What’s New in Spring Cloud 2020.0.4? Features, Dependencies, and Upgrade Guide

Spring Cloud 2020.0.4 has been officially released as a bug‑fix version compatible with Spring Boot 2.4.x and 2.5.x.

The Bill of Materials (BOM) can be imported from the central repository with the following coordinates:

<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>

Spring Cloud Commons

Allows creating reactive circuit breakers via group.

Spring Cloud Config

When using JDBC as storage, Boolean and Integer values can be returned.

When using Git as storage, username and password can be supplied dynamically.

Spring Cloud OpenFeign

Supports changing the circuit‑breaker type of a Feign client.

Spring Cloud Netflix

If the Eureka service is unavailable, registration to the related config center is skipped.

Spring Cloud Sleuth

Simplifies the display of related parameters.

Spring Cloud Kubernetes

Unifies namespace handling between fabric8 and native Kubernetes.

Dependency Versions

Module

Version

Spring Cloud Starter Build

3.0.4

Spring Cloud Netflix

3.0.4

Spring Cloud Openfeign

3.0.4

Spring Cloud Gateway

3.0.4

Spring Cloud Commons

3.0.4

Spring Cloud Config

3.0.5

Spring Cloud Consul

3.0.4

Spring Cloud Contract

3.0.4

Spring Cloud Kubernetes

2.0.4

Spring Cloud Sleuth

3.0.4

Spring Cloud Vault

3.0.4

Spring Cloud Zookeeper

3.0.4

Spring Cloud CircuitBreaker

2.0.2

Spring Cloud Stream

3.1.4

Spring Cloud Function

3.1.4