What’s New in Spring Cloud Greenwich SR5? Release Highlights and Upgrade Guide

Spring Cloud Greenwich Service Release 5 (SR5) is now available via Maven Central, bringing bug fixes, minor feature enhancements, and documentation updates. It is the final release of the Greenwich train and is based on Spring Boot 2.1.12, with an upgrade recommendation to Hoxton.

Spring Cloud Commons

To support merged list properties from YAML configuration, this version changes how each PropertySource is added to the environment individually rather than to a composite.

Updated Modules

Spring Cloud Build – 2.1.10.RELEASE

Spring Cloud Sleuth – 2.1.7.RELEASE

Spring Cloud Consul – 2.1.5.RELEASE

Spring Cloud Gateway – 2.1.5.RELEASE

Spring Cloud Contract – 2.1.5.RELEASE

Spring Cloud Netflix – 2.1.5.RELEASE

Spring Cloud Gcp – 1.1.5.RELEASE

Spring Cloud Config – 2.1.6.RELEASE

Spring Cloud Openfeign – 2.1.5.RELEASE

Spring Cloud Commons – 2.1.5.RELEASE

Spring Cloud Aws – 2.1.4.RELEASE

Spring Cloud Vault – 2.1.5.RELEASE

Spring Cloud Bus – 2.1.4.RELEASE

Spring Cloud Kubernetes – 1.0.5.RELEASE

Acquisition

Dependencies can be imported via Maven using the Spring Cloud BOM:

<dependencyManagement>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-cloud-dependencies</artifactId>
            <version>Greenwich.SR5</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>

For Gradle, apply the Spring Boot and dependency‑management plugins and add the starter dependencies:

plugins {
  id 'org.springframework.boot' version '2.1.12.RELEASE'
  id 'io.spring.dependency-management' version '1.0.8.RELEASE'
  id 'java'
}
group = 'com.example'
version = '0.0.1-SNAPSHOT'
sourceCompatibility = '1.8'
repositories {
  mavenCentral()
}
dependencies {
  implementation 'org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-starter-config'
  implementation 'org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-starter-netflix-eureka-client'
  // ...
}

Full release notes and download links are available at the Spring Cloud GitHub wiki.