# Jenkins jenkins-2.579 — 2.579

- Product: Jenkins (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/jenkins)
- Vendor: Jenkins project
- Date: 2026-08-25
- Version: jenkins-2.579
- Original notes: https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/releases/tag/jenkins-2.579
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/jenkins/releases/jenkins-2.579

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- **added** — Add abort support to FormChecker delayed checks
- **fixed** — Retry renamedTo operation up to 5 times because it randomly fails
- **fixed** — Fix incorrect Unicode escape decoding in QuotedStringTokenizer.unquote
- **fixed** — Revert standardise experimental Jenkins pages, make the side panel independently scrollable and make the build bar sticky
- **fixed** — Show only accessible links in sidepanel for new manage Jenkins UI
- **fixed** — Improve diagnostics for unreadable artifacts
- **fixed** — Fix dropdown suggestions requiring a double tap on touch devices
- **fixed** — Fix combobox suggestion list flashing on click
- **removed** — Remove commons-lang:2.6 from core

_This is an automatically generated changelog draft for Jenkins weekly releases.
See https://www.jenkins.io/changelog/2.579/ for the official changelog for this release._

##### 🚀 New features and improvements

* Add abort support to FormChecker delayed checks (#26595) @KevinSailema, @Copilot, Kevin, @timja

##### 🐛 Bug fixes

* Retrying renamedTo operation up to 5 times because it randomly fails … (#11216) @a-zitzewitz, @timja
* Fix incorrect Unicode escape decoding in QuotedStringTokenizer.unquote (#26467) @Zhang-Charlie, @Copilot, @MarkEWaite
* Revert "Standardise experimental Jenkins pages, make the side panel independently scrollable + make the build bar sticky (#26863)" (#27265) @gbhat618
* Show only accessible links in sidepanel for new manage Jenkins UI (#27228) @mawinter69, @MarkEWaite
* Improve diagnostics for unreadable artifacts (#27201) @Hardik180704
* Fix dropdown suggestions requiring a double tap on touch devices (#26923) @Anexus5919
* fix combobox suggestion list flashing on click (#26922) @Anexus5919

##### 👷 Changes for plugin developers

* Removes commons-lang:2.6 from core (#26105) @alecharp, @daniel-beck, @gbhat618, @MarkEWaite, @timja

All contributors: @a-zitzewitz, @alecharp, @Anexus5919, @gbhat618, @Hardik180704, @KevinSailema, @mawinter69, @Zhang-Charlie, @Copilot, @daniel-beck, Kevin, @MarkEWaite and @timja