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:
· Slave launch thread should have the background activity credential. (issue 15578)
· “Build Now” link did not work for multijobs. (issue 16974)
· Unix vs. Windows mode not correctly retained for command launchers under some conditions. (issue 18368)
· Edit views with non-ASCII names did not work since 1.500. (issue 18373)
· Fixed API incompatibility since 1.489. (issue 18356)
· “Projects tied to slave” shows unrelated Maven module jobs. (issue 17451)
· Fixed file descriptor leak in fingerprint computation. (issue 18351)
· Test history was not shown if suite name was part of the test name. (issue 15380)
· Added a new extension point to monitor the flow of stuff in the queue.
· Added a new extension point to monitor the provisioning of nodes from clouds. (pull request 819)
· Possible to create a custom AbstractDiskSpaceMonitor.
· Executors running the builds can be now a subject of access control. (issue 18285)
· Core started relying on Java 1.6 as per the agreement in the dev list. If you have a serious objec...