<sod>One of the biggest technical strengths of Jenkins is that it is [https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Extension+points extremely extensible]. This, plus the desire to be very welcoming as a community, {{citation needed|date=October 2016}} is the reason why Jenkins has now more than 1200 plugins and hundreds of developers, and that several new ones are created and made available in the official Update Center each month.<eod>
<sod>Jenkins supports extensibility with plugins.<eod>