# Infrastructure Team Meeting - January 13, 2026

**URL:** https://community.jenkins.io/t/infrastructure-team-meeting-january-13-2026/36072
**Category:** Infrastructure
**Tags:** meeting, sig-infra
**Created:** [January 19, 2026, 5:47pm UTC](https://community.jenkins.io/t/infrastructure-team-meeting-january-13-2026/36072 "2026-01-19T17:47:12Z")
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### Author: ![dduportal](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.jenkins.io/dduportal/32/18_2.png) [@dduportal](https://community.jenkins.io/u/dduportal)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2026, 5:47pm UTC](https://community.jenkins.io/t/infrastructure-team-meeting-january-13-2026/36072/1 "2026-01-19T17:47:12Z")

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[![](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/jenkins/original/3X/8/9/894e141b0e17214c5c0448946949f441483f37da.jpeg "2026 01 13 Jenkins Infra Meeting") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hkr3v5KF5R0)

## Attendees 👥

- @dduportal (Damien Duportal)
- @MarkEWaite (Mark Waite)
- @hervelemeur (Hervé Le Meur)

## Announcements 📢

1. Jenkins Weekly Releases
  - Last Week: 2.545 - [You're invited to talk on Matrix](https://matrix.to/#/!JlkqzpdEnsUUuVtjgE:matrix.org/$0FNwTRdfrsHK4a-T6CDhXzGWz9p4OxnxIsyequ4eoy0?via=matrix.org&via=gitter.im)
    - With the Docker image packaging introducing Windows Server 2022 image replacing the 2019 one 👏
    - We weren’t aware it also featured removal of JDK17 (e.g. JDK21 is required). Side effects on packages and Docker images, but fixed on Wednesday 07 January - see [Jenkins 2.545 AlmaLinux package forces Java 17 dependency, breaks startup requiring Java 21 · Issue #729 · jenkinsci/packaging · GitHub](https://github.com/jenkinsci/packaging/issues/729)

  - This Week: 2.546 - [You're invited to talk on Matrix](https://matrix.to/#/!JlkqzpdEnsUUuVtjgE:matrix.org/$Y1tdSkfT_sZ4VL2ZIe7UV44x6WCGSp-n4bSl7IeIPkA?via=matrix.org&via=gitter.im)
    - Fixes on packaging
    - No more JDK17 published

2. Announcements:
  - Team capacity:
    - Jay is off including tomorrow
    - Damien off for ~6 weeks on the first February, maybe earlier

  - Infra Roadmap: [Jenkins Roadmap](https://www.jenkins.io/project/roadmap/)
    - New priorities:
      - Add support for Windows 2025 and deprecated 2019
      - JDK25 as runtime for our controllers
      - Get rid of Puppet (in favor of Ansible)
      - new: [ci.jenkins.io](http://ci.jenkins.io) =\> cloud billing and stability

## Upcoming Calendar 📆

- Next Weekly: 2026-01-20 - 2.547
- Next LTS: 2026-01-21 - 2.541.1
  - Helpdesk opened to collect all related changes: [LTS 2.541.1 release · Issue #4945 · jenkins-infra/helpdesk · GitHub](https://github.com/jenkins-infra/helpdesk/issues/4945)
  - Proposition to publish Docker controller LTS images from a `stable-<release-line>` branch like in packaging and release: [GitHub · Where software is built](https://github.com/jenkinsci/docker/issues/2195)
  - Need Jenkins infra team review on the incoming changelog and upgrade guide (ping both Herve and Damien)

- Next Security Release as per [jenkinsci-advisories](https://groups.google.com/g/jenkinsci-advisories): N.A.
- Upcoming credentials expirations (~3 weeks):
  - 2026-01-24: [repo.jenkins-ci.org](http://repo.jenkins-ci.org) TLS certificate expires
    - [[repo.jenkins-ci.org (Artifactory)] TLS certificates expires on `2026-01-24` · Issue #4893 · jenkins-infra/helpdesk · GitHub](https://github.com/jenkins-infra/helpdesk/issues/4893) =\> Herve and Damien in pair
    - Certificate should be done later today

  - 2026-01-21: Update Center generation fails as the certificate is 30 days before expiration =\> Damien
    - [Update-center / crawler root certificate expires on 21 March 2026 (failing job on 21 February 2026) · Issue #4952 · jenkins-infra/helpdesk · GitHub](https://github.com/jenkins-infra/helpdesk/issues/4952) =\> Damien (needs access to the CA authority)
    - Note: we can temporarily resume Update Center by decreasing the 30 days threshold in [trusted.ci.jenkins.io](http://trusted.ci.jenkins.io) freestyle job if we are stuck

  - 2026-01-27: VPN CRL expires
    - [[private.vpn.jenkins.io] VPN CRL expires on 2026-01-27](https://github.com/jenkins-infra/helpdesk/issues/4951) =\> Herve

  - 2026-01-28: Expiration of the Digital Oceans PATs used by Terraform on [infra.ci.jenkins.io](http://infra.ci.jenkins.io)
    - [[infra.ci.jenkins.io] Track Digital Ocean PAT expiration (2026-01-28) used by terraform with updatecli · Issue #4943 · jenkins-infra/helpdesk · GitHub](https://github.com/jenkins-infra/helpdesk/issues/4943) =\> Jay with Herve in pair

- Next major event:
  - Contributor Summit + FOSDEM in Brussels, 30/31 Jan and 1st Feb
    - We have a booth for Jenkins at FOSDEM
    - Agenda for Summit is still WiP. Bring ideas (in [community.jenkins.io](http://community.jenkins.io))
    - [Jenkins Contributor Summit on Jan 30, 2026 - Call for topics and ideas](https://community.jenkins.io/t/jenkins-contributor-summit-on-jan-30-2026-call-for-topics-and-ideas/35773)
    - Mark is confirming with people based on the prioritized list from the Jenkins Board

## Cloud Budgets

- Azure CDF - Remaining: $24.000k on 1st January 2026 - monthly threshold set at $6.0k (good until May at the current rate)

- DigitalOcean - Remaining $10,549.16 until January 02, 2027 (20 months left at current rate)

- AWS:

- Jfrog Artifactory Usage

## Notes 📖

- [Done](https://github.com/jenkins-infra/helpdesk/milestone/191?closed=1):

- [Work in Progress](https://github.com/jenkins-infra/helpdesk/milestone/191):

- Issues staying in backlog/triage:

- Issues added to the next [milestone](https://github.com/jenkins-infra/helpdesk/milestone/192):
