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

Notable Changes in the Edgware Release Train

Renamed starters

A number of starters did not follow normal Spring Cloud naming conventions. In Edgware, use of the deprecated starter will log a warning with the name of the new starter to use in its place. Below is a table of the deprecated starters and their replacements

Deprecated	Edgware Starter
spring-cloud-starter-archaius	spring-cloud-starter-netflix-archaius
spring-cloud-starter-atlas	spring-cloud-starter-netflix-atlas
spring-cloud-starter-eureka	spring-cloud-starter-netflix-eureka-client
spring-cloud-starter-eureka-server	spring-cloud-starter-netflix-eureka-server
spring-cloud-starter-feign	spring-cloud-starter-openfeign
spring-cloud-starter-hystrix	spring-cloud-starter-netflix-hystrix
spring-cloud-starter-hystrix-dashboard	spring-cloud-starter-netflix-hystrix-dashboard
spring-cloud-starter-ribbon	spring-cloud-starter-netflix-ribbon
spring-cloud-starter-spectator	spring-cloud-starter-netflix-spectator
spring-cloud-starter-turbine	spring-cloud-starter-netflix-turbine
spring-cloud-starter-turbine-amqp	DELETED
spring-cloud-starter-turbine-stream	spring-cloud-starter-netflix-turbine-stream
spring-cloud-starter-zuul	spring-cloud-starter-netflix-zuul

Spring Cloud Bus

Updates to allow Bus clients to implement remote events in independent packages.

Spring Cloud Task

See the release announcement.

Spring Cloud Netflix

@EnableDiscoveryClient is now optional. Including spring-cloud-starter-netflix will automatically assume the application should register and be a discovery client. To disable auto-registration set spring.cloud.service-registry.auto-registration.enabled=false. Hystrix and Eureka Server are now tested via Spring Cloud Contract.

Spring Cloud Consul

Consul DiscoveryClient now supports a datacenter parameter. HTTPS checks with self-signed certificates are now supported.

Spring Cloud Contract

Wiremock has been updated and custom extensions are now supported. URL segments can now be referenced in body response verification.

Spring Cloud Sleuth

Zipkin 2 support has been added along with numerous minor enhancements.

Spring Cloud Stream

See the release annoucement;

Spring Cloud Config

A new JDBC EnvironmentRepository was created.

Spring Cloud Zookeeper

The ability to set the instance ID was added.

Spring Cloud Commons

As mentioned above, @EnableDiscoveryClient is now optional.

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

Module	Version
Spring Cloud Bus	1.3.2.RC1
Spring Cloud Task	1.2.2.RELEASE
Spring Cloud Netflix	1.4.0.RC1
Spring Cloud Consul	1.3.0.RC1
Spring Cloud Contract	1.2.0.RC1
Spring Cloud Sleuth	1.3.0.RC1
Spring Cloud Stream	Ditmars.RELEASE
Spring Cloud Dependencies	1.3.5.RELEASE
Spring Cloud Aws	1.2.2.RC1
Spring Cloud Config	1.4.0.RC1
Spring Boot	1.5.6.RELEASE
Spring Cloud Zookeeper	1.2.0.RC1
Spring Cloud Gateway	1.0.0.RC1
Spring Cloud Cloudfoundry	1.1.0.RELEASE
Spring Cloud Commons	1.3.0.RC1
Spring Boot Dependencies	1.5.6.RELEASE
Spring Cloud Build	1.3.5.RELEASE
Spring Boot Starter	1.5.6.RELEASE
Spring Cloud Security	1.2.1.RELEASE
Spring Cloud Vault	1.1.0.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>Edgware.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:Edgware.RC1'
    }
}

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