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

• Support Rolling Deployments

• Refresh routes from service discovery heart beat

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:

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'
    ...
}