On September 1st, I'll be presenting in a Sauce Labs webinar about Hudson and Sauce OnDemand. The talk will discuss how Hudson can be used with Sauce OnDemand, naturally, but it'll also cover broader Hudson/Selenium integrations. Please register to this free event, and looking forward to seeing to you virtually....

In late 2008, the Hudson team released version 1.264 which added an anonymous reporting feature (you can opt-out in the "Manage Hudson" screen). The reporting feature has been sending information back to the Hudson team to help us understand how Hudson is used in aggregate; the info being reported includes the number of jobs configured, slave configurations, what plugins (and what versions of those...

Last Friday the Hudson team rolled out a small 1.372 with two enhancements following the critical 1.371 release on Monday. Not a whole lot to say about this release other than go get it! Enhancements <ul class=image> <li class=rfe> Persist matrix-based security settings in a consistent order (issue 7138) Jobs can now use boolean...

The folks over at LMT Software just released their HudsonMobi 2.0 to the Android market. This release of HudsonMobi brings a lot of the features to Android that iPhone/iPad users of HudsonMobi have enjoyed for some time. Features unleashed to Android users in this revision of the app are: Full Android user-experience with Menu and back controls Embedded artifact viewer! For archived build...

Commits often come in a burst. This seems to happen mainly for two reasons — people sometimes forget to commit some files, and in the tranquility of waiting for your SCM to finish a commit, people sometimes realize the problems in the commit and they quickly make follow-up changes. The conventional wisdom is that the CI server should wait for the burst to finish...

Hot on the heels of Hudson 1.370, which was released last Friday, the Hudson team released 1.371 which addresses a critical vulnerability in all Hudson versions prior to 1.371. The vulnerability was disclosed by InfraDNA in the following security advisory, which details the issue: This critical vulnerability allows an attacker to use CLI commands that they are otherwise unauthorized for. CLI commands can...

As you may have noticed, thanks to the link on this and the other pages here at hudson-labs.org, the Hudson development community has recently introduced ci.hudson-labs.org, the official Hudson-on-Hudson instance. We're currently building Hudson proper, the Hudson core RC branch, individual builds for the various Hudson plugins and Gerrit, as well as various libraries and infrastructure jobs Hudson depends on. We're currently running all those...

For as long as Hudson's had a plugin model and development community, we've provided source code and binary hosting through our Subversion repo at java.net. But what if you're a plugin developer and you don't want to use Subversion? Well, we have an alternative for your source code: host it with Hudson on GitHub. To get this in place, send an email to dev@hudson.dev.java.net (or...