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:
· Deleting an external run did not immediately remove it from build list, leading to errors from log rotation. (issue 19377)
· When copying a directory from master to slave fails due to an error on the slave, properly report it. (issue 9540)
· Identify user agent for Internet Explorer 11. (issue 19171)
· Since 1.518, fingerprint serialization broke when job or file names contained XML special characters like ampersands. (issue 18337)
· Robustness against truncated fingerprint files. (issue 19515)
· JavaScript error in the checkUrl computation shouldn't break the job configuration page. (issue 19457)
· Annotate the Advanced section if some fields are already customized. (issue 3107)
· No events fired when project is enable/disable or the description is changed (issue 17108)