Java

Jenkins agents must run Java 21 too, so build hosts that stop at Java 8, such as Solaris, HP-UX and AIX 7.1, can no longer join a current Jenkins. Agent8 downgrades the official agent.jar to Java 8 so they keep working as ordinary agents.

This article describes how to resolve SSL certificate validation issues when uploading artifacts from a Jenkins agent to Artifactory, including generating a security certificate file and importing it into Java’s cacerts.