# User Experience SIG - April 8, 2026

**URL:** <https://community.jenkins.io/t/user-experience-sig-april-8-2026/36790>\
**Category:** UX SIG\
**Tags:** meeting, sig-ux\
**Created:** [April 8, 2026, 4:32pm UTC](https://community.jenkins.io/t/user-experience-sig-april-8-2026/36790 "2026-04-08T16:32:35Z")\
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2026-04-08T15:00:00Z

[![](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/jenkins/original/3X/3/3/339a9df117c1579324c15ff194c70e145a3adebb.jpeg "Jenkins UX SIG Meeting 8 Apr 2026") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz_Aj6UHTu4)

## Apr 8, 2026

- Attending
  - Mark Waite
  - Jan Faracik
  - I Shaan

- Experimental UI is available with feature flags in LTS
  - Completed work
    - Build monitor plugin has been completely reworked to use Jenkins Design Library, announced in a [blog post](https://www.jenkins.io/blog/2026/03/19/revamped-build-monitor-plugin/)
    - Credentials plugin has been updated with this [PR](https://github.com/jenkinsci/credentials-plugin/pull/981) and necessary changes to tests, announced in a [blog post](https://www.jenkins.io/blog/2026/04/02/redesigned-credentials-plugin/)
    - AWS global configuration has been updated with this [PR](https://github.com/jenkinsci/aws-global-configuration-plugin/pull/124)

  - Needs review
    - Refine dialogs [PR](https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/26514) needs review
    - Refine ‘Users’ page in Manage Jenkins [PR](https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/26475) needs security review
    - Experimental App Bar API for jobs [PR](https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/26510) needs security review

  - Work to be done
    - Dashboard needs more work and discussion with users
      - Considering removing the “All” view - predict what you want to see
      - Show the builds interesting to you based on your history
        - Working well, home page shows several relevant jobs
        - Nice to demonstrate at the next UX

    - Manage Jenkins page is largely done, may be ready for July LTS
      - Not as wide changes in the other pages
      - Fall back to the existing UI

    - Build page is in progress
    - Job page will be demonstrated today
    - Warnings plugin changes has an [open PR](https://github.com/jenkinsci/warnings-ng-plugin/pull/2150)
    - Cloud stats plugin has an [open draft PR](https://github.com/jenkinsci/cloud-stats-plugin/pull/195)
    - Role Strategy plugin
    - Matrix auth plugin
    - New extensible builds list for the job page
    - New [Jenkins.io](http://jenkins.io) homepage

  - Experiments
    - New dashboard page
    - New build page
    - New job page
    - New Manage Jenkins UI

  - Community forum post per page, comments encouraged there
    - Discussions of [redesigned dashboard page](https://community.jenkins.io/t/a-redesigned-dashboard-page-let-me-know-your-thoughts/35754/2)
    - Discussions of [redesigned job page](https://community.jenkins.io/t/a-redesigned-job-page-let-me-know-your-thoughts/35705/4)
    - Discussions of [redesigned build page](https://community.jenkins.io/t/a-redesigned-build-page-let-me-know-your-thoughts/35596/10)
    - Discussions of [redesigned Manage Jenkins pages](https://community.jenkins.io/t/a-redesigned-manage-jenkins-experience-let-me-know-your-thoughts/35809/4)

  - GitHub [jenkinsci/sig-ux](https://github.com/jenkinsci/sig-ux) is a collecting location for issues
    - More general topics in this issue tracker
    - Core specific and plugin specific issues should be tracked in the issues in their repository

- Plugin of the month - Pipeline Graph View
  - [Blog post](https://www.jenkins.io/blog/2026/04/06/plugin-of-the-month/)

- Redesign of [jenkins.io](http://jenkins.io)
  - Branch “new-home-page” on Jan Faracik’s fork trying to resolve differences in appearance
  - Is there a design that can be used? Kris to check with Jan Faracik - early work
  - GSoC project proposed

- Web UI work on Jenkins core - 38 [open pull requests](https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+label%3Aweb-ui)
  - Work in progress
    - Pull requests from frequent contributors
      - Use correct URLs from delete dialogs - [PR](https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/26593) (Markus Winter)
      - Allow to disable build history widget refresh in development mode - [PR](https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/26558) (Markus Winter)
      - Add top button for “Add parameter” and other hetero-lists - [PR](https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/10432) (Markus Winter)
      - Fix build history tooltip clipping - [PR](https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/26554) (Yen Cheng Lin)

    - Older pull requests from frequent contributors with disagreements
      - Introduce icon for jobs - [PR](https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/9723) (Daniel Krämer)
      - Add badges to build page - [PR](https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/10651) (Daniel Krämer)

    - Pull requests from new contributors
      - Allow viewing of gz compressed artifacts - [PR](https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/7288) (Brian Hinz)
      - Add abort support to FormChecker delayed checks - [PR](https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/26595) (Kevin Sailema)
      - Prevent long parameter values from overflowing the dialog - [PR](https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/26574) (Adarsh Singh)
      - Reduce empty space in repeatable elements - [PR](https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/26477) (Rashmi)
      - Fix search bar text from being selected - [PR](https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/26418) (Muhammad Salman)
      - Fix breadcrumb dropdown on smaller viewports - [PR](https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/26391) (Amogh Parmar)
      - Fix plugin manager ‘Enabled’ column sorting - [PR](https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/26349) (Himanshu Kumar)
      - Fix card overflow for queue and build containers - [PR](https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/26271) (Heller07)
      - Fix dropdown help icon layout - [PR](https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/26147) (Lakshya Bagani)

    - [Changes requested](https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+label%3Aweb-ui+-label%3Aunresolved-merge-conflict+review%3Achanges_requested+-is%3Adraft)
      - Search filter has been implemented - [PR](https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/25928) (Lakshya Bagani) - needs more review

    - [Unresolved merge conflicts](https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+label%3Aweb-ui+label%3Aunresolved-merge-conflict+-is%3Adraft) - 7 open - propose to close with a one week waiting period?
      - Fix clipping of authorization tables - [PR](https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/26211) (dhanush-raja-a)
      - Replace dismiss button with “X” - [PR](https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/26076) (Rahul-2006)
      - Remove the loading symbol when submenu is empty - [PR](https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/23918) (Lakshya Bagani)
      - System message rendering - [PR](https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/23905) (Karthik Bhandary)
      - Fix “copy from” creates new item instead of copying in Firefox - [PR](https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/11090) (ShirayukiRin)
      - Add optional side panels for node and load statistics - [PR](https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/10978) (Markus Winter)

- AI, New Contributors, and Governance
  - Daniel Beck’s [must read for newcomers](https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/issues/26359) based on his [newcomer controls proposal](https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/issues/26289#issue-3917159168)
    - Require pull request template
    - Rate limit new contributors
    - Already being applied to reduce noise levels and improve pull request quality

- [cdCon 2026](https://cd.foundation/cdcon-2026/) at [Open Source Summit](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-summit-north-america/) May 18-19
  - Mark Waite is controller of ceremonies and has a 10 minute talk to share what’s coming in Jenkins
    - Lead themes
      - UI improvements
      - Bug bounty continues - funded by European Commission

    - Additional themes
      - Java upgrades continue - Java 21 and Java 25 fully supported
      - Platform updates continue - Intel, ARM, s390x, ppc64, adding RISC-V
      - Blue ocean deprecated beginning July 2026 (see [CloudBees announcement](https://docs.cloudbees.com/docs/cloudbees-ci-kb/latest/troubleshooting-guides/admin-monitor-blueocean-removal))
      - Will remind attendees that compatibility still matters

    - Mark send email to Jan to ask for his insights
      - Build UI - frequently used page