Changelog

2.491

December 19, 2024
Enhancement
  • Avoid printing the same stack trace multiple times when file persistence fails. Temporary file names used by the AtomicFileWriter are now derived from the target file name. pull 10058
Bug fix
  • Revert update of hotkeys-js dependency introduced in 2.490. The hotkeys-js bump caused a regression with Jenkins plugin BOM tests. pull 10070

2.490

December 17, 2024
Enhancement
Bug fix
  • Allow non-HTTP(S) URLs in zip-based tool installer configuration (regression in 2.379). JENKINS-75003
  • .tgz files are no longer double-gzipped. JENKINS-73942
  • Fix scrolling with keyboard. pull 10054

2.489

December 9, 2024
Enhancement
  • Add Command Palette as a replacement for the search bar. pull 7569
  • Added password validation to ensure that existing users cannot create a password of less than 14 characters in length when in FIPS mode. JENKINS-74858
  • Developer: The commons-compress library is no longer provided by Jenkins core, use the Commons Compress API plugin instead. JENKINS-73355
  • Developer: Allow UpdateSite subclasses to call updateData method in UpdateSite to write out JSON. pull 10019
  • Developer: Add support for @QueryParameter to the autocomplete component. Change autocomplete component to use POST for sending requests. JENKINS-37241
Bug fix
  • Reduce spacing in help files. JENKINS-69549
  • Restore the original behavior of FileBoolean(Class, String) (regression in 2.488). pull 10022

2.488

December 3, 2024
Bug fix
  • Fix double-escaped tooltips in "Help for feature". JENKINS-73907
  • Fix exception error message about hudson.model.UpdateSite$Warning on Manage Jenkins that may be shown when plugins with known security issues are installed. JENKINS-73487

2.487

November 27, 2024
Security

2.486

November 19, 2024
Enhancement
  • Developer: Upgrade ESLint plugin-kit from 0.2.0 to 0.2.3. pull 9982
  • Developer: Upgrade cross-spawn from 7.0.3 to 7.0.5. pull 9986

2.485

November 12, 2024
Enhancement
  • Clearer error message for the CLI in the default webSocket mode when a 403 error results from a reverse proxy misconfiguration. pull 9930
  • Developer: Introduce ControllerToAgentCallable and ControllerToAgentFileCallable with support for records in controller to agent callables. pull 9921
Bug fix
  • Do not add jobs created via the REST API to the default view. JENKINS-74795
  • Developer: Allow context classloaders to be defined without making explicit reference to the calling class. JENKINS-74814

2.484

November 5, 2024
Enhancement
Bug fix
  • Fix a rare race condition rendering pages soon after startup. pull 9925

2.483

October 29, 2024
Enhancement
  • Stop allowing configuration of the agent protocols list. pull 9903
  • The agents online/offline status and icon can now be influenced by the offline cause, giving better information to users. Clarifies some use cases when an agent was offline by design and not because of a configuration or technical error. pull 9883
  • Translate node list page to Turkish. pull 9916
  • Developer: Calls to Nodes#setNodes now notify NodeListener implementations. pull 9905
Bug fix
  • Fix end of life operating system monitor that shows 2099-12-31 on the first day a warning should be displayed. JENKINS-73845

2.482

October 22, 2024
Enhancement
  • Modernize ComboBox component. pull 9462
  • Refine content and appearance of the project Configure screen. pull 9734
Bug fix
  • Retain user generated offline reason when agent connects or disconnects for technical reasons. JENKINS-30101

2.481

October 15, 2024
Enhancement
Bug fix
  • Ignore values with incorrect types when deserializing collections and maps in XML files. JENKINS-63343
  • Remove trailing space from Windows agent secret file instructions. JENKINS-72979
  • Do not allow builds to be deleted while they are still building. Ensure build discarders only process builds which have fully completed. JENKINS-73835

2.480

October 8, 2024
Enhancement
  • Refine Administrative monitors interface. pull 9735
  • Developer: Add a new method SaveableListener#onDeleted so that plugins can be notified when a Saveable is deleted. pull 9743
  • Developer: Improve Content Security Policy compatibility by removing an eval call from JS. Require syntactically valid JSON snippet to be returned from MarkupFormatter#getCodemirrorConfig / provided to codemirrorconfig in f:textarea. JENKINS-71515
Bug fix

2.479

October 2, 2024
Security
Enhancement
  • Developer: Add ExtendedReadRedaction extension point to allow plugins to redact content from config.xml files served via API or CLI to users with Extended Read permission. SECURITY-3373

2.478

September 24, 2024
No notable changes in this release.

2.477

September 17, 2024
Enhancement
  • Refine content and appearance of the user account screen. pull 9521
  • Use Notice component for views lacking jobs. pull 9724
  • Update appearance of Jenkins is starting pages. pull 9707
Bug fix
  • Restore compatibility with plugins contributing new objects with context menus, like Nested Views plugin. (regression in 2.475) JENKINS-73785
  • Prevent unnecessary horizontal scroll bar in Firefox. JENKINS-73695
  • Make deserialization of Map fields in XML files more robust. JENKINS-73687

2.476

September 10, 2024
Bug fix
  • Restore compatibility with the OpenId Connect Authentication and Reverse Proxy Authentication plugins (regression in 2.475). pull 9696
  • Validate display name only against items in the same ItemGroup. JENKINS-72988
  • Correct styling for plugins that can't be disabled in plugin manager when user has system read permission. pull 9463
Enhancement
  • Developer: Add a new listener when a computer becomes idle. pull 9673

2.475

September 4, 2024
Enhancement
Bug fix
  • Update dashboard to remove white space in widths over 900px. JENKINS-73695
  • No longer printing verbose and uninformative messages to $JENKINS_HOME/logs/tasks/Periodic background build discarder.log. JENKINS-73692

2.474

August 27, 2024
Enhancement
  • Allow all builds to be removed by the build discarder. JENKINS-68822
  • Allow plugins to customize maximum number of suggestions in autocomplete text fields. pull 9616
Bug fix
  • Fix dropdown and tooltip brightness on HDR displays. JENKINS-73330
  • Fix the appearance of the Plugin Manager actions dropdown. JENKINS-73668
  • Restore margins around setup wizard alert messages (regression in 2.459). JENKINS-73302
  • Prevent backdrop color from affecting dialogs that appear above the backdrop. pull 9649
  • Refresh build history widget in all cases, including on background tabs or hidden tabs. JENKINS-73613

2.473

August 20, 2024
Enhancement
  • Remove obsolete RekeySecretAdminMonitor. JENKINS-73597
  • Use dropdown component for autocomplete fields (instead of YUI framework). pull 9453
Bug fix
  • Remove trailing backslash from 'Keep this build forever' hover text. pull 9625

2.472

August 13, 2024
Enhancement
  • makeButton creates jenkins-buttons on the fly instead of using YUI. JENKINS-73563
  • Upgrade Jetty from 10.0.22 to 12.0.12. JENKINS-73130
  • Modernize project relationship page. pull 9461
  • Clarify that the plugin incompatibility message applies to the current plugin. JENKINS-73495
Bug fix
  • fix IndexOutOfBoundsException in cloud management pages when controller has no executors (regression in 2.463). JENKINS-73554
  • Fix "New Item" page layout if no icon is defined for an item (regression in 2.453). JENKINS-73586

2.471

August 7, 2024
Security

2.470

July 29, 2024
Enhancement
  • Developer: HttpResponse exceptions such as Descriptor.FormException are now rendered properly from @DataBoundConstructors. pull 9495
  • Add end of life dates for Alpine 3.20, Ubuntu 24.04, and Fedora 40. Correct several end of life dates, including CentOS 8. pull 9501
  • Avoid unnecessary download of bundled plugins during the setup wizard. pull 9476
  • Scroll fields from added heterolist entry into viewport. pull 9488

2.469

July 22, 2024
Enhancement
  • Modernize the build time trend page with a time since column, a link to the console, and allow the table to be resized. Remove the agent column from the Pipeline build trend page. pull 9465
  • Exit the process immediately upon a boot failure when using ExitLifecycle. Allow custom lifecycles to react similarly. pull 9483
  • Display the source URL in logs when installing a plugin. pull 9449
  • Add a user experimental flag to run Jenkins without the YUI JavaScript library. Plugin authors should enable this flag and fix any issues that result from the removal of the YUI library. pull 9489
  • Form validation now works for SecretTextArea fields. SecretTextArea documentation, pull 9450, JENKINS-73404
Bug fix
  • Change icon size in table when resizing the table. JENKINS-73453
  • Fix the hudson.slaves.SlaveComputer.allowUnsupportedRemotingVersions escape hatch, which was previously not working with inbound agents. JENKINS-73467
  • /queue/item/nnnnn/ URLs (with no api/… suffix) now return a 200 text/plain response to emphasize that the queue item does exist but that you would need to construct a specific query to find out more. JENKINS-66105

2.468

July 15, 2024
Major enhancement
  • User properties are now categorized in different pages. JENKINS-69869
Enhancement
  • Allow some administrative monitors to be displayed for users with Overall/MANAGE permission. pull 9437

2.467

July 9, 2024
Enhancement
  • Increase the minimum required Remoting version to 3107.v665000b_51092 (released on February 2, 2023). pull 9440

2.466

July 2, 2024
Bug fix

2.465

July 2, 2024
This release failed due to breaking changes in the Maven Release plugin. Installers, native packages, and jenkins.war were not published.
Bug fix
  • Jenkins 2.465 was not placed in the artifact repository or on the download site.

2.464

June 25, 2024
Enhancement
  • Refine tables and tabs with reduced padding, rounded corners to match cards, and borders that are visible in dark mode. pull 9411
  • Align font weights and font sizes. pull 9393

2.463

June 18, 2024
Enhancement
  • Require Java 17 or newer. Announcement blog post, pull 9358
  • Update the design of the build history widget. pull 9148
  • Refine radio inputs. pull 9380
  • Refine form controls appearance. pull 9365
  • Remove some usages of the YahooUI framework in the user interface. pull 9395
  • Update Stapler from 1880.vb_6d94a_3b_05db_ to 1881.vd39f3ee5c629 and Winstone-Jetty from 6.19 to 6.20 to let Jetty handle HTTP response compression. A new command line option compression can be used to disable compression if desired. pull 9379
  • Remove idle executors from widget. pull 9177
  • Provide a global configuration option, "Computer Retention Check Interval", to adjust the latency period for checking offline agents. Administrators can trade elevated CPU usage from frequent agent checks for responsiveness to capacity needs. An "In demand delay" of zero on the agents reduces the time to enable an agent by checking status more frequently. JENKINS-14789
  • Remove Windows path traversal vulnerability escape hatch that was provided with the SECURITY-2481 fix. JENKINS-73129, Path traversal vulnerability on Windows - SECURITY-2481
  • Developer: Deprecate StaplerResponse#getCompressedOutputStream, StaplerResponse#getCompressedWriter, and st:compress. Use StaplerResponse#getOutputStream, StaplerResponse#getWriter, and j:jelly instead. pull 9379
Bug fix

2.462

June 10, 2024
Enhancement
  • Refine button appearances in sidebars, menus, pages and breadcrumbs. pull 9367
  • Adjust heading weights and sizes. pull 9366
Bug fix
  • Show help text in the correct locale even if user has an alternate language option defined in their browser (regression in 2.444). JENKINS-73246
  • Quote replacement string in symbol tooltips. JENKINS-73243
  • Honor readonly mode when displaying enumerations on pages. JENKINS-72854
Changelogs of historical releases can be found in the changelog archive.