On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Release Candidate 1 (RC1) of the Spring Cloud 2021.0 Release Train, codename Jubilee, is available today. The release can be found in Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the 2021.0 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2021.0 Release Train

RC1 is compatible with Spring Boot 2.6.0-RC1

See the project page for all the issues and pull requests included in this release.

Spring Cloud Commons

• Adds support for per LoadBalancer client properties. (issue)
• Adds X-Forwarded-* headers when using load-balanced RestTemplate. (issue)

Spring Cloud Kubernetes

• Adds support for disabling Discovery when spring.cloud.kubernetes.enabled=false. (issue)
• Better failure handling when a ConfigMap can not be read. (issue)
• Adds support for fail-fast and retry for reading config. (issue)

Spring Cloud Openfeign

• Adds support for per LoadBalancer client properties. (issue)
• Adds support for @Cachable of Feign clients. (issue)

Spring Cloud Sleuth

• Adds support for per instrumenting Mongo's reactive driver. (issue)
• Adds support for Spring Cloud Stream reactive. (issue)

Spring Cloud Contract

• Adds support for per LoadBalancer client properties. (issue)

Spring Cloud Gateway

• Adds support for per LoadBalancer client properties. (issue)
• Adds support for Route Predicate Visitor Pattern. (issue)

The following modules were updated as part of 2021.0.0-RC1:

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>2021.0.0-RC1</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:

plugins {
  id 'org.springframework.boot' version '2.6.0-RC1'
  id 'io.spring.dependency-management' version '1.0.11.RELEASE'
  id 'java'
}

group = 'com.example'
version = '0.0.1-SNAPSHOT'
sourceCompatibility = '11'

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

ext {
  set('springCloudVersion', "2021.0.0-RC1")
}

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

dependencyManagement {
  imports {
    mavenBom "org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-dependencies:${springCloudVersion}"
  }
}