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 Q1 2025 highlights for each project Features and Releases. Click “Read More” for everything else this project has been up to.
CDEvents
The CDEvents team has been working on improving the sustainability of the SDKs and documentation. After investigating various technologies, asyncapi has been selected as the new modelling language that will be used by the project.
In future, SDKs and JSONschemas will be generated from a single asyncapi source of truth.
Jenkins
The Jenkins Contributor Summit was the highlight of the first quarter of 2025 with over 20 contributors present.
Jenkins core successfully removed the outdated YahooUI library and its more than 80,000 lines of JavaScript code from Jenkins weekly in January 2025. The removal from core was preceded by multiple pull requests and releases of plugins to retain compatibility for Jenkins users.
Jan Faracik and Tim Jacomb of the User Experience Special Interest Group have been leading the modernization of the Jenkins user interface. They have created the Jenkins Design Library and have modernized many areas of the Jenkins user interface. Jan shared his insights in blog posts, including “Jenkins Design Library 3”, “A new way to search in Jenkins” and “Redsigning Jenkins”.
Jenkins has been accepted as a mentoring organization for its ninth year in Google Summer of Code 2025.
Jenkins X
We are in the process of changing the name of the project. The current name, Jenkins X, gives the impression that the project is somehow connected with Jenkins. In reality this connection is very slim.
A neutral name would reduce the risk of giving the wrong impression to people encountering the project.
Ortelius
Roadmap:
- Determined that the Jenkins HTML plugin had cross-origin security enabled by default which prevented ‘live’ data from being presented.
- Met with a few folks from Jenkins to discuss alternatives. Looks like Badging Plugin will be the best route.
Features:
- Release new UI that updated the colors and icons to give the UI a better look and feel.
Screwdriver
Latest component versions:
- API v8.0.16
- UI v1.0.1241
- Store v7.0.0
- Queue-Service v5.0.1
- Launcher v6.0.221
- Build Cluster Worker v5.0.1
- Notable releases:
- The new pipeline landing page UI is now generally available (GA)
- Upgrade node.js to v22 LTS
- Enhancements to Pipeline Stages
- Enhancements to Virtual job
- Upcoming enhancements:
- Migrate Classic Components to Glimmer in the UI
- Improvement of Workflow Graph UX
Spinnaker
Big features in the latest releases
- 1.36 uses Java 17 exclusively for runtime and compilation time.
- Read-only support for pipeline API operations helping distribute the load in high performance environments
- Helm when baking can use a file for values with LARGE numbers of inputs/overrides
- There are new bulk update APIs for pipeline saves
- there’s new automation to support automatically disabling old/not run pipelines and can exclude these from the UI
- Backoff periods on retries can be set in the pipelines now!
- A number of google improvements from codebuild in the project to UI fixes
There are some major incoming features anticipated which will change the functionality of how spinnaker stores data around pipelines, but nothing has been definitively published.
Tekton
The Tekton Pipelines project released a new long term support (LTS) release v0.68.0. The focus for the pipeline project is the April Target for releasing a v1.0.0, FIPS compliance and move some features to stable.
New releases are available from the Tekton projects as well:
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