Upgrading Jenkins to the latest version
The Jenkins application created by OpenShift runs an old version of Jenkins. At the time of this writing, the Jenkins application created by OpenShift runs the 1.509.1 Version. This version is quite old, and some Jenkins plugins do not work with this version. In this recipe, you will learn how to upgrade Jenkins to the latest version. The latest version of Jenkins at the time of this writing is 1.567.
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This recipe is experimental, and I don't recommend that people use it for their production Jenkins instances. The aim of this recipe is to show that it is feasible to upgrade the Jenkins version. This might result in build data loss or a break in the Jenkins instance. So, use this recipe in your test environments ...
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