If you're stuck on an older version of Jenkins, you better not click the "refresh" button in the plugin management page, cause otherwise the page is just filled with red warnings saying that the latest version of each plugin is incompatible or has dependencies that are incompatible with your current Jenkins version.
There is afaik no way to install the last plugin that was compatible with your version of Jenkins.
Check this out, too. Free forever: https://www.cloudbees.com/products/cloudbees-jenkins-distrib.... We have included Beekeeper, which is an implementation of the plugin manager that provides a list of known-compatible, recommended plugins that CloudBees verifies and tests with each long-term support release of Jenkins.
> There is afaik no way to install the last plugin that was compatible with your version of Jenkins.
Probably not directly, but if you know the version, you can download the HPI and install it manually. Jenkin's Docker build also contains install-plugins.sh (https://github.com/jenkinsci/docker/blob/7b4153f20a61d9c579b...) that you can use to install specific version of plugin via command line.
If you're stuck on an older version of Jenkins, you better not click the "refresh" button in the plugin management page, cause otherwise the page is just filled with red warnings saying that the latest version of each plugin is incompatible or has dependencies that are incompatible with your current Jenkins version.
There is afaik no way to install the last plugin that was compatible with your version of Jenkins.