About

In a nutshell, Jenkins is the leading open-source automation server. Built with Java, it provides over 1000 plugins to support automating virtually anything, so that humans can actually spend their time doing things machines cannot.

What to Use Jenkins for and When to Use It

Use Jenkins to automate your development workflow so you can focus on work that matters most. Jenkins is commonly used for:

Building projects
Running tests to detect bugs and other issues as soon as they are introduced
Static code analysis
Deployment

Execute repetitive tasks, save time, and optimize your development process with Jenkins.

Downloads

Non-source downloads such as WAR files and several Linux packages can be found on our Mirrors.

Source

Our latest and greatest source of Jenkins can be found on GitHub. Fork us!

Contributing to Jenkins

Follow contributing file.

News and Website

All information about Jenkins can be found on our website. Follow us on Twitter @jenkinsci.

License

Jenkins is licensed under the MIT License. The terms of the license are as follows:

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2004 Kohsuke Kawaguchi, Sun Microsystems Inc., and a number of other contributors. 

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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THE SOFTWARE.