# User Experience SIG - May 13, 2026

**URL:** <https://community.jenkins.io/t/user-experience-sig-may-13-2026/36972>\
**Category:** UX SIG\
**Tags:** meeting, sig-ux\
**Created:** [May 14, 2026, 11:30am UTC](https://community.jenkins.io/t/user-experience-sig-may-13-2026/36972 "2026-05-14T11:30:34Z")\
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[![](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/jenkins/original/3X/c/1/c190a5e7347ffd24035c6f9876be932af0fd4578.jpeg "Jenkins UX SIG Meeting 13 May 2026") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGWE3t07Sgc)

## May 13, 2026

- Attending
  - Mark Waite
  - Jan Faracik
  - Adrien Lecharpentier
  - Kris Stern

- Experimental UI is available with feature flags in LTS
  - Demo of the builds page and jobs page using the App Bar API
    - Plugins maintainer don’t have anything to change except when using a custom task.jelly

  - Completed work
    - Refine dialogs [PR](https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/26514) released in Jenkins 2.559
    - AWS global configuration [PR](https://github.com/jenkinsci/aws-global-configuration-plugin/pull/124) released in [159.v882a\_ecd03fe6](https://github.com/jenkinsci/aws-global-configuration-plugin/releases/tag/159.v882a_ecd03fe6)
    - Refine ‘Users’ page in Manage Jenkins [PR](https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/26475) released in 2.560
    - Experimental App Bar API for jobs [PR](https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/26510) released in 2.560
    - Warnings plugin changes [PR](https://github.com/jenkinsci/warnings-ng-plugin/pull/2150) released in [13.10084.va\_8ffed9c57c6](https://github.com/jenkinsci/warnings-ng-plugin/releases/tag/13.10084.va_8ffed9c57c6)

  - Needs review
    - Refine the System Log page in Manage Jenkins - [PR](https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/26614) (Jan Faracik)
    - Add experimental agent page UI - [PR](https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/26587) (Markus Winter)
      - Still needs some discussion on how it integrates with Manage Jenkins

  - 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, not for the July LTS, likely for October LTS
      - Some plugins with specific side panels need to be adapted
      - Administrative monitor with many warnings seems to load page slowly
        - Adrien will investigate further

      - Mark sees that some of his plugins need rework for the new Manage Jenkins page
        - Docker plugin (cloud agents from a Docker host)
        - Implied labels plugin (define labels based on combinations of other labels)
        - Core pages are good examples (About Jenkins, …)

    - Considering a single page for power options
      - Shutdown, …
      - Some pages require that knowing the URL (restart and safe restart)

    - Cloud stats plugin has an [open draft PR](https://github.com/jenkinsci/cloud-stats-plugin/pull/195)
    - Matrix auth plugin
    - Role strategy plugin
    - New extensible builds list for the job page
    - New [Jenkins.io](http://jenkins.io) homepage

  - 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

- Web UI work on Jenkins core - 45 [open pull requests](https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+label%3Aweb-ui)
  - Work completed
    - Pull requests from frequent contributors
      - Use correct URLs from delete dialogs - [PR](https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/26593) (Markus Winter) in 2.559

    - Pull requests from new contributors
      - Prevent long parameter values from overflowing the dialog - [PR](https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/26574) (Adarsh Singh) in 2.563

  - Work in progress
    - Pull requests from frequent contributors
      - Refresh the status icons - [PR](https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/23904) (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)
      - Limit dialog to 100% of visible area - [PR](https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/26668) (Zybnek Konecny)
      - Allow build history widget updates to be disabled in development [PR](https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/26558) (Markus Winter)

    - 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)
      - 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)
      - System message rendering - [PR](https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/23905) (Karthik Bhandary)

    - [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) - none open

- [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 talk at cdCon - Jenkins Year in Review and Roadmap
    - Draft [recording](https://youtu.be/bk-TOB2NVK8), [slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1KMeBRWV-THeF45fvcOB6BOoJRShZSsAr_wHxGGlGrLo/edit?usp=sharing), and [text](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NqzMGTF99fj4KT4yRPBkRmZix-F35QlqMNXp9FUQd9Q/edit?usp=sharing) have been sent to Jenkins Board, Jenkins Officers, and several others
      - User experience highlighted
        - Pipeline graph view replaces Blue Ocean
        - New Manage Jenkins pages
        - New jobs and build pages
        - New dashboard
