Documentation office hours - February 5, 2026

[krisstern]

2026 02 05 Docs Office Hours

2026-02-05

Attendees:

• Kris Stern

• Bruno Verachten

• Mark Waite

• Meg McRoberts

• Ishaan

Agenda:

• Jenkins GSoC 2026 application submitted

  • Deadline for submission was Feb 3 UTC

  • Docs-related project ideas:

    • Continue Jenkins docs sites retooling

    • Retool Jenkins.io Contributor Spotlight website

    • Retool jenkins.io website Success Stories

  • List of mentoring orgs will be released by Google on Feb 19 UTC

• LTS and Weekly releases

  • 2.541.2

    • Shalini Sudarsan is the Release Lead, supported by Kris Stern

    • RC released yesterday on Feb 4: https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/releases/tag/jenkins-2.541.2-rc

    • LTS to be released on Feb 18

  • 2.549

    • Released on Feb 1, 2026

    • Enhancements

      • Add telemetry for password field masking. pull 26195

      • Clarify UI label when configuring Content Security Policy. pull 26198

      • Minor refinement of dropdowns and empty states. pull 26189

    • 4 bug fixes

  • 2.548

    • Released on Jan 25, 2026

    • 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

    • Enhancements

      • Add online help for the “Remove last build” build discarder option. pull 26153

      • API tokens with expiration date pull 23859

    • 2 bug fixes

• Recent notable contributions

  • Thanks Daniel Beck for the following 3 PR’s:

    • Document empty value for CSP headerName system property #8795

    • Fix 2.TODO placeholders in CSP documentation #8794

    • Document Chrome form-action behavior #8764

  • Thanks Ayush Sharma for the following 9 PR’s

    • docs: document Java 21 requirement for IntelliJ jenkins build #8788

    • docs: fix deprecated references and broken examples in testing docs #8783

    • docs: improve development environment overview and taglibs context #8782

    • docs: improve IDE configuration accuracy and cross-platform clarity #8780

    • docs: fix grammar and example errors in user documentation #8775

    • docs: polish up Remote Access API documentation #8763

    • docs: polish up and remove redundant text in the Windows installation guide #8756

    • docs: fix duplicated text and broken formatting in report-issue.adoc #8749

    • Fix GitHub capitalization in report-issue.adoc #8748

Thanks also to Ashutosh Mishra, Jim Klimov, Jan Faracik, Stefan Spieker plus others for their contribution via PR’s to the jenkins.io repo