Documentation office hours - Feb 19, 2026

Attendees:

  • Kris Stern

  • Mark Waite

  • Stefan Spieker

Agenda:

  • Jenkins GSoC 2026 result will be announced by Google later today 18:00 UTC: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/

  • LTS and Weekly Releases

    • 2.541.2

      • February 18, 2026

      • Is a security release

      • RC release led by Shalini Sudarsan assisted by Kris Stern

      • Notable changes

        • Security

        • Major bug fix

          • Submitting a form would in rare cases, lead to an error (Got type array but no lister class found for type…) JENKINS-76249
        • And a bug fix

    • 2.551

      • February 18, 2026

      • Is a security release

      • Notable changes

    • 2.550

      • February 9, 2026

      • Notable changes

        • Enhancement

          • Refine dialog component pull 26033

          • Refine the ‘New Item’ screen pull 26031

          • Automatically hide last repeatable delete button with minimum > 0 pull 26277

          • Make the time zone list expandable in help. JENKINS-60635

        • And 4 bug fixes

  • Recent notable contributions

    • Stefan Spieker contributed a blog post about his experiences for the FOSDEM stand, with an image supplied by Bruno Verachten

    • Daniel Beck fixed illegal XML entity in Atom feed

    • Clinton Steiner contributed a blog post on the recommended Java 21 settings for running Jenkins

    • Plus some other PR’s contributed by many others to fix bugs, enhance existing documentation, and improve UI/UX