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:
· Heavy thread congestion saving fingerprints. (issue 13154)
· Option to make the build not fail if there is nothing to archive. (issue 10502)
· Better report file deletion failures. (issue 17271)
· "Local to the workspace" repository locator does not work when building one module in isolation. (issue 17331)
· Master node mode not correctly displayed in /computer/(master)/configure. (issue 17263)
· Performance improvement in master/slave communication throughput (issue 7813)
· Quoted label expression can result into dead executors (throwing exception) (issue 17128)
· ChangeLog should produce some output even if some (plugin) annotator fails (issue 17084)
· View name should not allow "..". (issue 16608)