Breaking change in the 'Pipeline: Nodes and Processes'-plugin

[Hildebrand Soethoudt]

Hi all,

Since of this week I see a big red warning infobox next to the latest update of the 'Pipeline: Nodes and Processes'-plugin (Git repo workflow-durable-task-step-plugin).

The box warns about the new version (2.40) being incompatible with the installed version (2.39). Documentation or changelog does not give a hint of what the breaking change exactly is.

Does anybody here know? I would like to know what to expect before upgrading :)

Thank you,

much appreciated,

Hildebrand

[Daniel Beck]

On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 9:20 AM 'Hildebrand Soethoudt' via Jenkins Users <jenkins...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Since of this week I see a big red warning infobox next to the latest update of the 'Pipeline: Nodes and Processes'-plugin (Git repo workflow-durable-task-step-plugin).

The box warns about the new version (2.40) being incompatible with the installed version (2.39). Documentation or changelog does not give a hint of what the breaking change exactly is.

It's for https://github.com/jenkinsci/workflow-durable-task-step-plugin/pull/168

If you never look at the NODE_NAME environment variable in your build scripts, you can just ignore this. If your build scripts' behavior changes based on this variable's value, you should adapt them to handle the new value.

Unfortunately we don't have a great way to indicate something like this other than the generic "something's incompatible" message, and the maintainers didn't highlight the change in the changelog. I updated the changelog message to be more explicit about this.

[Hildebrand Soethoudt]

Thank you so much for explaining and updating the changelog. Now I know I can safely update :)