Stay up to date with the latest Jenkins updates, new features, and improvements. Here's what changed in 2026.
The European Commission's Open Source Programme Office (EC OSPO) partnered with YesWeHack to launch an official Jenkins bug bounty program, materially strengthening the project's vulnerability disclosure and remediation pipeline. The project also won the DevOps Dozen "Most Innovative DevOps Open Source Project" award and announced its 2025 Community Awards winners, reflecting continued community engagement. Ongoing work under the Continuous Delivery Foundation has focused on tightening the plugin ecosystem's security posture, improving Kubernetes
native deployment patterns, and modernizing the underlying Java baseline to keep Jenkins viable on current JVM releases.
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Changelog last updated March 2026