The CD Foundation currently has 7 open source projects: CDEvents, Jenkins, Jenkins X, Ortelius, Screwdriver, Spinnaker, and Tekton.
Our projects solve some of the biggest issues in the Continuous Delivery and Continuous Integration space. We always want to expand our project communities with additional contributors, end users, and passionate technologists. Please check out each project to see what you can do to get involved!
Here are the Q3 2024 highlights for each project Features and Releases. Click “Read More” for everything else this project has been up to.
CDEvents
The CDEvents Rust SDK was released. The community created a new Implementation Working Group focusing on the tools and architecture for adopting CDEvents and generating value. The first use case the working group is considering is that of security automation: using events to add security features to existing CI/CD workflows without having to edit the original pipeline definitions. Read More
Jenkins
The Jenkins 2+2+2 Java support plan that was introduced in November 2023 has completed a major milestone. Jenkins weekly 2.463 and Jenkins LTS 2.479.1 have dropped support for Java 11. They both support Java 17 and Java 21. Java 25 support is the next major milestone, planned for shortly after its release in late 2025.
Jenkins continued its pattern of releasing a new version every week and a new long-term support version every 4 weeks. New features are summarized in the Jenkins tutorials playlist. Read More
Jenkins X
One of the basic premises behind Jenkins X is that it should be an opinionated platform for CI/CD in Kubernetes. From the start, third-party components have been used while components have been created within the project as needed. One component that was created was a dashboard for the pipelines. Since then the Tekton Dashboard has been created and its features have been expanded continuously. So we are now looking at migrating from our own solution to Tekton Dashboard. Read More
Ortelius
Roadmap:
- Hero Project will collect metrics and metadata using CDEvents. High-level requirements complete. Need some cleanup based on comments before merging.
- Next step for CDEvents is to document the requirements for Active, Hybrid and Passive Event Creation.
- Started investigating add Security Evidence into Jenkins. Basically, an Application Posture Mmgt Dashboard in Jenkins. This links data from Ortelius back to Jenkins.
- Read More
Spinnaker
1.35 was released in August compiled with Java 17 and using the Java 17 JRE. There are a few changes including some requirements depending upon SPEL usage. 1.36 is incoming shortly.
Tekton
The Tekton Pipelines project released a new long-term support (LTS) release v0.65.0. All new releases moving forward will be hosted on the GitHub container registry ghcr.io. New releases are available from the Tekton projects as well:
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