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    "result": {"data":{"blog":{"html":"<div class=\"paragraph\">\n<p>On February 2nd, 2011 the first release of Jenkins, version 1.396, was made available for public consumption. Thus marking a new beginning for many of us who had come to rely on this very versatile piece of software and wanted to see it continue to thrive.</p>\n</div>\n<div class=\"paragraph\">\n<p>Along with some other bug fixes, the 1.396 release of Jenkins included a <em>very</em> important changelog item:</p>\n</div>\n<div class=\"quoteblock\">\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"paragraph\">\n<p><em>Fixed a trademark bug that caused a considerable fiasco by renaming to Jenkins</em></p>\n</div>\n</blockquote>\n</div>\n<div class=\"paragraph\">\n<p>On behalf of the core Jenkins team and the governance board I would like to extend a extremely large <big><strong>Thank You!</strong></big> to all of the <a href=\"https://github.com/jenkinsci\">plugin developers</a>, <a href=\"https://issues.jenkins.io\">bug filers</a>, <a href=\"https://wiki.jenkins.io\">wiki page editors</a>, <a href=\"http://www.wakaleo.com/books/jenkins-the-definitive-guide\">book authors</a> and the users who have helped grow Jenkins into the project it is today.</p>\n</div>\n<div class=\"paragraph\">\n<p>Some of the tidbits from our highlight reel:</p>\n</div>\n<div class=\"ulist\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>As of this writing there have been <strong>54</strong> releases of Jenkins</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Jenkins now supports <a href=\"/content/beginning-new-era-ruby-plugins-now-reality\">writing plugins in Ruby</a> as well as Java (more languages in the process)</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>We have <a href=\"http://mirrors.jenkins-ci.org/status.html\">7 high-speed mirrors</a> streaming Jenkins packages to users around the world.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>There are now over 450 different plugins available for Jenkins</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Over 80 donors participated in our <a href=\"/content/fundraising-drive-update-thank-you-everyone\">end of year fundraising drive</a></p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>5 \"Long Term Support\" releases have been published by the Jenkins community, offering users a slower moving upgrade target (supported even further by CloudBees' <a href=\"https://www.cloudbees.com/jenkins-enterprise-by-cloudbees-available-plugins.cb\">Enterprise Jenkins</a> product)</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Public project governance meetings are held and <a href=\"http://meetings.jenkins-ci.org/jenkins/\">recorded</a> (almost) every couple of weeks.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>More than 340 individuals contribute <a href=\"https://github.com/jenkinsci\">on GitHub</a> to the project in some form or another.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>About 750 members of the <a href=\"https://groups.google.com/group/jenkinsci-dev?lnk=\">developers mailing list</a> and around 1700 on the <a href=\"https://groups.google.com/group/jenkinsci-users?lnk=\">users mailing list</a></p>\n</li>\n</ul>\n</div>\n<div class=\"paragraph\">\n<p>There are many other impressive sounding numbers I could rattle off, but the list is far too long to be interesting.</p>\n</div>\n<div class=\"paragraph\">\n<p>The project isn&#8217;t perfect and nor is the software, but we&#8217;re off to a fine start and I hope you&#8217;ll join us in making this next year of Jenkins even better than the first.</p>\n</div>","id":"521035b8-1fda-5f7d-a038-d0561f69a3f4","title":"Happy birthday Jenkins!","date":"2012-02-02T00:00:00.000Z","slug":"/blog/2012/02/02/happy-birthday-jenkins/","links":{"discourse":""},"authors":[{"avatar":{"childImageSharp":{"gatsbyImageData":{"layout":"constrained","backgroundColor":"#f8f8f8","images":{"fallback":{"src":"/gatsby-jenkins-io/static/c98b6de76465e89f9f5e5b331e9abfea/19e71/rtyler.jpg","srcSet":"/gatsby-jenkins-io/static/c98b6de76465e89f9f5e5b331e9abfea/77b35/rtyler.jpg 32w,\n/gatsby-jenkins-io/static/c98b6de76465e89f9f5e5b331e9abfea/d4a57/rtyler.jpg 64w,\n/gatsby-jenkins-io/static/c98b6de76465e89f9f5e5b331e9abfea/19e71/rtyler.jpg 128w,\n/gatsby-jenkins-io/static/c98b6de76465e89f9f5e5b331e9abfea/68974/rtyler.jpg 256w","sizes":"(min-width: 128px) 128px, 100vw"},"sources":[{"srcSet":"/gatsby-jenkins-io/static/c98b6de76465e89f9f5e5b331e9abfea/ef6ff/rtyler.webp 32w,\n/gatsby-jenkins-io/static/c98b6de76465e89f9f5e5b331e9abfea/8257c/rtyler.webp 64w,\n/gatsby-jenkins-io/static/c98b6de76465e89f9f5e5b331e9abfea/6766a/rtyler.webp 128w,\n/gatsby-jenkins-io/static/c98b6de76465e89f9f5e5b331e9abfea/22bfc/rtyler.webp 256w","type":"image/webp","sizes":"(min-width: 128px) 128px, 100vw"}]},"width":128,"height":128}}},"blog":"http://unethicalblogger.com","github":"rtyler","html":"<div class=\"paragraph\">\n<p>R&#46; Tyler Croy has been part of the Jenkins project for the past seven years.\nWhile avoiding contributing any Java code, Tyler is involved in many of the\nother aspects of the project which keep it running, such as this website,\ninfrastructure, governance, etc.</p>\n</div>","id":"rtyler","irc":null,"linkedin":null,"name":"R. 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