We are proud to announce the immediate availability of CloudBees Jenkins Platform 2.32.1.1, which offers upgrade notifications and many key improvements such as a bump on the Jenkins core to the 2.32.1 LTS line. In addition, you may have noticed this blog post is posted on Cloudbees Network or CBN. As the hub of all product related knowledge, CBN is where you will find all future product announcements. Once again, all enhancements and fixes are for the rolling release only. Fixed releases have diverged from rolling releases (locked to 2.7.X) and will follow a separate schedule.
Release Highlights
In-product upgrade notifications
Beekeeper Upgrade Assistant allows users to review and install upgrades of verified components, tested through the CloudBees Assurance Program (CAP). Up to now, this recommended configuration or envelope was only updated when new releases were announced. Starting with this release, CloudBees can update the configuration between releases, so that fixes can be safely deployed, keeping the Jenkins instance safely in the recommended configuration. This is a huge benefit, because customers will be able to obtain CAP updates as they become available - rather than waiting for the envelope update in a major CJP release.
Customers using Beekeeper Upgrade Assistant and CloudBees Update Centers will be proactively notified in the application as shown in screenshot below.
At this point, administrators can go to the Beekeeper Upgrade Assistant for an overview of what upgrades are available. When upgrades are selected, subsequent screens will guide the administrator through the process and indicate if upgrades have been installed successfully.
Jenkins Core Bumped to 2.32.1 LTS line
This is the second LTS upgrade on the rolling release and we will continue to include the latest and greatest stable Jenkins core. In addition to fixing 50+ bug fixes since the previous LTS release, this release includes some performance improvements and, most importantly, upgrades the Jenkins Remoting Module from version 2.6 to 3.1. The Jenkins Remoting model is at the heart of all communications not only between client masters and agents but also between CloudBees Jenkins Operation Center (CJOC) and each client master. In addition, administrative alerts in the Jenkins UI will now show on most administrative pages, making it easier for admins to spot important alerts.
Product Announcements on CloudBees Network
In case you have not discovered CloudBees Network or CBN, this site is our hub for product related information, including free online training. All future product announcements and news will be posted in a blog here because it centralizes product knowledge in one location. Although in its infancy now, we intend to add a search bar and an index to make it faster to find posts.
CloudBees Assurance Program (CAP) Updates
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Beekeeper Simplified Upgrades |
Beekeeper Upgrade Assistant now allows users to review and install upgrades for verified components in the CloudBees Assurance Program. This includes -
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Verified plugin refreshes: |
These verified plugin updates primarily focus around adopting a new method for more efficiently storing credentials in core Jenkins. This new method called "SecretBytes" allows credentials to be encrypted in a standardized way across all plugins that support credential/secret storage. Can read more on the advantages here: https://github.com/jenkinsci/plain-credentials-plugin/pull/6
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CloudBees Jenkins Platform Updates
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Remoting Improvements - Major Remoting Upgrade from 2.6 to 3.1
Performance Improvements
50+ Bugs resolved for Jenkins core in last 3 months |
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Upgrade pipeline components |
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Update cloudbees-license to 9.3 |
Allows the setup wizard to work even if the Jenkins has an expired CloudBees license |
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Backup plugin 3.32 |
The backup plugin will now provide more information about the backup process, especially when the backup cannot proceed due to a lack of permissions. Improves logging to facilitate diagnosis |
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Cloudbees-consolidated-build-view is no longer supported |
The CloudBees Consolidated Build View Plugin is no longer supported |
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Move/Copy/Promote |
Move/Copy/Promote feature made easier to user with general fixes to functionality. Client Masters and Managed Masters can no longer be copied, they can only be moved.
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Operations Center |
Expose more diagnostic information about Operations Center Agent Clouds. |
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SSL/HTTPS support |
Deprecate the capability to declare in Operations Center’s Security page the SSL certificate used by Operations Center that Client Masters should trust.We recommend to instead use the standard JVM solution pattern to trust additional SSL certificates through the addition of the desired SSL certificates in the JVM truststore as described in this CloudBees Knowledge Base article. |
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Operations Center Connectivity |
Deprecate ping interval property in minutes in favour of a new one in seconds. Set the default interval to 35 seconds |
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High Availability Documentation |
Rewrite documentation on how to configure high availability and SSL on CJP |
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Custom Update Centers |
Fix a bug which prevented custom update centers from downloading information about Jenkins tool configurations
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Rename SSH Slaves plugin |
Release of SSH Build Agents Plugin (renamed from SSH Slaves) to conform to naming conventions |
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