Platform SIG January 14, 2025

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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
  • Container image updates for the Jenkins controller
    • LTS
      • 2.479.3 has been released last week
      • :ghost: Maintenance
        • Uses the native temurin source
        • Duplicate file path in targets configuration
        • Pin the UBI 9 container 9.5-1734495538 => action item on Bruno
      • :package: Dependency updates
        • Bump Debian Bookworm Linux Version to 20241223
        • Bump Alpine Linux Version to 3.21.0
        • Bump updatecli/updatecli-action to 2.75.0
    • Weeklies (2.491, 2.492, and 2.493)
      • :package: Dependency updates
        • Bump updatecli/updatecli-action to 2.75.0
        • Bump Debian Bookworm Linux Version to 20241223
        • Bump Alpine Linux Version to 3.21.2
      • :ghost: Maintenance
        • Pin the UBI 9 container 9.5-1734495538 (most recent release)
  • Container image updates for Jenkins agents
    • Two new releases for the SSH agent (6.6.0 and 6.7.0)
      • :package: Dependency updates
        • Bump Alpine Linux Version to 3.21.2
        • Bump Debian Bookworm Linux version to bookworm-20241223
    • Three new releases for the docker-agent (3283.v92c105e0f819-4, 3283.v92c105e0f819-5, and 3283.v92c105e0f819-6)
      • :package: Dependency updates
        • Bump updatecli/updatecli-action to 2.74.0
        • Bump UBI9 version to 9.5-1736404036
        • Bump Alpine Linux Version to 3.21.2
        • Bump Debian Bookworm Linux version to bookworm-20241223
  • Work in progress on images:
  • RISC-V
    • Alpine is known to boot and run on a few machines owned by Bruno, let’s see
      • Well, it’s only for the brave. The mini root filesystem does exist for RISCV64, but no bootable image so to speak
    • Ubuntu only works for the Nezha (or MangoPi Mq-Pro)
      • We already made the demonstration two years ago at FOSDEM
    • Debian Trixie Alpha Release 1 is supposed to work with the Star64 that was donated to the Jenkins project by Pine64.
      • For the time being, we’re using Pinix star64-image-weston, but lots of packages are missing
        • We have a Jenkins agent working on it nonetheless
        • I have cross compiled docker and its dependencies, but it refuses to start because of a bridge problem
          • Other people have the same kind of issues, may be linked to the kernel
    • Would it make sense to add a riscv64 Docker image for some agents?
      • Debian only supplies it from Trixie or Sid, it’s not available for Bookworm
      • Alpine has been supplying it from 3.20
      • Nobody (but me) is asking for it. Build it and they will come?
  • Jenkins release model presentation to Java JEP-14 working group
    • Java has a “tip and tail” release model
    • Jenkins has a variant of a “tip and tail” release model
      • LTS is “tail” and weekly is “tip”
    • Java support life in Jenkins is different than JDK support life
    • Good questions asked by working group attendees