Answers: <p>In short: the community. I developed a Jenkins plugin recently, and supporting Hudson did not even cross my mind (Jenkins has waaay more plugins).</p>
  
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Answers: This is pretty much the answer given by Jenkins on [their wiki](https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=53608972).
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Answers: Seems like a similar answer to a question like "why use Drupal instead of WP" ...
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Answers: <p><strong>Jenkins is better <a href="https://wiki.jenkins.io/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=53608972" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Because</a></strong>  </p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>most users moving on to Jenkins, as well as other adoption metrics indicating clear shift in the userbase.</li>
  <li>the Hudson team has moved to develop Jenkins. So you can trust our expertise and the the passion to keep pushing the software forward.</li>
  <li>a large number of plugin authors have chosen to support their plugins on Jenkins. So you can expect bug fixes and new improvements to them from Jenkins.</li>
  <li>we'll make incremental iterative improvements to the code.</li>
  <li>the community supports us.</li>
  <li>well maintained documents. (Credits: <a href="https://devops.stackexchange.com/users/8/martin-lee">Martin Lee</a>)</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p><strong>Few more noticeable points are (from <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4973981/how-to-choose-between-hudson-and-jenkins">StackOverflow</a>)</strong> </p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Hudson/Jenkins is the product of a single genius intellect - <a href="http://kohsuke.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Kohsuke Kawaguchi</a>. Because of that, it's consistent, coherent, and rock solid. (By <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/56285/jonik">Jonik</a>) </li>
  <li>Oracle now owns hudson and Jenkins is open-source. Both are MIT Licensed. Describing one as open-source and the other as other-than-open-source is misleading. They're free software (By <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/275567/pb2q">pb2q</a>)</li>
  <li>Hudson/Jenkins is all about the plugins. Plugin developers have moved to Jenkins and so should we, the users. (By <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/752693/tim-fulmer">Tim Fulmer</a>)</li>
  </ul>
  
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Answers: <p>Number of commits.</p>
  
  <p>Jenkins is a fork of Hudson (as commented <a href="https://devops.stackexchange.com/questions/7/why-has-hudson-been-renamed-to-jenkins">here</a>) but has a more active development, Hudson's <a href="http://git.eclipse.org/c/hudson/org.eclipse.hudson.core.git/log/" rel="noreferrer">last commit</a> is quite old. And look at Hudson's <a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&amp;bug_status=NEW&amp;bug_status=ASSIGNED&amp;bug_status=REOPENED&amp;component=&amp;product=Hudson&amp;query_format=advanced" rel="noreferrer">open bugs</a></p>
  
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Body: <p><a href="https://jenkins.io/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Jenkins</a> is a fork of <a href="http://hudson-ci.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Hudson</a>.</p>
  
  <p>What are the benefits/advantages of using Jenkins over Hudson for a small private business?</p>
  
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Comments: For reference, there is a [similar question on Stack Overflow](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4973981/how-to-choose-between-hudson-and-jenkins) (although probably outdated now).
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Title: What are the advantages of using Jenkins over Hudson?
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ThreadText: # What are the advantages of using Jenkins over Hudson?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2017-02-28)
  
  [Jenkins](https://jenkins.io/) is a fork of [Hudson](http://hudson-ci.org/).
  
  What are the benefits/advantages of using Jenkins over Hudson for a small private business?
  
  **Tags:** jenkins, software-recommendation, hudson
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: For reference, there is a [similar question on Stack Overflow](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4973981/how-to-choose-between-hudson-and-jenkins) (although probably outdated now).  
  
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  ## 3 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_6 on 2017-02-28. Score: 15 | Accepted answer
  
  Number of commits.
  
  Jenkins is a fork of Hudson (as commented [here](https://devops.stackexchange.com/questions/7/why-has-hudson-been-renamed-to-jenkins)) but has a more active development, Hudson's [last commit](http://git.eclipse.org/c/hudson/org.eclipse.hudson.core.git/log/) is quite old. And look at Hudson's [open bugs](https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&component=&product=Hudson&query_format=advanced)
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2017-02-28. Score: 6
  
  In short: the community. I developed a Jenkins plugin recently, and supporting Hudson did not even cross my mind (Jenkins has waaay more plugins).
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_3**: This is pretty much the answer given by Jenkins on [their wiki](https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=53608972).  
  > **username_4**: Seems like a similar answer to a question like "why use Drupal instead of WP" ...  
  
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  ### Answer by username_5 on 2019-03-04. Score: 3
  
  **Jenkins is better [Because](https://wiki.jenkins.io/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=53608972)**
  
  * most users moving on to Jenkins, as well as other adoption metrics indicating clear shift in the userbase.
  * the Hudson team has moved to develop Jenkins. So you can trust our expertise and the the passion to keep pushing the software forward.
  * a large number of plugin authors have chosen to support their plugins on Jenkins. So you can expect bug fixes and new improvements to them from Jenkins.
  * we'll make incremental iterative improvements to the code.
  * the community supports us.
  * well maintained documents. (Credits: [username_3](https://devops.stackexchange.com/users/8/username_3))
  
  **Few more noticeable points are (from [StackOverflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4973981/how-to-choose-between-hudson-and-jenkins))**
  
  * Hudson/Jenkins is the product of a single genius intellect - [Kohsuke Kawaguchi](http://kohsuke.org/). Because of that, it's consistent, coherent, and rock solid. (By [Jonik](https://stackoverflow.com/users/56285/jonik))
  * Oracle now owns hudson and Jenkins is open-source. Both are MIT Licensed. Describing one as open-source and the other as other-than-open-source is misleading. They're free software (By [pb2q](https://stackoverflow.com/users/275567/pb2q))
  * Hudson/Jenkins is all about the plugins. Plugin developers have moved to Jenkins and so should we, the users. (By [Tim Fulmer](https://stackoverflow.com/users/752693/tim-fulmer))
  
  
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