I ran across a strange issue:

• Create a new inheritance job
• Add a text parameter with some text which includes newlines as default value
• Save and then click on 'Build with Parameters'

Then this text parameter has magically become a string parameter and thus lost the newlines.

Is this a known issue and does anyone know a workaround?

Jenkins 1.598

java version "1.7.0_75"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (rhel-2.5.4.2.el7_0-x86_64 u75-b13)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.75-b04, mixed mode)

CentOS Linux release 7.0.1406 (Core)