Jenkins Changelog update manually in Pipeline script

Question

My jenkins pipeline script currently uses manually svn update as shell command instead of SCM Checkout methods. I'm trying to manually update the Jenkins log as a part of the build step. I'm trying to get the changes of my svn update command and inject the same in jenkins changelog. .

Here is the list of pipeline steps what I've tried

• dummy checkout step (#I'm doing this so that changelog is generated and have the SCM step enabled)
• svn update (#Update directory using svn update command)
• Generate a changelog xml based on the output from the svn update command #I'm doing this with the help of python script called from the pipeline.
• Now I replace the existing changelog xml with the generated changelog xml.

When I run pipeline script, the dashboard shows as 'No changes'. But when I restart the jenkins instance, The changes are displayed in the dashboard which shows the changes in the generated XML.

Kindly advise. Any other workarounds are also fine.

Answer 1

I ran Jenkins by executing the .war file. The issue was not found when I recreated the same pipeline steps with Jenkins installation set up as windows service. So better to go with standard installation.