Version History and Changes

The plugin page on the Jenkins project wiki always will contain a full list of changes in releases of the Declarative Pipelines plugin, but you can find more detail on specific changes here.

Version 0.7 (Beta 1)

• Release Date: December 13, 2016
• Major Changes:
  • COMPATIBILITY BREAKING SYNTAX CHANGE: The jobProperties section has been renamed to properties.
  • New Jenkins CLI command for validating/linting Declarative Jenkinsfiles.

Version 0.6

• Release Date: November 17, 2016
• Major Changes:
  • COMPATIBILITY BREAKING SYNTAX CHANGE: The notifications section has been removed, and the postBuild section has been renamed to post, for consistency with post-stage actions. Use post for what you had been using both postBuild and notifications.
  • New dockerfile option for agent to auto-build a Dockerfile (defaults to ROOT_DIR/Dockerfile if dockerfile:true is used, otherwise uses value of dockerfile) and run the build in a container based on that image.
  • New when section for an individual stage. Takes a block of arbitrary Pipeline code, runs it, and only executes the stage's contents if that code block returns true.

Version 0.5

• Release Date: November 2, 2016
• Major Changes:
  • COMPATIBILITY BREAKING SYNTAX CHANGE: Steps inside a stage now need to be in a steps block. This was needed to support per-stage configuration of a number of sections, as described below.
  • New post section supported inside a stage for post-stage actions. This behaves the same as the postBuild section, but runs after a single stage.
  • New agent section supported inside a stage. This overrides the top-level agent configuration for the individual stage.
  • New tools section supported inside a stage. This allows scoping tools on a per-stage basis.
  • New environment section supported inside a stage. This allows scoping environment on a per-stage basis.
  • A new configuration option, available both in the Jenkins global configuration and in folder configurations (such as GitHub Multibranch Pipelines), for specifying a default label to use for Docker agents.
  • New wrappers section at the top-level, for wrapping the entire build in a block-scoped step, such as retry or timeout.

Version 0.4

• Release Date: October 11, 2016
• Major Changes:
  • New triggers, jobProperties and parameters sections at the top-level.
  • New syntax for specifying to run on any node - agent any
  • Allow function or step calls in the values of environment variables in the environment section.