What’s New in Spring Cloud Greenwich SR4? Key Updates and Dependency Changes

Spring Cloud Greenwich SR4 has been released and is available on Maven Central.

Important Changes

Underlying dependencies have been upgraded to Spring Boot 2.1.10.RELEASE.

Spring Cloud Gateway

Added support for Spring Cloud LoadBalancer

Spring Cloud Commons

@EnableDiscoveryClient is no longer required; only the DiscoveryClient dependency is needed for registration with a service discovery server.

Spring Cloud OpenFeign

Upgraded to OpenFeign 10.4.0

Added support for Google HTTP Client

Added support for JDK Proxy (important)

Other modules bug fixes

Modules such as Spring Cloud Kubernetes, Spring Cloud Contract, Spring Cloud Vault, Spring Cloud Sleuth, and Spring Cloud Config are included.

pom Changes

<dependencyManagement>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-cloud-dependencies</artifactId>
            <version>Greenwich.SR4</version>
            <type>pom</type>
            <scope>import</scope>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>