Update Jenkins core and plugins: 2022Q3 edition
Last time: #17894 (closed)
Preparation
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Go through the changelog, paying attention to changes on how agents connect to controller, config changes that may need update, important changes in plugins, etc. - Current version: 2.346.1
- Available version: 2.361.2
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Upgrade the postbuildscript
plugin, which needs a fix in Job definitions -- tails#19051 (moved)
Deployment
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Deploy Jenkins upgrade to latest version available -
Use the Groovy and Python3 scripts to generate a list of up-to-date plugins -
Deploy plugins upgrades -
Restart all agents. -
Manually run the Update jobs script (may be needed so XML is valid with current Jenkins): sudo -u jenkins /usr/local/sbin/deploy_jenkins_jobs update
Wrap up
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Go through warnings in Jenkins interface. -
Manually remove uneeded plugins from /var/lib/jenkins/plugins
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Restart builds that were interrupted by Jenkins restart. -
Schedule next update. → Update Jenkins core and plugins (2023Q1 edition) (#17969 - closed)
Leftover warnings:
- global-build-stats plugin 244.v27c8a_2e50a_34 Stored XSS vulnerability: There's no newer version for this plugin for now and the previous one is from 5y ago.
Edited by Zen Fu