On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the 2020.0.4 release of Spring Cloud is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the 2020.0 release notes for more information.

See all issues included in this release here.

This was primarily a bug fix and documentation release. 2020.0.4 is compatible with Spring Boot 2.4.x and 2.5.x.

Notable Changes in the 2020.0.4 release

Spring Cloud Commons

• Allow passing group while creating reactive circuit breaker (#994 )

Spring Cloud Config

• Return Boolean and Integer Properties when using JDBC backend ( #1952 )
• Provide the git username/password at run time(dynamically) ( #1896 )

Spring Cloud Contract

• Add explicit dependency to generateContractTests task for processContractTestResources ( #1665 )
• WireMock upgraded to 2.31.0 ( #1715 )

Spring Cloud OpenFeign

• Allow to change a circuitbreaker name (#574)

Spring Cloud Netflix

• Do not register Eureka config server bootstrap when Eureka is disabled (#4000)
• Dependency upgrades (#4025)

Spring Cloud Sleuth

• Simplify ON_EACH reactor instrumentation (#1969)

Spring Cloud Kubernetes

• Choose namespace in a consistent fashion across fabric8 and k8s-native clients (#859)

The following modules were updated as part of 2020.0.4:

As always, we welcome feedback on GitHub, on Stack Overflow, or on Twitter.

To get started with Maven with a BOM (dependency management only):

<dependencyManagement>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-cloud-dependencies</artifactId>
            <version>2020.0.4</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:1.0.11.RELEASE"
  }
}

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

dependencyManagement {
  imports {
    mavenBom 'org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-dependencies:2020.0.4'
  }
}

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