Platform SIG July 15, 2025

[poddingue (Bruno Verachten)]

2025 07 15 Jenkins Platform SIG

Attending:

• Birajit
• Mark Waite
• Kevin Martens
• Bruno Verachten

Agenda

• Java Patch Day is today, July 15th.
• Java 25
  • Temurin supplies JDK 25 early access binaries
  • The infra team has started working on it.
    • The task is available in the helpdesk
    • Plugin maintainers can give it a try
      • Available as a tool
      • A .mvn/maven.config may be necessary
  • We are trying to compile the top 250 plugins with JDK25
    • Results there: Jenkins PR Tracker

Summary
Total Plugins Tested	250
Successful Builds	216	86.40%
Failed Builds	34	13.60%

• Mark Waite will notify Jenkins plugin maintainers that community plugin maintainers initiative opt-out is open

• Community plugin maintainers proposal for discussion in Jenkins developer mailing list

  • Java 25 will release in September 2025, Jenkins support will likely require a sweep across all the plugins
  • Beta test with one community plugin maintenance project and a small team
    • Mark Waite, Basil Crow, Adrien Lecharpentier, Bruno Verachten, and Darin Pope

• Container image updates for the Jenkins controller

  • LTS
    • 2.504.3 was released three weeks ago
    • Next LTS: 2.516.1 - July 23, 2025
      • Live stream tomorrow with Jan Faracik and Darin Pope
        • Refreshed Jenkins Design in 2.516.1
      • Mark Waite is the release lead, running the release checklist
        • Backporting announcement, backport candidates and selected
      • Release candidate July 10, 2025
  • Weeklies (2.518 and 2.519)
    • Dependency updates
      • Bump ubi9/ubi 9.6-1752069608 in /rhel/ubi9/hotspot
      • Bump Debian Bookworm Linux Version to 20250630
      • Bump updatecli/updatecli-action from 2.87.0 to 2.88.0
    • Documentation updates
      • Describe the location of the initial password

• Container image updates for Jenkins agents

  • Two new releases for the SSH agent (6.21.0, and 6.22.0)
    • New features and improvements
      • Bump Git version on Windows to 2.50.0.windows.2
      • Bump Git version on Windows to 2.50.1.windows.1
    • Dependency updates
      • Bump Debian Bookworm Linux version to bookworm-20250630
  • Three new releases for the docker-agent (3309.v27b_9314fd1a_4-7, 3309.v27b_9314fd1a_4-8, and 3324.vea_eda_e98cd69-1)
    • New features and improvements
      • Bump the Jenkins remoting version to 3324.vea_eda_e98cd69
        • Bug fixes
          • • Avoid System.exit from Launcher.run (#805) @jglick
        • Maintenance
          • • Deprecate EngineListenerAdapter (#807) @jglick
      • Bump Git version on Windows to 2.50.0.windows.2
      • Bump Git version on Windows to 2.50.1.windows.1
    • Dependency updates
      • Bump UBI9 version to 9.6-1752069608
      • Bump updatecli/updatecli-action from 2.86.0 to 2.87.0
      • Bump Debian Bookworm Linux version to bookworm-20250630

• Work in progress on images:

  • Controller:
    • Describe the location of the initial password
  • Docker-agent:
    • chore(linux): install git-lfs from repository instead of Linux distribution packages
    • feat: Add support on Linux for JDK 25 in Docker build configurations
  • Docker-ssh-agent:
    • Revert “Revert “chore: disable failing test(s) until jenkins-infra/helpdesk#4557 infra issue is resolved””

• Android

Bruno gave a talk last month on configuring a Jenkins controller and an agent on an Android device at BreizhCamp, using the Maven tutorial repo. The recording (in French, sorry) is available.