CloudBees CI release notes

The Guava library has been upgraded from 11.0.1 to 31.0.1.

This upgrade removes the usage of deprecated methods for all plugins in the CloudBees Assurance Program (CAP). Please ensure that all other plugins (those not in the CloudBees Assurance Program and any custom developed plugins) are updated to a recent version that is compatible. If you have questions about this upgrade, contact CloudBees Support for assistance.

The CloudBees CI on traditional platforms Docker images were recently migrated from Debian to Universal Base Images (UBI). Please note that Apache Subversion is not available as part of the UBI Docker images.

The CloudBees CI on traditional platforms Docker images were migrated from Debian to Universal Base Images (UBI) in this release. UBI provides a more secure and stable model for building Docker images.

Please note that, as part of the migration from Debian to UBI, various system packages were not included in the CloudBees CI on traditional platforms Docker images, causing issues in some specific use cases. This issue has been resolved in release 2.319.2.7. CloudBees recommends that you install the latest version to avoid potential issues.

The cloudbees-casc-api plugin can also be removed from the controller and operations center plugins.yaml file.

CloudBees CI and CloudBees Jenkins Platform version 2.303.2.3 have been released with CloudBees Folders Plus plugin version 3.18, which has an issue that could prevent the instances from starting. Additionally, the RPM install package was not correctly configured. If you used it to upgrade, it could cause the operations center and client controllers to start as a new instance.

Please use version 2.303.2.5 instead of 2.303.2.3.

CloudBees recommends that you start to prepare for the August release of Jenkins LTS as soon as possible. The August release will include a change that removes the Apache Commons Digester from Jenkins Core. If you use Jenkins LTS plugins that are not in the CloudBees Assurance Program (CAP), you should update them before upgrading your CloudBees products to ensure compatibility with the August release. If your company uses its own proprietary (non-CloudBees) plugins, CloudBees recommends that you test them against Jenkins version 2.302+ prior to the August release. As always, backing up your data before upgrading is strongly encouraged. For details about this change and a list of impacted plugins, please see our knowledge base article Commons Digester Library Removal.

The RPM-based installation for version 2.289.2.2 is failing for some CloudBees CI on traditional platforms customers with custom users. You may receive the following error:

main process exited, code=exited, status=6/NOTCONFIGURED

This issue has been resolved in version 2.289.2.3. CloudBees recommends that you install version 2.289.2.3 instead of version 2.289.2.2 to avoid potential issues.

If you attempted to upgrade to version 2.289.2.2 and encountered issues, refer to this knowledge base article or contact CloudBees Support.

The jquery and jquery-detached plugins have been removed from all CloudBees Jenkins-based products and are no longer part of CloudBees Assurance Program. However, these plugins are not automatically uninstalled from your CloudBees CI instance as other plugins you use may still have dependencies on them. Please ensure that your CloudBees CI instance does not have any dependencies on these plugins, and then remove them. For instructions on how to check for dependencies in a particular plugin, refer to How to determine if a plugin is in use.

When large HTTP requests are submitted while the built-in Winstone/Jetty container is configured to use SSL/TLS connections, the following exception can occur:

Encrypted buffer max length exceeded

This exception could prevent you from configuring controllers.

This issue is resolved in versions 2.277.4.4 and 2.289.2.2. If you encounter this error, you should upgrade to one of those versions as soon as possible.

The jquery and jquery-detached plugins have been removed from all CloudBees Jenkins-based products and are no longer part of CloudBees Assurance Program. However, these plugins are not automatically uninstalled from your CloudBees CI instance as other plugins you use may still have dependencies on them. Please ensure that your CloudBees CI instance does not have any dependencies on these plugins, and then remove them. For instructions on how to check for dependencies in a particular plugin, refer to How to determine if a plugin is in use.

The jquery and jquery-detached plugins have been removed from all CloudBees Jenkins-based products and are no longer part of CloudBees Assurance Program. However, these plugins are not automatically uninstalled from your CloudBees CI instance as other plugins you use may still have dependencies on them. Please ensure that your CloudBees CI instance does not have any dependencies on these plugins, and then remove them. For instructions on how to check for dependencies in a particular plugin, refer to How to determine if a plugin is in use.

When large HTTP requests are submitted while the built-in Winstone/Jetty container is configured to use SSL/TLS connections, the following exception can occur:

Encrypted buffer max length exceeded

This exception could prevent you from configuring controllers.

This issue is resolved in versions 2.277.4.4 and 2.289.2.2. If you encounter this error, you should upgrade to one of those versions as soon as possible.

The jquery and jquery-detached plugins have been removed from all CloudBees Jenkins-based products and are no longer part of CloudBees Assurance Program. However, these plugins are not automatically uninstalled from your CloudBees CI instance as other plugins you use may still have dependencies on them. Please ensure that your CloudBees CI instance does not have any dependencies on these plugins, and then remove them. For instructions on how to check for dependencies in a particular plugin, refer to How to determine if a plugin is in use.

The jquery and jquery-detached plugins have been removed from all CloudBees Jenkins-based products and are no longer part of CloudBees Assurance Program. However, these plugins are not automatically uninstalled from your CloudBees CI instance as other plugins you use may still have dependencies on them. Please ensure that your CloudBees CI instance does not have any dependencies on these plugins, and then remove them. For instructions on how to check for dependencies in a particular plugin, refer to How to determine if a plugin is in use.

The jquery and jquery-detached plugins have been removed from all CloudBees Jenkins-based products and are no longer part of CloudBees Assurance Program. However, these plugins are not automatically uninstalled from your CloudBees Jenkins Platform instance as other plugins you use may still have dependencies on them. Please ensure that your CloudBees Jenkins Platform instance does not have any dependencies on these plugins, and then remove them. For instructions on how to check for dependencies in a particular plugin, refer to How to determine if a plugin is in use.

Issue

The CloudBees CasC API plugin has been promoted to the CloudBees Assurance Program (CAP). If you have previously modified the plugin-catalog.yaml file to include the CasC API plugin, when you upgrade, your controller(s) will not start properly and you may receive exceptions.

Workaround

You must edit the plugin-catalog.yaml file to remove the CasC plugin and version string: cloudbees-casc-api: {version: X.X}, where X.X represents the version of the CasC plugin. For more information, see Updating a plugin catalog on operations center.

The jquery and jquery-detached plugins have been removed from all CloudBees Jenkins-based products and are no longer part of CloudBees Assurance Program. However, these plugins are not automatically uninstalled from your CloudBees Jenkins Platform instance as other plugins you use may still have dependencies on them. Please ensure that your CloudBees Jenkins Platform instance does not have any dependencies on these plugins, and then remove them. For instructions on how to check for dependencies in a particular plugin, refer to How to determine if a plugin is in use.

Issue

After updating an instance, the setup wizard is displayed.

Jenkins 2.277.1 removes the Upgrade Wizard that was no longer operational after Jenkins 2.0. This caused a regression for instances created before 2.4/2.7.1 LTS.

At the time of this writing, no fix is available for this issue.

Workaround

See the Jenkins upgrade guide for a workaround for this issue. On subsequent restarts, the setup wizard will no longer appear.

The March release includes important updates. If you use Jenkins LTS plugins that are not in the CloudBees Assurance Program (CAP), you should update them before upgrading your CloudBees products to ensure compatibility with the March release. If your company uses its own proprietary (non-CloudBees) plugins, CloudBees recommends that you test them against Jenkins version 2.277.1 prior to updating your CloudBees products. And, as always, backing up your data before upgrading is strongly encouraged.

For details about changes in the March Jenkins LTS release, see:

The jquery and jquery-detached plugins have been removed from all CloudBees Jenkins-based products and are no longer part of CloudBees Assurance Program. However, these plugins are not automatically uninstalled from your CloudBees Jenkins Platform instance as other plugins you use may still have dependencies on them. Please ensure that your CloudBees Jenkins Platform instance does not have any dependencies on these plugins, and then remove them. For instructions on how to check for dependencies in a particular plugin, refer to How to determine if a plugin is in use.

Version 2.263.2.3 fixes some critical regressions found in version 2.263.2.2 of the following products:

Potential issues include:

CloudBees recommends that you upgrade to version 2.263.2.3 to prevent potential issues with user-created content.

CloudBees CI versions 2.263.1.2 and 2.263.2.2 have a potential issue involving the CloudBees Plugin Usage Plugin versions 2.0 and 2.2:

This plugin produces the analysis.json file in $JENKINS/pup. On large instances, for example with many jobs, this file can be quite large. At the next restart of the controller, the plugin usage analyzer tries to parse this file and with large files this could take some time and it may block the start-up process of the controller thereby leading to longer startup time.

CloudBees recommends that you upgrade to CloudBees CI version 2.263.4.1 or later, or upgrade the CloudBees Plugin Usage Plugin to version 2.6. If you cannot upgrade to 2.263.4.1, it’s best to disable the CloudBees Plugin Usage Plugin (short name cloudbees-plugin-usage) until then. If Jenkins is not accessible, see Disabling a plugin when Jenkins is down

This issue is only a problem on startup. Another workaround is to remove the file $JENKINS/pup/analysis.json before starting or restarting Jenkins.