Jenkins 2.271.1 LTS RC testing started

[Tim Jacomb]

Hello everyone,

Latest LTS RC was made public and it is ready to be tested. Final release is scheduled for 2021-03-10.

Please, report your findings in this thread.

Download the release from https://repo.jenkins-ci.org/snapshots/org/jenkins-ci/main/jenkins-war/2.277.1-SNAPSHOT/jenkins-war-2.277.1-20210224.150714-1.license.xml

Thanks!

[Mark Waite]

On Wednesday, February 24, 2021 at 9:05:22 AM UTC-7 Tim Jacomb wrote:

Hello everyone,

Latest LTS RC was made public and it is ready to be tested. Final release is scheduled for 2021-03-10.

Please, report your findings in this thread.

My testing has confirmed that help buttons are not working when they are at the top of draggable div (JENKINS-64972).  A pull request is in progress that proposes to resolve it.  More reviews are needed on the pull request.

I was surprised when GitHub Branch Source 2.10.2 was listed as released and yet was not available for download with Jenkins 2.277.1-SNAPSHOT.  I downloaded it separately, copied it to my plugins folder, and restarted Jenkins.  It loaded as expected and is working well.  I assume the problem is related to the RC version number, 2.277.1-SNAPSHOT.  Is that a correct assumption?

Testing continues.

[Daniel Beck]

On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 8:33 PM Mark Waite <mark.ea...@gmail.com> wrote:

I was surprised when GitHub Branch Source 2.10.2 was listed as released and yet was not available for download with Jenkins 2.277.1-SNAPSHOT.  I downloaded it separately, copied it to my plugins folder, and restarted Jenkins.  It loaded as expected and is working well.  I assume the problem is related to the RC version number, 2.277.1-SNAPSHOT.  Is that a correct assumption?

The actual digits in the version number cause this. updates.jenkins.io identifies this as being an LTS version (three parts instead of two), but it's newer than the newest LTS, so it gets the newest actually existing LTS tier, which is 2.263.4.

Try yourself: curl -IL https://updates.jenkins.io/update-center.json?version=2.277.1

The workaround (applicable for LTS testing only) would be to change the update site URL to a specific tiered site, like the one for 2.277, which is the closest match right now: http://updates.jenkins.io/dynamic-2.277/update-center.json

This should not affect actual users because our update sites exist before people are able to download a new release.

[Mark Waite]

On Monday, March 1, 2021 at 1:40:08 PM UTC-7 Daniel Beck wrote:

On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 8:33 PM Mark Waite wrote:

I was surprised when GitHub Branch Source 2.10.2 was listed as released and yet was not available for download with Jenkins 2.277.1-SNAPSHOT.  I downloaded it separately, copied it to my plugins folder, and restarted Jenkins.  It loaded as expected and is working well.  I assume the problem is related to the RC version number, 2.277.1-SNAPSHOT.  Is that a correct assumption?

The actual digits in the version number cause this. updates.jenkins.io identifies this as being an LTS version (three parts instead of two), but it's newer than the newest LTS, so it gets the newest actually existing LTS tier, which is 2.263.4.

Thanks for the explanation.  That makes sense.