Stay up to date with the latest Jenkins updates, new features, and improvements. Here's what changed in 2026.
Jenkins won the DevOps Dozen award for 'Best CI/CD Tool' in 2025, reinforcing its community standing. The Jenkins Kubernetes plugin received major performance improvements for pod provisioning and cleanup, and JCasC expanded support for additional plugin configurations. Security hardening continued with improvements to the Jenkins security advisory process and faster patch cycles for critical vulnerabilities. The project also enhanced Pipeline durability and restart recovery, reducing the impact of controller restarts on in
flight builds.
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Changelog last updated March 2026