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 Q2 2025 highlights for each project Features and Releases. Click “Read More” for everything else this project has been up to.
CDEvents
During the second quarter of 2025, the CDEvents project has been working on several fronts:
- Working with the DORA community to make it possible to generate DORA metrics from CDEvents
- Further the project interoperability mission, improving on custom events through the namespacing proposal
- Improving events security, by developing a proposal for CloudEvents and CDEvents verification
- Starting a new project, “Conduit”, about orchestrating CI/CD business logic through events
Work is in progress in all these various fronts, and no new release is available for this quarter.
Jenkins
Jenkins core successfully removed the outdated YahooUI library and its more than 80,000 lines of JavaScript code from Jenkins in the April 2025 long term support release 2.504.1. The removal from core was preceded by multiple pull requests and releases of plugins to retain compatibility for Jenkins users.
Jenkins Pipeline visualization has been significantly improved with recent changes to the Pipeline Graph View plugin. Jan Faracik summarized the key improvements in a blog post.
Navigation improvements for Jenkins have been introduced by Jan Faracik in weekly 2.507. Jan Faracik and Tim Jacomb of the User Experience Special Interest Group have been leading the modernization of the Jenkins user interface. The navigation improvements are part of the ongoing improvements and will be available in the July 23, 2025 long term support release.
Five projects are now being mentored in the Jenkins project as part of 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 a plan to onboard Jenkins into Ortelius without having to modify anything on the Jenkins side.
- Created a POC that shows Generative AI updating package manager files using GitHub Model Context Protocol (MCP), Ortelius MCP and a Sandbox MCP. This POC demonstrates the capability to create a PR for High and Critical CVE fixes only.
Features:
- Ortelius Generative AI POC
Screwdriver
Latest component versions:
- API v8.0.36
- UI v1.0.1281
- Store v7.0.0
- Queue-Service v5.0.1
- Launcher v6.0.223
- Build Cluster Worker v5.0.1
- Notable Updates:
- Added new workflow trigger to process closing a Pull Request.
- Add support for Git sparse checkout.
- Allow jobs to override settings to empty value.
- Support SSL connections for databases.
- Fixed Gitlab integration due to a change in Profile Avatar URL.
- UI Updates
- Fixed breadcrumb navigation from build detail page for Pull Requests.
- Allow users to opt-in to V2 UI.
- New Banner UI experience.
- Added Pull Request re-sync feature.
- Pipeline Stages updates
Upcoming enhancements:
- Migrate Classic Components to Glimmer in the UI.
- Improvement of Workflow Graph UX.
- Streamline metadata update process by moving the logic to API layer.
Spinnaker
The spinnaker platform is stable. The primary work being done and is around performance improvements and updating dependencies to the later releases, like Spring Boot 3 and AWS SDK v2. These are in progress, but not released. There are incoming performance enhancements including a feature that allows extraction of the contents of pipeline data to S3.
The biggest change to the overall project is that Spinnaker has moved to a monorepo AND changed versioning as part of this to be a date based release strategy! With this, 1.38 was released and is the last release using the older versioning scheme. New releases and actions have been setup to publish versions 2025.0.x going forward. 1.38 was the equivalent of 2025.0.1
1.37 included a number of feature enhancements, the largest of which was that Orca (the pipeline execution engine) can use read-only connections for some of its data. This means you can better distribute operations between write nodes and read nodes on a database cluster. There were several other enhancements including GCB private pool support, some pipeline definition cleanup automation, and allowing helm overrides for helm templating.
2025.0.3 is the current supported release though expect regular patch releases. Post monorepo migration this is the new versioning scheme used and supported by Spinnaker moving forward.
Currently supported releases and release notes are available here
Tekton
Tekton Pipeline version 1.0 was released! The release is accompanied by a blog post to describe and celebrate this milestone.
| Project | Features |
|---|---|
| Pipeline | * StepActions reach GA – you can now reference reusable StepAction definitions in Tasks without the feature-flag hoops. * Git resolver rewritten to use the native git binary → dramatic drop in memory / time for remote resolution of pipelines, tasks and step actions. |
| Triggers | * New KUBERNETES_MIN_VERSION env var lets operators pin a lower cluster version if needed. * Custom securityContext support for EventListener resources – bring-your-own Pod-level or container-level security settings. |
| Results | * A raft of new tkn-results commands – list , describe , logs for PipelineRuns & TaskRuns, plus a config helper. * YAML / JSON output added to describe for easy scripting. * Splunk log backend: Results can now pull logs straight from Splunk indices. * Partial-response (AIP-157)* filtering lands in the API. * K8s minimum version bumped to 1.28 |
| Operator | * TektonPruner CRD & controller – automated, declarative cleanup of old Runs/Results. * New KUBERNETES_MIN_VERSION env var for all k8s-based installs. * Result-watcher converted to a statefulset with ordinal indices for stable storage. * Stricter default securityContext and more granular operator logging. |
The Tekton community started working on a new project, tekton-mcp, to enable AI agents to interact with Tekton using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) protocol.
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