Jenkins pipeline plugin: set the build description

Question

I\'m trying to replace our current build pipeline, currently hacked together using old-school Jenkins jobs, with a new job that uses the Jenkins pipeline plugin, and loads a

Answer 1

This may not have been the case when jjst wrote his answer but now with the latest jenkins and plugins you can set this outside the main pipeline at the top. This means you dont have to embed script setting and have special steps etc eg

currentBuild.description = "my new description"
pipeline {...

or

currentBuild.description = """
blah
blah
blah
"""
pipeline {