RELEASE

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Milestone 3 (M3) of the Spring Cloud 2020.0 Release Train (code name Ilford) is available today. The release can be found in Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the 2020.0 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2020.0 Release Train

This release requires Spring Boot 2.4.0-M1.

See all of the included issues and pull requests at the Github project.

Spring Cloud Sleuth

• Improvement with Reactor integration issue
• Integration with Spring Cloud Function
• Integration with MongoDB issue

Spring Cloud Kubernetes

• It is now possible to refresh application configuration when values change in ConfigMaps or Secrets without relying on the Kubernetes API. See #567.
• Improvement to maintain the data types and definition order of properties bound to java.util.Map. See #554.

Spring Cloud Consul

Adds support for non-String payload types in Consul Bus.

Spring Cloud Config

The JDBC Environment Repository may now be disabled with a property.

Spring Cloud Function

Aside from few enhancements and bug fixes this release includes initial support for RSocket integration. A separate blog post will follow shortly.

Spring Cloud Gateway

• Add the ability to trip a circuit breaker based on returned status code. See #1836.

Spring Cloud Contract

• Upgrading WireMock to 2.27.0 issue
• Aligning Rest Assured version with Boot issue
• Numerous library upgrades issues

Spring Cloud Commons

The Spring Cloud Loadbalancer lifecycle has been completed. This allows users to easily react to Load Balancer lifecycle events in a type-safe manner.

Spring Cloud Openfeign

Adds support for OpenFeign Collection Format issue

Spring Cloud Stream

Tighter integration with Spring Cloud Function, few new features in TestBinder allowing you to send to and receive from a named destination(s), significant performance improvements for dynamic destinations, as well as numerous enhancements and bug fixes across the framework.

Spring Cloud Task

Spring Cloud Task has added JdbcCursorItemReader and JdbcItemWriter to the Starter for Single-step Batch Jobs feature. This feature allows a user to configure a single-step Spring Batch job through properties alone. An example on how to use this feature can be found in here.

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The following modules were updated as part of 2020.0.0-M3:

| Module | Version | Issues |--- |--- |--- |--- | Spring Cloud Bus | 3.0.0-M3 |
| Spring Cloud Circuitbreaker | 2.0.0-M3 |
| Spring Cloud Cloudfoundry | 3.0.0-M3 |
| Spring Cloud Commons | 3.0.0-M3 |
| Spring Cloud Config | 3.0.0-M3 | (issues) | Spring Cloud Consul | 3.0.0-M3 |
| Spring Cloud Contract | 3.0.0-M3 | (issues) | Spring Cloud Function | 3.1.0-M2 |   | Spring Cloud Gateway | 3.0.0-M3 |
| Spring Cloud Kubernetes | 2.0.0-M3 |
| Spring Cloud Netflix | 3.0.0-M3 |
| Spring Cloud Openfeign | 3.0.0-M3 |
| Spring Cloud Security | 3.0.0-M3 |
| Spring Cloud Sleuth | 3.0.0-M3 |
| Spring Cloud Stream | 3.1.0-M2 |   | Spring Cloud Task | 2.3.0-M2 |   | Spring Cloud Vault | 3.0.0-M3 |
| Spring Cloud Zookeeper | 3.0.0-M3 |

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>https://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>2020.0.0-M3</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:1.0.9.RELEASE"
  }
}

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

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

dependencyManagement {
  imports {
    mavenBom 'org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-dependencies:2020.0.0-M3'
  }
}

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