Spring Cloud Hoxton SR1 Released: New Features, Maven BOM & Bug Fixes

Spring Cloud Hoxton SR1 (maintenance release) is officially available.

Core Dependency

Spring Boot 2.2.2

Maven Dependency

<dependencyManagement>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-cloud-dependencies</artifactId>
            <version>Hoxton.SR1</version>
            <type>pom</type>
            <scope>import</scope>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>

Release Notes

Spring Cloud Config

New feature: support for AWS S3 environment storage of plain‑text resources.

Spring Cloud Commons

New feature: support for Spring Cloud LoadBalancer with zone awareness.

Spring Cloud Sleuth

New feature: support for Spring Cloud CircuitBreaker.

Spring Cloud Gateway

New feature: ability to configure route timeout.

Spring Cloud OpenFeign

FeignBlockingLoadBalancerClient

changed to public visibility for easier extension. DefaultGzipDecoder charset changed to UTF‑8.

Bug Fixes

For detailed issue list, see the project board and release notes:

https://github.com/orgs/spring-cloud/projects/34

https://spring.io/blog/2019/12/21/spring-cloud-hoxton-service-release-1-sr1-is-available

https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-cloud/wiki/Spring-Cloud-Hoxton-Release-Notes