Freestyle build interrupted during a post-build publisher reports FAILURE instead of ABORTED

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Jenkins and plugins versions report

Environment

Jenkins: 2.516.3
OS: Linux - 6.8.0-1042-aws
Java: 21.0.11 - Amazon.com Inc. (OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM)

What Operating System are you using (both controller, and any agents involved in the problem)?

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

Reproduction steps

1. Create a freestyle project with any publisher (e.g. Archive the artifacts).
2. Start a build and, while the publisher is running, abort it (or have it superseded /reclaimed) — i.e. executor.interrupt(Result.ABORTED).

Expected Results

build result is ABORTED

Actual Results

build result is FAILURE, and the log shows "aborted due to exception" with a stack trace.

Anything else?

When a freestyle build is interrupted (executor.interrupt(Result.ABORTED), e.g. a supersede/cancel, a build timeout, or an EC2 spot reclamation) while a publisher is running in the post-production phase, most importantly the "Archive the artifacts" step, you get a Result.FAILURE instead of Result.ABORTED.

This only affects the publisher (post-build) phase. An interrupt during the main build phase is already honored as ABORTED, and Pipeline jobs abort correctly because WorkflowJob carries the interrupt as a FlowInterruptedException with the Result attached. The bug is specific to the AbstractBuild publisher loop.

Are you interested in contributing a fix?

Yes