15 releases have gone by in 7 months since 1.0 last September

Some interesting new features since 1.0 and a lot of bugfixes and overall stability improvements. For instance now you can use yaml to define the Pod that will be used for your job:

def label = "mypod-${UUID.randomUUID().toString()}"
podTemplate(label: label, yaml: """
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  labels:
    some-label: some-label-value
spec:
  containers:
  - name: busybox
    image: busybox
    command:
    - cat
    tty: true
"""
) {
    node (label) {
      container('busybox') {
        sh "hostname"
      }
    }
}

You can use readFile step to load the yaml from a file in your git repo.

• Allow creating Pod templates from yaml. This allows setting all possible fields in Kubernetes API using yaml JENKINS-50282 #275
• Support passing kubeconfig file as credentials using secretFile credentials JENKINS-49817 #294

You can find the full changelog in GitHub.