Jenkins monitors executions of repeated jobs, such as building a software project or jobs run by cron. Among those things, current Jenkins focuses on the following two jobs:
1. Building/testing software projects continuously, just like CruiseControl or DamageControl. In a nutshell, Jenkins provides an easy-to-use so-called continuous integration system, making it easier for developers to integrate changes to the project, and making it easier for users to obtain a fresh build. The automated, continuous build increases the productivity.
2. Monitoring executions of externally-run jobs, such as cron jobs and procmail jobs, even those that are run on a remote machine. For example, with cron, all you receive is regular e-mails that capture the output, and it is up to you to look at them diligently and notice when it broke. Jenkins keeps those outputs and makes it easy for you to notice when something is wrong.
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What's New in This Release:
· Fixed a regression in the "discard old builds" in 1.503. (issue 16979)
· Maven 3.0.5 upgrade. (issue 16965)
· Not all log messages were being captured at /log/all. (issue 16952)
· Incorrect or missing XML encoding declaration on some REST API pages. (issue 16881)
· Fixed: Human readable file size method returns ",00" for files with byte length 0 (issue 16630)
· “Build” from job context menu produced a confusing warning page. (issue 16844)
· Maven2 builds with non-standard test plugins failed. (issue 16928)
· Started bundling XStream 1.4.4 (issue 12542)
· Significant improvement in Traditional Chinese localizations. (pull 716)