Platform SIG February 11, 2025

[poddingue (Bruno Verachten)]

2025 02 12 Jenkins Platform SIG

Attending:

• Kris Stern
• Kenneth Salerno
• Kevin Martens
• Bruno Verachten

Agenda:

• End of support for Java 11/2.479.x
  • Container repo for controller repo has dropped Java 11
  • Weekly 2.463 dropped support for Java 11.
  • Jenkins LTS 2.479.1 dropped support for Java 11 on 30 Oct 2024.
  • Jenkins 2.479.2 has been released on November 27, 2024.
  • 2.479.3 was on January 8, 2025
  • Jenkins infra end of support for Java 11 needs planning and discussion
    • Infra team is willing to continue Java 11 for a while, but at some point in the future, Java 11 won’t be available on Jenkins infra
      • Plan is still being developed, no timelines have been set
      • Endoflife.date could help monitor that - Eclipse Temurin 11 end of life October 2027
  • Unofficial campaign to update plugins to JDK11/17.
• Container image updates for the Jenkins controller
  • LTS
    • 2.492.1 was released last week
      • Bump Alpine Linux Version to 3.21.2
      • Bump ubi9/ubi to 9.5-1736404036
      • Bump Debian Bookworm Linux Version to 20250113
      • Bump git-lfs version to 3.6.1
      • Bump JDK21 version to 21.0.6+7
      • Bump JDK17 version to 17.0.14+7
  • Weeklies (2.496 and 2.497)
    • Dependency updates
      • Bump Debian Bookworm Linux Version to 20250203
      • Bump ubi9/ubi to 9.5-1738814488
      • Bump JDK17 version to 17.0.14+7
      • Bump JDK21 version to 21.0.6+7
• Container image updates for Jenkins agents
  • One new release for the SSH agent (6.9.0)
    • Dependency updates
      • Bump JDK17 version to 17.0.14+7
      • Bump JDK21 version to 21.0.6+7
  • One new release for the docker-agent (3283.v92c105e0f819-8)
    • Dependency updates
      • Bump JDK17 version to 17.0.14+7
      • Bump JDK21 version to 21.0.6+7
• Work in progress on images:
  • Controller:
    • Optimized Debian dockerfiles, Enhanced readability + Enhanced code structure.
  • Docker-agent:
    • Fix handling of -cert parameter in inbound agent
    • Remove unused env.props from build.sh
      • removes the unused env.props file and the associated code from the build.sh script.
  • Docker-ssh-agent:
    • Patch to support auditd loginuid immutability
• Java 25
  • Temurin supplies JDK 25 early access binaries
  • The infra team is busy with other tasks which are more urgent
  • We could nonetheless try to write an updatecli manifest and see if it works before proposing changes
    • Which repositories should we target first?
      • Infra
      • Controller
      • Agents?