you use Twitter, you can leave us some feedback
on
Twitter
Our jenkinsci-users
mailing list is also available for feedback in
this thread
And of course, since this is a preview release, if you find any issues please
report them to our
issue tracker
to the JENKINS project.