Spring Cloud Finchley.M9 Has Been Released

March 23, 2018

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Milestone 9 (M9) 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

Spring Cloud Gateway

Spring Cloud Netflix

Upgraded to Eureka 1.8.7 to address thread pool issue when Eureka health check is enabled

Spring Cloud Sleuth

Bug Fixes
Further Alignment With Brave
Fixed interop with Spring Cloud Gateway

Spring Cloud Contract

Added byte array for DSL
Better support for RestDocs parametrized names
Added exposure of multiple versions of the same artifact in the same test
Added verbose messages for collection assertions in the generated tests
Allows to keep unpacked stubs after the stubs got downloaded and test finished
Added new overview sections to documentation

Spring Cloud Commons

Refactored APIs related to configuring Spring Retry

Spring Cloud Config

Adds ability to remove untracked local branches
Support YAML configuration for composite repos

Spring Cloud Stream

See Spring Cloud Stream release notes

The following modules were updated as part of Finchley.M9:

Module	Version
Spring Cloud Consul	2.0.0.M7
Spring Cloud Zookeeper	2.0.0.M7
Spring Cloud Gateway	2.0.0.M9
Spring Cloud Build	2.0.0.RC2
Spring Boot	2.0.0.RELEASE
Spring Cloud Aws	2.0.0.M4
Spring Cloud Bus	2.0.0.M7
Spring Cloud Netflix	2.0.0.M8
Spring Cloud Sleuth	2.0.0.M9
Spring Cloud Contract	2.0.0.M8
Spring Cloud Cloudfoundry	2.0.0.M3
Spring Cloud Security	2.0.0.M3
Spring Cloud Commons	2.0.0.M9
Spring Cloud Config	2.0.0.M9
Spring Cloud Task	2.0.0.M3
Spring Cloud Stream	Elmhurst.RC3
Spring Boot Starter	2.0.0.RELEASE
Spring Cloud Openfeign	2.0.0.M2
Spring Cloud Vault	2.0.0.M6

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.M9</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.M9'
    }
}

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

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