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Changes since 2.190
Security
Bug fix
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Fix missing absolute URL in the RSS / Atom feeds. (regression in 2.190)
JENKINS-59167
Major bug fix
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Jenkins UI broke when a slow trigger administrative warning would be shown. (regression in 2.189)
JENKINS-58938
Notable changes since 2.176.4
Major enhancement
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Jenkins no longer creates symbolic links inside project or build directories.
The Build Symlink plugin may be installed to restore this functionality if desired.
URLs such as
/job/…/lastStableBuild/ are not affected, only tools which directly access the $JENKINS_HOME filesystem.
JENKINS-37862
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Remove Trilead SSH library from Jenkins core and make it available in a new detached plugin.
JENKINS-43610
Bug fix
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Add support of emojis and other non-UTF-8 characters in job names. 🎉
JENKINS-23349
Enhancement
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Update Windows Agent Installer from 1.10.0 to 1.11, enabling TLS 1.2 on agent downloads when running with .NET 4.6 or newer.
JENKINS-51577, full changelog
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Update Winstone-Jetty from 5.2 to 5.3 to update Jetty to 9.4.18.
pull 4016, full changelog, Jetty 9.4.18 changelog, Jetty 9.4.17 changelog, Jetty 9.4.16 changelog
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Update JNA from 4.5.2 to 5.3.1 to fix issue with shared library loading on AIX when using OpenJDK.
JENKINS-57515
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Update Remoting to 3.33.
JENKINS-57959, JENKINS-50095, JENKINS-57713, full changelog
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Support setting excludes and case sensitivity in the
fingerprint() build step in Pipeline and other job types.
documentation, pull 3915
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Improve Configuration-as-Code compatibility of
ListView.
JENKINS-57121
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Stop using the
name argument in the install-plugin CLI command.
pull 4123
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Remove obsolete session cookies when logging out, preventing errors related to headers being too large.
JENKINS-25046
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Add support for IPv6 addresses in the Jenkins URL configuration.
JENKINS-58041
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Allow distinguishing between new projects, disabled projects, and those with aborted builds through differently shaded build balls.
pull 3997
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Add a warning when cron trigger spends a long time in its execution.
JENKINS-54854
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Batch up plugin installations in setup wizard to improve performance.
pull 4124
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The default interval for node monitors (e.g. free disk space) can now be changed by setting the system property
hudson.node_monitors.AbstractNodeMonitorDescriptor.periodMinutes.
pull 4105, Jenkins features controlled by system properties