On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Release Candidate 1 (RC1) of the Spring Cloud Finchley Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the Finchley release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the Finchley Release Train

Finchley.RC1 is based on Spring Boot 2.0.1.

Spring Cloud Task

• Release Announcement

Spring Cloud Config

• Set refresh rate for Git repos
• Bug Fixes

Spring Cloud Bus

• Bug Fixes

Spring Cloud Netflix

• Bug Fixes

Spring Cloud Cloudfoundry

• Bug Fixes

Spring Cloud Contract

• Support for Pact v3
• Integration with Pact Broker
• Option to upload and fetch stubs from a Git repository
• Bug Fixes

Spring Cloud Consul

• Bug Fixes

Spring Cloud Gateway

• Dynamically filter registered services to be routed by Gateway. Using SpEL, you can set an expression to be evaluated againts a ServiceInstance object. For example, spring.cloud.gateway.discovery.locator.include-expression=metadata['edge'] == 'true' will test that the metadata map contains a key edge with a value of true.
• Filters to read or modify requests and responses
• Bug Fixes

Spring Cloud Zookeeper

• Bug Fixes

Spring Cloud Stream

• Release Notes

Spring Cloud Sleuth

• Dubbo integration has been documented
• Bug Fixes

Spring Cloud Commons

• Bug Fixes

The following modules were updated as part of Finchley.RC1:

Module	Version
Spring Cloud Task	2.0.0.RC1
Spring Cloud Config	2.0.0.RC1
Spring Cloud Bus	2.0.0.RC1
Spring Cloud Netflix	2.0.0.RC1
Spring Cloud CloudFoundry	2.0.0.RC1
Spring Cloud Security	2.0.0.RC1
Spring Cloud Build	2.0.0.RELEASE
Spring Cloud Contract	2.0.0.RC1
Spring Cloud Consul	2.0.0.RC1
Spring Cloud Gateway	2.0.0.RC1
Spring Cloud Zookeeper	2.0.0.RC1
Spring Cloud Stream	Elmhurst.RELEASE
Spring Cloud Sleuth	2.0.0.RC1
Spring Cloud Aws	2.0.0.RC1
Spring Boot	2.0.1.RELEASE
Spring Cloud OpenFeign	2.0.0.RC1
Spring Cloud Vault	2.0.0.RC1
Spring Cloud Commons	2.0.0.RC1

As always, we welcome feedback on GitHub, on Gitter, on Stack Overflow, or on Twitter.

To get started with Maven with a BOM (dependency management only):

<repositories>
    <repository>
        <id>spring-milestones</id>
        <name>Spring Milestones</name>
        <url>http://repo.spring.io/milestone</url>
        <snapshots>
            <enabled>false</enabled>
        </snapshots>
    </repository>
</repositories>
<dependencyManagement>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-cloud-dependencies</artifactId>
            <version>Finchley.RC1</version>
            <type>pom</type>
            <scope>import</scope>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-cloud-starter-config</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-cloud-starter-netflix-eureka-client</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    ...
</dependencies>

or with Gradle:

buildscript {
    dependencies {
        classpath "io.spring.gradle:dependency-management-plugin:1.0.2.RELEASE"
    }
}

repositories {
    maven {
        url 'http://repo.spring.io/milestone'
    }
}

apply plugin: "io.spring.dependency-management"

dependencyManagement {
    imports {
        mavenBom 'org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-dependencies:Finchley.RC1'
    }
}

dependencies {
    compile 'org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-starter-config'
    compile 'org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-starter-netflix-eureka-client'
    ...
}