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What's new in 1.624 (2015/08/09)

• Allow more job types to use a custom "Build Now" text. (issue 26147)

What's new in 1.623 (2015/08/02)

No major user-visible changes in this release.

What's new in 1.622 (2015/07/27)

• Jenkins now support self-restart and daemonization in FreeBSD (PR 1770)
• Node provisioner may fail to correctly indicate that provisioning was finished. (issue 29568)

What's new in 1.621 (2015/07/19)

• Sort by 'Free Disk Space' is incorrect. (issue 29286)
• Label expression help is missing in recent Jenkins versions. (issue 29376)
• Pre-emptively break memory cycles causing excessive live-set retention in remoting layer. (issue 28844)
• Don't run trigger for disabled/copied projects. (PR 1617)

What's new in 1.620 (2015/07/12)

• Display system info even when slave is temporarily offline. (issue 29300)

What's new in 1.619 (2015/07/05)

• Update auto-installer metadata for newly installed plugins. (issue 27694)
• Allow plugins to veto process killing. (issue 9104)

What's new in 1.618 (2015/06/29)

• Fix deadlock in hudson.model.Executor. (issue 28690)
• Don't truncate /consoleText output after fixed number of lines. (issue 14899)
• Allow delete-* CLI commands to operate on multiple arguments. (issue 28041)
• Prevent NullPointerException in Executor/causeOfDeath page if there is no exception details. (issue 25734)
• Fixed synchronization issue when setting JDK installations. (issue 28292)
• Fix several loggers which are identifying as the wrong class. (PR 1651)
• Revert fix for issue 17290 due to the regressions it caused. (issue 28601)
• Fix deadlock between hudson.model.Queue and hudson.model.Computer. (issue 28840)
• Fix jobs getting stuck in the Queue when there exists a cycle of upstream/downstream blocks between them. (issue 28926)
• Always use earlier start time when merging two equivalent queue items. (issue 2180)

What's new in 1.617 (2015/06/07)

• Regression in build-history causing ball to not open console (issue 28704)
• JNLP slaves did not pick up changes to environment variables. (issue 27739)
• NullPointerException in AbstractProject constructor if Jenkins nodes has not been loaded yet (issue 28654)

What's new in 1.616 (2015/05/31)

• Job loading can be broken by NullPointerException in a build trigger (issue 27549)

What's new in 1.615 (2015/05/25)

• Improper calculation of queue length in UnlabeledLoadStatistics causing overheads in Cloud slave provisioning (issue 28446)
• Category titles in Available Plugins list appear wrong in reverse sort order (issue 17290)
• CronTab API: Timezone support for scheduling (issue 9283)
• NullPointerException when trying to reset Jenkins admin address (issue 28419)
• Reduce the thread overhead in NodeMonitorUpdater (PR 1714)
• Build history overflows (issue 28425)
• Build History badges don't wrap (issue 28455)

What's new in 1.614 (2015/05/17)

• ExtensionList even listener. (issue 28434)
• NullPointerException computing load statistics under some conditions. (issue 28384)
• Plugins using class loader masking did not work properly over the slave channel. (issue 27289)
• DefaultJnlpSlaveReceiver now returns true when rejecting a takeover. (issue 27939)
• Do not follow href after sending POST via l:task (issue 28437)

What's new in 1.613 (2015/05/10)

• Update bundled LDAP plugin in order to restore missing help files (issue 28233)
• hudson.model.Run.getLog() throws IndexOutOfBoundsException when called with maxLines=0 (issue 27441)

What's new in 1.612 (2015/05/03)

• Jenkins now requires Java 7. (announcement, issue 28120)
• Handle AbortException publisher status in the same way as deprecated false boolean status (issue 26964)
• Ensures GlobalSettingsProvider does not swallow fatal exceptions (issue 26604)
• add datestamp to node-offline message (issue 23917)
• Larger minimum popup menu height. (issue 27067)
• Descriptor.getId fix in 1.610 introduced regressions affecting at least the Performance and NodeJS plugins. (issue 28093 and issue 28110)
• Under rare conditions Executor.getProgress() can throw a Division by zero exception. (issue 28115)
• The Run from the command line option for launching a JNLP slave should display the configured JVM options. (issue 28111)

What's new in 1.611 (2015/04/26)

• Descriptor.getId fix in 1.610 introduced a regression affecting at least the Copy Artifacts plugin. (issue 28011)
• Search box did not work well inside folders. (issue 24433)
• Revert changes in 1.610 made to resolve issue 10629. (issue 28012, issue 28013)
• Advertise JNLP slave agents to the correct host name, even in the presence of a reverse proxy. (issue 27218)
• Advertised TCP slave agent port number is made tweakable.
• Correctly identify Channel listener onClose propagated exceptions (issue 28062

What's new in 1.610 (2015/04/19)

• Since 1.598 overrides of Descriptor.getId were not correctly handled by form binding, breaking at least the CloudBees Templates plugin. (issue 26781)
• Reverted in 1.611. Archiving of large artifacts. Tar implementation cannot handle files having a size >8GB. (issue 10629)
• The queue state was not updated between scheduling builds. (issue 27708, issue 27871)

What's new in 1.609 (2015/04/12)

• When concurrent builds are enabled, artifact retention policy may delete artifact being used by an actually running build. (issue 27836)
• Documentation for $BUILD_ID did not reflect current reality (issue 26520)

What's new in 1.608 (2015/04/05)

• PeepholePermalink RunListenerImpl oncompleted should be triggered before downstream builds are triggered. (issue 20989)
• NPE when /script used on offline slave. (issue 26751)
• Make periodic workspace cleanup configurable through system properties. (issue 21322)
• Do not offer to restart on /restart and /safeRestart if the configuration does not support it. (issue 27414)
• Polling was skipped while quieting down, resulting in ignored commit notifications. This behavior was changed. (issue 26208)
• Starting this version, native packages are produced from the new repository. File issues related to installers and packages in the packaging component.

What's new in 1.607 (2015/03/30)

• JSONP served with the wrong MIME type and rejected by Chrome. (issue 27607)
• Security file pattern whitelist was broken for some plugins since 1.597. (issue 27055)
• Lock an Executor without creating a Thread (issue 25938)
• Hide flyweight master executor when ≥1 heavyweight executors running as subtasks (issue 26900)
• Way to mark an Executable that should not block isReadyToRestart (issue 22941)
• Refactor the Queue and Nodes to use a consistent locking strategy (issue 27565) Note that this change involved moving slave definitions outside the main config.xml file. If you downgrade after this, your slave settings will be lost.
• Makes the Jenkins is loading screen not block on the extensions loading lock (issue 27563)
• AdjunctManager: exception upon startup (issue 15355)
• Removes race condition rendering the list of executors (issue 27564)
• Tidy up the locks that were causing deadlocks with the once retention strategy in durable tasks (issue 27476)
• Remove any requirement from Jenkins Core to lock on the Queue when rendering the Jenkins UI (issue 27566)
• Prevent lazy loading operation when obtaining label information. (issue 26391)
• Ensure that the LoadStatistics return a self-consistent result. (issue 21618)
• Build reports to be running for 45 yr and counting. (issue 26777)

What's new in 1.606 (2015/03/23)

• Jenkins CLI doesn't handle arguments with equal signs (issue 21160)
• master/slave communication ping reacts badly if a clock jumps. (issue 21251)
• JNLP slaves can now connect to master through HTTP proxy. (issue 6167)
• Fixes to several security vulnerabilities. (advisory)

What's new in 1.605 (2015/03/16)

• Integrate Stapler fix for queue item API always returning 404 Not Found since 1.601. (issue 27256)

What's new in 1.604 (2015/03/15)

• Added a switch (-Dhudson.model.User.allowNonExistentUserToLogin=true) to let users login even when the record is not found in the backend security realm. (issue 22346)
• Avoid deadlock when using build-monitor-plugin. (issue 27183)
• As security hardening, mark "remember me" cookie as HTTP only (issue 27277)
• Show displayName in build remote API. (issue 26723)

What's new in 1.602 (2015/03/08)

• Show Check Now button also on Available and Updates tabs of plugin manager. (PR 1593)

What's new in 1.601 (2015/03/03)

• Regression with environment variables in 1.600. (issue 27188)
• Errors with concurrent matrix builds since 1.597. (issue 26739)
• Errors in Dashboard View plugin since 1.597. (issue 26690)
• Robustness improvement when setting up Archive Artifacts programmatically. (issue 25779)
• Map Queue.Item.id onto Run (issue 27096)

What's new in 1.600 (2015/02/28)

• Fixes to multiple security vulnerabilities. (security advisory)
• JDK auto-installer for Mac OSX
• An error thrown in the wrong place in a publisher could result in a failure to release a workspace lock. (issue 26698)
• Cache node environment to prevent unnecessary channel usage (issue 26755)
• Build history text field wrap fails when containing markup (issue 26406)
• Maven build step fail to launch mvn process when special chars are present in build variables. (issue 26684)

What's new in 1.599 (2015/02/16)

• Errors in some Maven builds since 1.598. (issue 26601)
• Build format change migrator in 1.597 did not work on some Windows systems. (issue 26519)
• Remote FilePath.chmod fails with ClassNotFoundException: javax.servlet.ServletException. (issue 26476)
• Added SimpleBuildWrapper API. (issue 24673)
• Animated ball in job's build history widget won't open Console Output. (issue 26365)
• Show job name in Schedule Build column tool tip. (issue 25234)
• Allow OldDataMonitor to discard promoted-build-plugin Promotions (issue 26718)

What's new in 1.598 (2015/01/25)

• FutureImpl does not cancel its start future. (issue 25514)
• Flyweight tasks were under some conditions actually being run on heavyweight executors. (issue 10944) (issue 24519)
• Folder loading broken when child item loading throws exception. (issue 22811)
• Plugin icon images were broken when running Jenkins from a UNC path. (issue 26203)
• Allow admin signup from /manage as well. (issue 26382)
• Amend JAVA_HOME check to work with JDK 9. (issue 25601)
• CLI list-jobs command should display raw name, not display name, where they differ. (issue 25338)
• Show queue item parameters in tool tip. (issue 22311)
• Better support functional tests from Gradle-based plugins. (issue 26331)
• Allow users to delete builds even if they are supposed to be kept. (issue 26281)
• Fixed side/main panel scrolling issues. (issue 26312, issue 26298, issue 26306)
• Improve error reporting when channel closed during build. (issue 26411)
• Fixed CodeMirror issue with height and re-enabled syntax highlighting in shell build step. (issue 25455, issue 23151)

What's new in 1.597 (2015/01/19)

• JENKINS_HOME layout change: builds are now keyed by build numbers and not timestamps. See Wiki for details and downgrade. (issue 24380)
• Do not throw exception on /signup when not possible. (issue 11172)
• Tool installer which downloads and unpacks archives should not fail the build if the tool already exists and the server returns an error code. (issue 26196)
• Fingerprint compaction aggravated lazy-loading performance issues. (issue 19392)
• Possible unreleased workspace lock if SCM polling fails during setup. (issue 26201)
• Misleading description of the 'workspace' permission. (issue 20148)
• Run parameters should show display name if set, rather than build numbers. (issue 25174)
• Add range check for H(X-Y) syntax. (issue 25897)

What's new in 1.596 (2015/01/04)

• Build page was broken in Hungarian localization while building. (issue 26155)
• Allow breaking label and node lists. (issue 25989)

What's new in 1.595 (2014/12/21)

• Spurious warnings in the log after deleting builds. (issue 25788)
• Master labels disappear when system configuration is updated. (issue 23966)
• Updated icon-set dependency to version 1.0.5. (issue 25499, issue 25498)

What's new in 1.594 (2014/12/14)

• After recent Java security updates, Jenkins would not gracefully recover from a deleted secrets/master.key. (issue 25937)
• Restrict where this project can be run regressed in 1.589 when using the ClearCase plugin. (issue 25533)

What's new in 1.593 (2014/12/07)

• Dynamic Single/Multi line Build History layout. (issue 25381, issue 25393, issue 24687, issue 24589)

What's new in 1.592 (2014/11/30)

• Performance problems on large workspaces associated with validating file include patterns. (issue 25759)

What's new in 1.591 (2014/11/25)

• Always use forward slashes in path separators during in ZIP archives generated by Directory Browser (issue 22514)

What's new in 1.590 (2014/11/16)

• Basic Authentication in combination with Session is broken (issue 25144)
• Some plugins broken since 1.584 if they expected certain events to be fired under a specific user ID. (issue 25400)
• Fixed various real or potential resource leaks discovered by Coverity Scan (pull request 1434)
• API changes: Expose AbstractProject.AbstractProjectDescriptor#validateLabelExpression for plugins. (pull request 1456)
• API method to aggregate multiple FormValidations into one. (pull request 1458)
• API method to get non-null Jenkins instance with internal validation (issue 23339)

What's new in 1.589 (2014/11/09)

• JNA error in WindowsInstallerLink.doDoInstall. (issue 25358)
• Restore compatibility of label assignment for some plugins. (issue 25372)

What's new in 1.588 (2014/11/02)

• Unnecessarily slow startup time with a massive number of jobs. (issue 25473)
• Custom workspace option did not work under some conditions. (issue 25221)

What's new in 1.587 (2014/10/29)

• Queue didn't always leave a trail for cancelled items properly (issue 25314)
• JNA update for deprecated JNA-POSIX library. (issue 24527)
• Introduced slave-to-master security mechanism to defend a master from slaves. (SECURITY-144)

What's new in 1.586 (2014/10/26)

• Bumping up JNA to 4.10. This is potentially a breaking change for plugins that depend on JNA 3.x (issue 24521)
• Prevent empty file creation if file parameter is left empty. (issue 3539)
• Servlet containers may refuse to let us set secure cookie flag. Deal with it gracefully. (issue 25019)
• Existing FileParameters should be handled as different values to avoid merging of queued builds (issue 19017)

What's new in 1.585 (2014/10/19)

• Build health computed repeatedly for a single Weather column cell. (issue 25074)
• Missing workspace page should use 404 status code. (issue 10450)
• Fixed memory leak occurring on pages producing incremental output with a progress bar. (issue 25081)
• Updated SSH Slaves plugin to 1.8.
• Due to the reaction, default umask in debian package is set back to 022 (issue 25065)
• Greater-than characters are not escaped in HTML outputs like e-mails (issue 16184)
• Thread starvation from OldDataMonitor. (issue 24763)
• Integer overflow in quiet-down timeout calculation (issue 24914)
• Don't put session IDs in URLs even when cookies are disabled. (issue 22358)
• Show keep build log reason in tool tips (pull request 1422)
• Do not disable projects, which do not support such operation (like Matrix configurations) (issue 24340)
• Improved the scalability of SSH slaves plugin caused by global lock in SecureRandom (issue 20108)
• Incorporated a fix for "Poodle" (CVE-2014-3566) vulnerability in the HTTPS connector of "java -jar jenkins.war" (issue 25169)

What's new in 1.584 (2014/10/12)

• Diagnostic thread names are now available while requests are still in filters
• When killing Windows processes, check its critical flag to avoid BSoD (issue 24453)
• When a user could not see a view, but could delete/move/rename jobs contained in it, the view was not properly updated. (issue 22769)
• Use POST for cancel quiet down link. (issue 23020, issue 23942)
• Do not consider port in use error to be a successful start of Jenkins on Debian. (issue 24966)

What's new in 1.583 (2014/10/01)

• Fixes to multiple security vulnerabilities. (security advisory)

What's new in 1.582 (2014/09/28)

• Channel reader thread can end up consuming 100% CPU. (issue 23471)
• CancelledKeyException can cause all JNLP slaves to disconnect (and the problem remains until restart). (issue 24050)
• Consider dynamic label assignments for label load statistics. (issue 15576)
• Use Windows line endings for batch file build steps. (issue 7478)
• Reduced the logging clutter about the lack of @ExportedBean. (issue 24458)
• Character encoding problem in form submission when file parameters are present. (issue 11543)
• Improved error handling and "in-progress" UI feedback in JNLP slave to service installation.
• Winstone 2.4: reverse proxy support in the logging, request header size limit control, and different private key password from keystore password. (issue 23665)
• umask setting on Debian did not work. (pull 1397)
• handle job move when buildDir is configured to a custom location. (issue 24825)

What's new in 1.581 (2014/09/21)

• Use slightly larger Jenkins head icon. (pull 1360)
• Allow setting a system property to disable X-Frame-Options header. (issue 21881)
• Explicitly set background color of various UI elements to white. (issue 24625)
• Wrong Hebrew localization resulted in broken console output since 1.539. (issue 24614)

What's new in 1.580 (2014/09/14)

• Health reports saved to disk before 1.576 showed no weather icon since that version. (issue 24407)
• Renaming jobs fails if parent dir of custom build records directory does not exist. (issue 19764)
• Add editable descriptions for label atoms. (issue 6153)

What's new in 1.579 (2014/09/06)

• ConcurrentModificationException in RunListProgressiveRendering. (issue 21437)
• StackOverflowError for some old SCMListeners. (issue 23522)
• Job status page shows "Build has been executing for null on master" for flyweight tasks. (issue 20307)
• File locking issue when running functional tests on Windows. (issue 21977)
• Tolerate ?auto_refresh in reverse proxy check on /manage page. (issue 24014)
• Debian package now sets umask to 027 by default for better default privacy. See /etc/default/jenkins to change this. (issue 24514)

What's new in 1.578 (2014/08/31)

• Added 'no-store' to the 'Cache-Control' header to avoid accidental information leak through local cache backup (issue 24337)
• Deadlock in OldDataMonitor. (issue 24358)
• Use absolute links for computer sidepanel items so they don't break as easily. (issue 23963)

What's new in 1.577 (2014/08/24)

• Failure to migrate legacy user records in 1.576 properly broke Jenkins, resulted in NullPointerExceptions. (issue 24317)
• Jenkins did not correctly display icons contributed by plugins in 1.576. (issue 24316)
• Moved JUnit reporting functionality to a plugin. (issue 23263)
• Fixed ClassCastException on org.dom4j.DocumentFactory (issue 13709)
• Jenkins now logs warnings when it fails to export objects to XML/JSON. This can result in a lot of log output in case of heavy API use. We recommend that API users use the ?tree parameter instead of ?depth. (commit)
• Allow BuildStep to work with non-AbstractProject (issue 23713)
• Improved class loading performance when using Groovy. (issue 24309)
• Prevent NullPointerException from Executor.run. (issue 24110)
• Make the lifetime of queue items cache configurable. (issue 19691)
• Support --username/--password authentication for CLIMethod based CLI commands. (issue 23988)
• Don't link to /safeRestart after update if Jenkins cannot restart itself. (issue 24032)
• Properly consider busy executors when reducing a node's executor count. (issue 24095)

What's new in 1.576 (2014/08/18)

• Worked around "incompatible InnerClasses attribute" bug in IBM J9 VM (issue 22525)
• Fixed a file descriptor leak with CLI connections. (issue 23248)
• Fixed a regression that removed all users with uppercase letters in the user name since 1.566. (issue 23872)
• Improving security of set-build-parameter and set-build-result CLI commands. (issue 24080)
• Startup can be broken by deeply recursive causes in build records. (issue 24161)
• Displaying unabridged test result trend on project index page defeated lazy loading. (issue 23945)
• Added support for host:port format in X-Forwarded-Host header. (commit 19d8b80)
• API to launch processes without printing the command line. (issue 23027)
• Added option to increase impact of test failures on the weather report. (issue 24006)
• Modernized sidebar <l:pane>s and making them work better with new layout. (issue 23810, issue 23829)
• Add option to CLI to skip key authentication (e.g. when there's a password on the default key). (issue 23970)
• Modernize tabBar and bigtable. Makes the project view look better. Same for Plugin Manager. (issue 24030)

What's new in 1.575 (2014/08/10)

• Move option to fingerprint artifacts to Archive the Artifacts, Advanced options. (commit f43a450)
• Move option to keep dependencies (builds) from Fingerprint to Advanced Project Options. (commit a8756c6)
• Improved validation of Build Record Root Directory setting. (issue 14538)
• Indicate which node the workspace being viewed is on. (issue 23636)
• Show full project name for projects in folders. (issue 22971)
• UI redesign: Shrink the top bar, change logo, changed links in top bar. (pull 1327, (pull 1328)
• Killing processes started by builds on Unix was broken as of 1.553. (issue 22641)
• Should not stop a build from finishing just to compute JUnit result difference to a prior build which is still running. (issue 10234)
• Do not show link to System Information page for offline slaves, make page more robust when offline. (issue 23041)
• Fix link to SCM polling log from downstream job cause. (issue 18048)
• Autocomplete logger names. (issue 23994)
• UI redesign: Fix links in header bar when logged in.
• Do not show changes for the build at the lower bound of the changes list. (issue 18902)
• Restrict access to SCM trigger status page to administrators. (pull 1282)

What's new in 1.574 (2014/07/27)

• UI redesign: Use Helvetica as default font (pull 1315, issue 23840)
• Synchronization issue during tool installation (issue 17667)
• Use native encoding for filenames in downloaded ZIPs. (issue 20663)

What's new in 1.573 (2014/07/20)

• UI redesign: Changed element alignment, removed sidebar link underlines (pull 1314, pull 1316)
• Word-break links in build logs to preserve page width (pull 1308)
• Log rotation fails with "...looks to have already been deleted" (issue 22395)
• Fixed unnecessary eager loading of build records in certain code path. (issue 18065)

What's new in 1.572 (2014/07/13)

• UI redesign: Changed header, made layout <div>-based and responsive (pull 1310)
• Improved handling of X-Forwarded-* headers (issue 23294)
• Do not offer automatic upgrade if war parent directory is not writable (issue 23683)

What's new in 1.571 (2014/07/07)

• IllegalArgumentException from AbstractProject.getEnvironment when trying to get environment variables from an offline slave. (issue 23517)
• Overall.READ is sufficient to access /administrativeMonitor/hudsonHomeIsFull/ (SECURITY-134)
• Master computer is not notified using ComputerListener (issue 23481)

What's new in 1.570 (2014/06/29)

• Add CLI commands to add jobs to and remove jobs from views (add-job-to-view, remove-job-from-view). (issue 23361)
• UI improvements / refreshing. (issue 23492)
• Failed to correctly resave a project configuration containing both a forward and a reverse build trigger. (issue 23191)
• Long log output resulted in missing Console link in popup. (issue 14264)
• HTTP error 405 when trying to restart ssh host. (issue 23094)
• Move 'None' Source Code Management option to top position. (issue 23434)
• Fixed NullPointerException when ArctifactArchiver is called for a build with the undefined status. (issue 23526)
• Allow disabling use of default exclude patterns in ArctifactArchiver (.git, .svn, etc.). (issue 20086)
• Fixed NullPointerException when "properties" element is missing in a job's configuration submission by JSON (issue 23437)

What's new in 1.569 (2014/06/23)

• Jenkins can now kill Win32 processes from Win64 JVMs. (issue 23410)
• Allow custom security realm plugins to fire events to SecurityListeners. (issue 23417)
• Recover gracefully if a build permalink has a non-numeric value. (issue 21631)
• Fix form submission via the Enter key for Internet Explorer version 9. (issue 22373)
• When Jenkins had a lot of jobs, submitting a view configuration change could overload the web server, even if few of the jobs were selected. (issue 20327)

What's new in 1.568 (2014/06/15)

• Fixed JNLP connection handling problem (issue 22932)
• Fixed NullPointerException caused by the uninitialized ProcessStarter environment in build wrappers (issue 20559)
• Support the range notation for pagination in API (issue 23228)
• Incorrect redirect after deleting a folder. (issue 23375)
• Incorrect links from Build History page inside a folder. (issue 19310)
• API changes allowing new job types to use SCM plugins. (issue 23365)
• API changes allowing to create nested launchers (DecoratedLauncher) (issue 19454)

What's new in 1.567 (2014/06/09)

• Fixed a reference counting bug in the remoting layer. (commit)
• Avoid repeatedly reading symlinks from disk to resolve build permalinks. (issue 22822)
• Show custom build display name in executors widget. (issue 10477)
• CodeMirror support for shell steps broke initial configuration. (issue 23151)
• Jenkins on Linux can not restart after plugin update when started without full path to java executable (issue 22818)
• Fixed NullPointerException when a build triggering returns null cause (issue 20499)
• Fixed NullPointerException on plugin installations when invalid update center is set (issue 20031)
• Use DISABLED_ANIME icon while building a disabled project (issue 8358)
• Process the items hierarchy when displaying the Show Poll Thread Count option (issue 22934)
• Compressed output was turned on even before Access Denied errors were shown for disallowed Remote API requests, yielding a confusing error. (issue 17374) (issue 18116)
• Properly close input streams in FileParameterValue (issue 22693)
• Incorrect failure age in the JUnit test results (issue 18626)
• Fixed deletion links for JVM Crash error logs (issue 22617)
• Distinguish "nodes for label offline" from "no nodes for label" (issue 17114)
• Add causes to queue item tool tip (issue 19250)
• RPM: added JENKINS_HTTPS_KEYSTORE and JENKINS_HTTPS_KEYSTORE_PASSWORD options to Jenkins sysconfig file (issue 11673)
• RPM: Do not install jenkins.repo file (issue 22690)
• Don't advertise POSTing config.xml on master (issue 16264)
• Handle null parameter values to avoid massive executor deaths (issue 15094)
• Added an option to archive artifacts only when the build is successful (issue 22699)

What's new in 1.566 (2014/06/01)

• Configurable case sensitivity mode for user IDs. (issue 22247)
• Extension point for project naming strategies did not work from actual plugins. (issue 23127)
• Introduce directly modifiable views (issue 22967)
• Jenkins cannot restart Windows service (issue 22685)

What's new in 1.565 (2014/05/26)

• Misleading error message trying to dynamically update a plugin (which is impossible) on an NFS filesystem. (issue 12753)
• Updated component used by the swap space monitor to better support Debian and AIX.
• SSH slave connections die after the slave outputs 4MB of stderr, usually during findbugs analysis (issue 22938)
• Polling no longer triggers builds (regression 1.560) (issue 22750)
• Allow markup formatter to be selected without enabling security. (issue 22028)
• Fixed localization of build environment variable help. (issue 22867)

What's new in 1.564 (2014/05/19)

• Improve list view performance on large instances with folders. (issue 22720)
• Add indicator when build queue is filtered. (issue 22698)
• Update bundled Matrix project plugin to 1.2 fixing issues introduced in 1.561. (issue 22879, issue 22798)

What's new in 1.563 (2014/05/11)

• Memory exhausion in remoting channel since 1.560. (issue 22734)
• Configurable size for log buffer. (issue 22840)
• Gesture to clear log buffer. (issue 22839)
• Prevent up to two-minute delay before scheduling jobs from a cron trigger. (pull request 1216)
• Occasional attempts to delete a build during log rotation which had already been deleted. (issue 22395)
• Again show proper display names for build parameters. (issue 22755)

What's new in 1.562 (2014/05/03)

• Next build link was not reliably available from a previous build after starting a new one. (issue 20662)
• Debian postinst: check for present user/group before adding them. (issue 22715)
• Add distance between time tick labels on load statistics. (issue 22686)
• Correctly show load statistics for master node. (issue 22689)
• Make load statistics graph font configurable, use sans serif font by default. (issue 22688)
• Add links to nodes on thread dump page for easier navigation. (issue 22672)

What's new in 1.561 (2014/04/27)

• Fixed a corner case handling of tool installation. (issue 16846)
• Enabled log rotation on the OSX package (issue 15178)
• When measuring the length of the queue, jobs that consist of multiple subtasks should count as more than 1. (pull request 742)
• Close drop-down button menu when clicking outside (issue 17050)
• RunParameter with filtering enabled incorrectly includes builds which have not yet completed (issue 20974)
• Fixed NPE if RunParameterValue points to a stable build. (issue 20857)
• Fixed a JavaScript problem in sortable table with IE8. (issue 21729)
• More efficient deletion of old builds (specified by date). (issue 22607)
• The matrix project type was moved into its own plugin.
• Linkage errors in notifiers could leak workspace leases. (issue 21622)
• Better correction of the anomalous condition that several builds of a job specify the same number. (issue 22631)
• Under certain conditions, a running build could mistakenly be shown as completed (and failed), while still producing output. (issue 22681)
• Fix a bug which only showed the first detail part for radio buttons. (issue 22583)
• Update version of bundled Mailer plugin to 1.8 to avoid issues with older versions
• Show larger load statistics graphs. (issue 22674)
• Linebreak project names less aggressively. (issue 22670)
• Added a new extension point for more pluggable JNLP slave handling
• Don't ask for confirmation when it doesn't make any sense. (issue 21720)
• Jenkins asks for confirmation before leaving form even though user is not authorized to make changes. (issue 20597)
• Make the computers monitor status row look different from regular node rows. (pull request 1095)
• Do not offer "Install without restart" for plugin updates. (pull request 1125)
• Require POST on more actions. (pull request 877)
• Optimize image sizes. (pull request 648)
• Properly close resources in case of exceptions. (pull request 737)
• Fix warning on JBoss AS7 due to unnecessary xpp3_min dependency. (pull request 733)
• Return queue item location when triggering buildWithParameters. (issue 13546)

What's new in 1.560 (2014/04/20)

• Enforcing build trigger authentication at runtime by checking authentication associated with a build, rather than at configuration time. For compatibility, enforcement is skipped by default; you must install the Authorize Project plugin or similar for this to take effect. The “upstream pseudo trigger” was also removed in favor of a true trigger configured on the downstream project; you may use either the post-build action or the trigger according to where you want this configuration stored, and who is authorized to change it. (issue 16956)
• Fixed NPE from view new job name autocompletion since 1.553. (issue 22142)
• Deadlocks in concurrent builds under some conditions since 1.556. (issue 22560)
• JNLP slaves are now handled through NIO-based remoting channels for better scalability.
• Integrated codemirror v2.38. (issue 22582)
• Listing plugins shortly after installation throws ConcurrentModificationException. (issue 22553)
• Fixed NoSuchMethodException when destroying processes using JDK1.8. (issue 21341)
• Avoid irrelevant job queing while node is offline. (issue 21394)
• Debian package now creates 'jenkins' group
• Suppress fingerprint link if fingerprint record isn't available. (issue 21818)
• Job hangs if one of multiple triggered builds was aborted (issue 21932)
• Don't submit form on Save after Apply in new window on some browsers. (issue 20245)
• Remotely triggered builds now show correct IP address through proxy. (issue 18008)

What's new in 1.559 (2014/04/13)

• Slaves connected via Java Web Start now restart themselves when a connection to Jenkins is lost. (issue 19055)
• Fixed NPE from Slave.createLauncher. (issue 21999)
• Faster rendering of views containing many items. (issue 18364)

What's new in 1.558 (2014/04/06)

• Cron-style trigger configuration will now display expected prior and subsequent run times.
• Incorrect filtering of build queue and executors widgets after 1.514. (issue 20500)
• NoSuchMethodError: hudson.model.BuildAuthorizationToken.checkPermission(…) from Build Token Root plugin since 1.556. (issue 22382)
• Allow a Trigger to be a DependencyDeclarer. (issue 22397)
• Fixed a slow down in resource loading caused by fix to JENKINS-18677. (issue 21579)
• jenkins.war file shouldn't be exploded into /tmp (issue 22442)
• Fixed NPE in UserCause (issue 21875)
• Added RobustMapConverter. (issue 22398)
• JNLP slaves now satisfies stricter requirements imposed by JDK7u45. (issue 20204)
• Fixed NPE executing Pipe.EOF with ProxyWriter (issue 20769)

What's new in 1.557 (2014/03/31)

• Fixed ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException in XStream with Oracle JDK8 release version (issue 18537)
• Corrected permission checks for copy-job and create-job CLI commands. (issue 22262)
• identity.key, used to secure some communications with Jenkins, now stored encrypted with the master key.
• When dynamically loading a plugin which another loaded plugin already had an optional dependency on, class loading errors could result before restart. (issue 19976)
• Memory leaks in the old data monitor. (issue 19544)
• Ability for custom view types to disable automatic refresh. (issue 21190) (issue 21191)
• Option to download metadata directly from Jenkins rather than going through the browser. (issue 19081)
• Allow JDK8 (and other versions) to be downloaded by JDKInstaller correctly. (issue 22347)

What's new in 1.556 (2014/03/23)

• Access through API token and SSH key login now fully retains group memberships. (issue 20064)
• API changes allowing more flexibility in unusual job types. (issue 22131)
• Job can be reloaded individually from disk with "job/FOO/reload" URL or "reload-job" CLI command

What's new in 1.555 (2014/03/16)

• Jenkins should recover gracefully from a failure to process "remember me" cookie (issue 11643)
• Fixed Up link in matrix projects (issue 21773)

What's new in 1.554 (2014/03/09)

• Archiving of symlinks as artifacts did not work in some cases. (issue 21958)
• Slow rendering of directories with many entries in remote workspaces. (issue 21780)

What's new in 1.553 (2014/03/02)

• Build history widget only showed the last day of builds. (Due to JENKINS-20892, even with this fix at most 20 builds are shown.) (issue 21159)
• Random class loading error mostly known to affect static analysis plugins. (issue 12124)
• After restarting Jenkins, users known only from changelogs could be shown as First Last _first.last@some.org_, breaking mail delivery. (issue 16332)
• CLI build -s -v command caused 100% CPU usage on the master. (issue 20965)
• Slave started from Java Web Start can now install itself as a systemd service.
• Split the “raw HTML” markup formatter out of core into a bundled plugin.
• Do not show Maven modules and matrix configurations in the Copy Job dialog. (issue 19559)
• Fix autocompletion for items in folders. (pull request 1124)

What's new in 1.552 (2014/02/24)

• Fixed handling of default JENKINS_HOME when storing CLI credentials (issue 21772)
• Fixed broken action links on Label page (issue 21778)
• Allow Actions to contribute to Labels' main page (issue 21777)
• Expensive symlink-related calls on Windows can be simplified. (issue 20534)
• Improve detection of broken reverse proxy setups.

What's new in 1.551 (2014/02/14)

• Valentine's day security release that contains more than a dozen security fixes. (security advisory)
• Regression in Windows slaves since 1.547. (issue 21373)
• Using java -jar jenkins-core.jar folder/external-monitor-job cmd … did not work. (issue 21525)
• Jenkins crash on startup after upgrade from 1.546 to 1.548. (issue 21474)
• f:combobox is narrow. (issue 21612)
• The workspace cleanup thread failed to handle the modern workspace location on master, and mishandled folders. (issue 21023)
• Fixed missing help items on "Configure Global Security" page (issue 19832)
• Sort groups on user index page alphabetically. (issue 21673)
• Should not be able to create a job named . (period). (issue 21639)
• Plugins implementing "AsyncPeriodicWork" can overwrite default logging level (pull request #1115)
• Wrong log message for out-of-order build record repair. (issue 20730)
• Existing Fingerprint Action is reused and not added a second time. (issue 19832)
• TestObject doesn't replace '%' character (issue 21707)
• "java -jar jenkins.war" should use unique session cookie for users who run multiple Jenkins on the same host.

What's new in 1.550 (2014/02/09)

• Report number of all jobs as part of usage statistics (issue 21448)
• Replace description in error dialog instead of appending (issue 21457)

What's new in 1.549 (2014/01/25)

• Removing the "keep this build forever" lock on a build should require the DELETE permission. (issue 16417)
• Files added to zip archive are closed properly. (issue 20345)
• Broken CSS when reloading Jenkins after a time of inactivity (issue 17526)
• Add Batch Command tool installer for Windows nodes. (issue 21202)
• Allow more specific loggers to reduce log level. (issue 21386)

What's new in 1.548 (2014/01/20)

• API for adding actions to a wide class of model objects at once. (issue 18224)
• Added infrastructure for moving items into or out of folders. (issue 20008) (issue 18028) (issue 18680)
• Apply buttons did not work in Internet Explorer in compatibility mode. (issue 19826)
• Builds can seem to disappear from a job in a folder if that folder is renamed. (issue 18694)
• /login offers link to /opensearch.xml which anonymous users cannot retrieve. (issue 21254)
• Added API class SecurityListener to receive login events and similar. (issue 20999)
• Option to hold lazy-loaded build references strongly, weakly, and more. (issue 19400)

What's new in 1.547 (2014/01/12)

• Split Windows slave functionality into its own plugin.
• NPE since 1.545 when using aggregated test result publisher without specifying downstream jobs explicitly. (issue 18410)
• Fixed Trend Graph NPE when there isn't any builds (issue 21239)

What's new in 1.546 (2014/01/06)

• Builds disappear after renaming a job. (issue 18678)
• When clicking Apply to rename a job, tell the user that Save must be used instead. (issue 17401)
• Exception from XStream running Maven builds on strange Java versions. (issue 21183)
• When clicking Apply results in an exception (error page), show it, rather than creating an empty dialog. (issue 20772)

Older changelogs can be found in a separate file