What’s New in Spring Cloud Hoxton SR8? Full Release Details and Dependency Updates

Spring Cloud Hoxton Service Release 8 (SR8) has been released and can be retrieved from Maven Central. The Maven coordinates are:

<dependencyManagement>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-cloud-dependencies</artifactId>
            <version>Hoxton.SR8</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>

Hoxton.SR8 is compatible with Spring Boot 2.3.x and 2.2.x. Main changes include:

Spring Cloud Netflix

Eureka client now supports TLS configuration.

Spring Cloud Config

Config client now supports TLS configuration.

Spring Cloud Kubernetes

Supports Spring Cloud LoadBalancer and automatically adds namespace metadata to Service Instance metadata.

Dependency Updates

Spring Cloud Starter Build Hoxton.SR8 Spring Cloud Netflix 2.2.5.RELEASE Spring Cloud OpenFeign 2.2.5.RELEASE (issues)

Spring Cloud Config 2.2.5.RELEASE Spring Cloud Aws 2.2.4.RELEASE Spring Cloud Kubernetes 1.1.6.RELEASE (issues)

Spring Cloud Gateway 2.2.5.RELEASE (issues)

Spring Cloud Gcp 1.2.5.RELEASE Spring Cloud Commons 2.2.5.RELEASE (issues)

Spring Cloud Sleuth 2.2.5.RELEASE (issues)

Spring Cloud Vault 2.2.5.RELEASE For full details, see the official Spring blog post: https://spring.io/blog/2020/08/28/spring-cloud-hoxton-sr8-has-been-released