Platform SIG November 07, 2023

[poddingue (Bruno Verachten)]

2023 11 07 Jenkins Platform SIG

Attending:

• Mark Waite
• Bruno Verachten
• Kevin Martens

Agenda:

• Open Action items
  • BlueOcean Docker container
• Latest Java releases - progress with installation and Jenkins development
  • Built on top of Docker images by Temurin
    • JDK17 windows container now available from Jenkins
      • Hervé made an update today to the changelog, saying that the Windows containers use the Java 17.
    • Another reason to maybe switch to using the binaries directly instead of inheriting from the Temurin Docker image
• Java 21 support
  • Jenkins enhancement proposal by Mark Waite submitted and being reviewed
    • Needs more details before it is merged
  • Progress testing the top plugins with Java 21
    • 36 (was 31 two weeks ago) are now tested with Java 21 (Jenkinsfile modified)
    • 85 (was 84 two weeks ago) are known to work with Java 21
    • 13 don’t work yet with Java 21 (too outdated, using gradle, not in jenkinsci organization)
  • Alternate view of testing progress
    • 108 of the top plugin repositories passing tests with Java 21
    • 20 of the top plugin repositories not yet passing tests with Java 21
  • Java 21 availability for hardware
    • Will Java 21 be available for s390x?
      • It should with JDK21.0.1+12. The early access beta show s390x is back. Confirmed in Adoptium’s Slack channel.
      • Not in the GA (General Availability) JDK21.0.1+12 release.
  • Java 21 in infra
    • Finished the transition to official 21.0.1+12 Linux (17 on Windows).
    • Java versioning naming convention
    • Damien is working on a way to use Temurin’s API in order to find the right URL to download binaries.
  • Docker images
    • Work on agent and controller images
      • Ssh-agent: a few version bumps leading to two new releases (5.18.0 and 5.19.0)
        • Bump Debian Bookworm Linux version to bookworm-20231030
        • Bump node alpine docker image version to 21.1.0-alpine3.18
      • Docker-agent: quite a lot of version bumps and work around JDK21 that lead to four releases, the last being (3192.v713e3b_039fb_e-2)
        • Bump the Jenkins remoting version
        • Bump preview (EA) JDK21 version to 21.0.1+12
      • Inbound-agent: a few bumps leading to four new releases, the last being 3192.v713e3b_039fb_e-1:
        • Migrate to new Remoting calling convention
        • Bump the parent image jenkins/agent version
      • Controller, with two new releases 2.429 and 2.430):
        • Bump JDK21 version to 21.0.1_12
        • Bump ubi8/ubi from to 8.8-1067.1698056881
        • Bump ubi9/ubi from to 9.2-755.1697625012
        • Bump JDK21 preview version (EA) to 21.0.1+12
        • Bump Debian Bookworm Linux Version to 20231009
        • Shortest jdk17 tags only for weekly releases
        • Add additional tags for default Java images
        • Switch to GA eclipse-temurin:jdk21 image
        • JDK21: correct release download URL