Dear Jenkins CSB Users,

The Data & Operations team announces that the next CSB release of
Jenkins 2.401.3 and its update center is now available on PSI OpenShift.

1. Upgrade Process

To get your Jenkins instance upgraded, follow the upgrade guide[1] and
the self-service upgrade procedure[2]. If you encounter problems
upgrading, raise a ticket for D&O[3].

Note that right now, there is a previous upgrade still in progress. In
this unusual situation, we permit users to upgrade both from 2.401.1 and
2.387.1.

1. Upgrade deadlines

Based on the 90-day deadlines based upon respective upstream release
dates, these are the effective CSB patching deadlines[4]:

• 2023-10-24 for users on 2.401.1
• 2023-09-13 for users on 2.387.1

1. Notable changes from previous CSB release

• Security upgrades to Jenkins Core and plugins
• Fix: Local Development Mode will not automatically disable pipelines
  enabled before casc.yaml reload.
• `checkWorkspaceOnSlave` CasC option of disk-usage-plugin is deprecated
  and prevents Jenkins from starting, it must be replaced with
  `checkWorkspaceOnAgent`.

See the upgrade guide[1] for a full list of changes between the releases.

[1]
https://docs.engineering.redhat.com/display/CentralCI/Containerized+CSB+2.401.3

[2]
https://gitlab.cee.redhat.com/ccit/jenkins-csb/-/blob/csb-2.401.3/cci-jd/docs/howto-configuration-as-code.md#upgrading-to-new-jenkins-csb-version

[3]
https://docs.engineering.redhat.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=140510099#JenkinsCSB(hostedonPSIOpenShift)-SupportTasksinitiatedbyusers

[4]
https://docs.engineering.redhat.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=206313554#CI/CDToolsCurrentSecurityPatchRequirements-JenkinsLTS

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Thank you!
QE Data & Operations Team