Hello, we have an intermittent problem creating new jenkins jobs, we get:
Query parameter 'name' is required
and we have no idea why. This happens sometimes 2-3 times and on the 4th refresh the job is created and sometimes we need 20+ refreshes. We are on Jenkins LTS 2.555.2. Nothing in the logs of Jenkins as well. Thank you for your support in advance !
mawinter69
(Markus Winter)
August 15, 2026, 12:02am
2
It would help if you list all plugins that you have installed.
Ideal would be some kind of env where it is easily reproducable.
Hello, those are the plugins installed:
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mawinter69
(Markus Winter)
August 20, 2026, 5:28pm
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The list of plugins contains many plugins that are deprecated or are outdated.
Before doing any changes, take a backup of your JENKINS_HOME directory so you can recover in case of any problems.
Deprecated plugins (there might be more):
ace-editor
handlebars
momentjs
jquery-detached
windows-slaves
translation
You should be able to uninstall them without problems
Outdated plugins (just 2 examples):
saml: you 2.333 (4 years old) - latest 4.618
http_request: you 1.15 (4 years old) - latest 1.25
Update all plugins with the plugin manager and then restart your instance and then check if the problems are still there
Other recommendations:
blue ocean is officially EOL. You have already pipeline-graph-view installed so there is no need for having 2 things doing alomost the same.
pam-auth are you using this?
Check all plugins if they are still in use
For the future, keep your system uptodate by updating core and plugins regularly.