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 # Kanboard Jenkins plugin
 A plugin that allows to create or update a Kanboard task as a post-build action, to trigger a build when a task is created or moved, and to fetch a task and its attachments as a build step.
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+This plugin requires that Kanboard be configured to use the "X-API-Auth" header for authentication as described in the documentation here: https://docs.kanboard.org/en/latest/api/authentication.html