Abort current build from pipeline in Jenkins

Following this documentation from Jenkins, you should be able to generate an error to stop the build and set the build result like this:

currentBuild.result = 'ABORTED'

Hope that helps.

After some testing I came up with the following solution:

def autoCancelled = false

try {
  stage('checkout') {
    ...
    if (your condition) {
      autoCancelled = true
      error('Aborting the build to prevent a loop.')
    }
  }
} catch (e) {
  if (autoCancelled) {
    currentBuild.result = 'ABORTED'
    echo('Skipping mail notification')
    // return here instead of throwing error to keep the build "green"
    return
  }
  // normal error handling
  throw e
}

This will result into following stage view:

failed stage

If you don't like the failed stage, you have to use return. But be aware you have to skip each stage or wrapper.

def autoCancelled = false

try {
  stage('checkout') {
    ...
    if (your condition) {
      autoCancelled = true
      return
    }
  }
  if (autoCancelled) {
    error('Aborting the build to prevent a loop.')
    // return would be also possible but you have to be sure to quit all stages and wrapper properly
    // return
  }
} catch (e) {
  if (autoCancelled) {
    currentBuild.result = 'ABORTED'
    echo('Skipping mail notification')
    // return here instead of throwing error to keep the build "green"
    return
  }
  // normal error handling
  throw e
}

The result:

custom error as indicator

You can also use a custom message instead of a local variable:

final autoCancelledError = 'autoCancelled'

try {
  stage('checkout') {
    ...
    if (your condition) {
      echo('Aborting the build to prevent a loop.')
      error(autoCancelledError)
    }
  }
} catch (e) {
  if (e.message == autoCancelledError) {
    currentBuild.result = 'ABORTED'
    echo('Skipping mail notification')
    // return here instead of throwing error to keep the build "green"
    return
  }
  // normal error handling
  throw e
}

You can mark the build as ABORTED, and then use the error step to cause the build to stop:

if (!continueBuild) {
    currentBuild.result = 'ABORTED'
    error('Stopping early…')
}

In the Stage View, this will show that the build stopped at this stage, but the build overall will be marked as aborted, rather than failed (see the grey icon for build #9):