Platform SIG March 11, 2025

[poddingue (Bruno Verachten)]

2025 03 11 Jenkins Platform SIG

Attending:

• Mark Waite
• Kevin Martens
• Bruno Verachten

Agenda:

• End of support for Java 11/2.479.x
  • Container repo for controller 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 2.479.3 has been released on 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.
    • Evolution
    • Community plugin maintainers initiative
• Container image updates for the Jenkins controller
  • LTS
    • 2.492.2 was released last week
    • 2.492.3 should be released first week of April. Bruno Verachten is the release lead
  • Weeklies (2.500 and 2.501)
    • Dependency updates
      • Bump Alpine Linux Version to 3.21.3
      • chore(deps): bump ubi9/ubi 9.5-1741600006 in /rhel/ubi9/hotspot
      • Bump Debian Bookworm Linux Version to 20250224
• Container image updates for Jenkins agents
  • One new release for the SSH agent (6.10.0)
    • Dependency updates
      • Bump Git version on Windows to 2.48.1.windows.1
      • Bump Debian Bookworm Linux version to bookworm-20250224
      • Bump Alpine Linux Version to 3.21.3
  • One new release for the docker-agent (3291.vb_131b_dc231fa_-1)
    • Maintenance
      • Remove unused env.props from build.sh
        • removes the unused env.props file and the associated code from the build.sh script.
      • Add show-% Makefile target and use jdks_to_build in rhel_ubi9 bake target
      • Add tags functions to docker bake
      • Remove linux-agent-only and linux-inbound-agent-only groups
    • Dependency updates
      • Bump Debian Bookworm Linux version to bookworm-20250224
      • Bump the Jenkins remoting version to 3291.vb_131b_dc231fa_
• Work in progress on images:
  • Controller:
    • Optimized Debian dockerfiles, Enhanced readability + Enhanced code structure.
  • Docker-agent:
    • Fix handling of -cert parameter in inbound agent => closed
    • fix(windows): enable HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem\LongPathsEnabled
    • feat(jdk): Add Java 25 preview target for all images
  • Docker-ssh-agent:
    • Patch to support auditd loginuid immutability
    • wip: use TOML config on buildx to avoid DockerHub rate limits
• Java 25
  • Temurin supplies JDK 25 early access binaries
  • The infra team is busy with other tasks which are more urgent
    • We should create a task in the helpdesk nonetheless
      • Use subtasks, to use it as a JIRA epic
  • 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?