Changelog

Major enhancement

Support running Jenkins WARs on Java 11 without downloading JAXB JARs. A new JAXB plugin is marked as a detached one when running with Java 11 or higher. JENKINS-55681 , pull 3711, plugin page

Enhancement

Report names of items being deleted in confirmation dialogs. JENKINS-55848
Replaced text references to slave with agent in various log entries and built-in help pages JENKINS-51320
Improve diagnostics of missing Old Data Administrative Monitor. pull 3240, related issue

Bug fix

Prevent a potential startup deadlock situation in extension loading. pull 3828, JENKINS-55361 , JENKINS-54974 , JENKINS-50663 , JENKINS-44564 , JENKINS-31622
Improve robustness of the partial page refresh logic when Jenkins is not available. JENKINS-53077
Prevent NullPointerException in Run Parameter for jobs in rare race condition cases. JENKINS-47530
Prevent NumberFormatException when a symbolic link is published as an artifact. JENKINS-55049
Prevent NullPointerException when a fingerprint is loaded from a corrupted XML file without the usages section. JENKINS-49588

Changelog for 2.163