# 09 Mar 2026

[:movie_camera: Zoom Meeting Room](https://zoom.us/j/91564716663?pwd=R3A2RDFGcU1wTVdoVTErYm1jNzVWdz09) | [:calendar: Shared Calendar](https://jenkins.io/event-calendar/) | [:notes: Meeting notes](https://community.jenkins.io/tag/governance) |

## Attendees 👥

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* @slide_o_mix (Alex Earl)
* @jonesbusy (Valentin Delaye)
* Alexander Brandes
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* @strangelookingnerd (Daniel Krämer)
* Stefan Spiekler
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## Upcoming Calendar 📆

* Next weekly release: 2.554 Tuesday March 10, 2026
* Next LTS: 2.541.3 March 18, 2026

## Agenda

### News

* [Jenkins Bug Bounty](https://yeswehack.com/programs/jenkins-bug-bounty-program)
* [LinkedIn announcement](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7403697867586179073/)
* [Blog Post](https://www.jenkins.io/blog/2025/12/10/jenkins-bug-bounty-program-yeswehack-european-commission/)
* [Jenkins Contributor Awards](https://www.jenkins.io/blog/2026/03/06/jenkins-contributor-awards-2026-nomination-is-open/)
* Nominations now open
* Voting will begin on April 5 and close on May 5
* [Jenkins GSoC starting up](https://www.jenkins.io/blog/2026/02/19/jenkins-accepted-as-gsoc-2026-mentoring-org/)
* Folks have submitted proposals for the projects
* [GSoC Timeline](https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline)

### Action Items

* [ ] Valentin ask about JVM settings to infra team
* [ ] Basil create the attribution entries for the downloads page
* Continues on the to-do list [draft PR](https://github.com/jenkins-infra/jenkins.io/pull/6882)
* [ ] Mark Waite propose further definition of sponsorship tiers
* [ ] Alex Earl request transfer of Jenkins DNS ownership (jenkins.io and jenkins-ci.org) from R. Tyler Croy to the Linux Foundation
* Response from Tyler - Transfer to Alex, then transfer to Linux Foundation, still waiting to hear from Tyler
* [ ] Alex Earl create retrospective on elections

### Community activity

* Discussion related to calendar versioning for Jenkins(https://groups.google.com/g/jenkinsci-dev/c/vA9da6BtvGI)
* Might need JEP for a more formal proposal
* Discussion has died down
* More plugin migrating to Renovate due to https://github.com/dependabot/dependabot-core/issues/14102
* Java 25 support
* [Jenkins core weekly 2.534](https://www.jenkins.io/changelog/2.534/) supports Java 25
* 90% of top 250 non-deprecated Jenkins plugins are already testing with Java 25
* [261 pull requests merged](https://github.com/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3AMarkEWaite+archived%3Afalse+is%3Amerged++Test+with+Java+25)
* What is the timeline for support?
* Java 25 supported in Jenkins weekly October 28, 2025
* Java 25 supported in Jenkins LTS January 21, 2026
* Dependency/Tooling updates
* Jackson 3.0 breaking changes from 2.0 (https://groups.google.com/g/jenkinsci-dev/c/8NBahPZMNA4)
* Spring v6 -> v7 (https://groups.google.com/g/jenkinsci-dev/c/hH_pkGaAWrw)
* Maven 4 (https://groups.google.com/g/jenkinsci-dev/c/0JEzgNEIg6U)

### Governance Topics

* AI "Slop"
* Update Governance Document with AI policies for contribution?
* Several folks have had a lot of PR's that look like AI created
* Core had like 120 recently from new contributors
* JFrog artifact reduction project ([infra issue 4533](https://github.com/jenkins-infra/helpdesk/issues/4533)) - Mark Waite
* In a holding pattern until JFrog determines what they want to do
* Cloud expenses and plans
* Current situation (see recent notes from [Infrastructure Meeting](https://github.com/jenkins-infra/documentation/blob/main/meetings/2026-03-03.md))
* All cloud expenses are within budget as reviewed by Alex Earl (2026/03/09)
* New sponsorships have come through
* Rotating who leads the meeting
* Daniel Krämer - Apr 2026
* Alex Brandes - May 2026
* Alex Earl - Jun 2026