[JENKINS-75975] Multibranch Pipeline - Orphaned Item Strategy not removing builds for closed PR's until next scan

I have a Bitbucket multibranch pipeline set to discover only PR's. The orphaned item strategy is set to discard old items with both options 'Days to keep old items' and 'Max # of old items to keep' being empty. The config.xml for my top level job contains this

 "com.cloudbees.hudson.plugins.folder.computed.DefaultOrphanedItemStrategy" plugin="cloudbees-folder@​6.1037.v4cb_8573b_72a_a_"> 

    true 

    -1 

    -1 

    false 

  

With these settings build jobs for closed PR's are never deleted. Jenkins does notice that a PR was closed because the build jobs is stricken through in this case, but not removed. The event log shows 'PREvent REMOVED' is received.

 

[Wed Aug 06 17:23:26 UTC 2025] Received com.cloudbees.jenkins.plugins.bitbucket.hooks.PREvent CREATED event from 104.192.140.240 ⇒ https://jenknis.mydomain.com:8080/bitbucket-scmsource-hook/notify with timestamp Wed Aug 06 17:23:21 UTC 2025

Connecting to https://bitbucket.org using xh2XVc8rjZurKMzFwS/****** (Bitbucket OAuth for multibranch pipeline)

Initialized PR: https://bitbucket.org/something/other/pull-requests/3649

Looking up something/other for pull requests

Checking PR-3649 from something/other and branch bugfix/SRCH-6152

      'Jenkinsfile' found

    Met criteria

Scheduled build for branch: PR-3649

  1 pull requests were processed (query completed)

[Wed Aug 06 17:23:27 UTC 2025] com.cloudbees.jenkins.plugins.bitbucket.hooks.PREvent CREATED event from 104.192.140.240 ⇒ https://jenknis.mydomain.com:8080/bitbucket-scmsource-hook/notify with timestamp Wed Aug 06 17:23:21 UTC 2025 processed in 1.2 sec

[Wed Aug 06 17:23:30 UTC 2025] Received com.cloudbees.jenkins.plugins.bitbucket.hooks.PREvent UPDATED event from 104.192.140.240 ⇒ https://jenknis.mydomain.com:8080/bitbucket-scmsource-hook/notify with timestamp Wed Aug 06 17:23:25 UTC 2025

Connecting to https://bitbucket.org using xh2XVc8rjZurKMzFwS/****** (Bitbucket OAuth for multibranch pipeline)

Initialized PR: https://bitbucket.org/something/other/pull-requests/3649

Looking up something/other for pull requests

Checking PR-3649 from something/other and branch bugfix/SRCH-6152

      'Jenkinsfile' found

    Met criteria

No changes detected: PR-3649 (still at 3a74f1e5f6c9+7f94d5bea397)

  1 pull requests were processed (query completed)

[Wed Aug 06 17:23:31 UTC 2025] com.cloudbees.jenkins.plugins.bitbucket.hooks.PREvent UPDATED event from 104.192.140.240 ⇒ https://jenknis.mydomain.com:8080/bitbucket-scmsource-hook/notify with timestamp Wed Aug 06 17:23:25 UTC 2025 processed in 1 sec

[Wed Aug 06 17:23:34 UTC 2025] Received com.cloudbees.jenkins.plugins.bitbucket.hooks.PREvent REMOVED event from 104.192.140.240 ⇒ https://jenknis.mydomain.com:8080/bitbucket-scmsource-hook/notify with timestamp Wed Aug 06 17:23:29 UTC 2025

Connecting to https://bitbucket.org using xh2XVc8rjZurKMzFwS/****** (Bitbucket OAuth for multibranch pipeline)

Looking up something/other for pull requests

  0 pull requests were processed

[Wed Aug 06 17:23:34 UTC 2025] com.cloudbees.jenkins.plugins.bitbucket.hooks.PREvent REMOVED event from 104.192.140.240 ⇒ https://jenknis.mydomain.com:8080/bitbucket-scmsource-hook/notify with timestamp Wed Aug 06 17:23:29 UTC 2025 processed in 0.24 sec 

However the jobs remain in this state forever unless i delete them manually or trigger a manual scan.

My understanding of the documentation is that with these settings the builds should be automatically removed. Am i missing something?

Best Regards

---
Originally reported by azhelev, imported from: Multibranch Pipeline - Orphaned Item Strategy not removing builds for closed PR's until next scan

• status: Open
  
• priority: Minor
  
• component(s): cloudbees-folder-plugin
  
• resolution: Unresolved
  
• votes: 0
  
• watchers: 3
  
• imported: 20251211-141027
  

Raw content of original issue

I have a Bitbucket multibranch pipeline set to discover only PR's. The orphaned item strategy is set to discard old items with both options 'Days to keep old items' and 'Max # of old items to keep' being empty. The config.xml for my top level job contains this



 <orphanedItemStrategy class="com.cloudbees.hudson.plugins.folder.computed.DefaultOrphanedItemStrategy" plugin="cloudbees-folder@6.1037.v4cb_8573b_72a_a_"> 

    <pruneDeadBranches>true</pruneDeadBranches> 

    <daysToKeep>-1</daysToKeep> 

    <numToKeep>-1</numToKeep> 

    <abortBuilds>false</abortBuilds> 

  </orphanedItemStrategy>



With these settings build jobs for closed PR's are never deleted. Jenkins does notice that a PR was closed because the build jobs is stricken through in this case, but not removed. The event log shows 'PREvent REMOVED' is received.


 



[Wed Aug 06 17:23:26 UTC 2025] Received com.cloudbees.jenkins.plugins.bitbucket.hooks.PREvent CREATED event from 104.192.140.240 ⇒ https://jenknis.mydomain.com:8080/bitbucket-scmsource-hook/notify with timestamp Wed Aug 06 17:23:21 UTC 2025

Connecting to https://bitbucket.org using xh2XVc8rjZurKMzFwS/****** (Bitbucket OAuth for multibranch pipeline)

Initialized PR: https://bitbucket.org/something/other/pull-requests/3649

Looking up something/other for pull requests

Checking PR-3649 from something/other and branch bugfix/SRCH-6152

      'Jenkinsfile' found

    Met criteria

Scheduled build for branch: PR-3649

  1 pull requests were processed (query completed)

[Wed Aug 06 17:23:27 UTC 2025] com.cloudbees.jenkins.plugins.bitbucket.hooks.PREvent CREATED event from 104.192.140.240 ⇒ https://jenknis.mydomain.com:8080/bitbucket-scmsource-hook/notify with timestamp Wed Aug 06 17:23:21 UTC 2025 processed in 1.2 sec

[Wed Aug 06 17:23:30 UTC 2025] Received com.cloudbees.jenkins.plugins.bitbucket.hooks.PREvent UPDATED event from 104.192.140.240 ⇒ https://jenknis.mydomain.com:8080/bitbucket-scmsource-hook/notify with timestamp Wed Aug 06 17:23:25 UTC 2025

Connecting to https://bitbucket.org using xh2XVc8rjZurKMzFwS/****** (Bitbucket OAuth for multibranch pipeline)

Initialized PR: https://bitbucket.org/something/other/pull-requests/3649

Looking up something/other for pull requests

Checking PR-3649 from something/other and branch bugfix/SRCH-6152

      'Jenkinsfile' found

    Met criteria

No changes detected: PR-3649 (still at 3a74f1e5f6c9+7f94d5bea397)

  1 pull requests were processed (query completed)

[Wed Aug 06 17:23:31 UTC 2025] com.cloudbees.jenkins.plugins.bitbucket.hooks.PREvent UPDATED event from 104.192.140.240 ⇒ https://jenknis.mydomain.com:8080/bitbucket-scmsource-hook/notify with timestamp Wed Aug 06 17:23:25 UTC 2025 processed in 1 sec

[Wed Aug 06 17:23:34 UTC 2025] Received com.cloudbees.jenkins.plugins.bitbucket.hooks.PREvent REMOVED event from 104.192.140.240 ⇒ https://jenknis.mydomain.com:8080/bitbucket-scmsource-hook/notify with timestamp Wed Aug 06 17:23:29 UTC 2025

Connecting to https://bitbucket.org using xh2XVc8rjZurKMzFwS/****** (Bitbucket OAuth for multibranch pipeline)

Looking up something/other for pull requests

  0 pull requests were processed

[Wed Aug 06 17:23:34 UTC 2025] com.cloudbees.jenkins.plugins.bitbucket.hooks.PREvent REMOVED event from 104.192.140.240 ⇒ https://jenknis.mydomain.com:8080/bitbucket-scmsource-hook/notify with timestamp Wed Aug 06 17:23:29 UTC 2025 processed in 0.24 sec 



However the jobs remain in this state forever unless i delete them manually or trigger a manual scan.

My understanding of the documentation is that with these settings the builds should be automatically removed. Am i missing something?


Best Regards

environment

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Jenkins: 2.516.1

OS: Linux - 6.8.0-1032-aws ubuntu 22.04

Java: 17.0.15 - Ubuntu (OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM)

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