On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Milestone 6 (M6) of the Spring Cloud 2020 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the 2020 release notes for more information.

This release is compatible with Spring Boot 2.4.0.

Notable Changes in the 2020 Release Train

This release requires Spring Boot 2.4.0.

Please see the wiki for a list of all breaking changes in this release train.

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

Spring Cloud Sleuth

• Bumped OpenTelemetry to 0.11.0
• Bumped Brave to 5.13.2
• Aligned project structure to be consistent with Spring Boot
• Removed deprecated API

Click here for the list of tasks done for this release

Spring Cloud Gateway

• LoadBalancer hints support was added
• Passing request context to LoadBalancer was implemented

Click here for the list of tasks done for this release.

Spring Cloud Netflix

Click here for the list of tasks done for this release.

Spring Cloud Kubernetes

• A new implementation of Spring Cloud Kuberentes Config was added based on the Kubernetes Java Client (PR)

• A new implementation of Spring Cloud Kubernetes Discovery Client was added based on the Kubernetes Java Client (PR)

Spring Cloud Contract

• Allows @AutoConfigureWireMock to respect user-specified properties
• Removed deprecated API

Click here for the list of tasks done for this release.

Spring Cloud Openfeign

Click here for the list of tasks done for this release.

Spring Cloud Commons

• Corrected implementation of /pause endpoint (PR)
• ServerHttpRequestContext was added for SC LoadBalancer (PR)

Click here for the list of tasks done for this release.

Spring Cloud Task

• Added Support for KafkaItemReader (PR) and KafkaItemWriter (PR) for single step jobs.

The following modules were updated as part of 2020.0.0-M6:

| Module | Version | Issues |--- |--- |--- |--- | Spring Cloud Sleuth | 3.0.0-M6 | (issues) | Spring Cloud Consul | 3.0.0-M6 |
| Spring Cloud Gateway | 3.0.0-M6 |
| Spring Cloud Zookeeper | 3.0.0-M6 |
| Spring Cloud Config | 3.0.0-M6 |
| Spring Cloud Cloudfoundry | 3.0.0-M6 |
| Spring Cloud Netflix | 3.0.0-M6 |
| Spring Cloud Kubernetes | 2.0.0-M6 | (issues) | Spring Cloud Circuitbreaker | 2.0.0-M6 |
| Spring Cloud Contract | 3.0.0-M6 | (issues) | Spring Cloud Starter Build | 2020.0.0-M6 |
| Spring Cloud Security | 3.0.0-M6 |
| Spring Cloud Bus | 3.0.0-M6 |
| Spring Cloud Cli | 3.0.0-M6 |
| Spring Cloud Vault | 3.0.0-M6 |
| Spring Cloud Openfeign | 3.0.0-M6 |
| Spring Cloud Commons | 3.0.0-M6 |
| Spring Cloud Task | 3.0.0-M4 |

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-M6</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 'https://repo.spring.io/milestone'
}
}

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

dependencyManagement {
imports {
mavenBom 'org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-dependencies:2020.0.0-M6'
}
}

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