[JENKINS-49513] pipeline finally not reporting errors

Finally in a pipeline does not report critical errors, leading to mysterious failures.

E.g: this following pipeline excerpt does not construct the dependency-check-report.html file for archiving, and no error is logged.  However, the build silently fails as a result.

  try {

    stage('Build and test') {

      sh 'sbt -no-colors rebuild doc swaggerJson manifest'

    }

  } finally {

    stage('Archive coverage report') {

      archiveArtifacts "target/scala-2.12/scoverage-report/**"

      publishHTML(target: [reportName: "Code coverage report", reportDir: "target/scala-2.12/scoverage-report", reportFiles: "index.html"])

    }

    stage('Archive vulnerability report') {

      archiveArtifacts "target/scala-2.12/dependency-check-report.html"

      publishHTML(target: [reportName: "Vulnerabilty report", reportDir: "target/scala-2.12", reportFiles: "dependency-check-report.html"])

    }

  }

 

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Originally reported by alt_jmellor, imported from: pipeline finally not reporting errors

• status: Open
  
• priority: Major
  
• component(s): workflow-cps-plugin
  
• resolution: Unresolved
  
• votes: 0
  
• watchers: 1
  
• imported: 2025-12-07
  

Raw content of original issue

Finally in a pipeline does not report critical errors, leading to mysterious failures.


E.g: this following pipeline excerpt does not construct the dependency-check-report.html file for archiving, and no error is logged.  However, the build silently fails as a result.


  try {

    stage('Build and test') {

      sh 'sbt -no-colors rebuild doc swaggerJson manifest'

    }

  } finally {

    stage('Archive coverage report') {

      archiveArtifacts "target/scala-2.12/scoverage-report/**"

      publishHTML(target: [reportName: "Code coverage report", reportDir: "target/scala-2.12/scoverage-report", reportFiles: "index.html"])

    }


    stage('Archive vulnerability report') {

      archiveArtifacts "target/scala-2.12/dependency-check-report.html"

      publishHTML(target: [reportName: "Vulnerabilty report", reportDir: "target/scala-2.12", reportFiles: "dependency-check-report.html"])

    }

  }


 

• environment: Jenkins 2.101 on Ubuntu-16.04.3, pipeline 2.5, pipeline API 2.24

Start by reproducing the provided Jenkins Pipeline excerpt in the workflow-cps-plugin context, focusing on the try/finally stages and the failing publishHTML or archiveArtifacts steps. Trace how errors from the finally block are handled; done means critical errors are reported and the build no longer fails silently.

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