Jenkins pipeline plugin: set the build description

Question

I\'m trying to replace our current build pipeline, currently hacked together using old-school Jenkins jobs, with a new job that uses the Jenkins pipeline plugin, and loads a

Answer 1

Just figured it out. The pipeline job exposes a currentBuild global variable with writable properties. Setting the description can be done with:

currentBuild.description = "my new description"

anywhere in the pipeline script. More information in this DZone tutorial.