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Basil Crow

Basil is a long-time Jenkins user and contributor, a Jenkins core maintainer, and the maintainer of the Email Extension, Timestamper, and Swarm plugins (among others). Basil enjoys working on open source software in his free time.

2024 Jenkins Election Candidate Statements

Candidate nominations for the 2024 Jenkins elections are now complete. Thanks to everyone who submitted nominations and to the candidates that have accepted the nominations. Register to vote Voters must register an account on the Jenkins community forums and must have made at least one contribution to Jenkins before September 1, 2024. You can use an existing GitHub account or create a new account...

Basil Crow
Mark Waite
Valentin Delaye
Kris Stern
Alexander Brandes
Oleg Nenashev
Alex Earl
Stefan Spieker
Tim Jacomb October 3, 2024
Voter Registration for Jenkins Board and Officer Elections 2024

Voter registration has started for the 2024 Jenkins Governance Board and Officer elections! Voter registration Nominations for the 2024 Jenkins Governance Board and Officer elections have finished. Voter registration opened September 16, 2024 and closes on October 31, 2024. Participation in the election process requires registering an account on the Jenkins community forums and at least one contribution made before September 1, 2024. When registering,...

Mark Waite
Basil Crow September 25, 2024
Jenkins Board and Officer Elections 2024 - Nominations Open

We are excited to announce the 2024 Jenkins Governance Board and Officer elections! Nominations Nominations can be submitted for governance board positions and all officer positions (Security, Events, Release, Infrastructure, and Documentation). During the registration period, we invite community members to nominate candidates by sending a message to the election-committee group. In your message, please include the name of the nominee, the specific position...

Mark Waite
Basil Crow August 1, 2024
Jenkins requires Java 17 or newer

Summary Beginning with the Jenkins 2.463 weekly release (scheduled for release on June 18, 2024), Jenkins requires Java 17 or newer. The Jenkins 2.452.x LTS line will continue to require Java 11 or newer, as will the LTS line (possibly 2.462.1) that is scheduled for release on July 24, 2024, whose baseline will be 2.462 (the last weekly release to support Java 11) or...

Basil Crow June 11, 2024
Introducing the 2 + 2 + 2 Java support plan

Summary tl;dr Jenkins 2.426.1 LTS will support Java 11, 17, and 21. In Fall 2024, Jenkins will require Java 17 or 21 and drop support for Java 11. Thereafter, Jenkins will support each Java LTS release for approximately four years; i.e., Jenkins will support two Java LTS releases at any given time. Background Java’s historically slow release cadence has accelerated significantly in recent years. At present, Java feature...

Basil Crow November 6, 2023
Prototype removed from Jenkins 2.426

Following up on my previous post about removing Prototype from Jenkins, Prototype has been removed from the 2.426 weekly release and will be removed from the November LTS release. This removal required changes in about 60 plugins. Use the Plugin Manager to upgrade all plugins before and after upgrading to Jenkins 2.426. A migration of this scope would not have been possible without the...

Basil Crow October 9, 2023
Removing Prototype from Jenkins

Summary Usage of the Prototype JavaScript framework has been deprecated in recent versions of Jenkins core and will be removed completely in the future. Plugin developers should prepare for this transition by removing usages of Prototype and testing with Prototype removed. Motivation Prototype was created by Sam Stephenson in February 2005 as part of Ajax support in Ruby on Rails. While it was considered a...

Basil Crow May 12, 2023
Jenkins plugin development requires Java 11 or newer

🚀 Java Platform update Jenkins has required Java 11 or newer since 2.361.1 LTS (released on September 7, 2022) and has supported Java 17 since 2.346.1 LTS (released on June 16, 2022). At the time, more users were running Jenkins on Java 8 than on Java 11, and a negligible number of users were running Jenkins on Java 17. In recent months, usage of Java 11...

Basil Crow December 14, 2022
Jenkins requires Java 11 or newer

Introduction The Jenkins project is committed to delivering a world-class platform experience for end users and developers alike. At the core of this experience is Java, an object-oriented programming language with a cross-platform runtime in the form of the Java virtual machine (JVM). Since its inception, the Jenkins project has been a major consumer of Java, distributing over 1,800 plugins to an installed...

Basil Crow June 28, 2022