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:
· Send Maven agent JARs to slaves on demand, not unconditionally upon connection. (issue 16261)
· Occasional race condition during startup. (issue 18775)
· Robustness against startup error for users of Global Build Stats plugin. (issue 17248)
· 404s from Javadoc and HTML Publisher plugins. (issue 19168)
· Build number symlinks and permalinks not updated for Maven module builds. (issue 18846)