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:
· Command line now supports "--sessionTimeout" option for controlling session timeout
· Form validation methods weren't getting triggered when one of its dependency controls change. (issue 19124)
· When POST is required for some HTTP operation but GET was used, the response should have status code 405. (issue 16918)
· Correct help text of Label field in automatic installation of tools in global configuration. (issue 19091)
· Use Guice from Google rather than a fork
· Jenkins does not invoke ProcessKillers for Windows (issue 19156)