Documentation office hours - March 5, 2026

[krisstern]

2026 03 05 Jenkins Docs Office Hours

Attendees:

• Kris Stern
• Bruno Verachten
• Meg

Agenda:

• Jenkins has been accepted by Google as one of the 180+ mentoring orgs for Google Summer of Code 2026
  • Today we just had our 1st Briefing Session at 2:30pm UTC
  • Next meeting same time tomorrow
  • We have a total of 8 project ideas this year
  • Docs-related project ideas:
    • Continue Jenkins docs sites retooling
      • High priority
      • We aim to push the retooling to completion so we can finally migrate to new website, also includes retooling work with Docusaurus for the Chinese Jenkins site
    • Retool Jenkins.io Contributor Spotlight website
      • From Gatsby to Vite
      • Some UI/UX enhancements
    • Retool jenkins.io Success Stories website
      • From Gatsby to Vite
      • Some UI/UX enhancements
• Jenkins Awards Nominations [March 5, 2026]
  • Nomination period have started
    • Most Valuable Jenkins Contributor 2026: [Nominations Open] Most Valuable Jenkins Contributor 2026 🏆 · Issue #8919 · jenkins-infra/jenkins.io · GitHub
    • Jenkins Security MVP 2026: [Nominations Open] Jenkins Security MVP 2026 🏆 · Issue #8918 · jenkins-infra/jenkins.io · GitHub
    • Most Valuable Jenkins Advocate 2026: [Nominations Open] Most Valuable Jenkins Advocate 2026 🏆 · Issue #8917 · jenkins-infra/jenkins.io · GitHub
  • An email to announce this news will be sent out later today UTC
• LTS and Weekly Releases
  • 2.541.3
    • Backporting before RC under way
      • Backport 2.541.3 by krisstern · Pull Request #26400 · jenkinsci/jenkins · GitHub
    • There is a slight delay in the RC release due to the need of some time to resolve some technical issues
  • 2.552
    • February 24, 2026
    • Enhancements
      • Update Jenkins CLI’s subpages to use experimental Manage Jenkins UI pull 26316
      • Revamp Clouds page pull 26315
      • Add experimental Plugin Manager UI pull 11332
    • Bug fixes
      • Fix estimated build number in Build History widget pull 26355
      • Redirect to the correct URL when creating log recorders with nonASCII names. JENKINS-26318
      • Do not fail builds when the tool installation directory is readonly. JENKINS-16005
      • Don’t validate input fields when they are disabled pull 26298
      • Fix link to polling log of upstream build caused by an SCM trigger after a Jenkins restart pull 26291
      • Prevent afterDisconnect() from being called twice when an agent disconnects JENKINS-35272
      • Add support for combobox and autocomplete in dialogs pull 26326