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+ As the Jenkins project grows, https://jenkins-ci.org/content/come-join-infra-team[the need for our infrastructure has been growing]. https://ci.jenkins.io/[Our Jenkins-on-Jenkins] needs more build agents, we need more servers to run our infrastructure services. + + + And it was https://jenkins-ci.org/content/big-thanks-rackspace[once again] Rackspace who stepped up to the plate; they have kindly donated us more https://www.rackspace.com/cloud/servers/[cloud servers]. I also use Rackspace for one of my personal servers, and when I went back to their admin console this time, I noticed that they've added https://www.rackspace.com/cloud/[a lot more services] to their offering. + + + image:https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://agentdero.cachefly.net/continuousblog/rackspace.jpg[image,width=200,height=200] + + + + I am setting up these boxes as I write this. A huge thank you for Rackspace for their support of this project. And if you are interested in using Rackspace cloud servers as elastic build agents, https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/JClouds+Plugin[jclouds plugin] is your friend.

Volume 4 of Continuous Information came out last night. It contains insights and highlights from founder Kohsuke, the latest growth stats, upcoming event info, Jenkins resources, and more. Highlights: Jenkins has nearly 20,000 more active installations than it had last June, up from 43,500 to more than 61,000 Nearly 100 plugins have been added since late last Fall when we did the last Jenkins survey. Now there are more than 730 plugins Bay Area JUC (Oct 23), JUC Israel (Jun 6) and several other Jenkins events around the world have open registration Latest, greatest Jenkins improvements include a new LTS based on 1.509, more context menu improvements, and controller/agent data transfer performance improvement There’s also a Security advisory out recommending upgrade to at least 1.502 A plethora of Jenkins and Continuous Delivery resources + + https://pages.cloudbees.com/index.php/email/emailWebview?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRow5%2FmYJoDpwmWGd5mht7VzDtPj1OY6hBomJr6JK1TtuMFUGpsqOOqSDhcUEZVk0w%3D%3D[View the full newsletter], and then https://www.cloudbees.com/jenkins/jenkins-ci/jenkins-newsletter.cb[sign up to receive it yourself]. + + And if you have content to feature in a future newsletter, please mailto:continuous-information@cloudbees.com[email us]. + + + + + +

+ 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 https://pages.cloudbees.com/index.php/email/emailWebview?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRow5%2FmYJoDpwmWGd5mht7VzDtPj1OY6hBksIr%2BJK1TtuMFUGpsqOOqSDhcUEZVk0w%3D%3D[Continuous Information, the CloudBees Newsletter for Jenkins]. + + + This issue... + + Features details about the 6 upcoming Jenkins User Conferences (don’t miss these) Announces the new Jenkins CIA Program (join us to promote Jenkins around the globe) Shows you where to find in-depth information about the latest Jenkins UI improvements and featured plugins (cool stuff) Highlights the importance of Jenkins Security Advisories (install these regularly) Tells you why Jenkins has blue balls instead of green ones (seriously) Shows you the latest Jenkins Usage Stats (still growing super-fast) … and more great stuff, including a bit of Jenkins humor (courtesy of our friends at Geek and Poke) + + + https://pages.cloudbees.com/index.php/email/emailWebview?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRow5%2FmYJoDpwmWGd5mht7VzDtPj1OY6hBksIr%2BJK1TtuMFUGpsqOOqSDhcUEZVk0w%3D%3D[View this issue in full] or https://www.cloudbees.com/jenkins-newsletter.cb[sign up to receive future newsletters] directly or to stay on top of the latest Jenkins goodness. + + + On somewhat unrelated note, https://www.cloudbees.com/forms/jenkins-user-conference-call-papers.cb[call for Papers] for upcoming JUC 2012 is open! Please help us spread the word...

In my capacity as Build Guy at Digg, I’ve written up a blog post on our new continuous deployment/code review/pre-tested commit workflow. We’re using a combination of Hudson, Git and Gerrit, Selenium and more to make sure that every change going to Digg’s new site has been thoroughly tested. Read the whole post, with all the juicy details over on Digg’s Technology Blog!

It’s been quite a while since I posted a Hudson links-roundup post, so without further ado, here goes nothing Max tells us about using Hudson with Symbian’s CodeScanner tool. Running agents on Mac OS X? Mirko has some handy launchctl foo for keeping his JNLP agents online Scott threw up a great configuration sample for running Hudson with an Nginx reverse proxy with SSL Mark walks us through using Xvfb to run headless cucumber/selenium tests with Hudson Our friends behind Build Doctor wrote an interesting build radiator that works seamlessly with Hudson.

Recently our fearless leader, Kohsuke Kawaguchi, was invited by the nice folks over at Digg to give a tech talk about continuous integration and automated testing. The Digg engineering team is full of believers in continuous integration, including our very own Andrew Bayer ( abayer). Being big users of the Sauce Labs service to drive their vast Selenium test suite, the house was packed with Selenium hackers/users and Hudson users, the stage was set for Kohsuke to give a great presentation. Digg Technical Talks - Kohsuke Kawaguchi from Digg Development on Vimeo. You can find slides of the presentation here --- For those not familiar with Digg’s peripheral involvement in the Hudson community, they’ve graciously donated a build machine to help run Hudson builds on ci.hudson-labs.org.

The release of 1.355 came out earlier this week but I hadn’t had the chance to write anything up about it. Of course, the work never stops on Hudson so we almost have 1.356 ready to roll out the door, but then Kohsuke tweeted this: Because of the data center migration going on, I won’t be able to release #hudsonci today. I won’t go into details on some of the infrastructure changes we have lined up just yet, so here’s the breakdown of 1.355 Bugs fixed Colored ball image at top of build pages was broken for Hudson in some web containers (fixed by removing workaround for a Firefox bug fixed since 3.0.5/Dec2008). ( issue 2341) Console page while build is running did not wrap lines when viewed in IE. ( issue 5869) Fixed build history to indicate test failure for MavenBuild and MavenModuleSetBuild. Make dropdownList work in repeatable content, such as a build step. Enhancements Added the agent retention strategy based on a schedule. Added to configure charset option of Mailer. You can go grab the latest .war file straight from hudson-ci.org or if you’re using a native package, use your package manager to upgrade.

Hear ye, hear ye! Behold, the first release of Hudson ever made by a not-employed-by-Sun Kohsuke (as we covered last week). This iteration of Hudson contains only bug fixes, check the listing below for the specifics on which bugs have been fixed (1.355 is looking like it will contain a number of fixes as well). The release of 1.354 comes slightly later than usual given some of the logistics that needed to, or still need to be resolved. One of the infrastructure issues that’s half-way resolved is the question of Debian/Ubuntu packages. Kohuske has packages uploaded in an experimental apt repository on hudson-labs.org which you can try out. That said, it’s not entirely clear whether this is going to be the preferred means of distributing native Debian/Ubuntu packages in the future (your mileage may vary). Bugs fixed POM parsing was still using the module root as the base for relative paths for alternate settings files. ( issue 6080) Fix dynamic updates of build history table when CSRF protection is turned on. ( issue 6072) Improved the error reporting mechanism in LDAP setting. Raw console output contains garbage. ( issue 6034) Fixed a file handle leak in the agents connection. ( issue 6137) Quiet period wasn’t taking effect properly when doing parameterized builds. Contributors The release of 1.354 contains a total of 51 commits to the "core" part of the tree, from 9 different contributors abayer drulli kohsuke manuel_carrasco mindless sogabe swiest vlatombe wyukawa + You can go grab the latest .war file straight from hudson-ci.org or if you’re using a native package, use your package manager to upgrade.