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Release frequency of Jenkins X

Jenkins X is evolving rapidly. We can see that by checking the releases. There’s hardly a day without at least one Jenkins X release. When the community is busy, there can be more than ten releases. At the time of this writing, we have ~1700 releases created over ~15 months. That’s an average of over 110 releases per month, more than three releases per day. That’s very a high release frequency and for very good reasons.

The community behind the project is proliferating, and that means that the rate of pull requests is increasing as well. It’s a simple calculation. The more pull requests people make, the more releases we get.

There is another important reason for such a high release frequency. Among other things, Jenkins X promotes continuous ...