Navigating My First Jenkins Security Advisory: A Maintainer’s Journey

Navigating My First Jenkins Security Advisory: A Maintainer’s Journey As a maintainer of the job-config-history plugin, I have always appreciated the community and the robustness of the Jenkins ecosystem. However, recently I had the opportunity to experience a different, and perhaps more critical, side of open-source maintenance: the Jenkins security process. Back on April 13, 2026, I received a notification in Jira regarding a potential security issue in my plugin.