Artifactory configuration change 15 Dec 2023

[Mark Waite]

Friday, 15 Dec 2023 at 13:00 UTC, the Jenkins infrastructure team will remove the jcenter and oss.sonatype.org-releases repositories from the definition of the `public` virtual repository as part of the effort to reduce bandwidth used by repo.jenkins-ci.org.

Jenkins plugin developers and Jenkins core maintainers will see a behavior change.  Artifacts that are available from Apache Maven Central should be downloaded from Apache Maven Central rather than being downloaded from https://repo.jenkins-ci.org .  Artifacts that are published to https://repo.jenkins-ci.org (like Jenkins war files and Jenkins plugins) will continue to be downloaded from https://repo.jenkins-ci.org 

More details are available in help desk ticket 3842.

This change will not affect Jenkins controllers or how they receive Jenkins plugins.  Jenkins controllers will continue to download plugins from the Jenkins update center.

Mark Waite

[Mark Waite]

On Thursday, December 14, 2023 at 8:58:02 AM UTC-7 Mark Waite wrote:

Friday, 15 Dec 2023 at 13:00 UTC, the Jenkins infrastructure team will remove the jcenter and oss.sonatype.org-releases repositories from the definition of the `public` virtual repository as part of the effort to reduce bandwidth used by repo.jenkins-ci.org.

The change is complete and is working as expected.  Tests that were performed to confirm the change include:

• Build Jenkins core on a freshly created virtual machine
• Build Jenkins plugin bill of materials weekly line on ci.jenkins.io
  
• Build 20+ plugins on a freshly created virtual machine, including the plugins where issues were detected during the brownout
• Build 250 most popular plugin repositories on an existing machine (a few of them only built successfully when using the pending pull request to test with Java 21)
• Release a plugin

As far as I can tell, the transition is complete and successful.

Log files contain the expected entries downloading artifacts from Apache Maven Central when the artifact is expected to be found there.

Special thanks to Damien Duportal, Basil Crow, Daniel Beck, Bruno Verachten, and Jean-Marc Meessen for their help with the changes.

If issues are detected, please open a ticket with the Jenkins infra help desk so that we can investigate and resolve the issue.

Mark Waite