May 2nd, 2013· Added a new set-build-parameter command that can update a build variable from within a build.
· Can use -Dhudson.udp=-1 to disable UDP broadcast without showing an ugly exception.
· Third-party license display for core was broken since 1.506. (issue 17724)
· Mitigation of exception from fingerprinting in a Maven project when a parent POM could not be located. (issue 17775)
· NPE from MatrixConfiguration.newBuild. (issue 17728)
· NPE configuring Copy Artifact with Maven jobs. (issue 17402)
· /about now links to license information for plugins as well.
· Updated bundled plugins.
April 29th, 2013· Slave status monitor page shows when the data is last obtained
· Delete button to highlight what it is going to delete.
· StringIndexOutOfBoundsException in PackageResult.findCorrespondingResult. (issue 17721)
· Breadcrumb is reworked to show descendants to provide additional navigational shortcuts. (discussion)
April 22nd, 2013· Views can now include jobs located within folders. (pull 757)
· Added confirmation dialog before reloading configuration from disk. (issue 15340)
· Switched confirmation before deleting jobs or wiping out workspace to a dialog.
· Different text than “Build Now” for parameterized jobs. (issue 10738)
· Check the view name with ajax.
· “Build Now” context menu item broken for parameterized jobs. (issue 17110)
· Incorrect redirection after delete of job in folder in view. (issue 17575)
· ”My Views" links leads to 404 Not Found. (issue 17317)
· Quoting Issue with JDK Installer with Windows Installer. (issue 5408)
· Restored compatibility in ArtifactArchiver signature; broken in 1.509 and could affect plugins. (issue 17637)
· Fixed a bug in the logic that hides context menu anchor 'v' (issue 13995)
April 17th, 2013· Unit result archiver should only fail builds if there are really no results - i.e. also no skipped tests. (issue 7970)
· NullPointerException related to lazy loading when loading some builds using fingerprinting. (issue 16845)
· Better display of parameters in queue items. (issue 17454)
· Sort order of plugin list is not working by default. (issue 17039)
April 8th, 2013· UnsatisfiedLinkError on CreateSymbolicLinkw on Windows XP. (issue 17343)
· Flyweight tasks should execute on the master if there's no static executors available. (issue 7291)
· Download tool installations directly from the slave when possible, since this is much faster than going through the master. (issue 17330)
· Improved UI for implicitly locked builds. (issue 10197)
· Promote the use of 'H' in cron. (issue 17311)
· Context menu no longer automatically pops up (issue 13995)
March 26th, 2013· Fixing a regression in 1.507 that causes a failure to load matrix jobs. (issue 17337)
March 25th, 2013· Show the reason for a skipped test if the test result contains one (issue 8713)
· an in-progress build was dropped from JSON API when lazy-loading was introduced. (issue 15583)
· In-progress builds now survive the "reload from disk" administrator action. (issue 3265)
· If artifact archiving failed with an I/O error, the build nonetheless was considered to be a success. (issue 2058)
· Fixed a bad interaction between Windows symlinks and build record lazy loading. (issue 15587)
· Remember the lastStable/Failed/Successful/etc builds to avoid eager loading builds. (issue 16089)
· Wrong build result in post build steps after failed pre build step in maven projects. (issue 17177)
March 18th, 2013· Saving Global Jenkins Global Config wipes out the crumb issuer settings in the Global Security Config. (issue 17087)
· Made --httpKeepAliveTimeout option work (that was supposed to have been introduced in 1.503). (issue 16474)
· Preview function for textareas using Jenkins markup did not work when CSRF protection was enabled. (issue 17085)
· Permalinks created in the wrong place when using external build directories. (issue 17137)
· External build directories not updated by job rename/delete. (issue 17138)
· JNA-related error from Windows slave monitoring thrown repeatedly. (issue 15796)
· Improved the request handling performance (where the file lookup is expensive, such as on NFS). (issue 16606)
· Windows symbolic support on Java5/6.
· Improved the duration browsers cache static resources.
March 11th, 2013· Exception in flyweight tasks when checking if an executor is interrupted. (issue 17025)
· JNA-related linkage errors on Windows not handled gracefully. (issue 15466)
· Added run display name as an environment variable when RunParameter is used (pull 720)
· Fixed "Manage" sub-contextmenu for non-standalone deployments (pull 721)
· Absolute URLs in console output (issue 16368)
· Revert ampersand encoding which can cause backward incompatibility issue (pull 683)
· Fix dependency graph computation when upstream build trigger is involved (issue 13502)
· Disabled Authenticode verification for Windows services. (issue 15596)
March 4th, 2013· Fixed a regression in the "discard old builds" in 1.503. (issue 16979)
· Maven 3.0.5 upgrade. (issue 16965)
· Not all log messages were being captured at /log/all. (issue 16952)
· Incorrect or missing XML encoding declaration on some REST API pages. (issue 16881)
· Fixed: Human readable file size method returns ",00" for files with byte length 0 (issue 16630)
· “Build” from job context menu produced a confusing warning page. (issue 16844)
· Maven2 builds with non-standard test plugins failed. (issue 16928)
· Started bundling XStream 1.4.4 (issue 12542)
· Significant improvement in Traditional Chinese localizations. (pull 716)
February 27th, 2013· ${ITEM_FULLNAME} variable was not working for Maven projects on Windows, so introduced ${ITEM_FULL_NAME} instead. (issue 12251)
· Lock contention issue in build history view. (issue 16831)
· Fixed the HTTP request thread saturation problem with Winstone. (issue 16474)
· Script evaluation script error on IE. (issue 16561)
· surefire-reports not detected for android-maven-plugin (issue 16776)
· maven-failsafe-plugin tests not recognized anymore (issue 16696)
· UI waiting on a queue lock to display cause of queue blockage. (issue 16833)
· UpdateCenter REST API chokes if there was a plugin installation failure. (issue 16836)
· Missing build title in /rssAll when build has no test result. (issue 16770)
· Changed the way matrix axis values are exposed as env variables (issue 11577)
· Maven 3 builds ignored quiet (-q) and debug (-X) options (issue 16843)
· JNLP slave installers can now work transparently with secured Jenkins. (SECURITY-54 / despite the ticket marker, this is not a security vulnerability)
· "Discard old build records" behavior is now pluggable, allowing plugins to define custom logic.
February 12th, 2013· Reverted change in 1.500 causing serious regression in HTTPS reverse proxy setups. (issue 16368)
· Getting test results from custom test mojos failed build. (issue 16573)
· Restored Java 5 compatibility. (issue 16554)
· Bogus “Build Record Root Directory” inadequately diagnosed. (issue 16457)
· Plugin icons in the sidebar were not being properly cached. (issue 16530)
· Broadly as well as deeply nested build causes overwhelmed the UI after 1.482. (issue 15747)
· API typo DependecyDeclarer corrected.
· Avoid eagerly loading builds in Changes in dependency or culprit list. (pull 689)
· Run parameters do not support folders. (issue 16462)
· Fixed RememberMe cookie signature generation. (issue 16278)
· Fixed NullPointerException when copying from existing Maven job (issue 16499)
January 28th, 2013· Since 1.494, when signing up as a new user in the private security realm the email address was left unconfigured and a stack trace printed.
· Enable transparent log decompression support. (issue 13655)
· Display authorities at /user/* for convenience. (pull 577)
· Slow rendering of view pages in large installations due to eager check whether the “People” link would show anything. (issue 16244)
· Reduced size of memory leak in render-on-demand functionality used e.g. in configuration pages. (issue 16341)
· Improving responsiveness of People page. (issue 16342) (issue 16397)
· Exception printed to log while adding Build other projects post-build step. (issue 16444)
· BindException when using --daemon with JMX. (issue 14529)
· Improved logging and error output from SSHD in Jenkins.
· Linking to the /threadDump page from /systemInfo so it is discoverable.
· Rekeying operation (from SECURITY-49 fix in 1.498) failed on Windows. (issue 16319)
· JNLP slave index page failed to explain how to pass -jnlpCredentials. (issue 16273)
· Links should preserve used protocol (issue 16368)
· Don't report the same plugin twice in the update center if the filtering is in effect.
· Accept any plugin with a 'test' goal as a test plugin in Maven jobs (issue 8334)
· Avoid unnecessary downloads if automatically installed tools are up-to-date (issue 16215)
January 15th, 2013· Fixed NoClassDefFoundError: Base64 with the -jnlpCredentials option. (issue 9679)
January 8th, 2013· The master key that was protecting all the sensitive data in $JENKINS_HOME was vulnerable. (SECURITY-49)
January 7th, 2013· Delete the oldest build but it still come up on HistoryWidget (issue 16194)
· The master key that was protecting all the sensitive data in $JENKINS_HOME was vulnerable. (SECURITY-49)
December 17th, 2012· Using file parameters could cause build records to not load. (issue 13536)
· Possible race condition in RemoteClassLoader renders slave unusable. (issue 6604)
· If the CLI client is aborted during "build -s", abort the build.
· WARNING: Caught exception evaluating: descriptor.getHelpFile(attrs.field). Reason: java.lang.NullPointerException. (issue 15940)
· Allows to disable triggering of downstream jobs (for a maven job) (issue 1295)
· E-mail delivery feature was split off to a separate plugin for better modularity. (pull 629)
· Context menu and tooltip of the queue items were colliding with each other
· Fix combobox ui component (issue 16069)
December 10th, 2012· Slave's Name should be trimmed of spaces at the beginning and end of the Name on Save. (issue 15836)
· Added new switch to ignore post-commit hooks in SCM polling triggers. This requires that the SCM plugin supports this feature, too! (issue 6846)
December 3rd, 2012· XStream form of projects excessively strict about null fields. (issue 15817)
· Build records were broken if timezone was changed while running. (issue 15816)
· Symlink detection refinement on Java 7. (issue 13202)
· Displaying massive test suite results could bring down Jenkins. (issue 15818)
· Jenkins kicks off the wrong downstream builds for Maven. (issue 15367)
· Rotation of slave agent launch logs is broken for Windows masters. (issue 15408)
· Failure to initialize the SSH daemon shouldn't fail the boot.
· Added new GUI-based slave installer for upstart
· Duplicated / multiple "Jenkins CLI" entries under "Manage Jenkins". (issue 15732)
· Maven2 job fails when using maven-failsafe-plugin (issue 15865)
· "Disable Project" button breaks Free style project pages. (issue 15887)
November 13th, 2012· Fixed the redirect handling in IPv6 literal address.
· Update logging levels in LogRotator - hudson.tasks.LogRotator perform
· Jobs in folders not displayed when showing tied jobs for a computer or label.
· When installing plugins with overlapping dependencies, Jenkins downloads the duplicate plugins multiple times.
· Disable Nagle's algorithm for TCP/IP slave connection
November 5th, 2012· JENKINS_HOME can be now on UNC path (like \\server\mount\dir)
· Deleting deeply nested directories could fail on Windows in Java 6.
· Improved the auto-completion of job names to support hierarchy better.
October 29th, 2012· Harmless but noisy exception running builds on some Windows systems in non-English locale.
October 24th, 2012· JNLP Slave agent on OS X can install itself as a launched service.
· Using the bottom-sticking "OK" button in more places
· Slave logs are put into sub-directories to avoid cluttering $JENKINS_HOME
· /computer/*/doDelete should try harder to remove even “zombie” Computers. (issue 15369)
· NPE from PluginManager. (issue 15511)
· Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'firstChild' of null breaks certain forms at least on Chrome. (issue 15494)
· Added "manage old data" permanently to the "manage Jenkins" page.
· Plugin manager now supports uninstallation. (issue 3070)
October 15th, 2012· NullPointerException in various parts of the core due to RunList returning null. (issue 15465)
· Jenkins build records lazy-loading failed to load some of my jobs. (issue 15439)
· Build queue displayed as empty even when it is not. (Regression in 1.483.) (issue 15335)
· Restoring /people page as a redirect for compatibility, and fixing links to it. (issue 15206 continued)
· Memory exhaustion parsing large test stdio from Surefire. (issue 15382)
· In celebration of the release number '486', background image will be 80486 for a week.
October 9th, 2012· NPE deleting a slave. (issue 15369)
· Deadlock involving views. (issue 15368)
· Can't configure Maven Installations on Jenkins ver. 1.483, 1.484 (issue 15293)
· Memory footprint improvement, especially under large HTTP request threads.
· Build records are now lazy loaded, resulting in a reduced startup time
October 1st, 2012· Check view permissions before showing config page (issue 15277)
· Displaying /people can consume huge resources. (issue 15206)
· Log recorders do not work reliably. (issue 15226)
· NPE in MatrixProject.onLoad. (issue 15271)
· FilePath.validateAntFileMask too slow for /configure. (issue 7214)
· Mac OS X installer now sends log to /var/log/jenkins/jenkins.log (issue 15178)
September 26th, 2012· Invalid warning message when the config-file-provider plugin is not installed (issue 15207)
· JDK installation failed on some slaves with InvalidClassException: hudson.tools.JDKInstaller$Platform$1; local class incompatible: … (issue 14667)
· Provide symlink support on all possible platforms when using Java 7+, including newer versions of Windows. (issue 13202)
· NPE at hudson.maven.MavenModuleSet.getMaven (issue 14510)
· Invalid JSON gets produced with duplicate keys (seen on change sets) (issue 13336)
· Command line options to control the HTTP request handling thread behavior weren't working.
· Default max # of concurrent HTTP request handling threads were brought down to a sane number (from 1000(!) to 20)
· Display non-default update site URLs in the Advanced tab of Plugin Manager. (Currently not configurable from this UI.)
· Fixed the lock contention problem on Queue.getItems()
· Put slave back online automatically, if there's enough disk space again (pull 514)
· Track and verify plugins used in configuration XML (issue 15003)
August 9th, 2012· Annotation processor bugs in Stapler affecting plugin compilation. (issue 11739)
· Regressions in add/delete buttons starting in 1.474. (issue 14434 and issue 14495)
· Collapse nonempty tool installation sections by default in /configure. (issue 14538)
· Custom workspace in matrix projects should be able to use axis as variables.
· New SCMCheckoutStrategy extension wasn't workin for matrix projects. (pull 519)
· Fixed a problem in the concurrent matrix build. (issue 13972)
· Single invalid e-mail address shouldn't cause the entire e-mail delivery to fail. (pull 526)
· Dynamically recomputing matrix axes wasn't working. (pull 523)
· "Text" build parameter should use for configuration (issue 13916)
· Make the draggable component more obvious by providing a border.
· Added REST API for view manipulation
· OS X installer now has an Uninstall tool (in /Library/Application Support/Jenkins).
· Added "manage Jenkins" as a sub-menu to the Jenkins context menu.
· Executor is exposed to the remote API (pull 520)
· Changed defaults for the Mac installer to make iOS codesigning easier.
· Notify user when search result is truncated and provide link to get more results (issue 10747)
· Add a setter for node label string. (issue 14327)
· Option to set java executable path for managed windows slaves
· Added new extension point for transient user actions, and displays user properties if they are also Actions.
July 27th, 2012· Enable/disable GUI for jobs either did not appear, or threw exceptions, for jobs inside folders (issue 14325)
· NullPointerException from UnlabeldLoadStatistics [sic] (issue 14330)
· Incorrect display of list items in project changes for SCMs such as Mercurial. (issue 14365)
May 11th, 2012· Fixed a bug in the Content-Range header handling. (issue 13125)
· Ant's default exclusion was preventing plugins from archiving some files. (issue 13165)
· Fixed NPE in PAM authentication if the user is in a group that doesn't exist anymore.
· End up more gracefully if there's some problem when searching for user partipication in the build (issue 13564)
· Improved the performance of the fingerprint persistence. (issue 13154)
· PAM authentication supports '@group' to force interpretation as a group instead of user. (issue 13526)
· Honor the Accept header in the job/name/build URL. (issue 13546)
· Added a DISCOVER permission to allow anonymous users to be presented the login screen when accessing job URLs. (issue 8214)
· Publishers can be now reordered by the user. (discussion)
May 2nd, 2012· API token authentication was broken in 1.461 (issue 13600)
· Added the filter textbox to the update center selector. (issue 13476)
· Move "View as plain text" link on console output page from top right to the sidepanel. (issue 13389)
· Convert "Delete this build" buttons into links in the sidepanel. (issue 13387)
· Validate project naming regex immediately. (issue 13524)
July 26th, 2011· Fixed a boot problem in 1.422.
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