Today, I’d highlight two recent improvements to the label and matrix projects.

September is turning into a meetup month for the Hudson community. In parallel to the meetup in Oslo and the meetup in JavaOne, Nokia and InfraDNA are hosting a meetup in Copenhagen on September 6th, Monday. Read on for the details.

JavaZone is a big Java conference in Scandinavia, and Hudson is well represented there. On September 8th, Håkon Snøtun will be presenting "Top 5 plugins for Hudson and Chuck Norris." and on September 9th, I'll be presenting "Getting more out of your Hudson."

But more importantly, what is a conference without drinking!? So in that spirit, InfraDNA will be organizing a Hudson User Meetup at The Scotsman from Sep 8th 19:30 (website.) We'll get together, have some drinks, and enjoy geeky conversations.

So if you are local or visiting Oslo for JavaZone, come join us. If you plan to join us at The Scotsman, please RSVP, and watch out for my twitter updates for any last minute time/location changes.

As we near autumn up here in the Northern Hemisphere, the wind is starting to blow a bit chillier and here in the Bay Area that can only mean one thing: Oracle is suing everybody! it's time for JavaOne!

A whole lot has changed since last year, Sun Microsystems was acquired by Oracle, Kohsuke left Snoracle to found InfraDNA and Hudson has continued to power on as the single best continuous integration server on the planet.

While the tickets for Oracle OpenWorld/JavaOne are just as outrageously expensive as they were last year, we are hosting a meetup/hackathon/continuous-drinking-contest at Digg the Sunday prior. We have not yet set any kind of agenda, but some core Hudson hackers and plenty of plugin developers should be in town so it should be a great time hacking on and/or with Hudson.

RSVP Here!

I'll be in Copenhagen from 9/5-9/7 and in Oslo 9/8-9/9 to present in JavaZone. I'd like to take advantage of the opportunities and have user meet-up events in those cities. Depending on the number of participants, it could be just a drink in a bar, or a talk in a meeting room.

So if you are:

1. in those cities,
2. available in the evening of 9/6, 9/8, or 9/9, and
3. willing to attend such an event,

... then please let me know.

Also, if you have an office in those cities and willing to provide a space for an event, that would be extra appreciated!

CloudBees announced the beta availability of their new Hudson-as-a-service "HaaS" today. I see this as yet another validation to Hudson, and as such, I welcome this new addition to the community and wish them well! — more companies betting on Hudson means we'll get more investment to the project, which is all goodness for Hudson users. It's been 5 months since I left Oracle to start InfraDNA, and I was initially worried about a possible negative impact on adoption, but instead Hudson has shown with no sign of slowing down (see picture on the right, from Andrew's report, which shows # of estimated active installations that participates to our usage stats survey).

On September 1st, I'll be presenting in a Sauce Labs webinar about Hudson and Sauce OnDemand. The talk will discuss how Hudson can be used with Sauce OnDemand, naturally, but it'll also cover broader Hudson/Selenium integrations.

Please register to this free event, and looking forward to seeing to you virtually.

In late 2008, the Hudson team released version 1.264 which added an anonymous reporting feature (you can opt-out in the "Manage Hudson" screen). The reporting feature has been sending information back to the Hudson team to help us understand how Hudson is used in aggregate; the info being reported includes the number of jobs configured, slave configurations, what plugins (and what versions of those plugins) are installed, and more. This data has not been available publicly until now! The raw data needed to be decrypted and scrubbed of any potentially identifying information, such as non-public plugin names or usernames in snapshot versions. We've finally scrubbed the data and are making it available!

The data is currently in monthly JSON bundles, organized by unique install key. We've filtered out reports of installations without any jobs configured, as well as any installations with only one report in a given month.

Last Friday the Hudson team rolled out a small 1.372 with two enhancements following the critical 1.371 release on Monday. Not a whole lot to say about this release other than go get it!

Enhancements

• Persist matrix-based security settings in a consistent order (issue 7138)
• Jobs can now use boolean expression over labels to control where they run.

The folks over at LMT Software just released their HudsonMobi 2.0 to the Android market. This release of HudsonMobi brings a lot of the features to Android that iPhone/iPad users of HudsonMobi have enjoyed for some time.

Features unleashed to Android users in this revision of the app are:

• Full Android user-experience with Menu and back controls
• Embedded artifact viewer! For archived build artifacts that are text-based, you can view them directly on your handset.
• Access to the build history and changes for a job.
• Quick and easy access to a job's last build\
• Restyled and updated user-experience, making HudsonMobi "feel better" on an Android device

If you want to get HudsonMobi for free from the Android Market, whip our your phone and take a picture of its QR code: