Spencer Gibb

Spencer Gibb

Spencer is an industry veteran with experience in e-commerce platforms, government and non-profit organizations to business intelligence startups.

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Spring Cloud Greenwich Service Release 5 (SR5) is available.

Releases | February 01, 2020 | ...

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Service Release 5 (SR5) of the Spring Cloud Greenwich Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the Greenwich release notes or the Spring Cloud Project for more information.

Notable Changes in the Greenwich Release Train

This release contains bug fixes, minor enhancements and documentation updates.

This is the final scheduled release for the Greenwich Release Train (see here for more details). We reccomend you upgrade to Hoxton as soon as possible. Greenwich.SR5 is based on Spring…

Spring Cloud Roadmap and Hoxton and Greenwich Maintenance and EOL Announcements

Releases | December 23, 2019 | ...

With the recent Spring Framework and Spring Boot maintenance and roadmap posts, the Spring Cloud team is taking the opportunity to provide some insight to our future roadmap as well as the lifetimes of the Greenwich and Hoxton release trains.

Spring Cloud Ilford

We would like to announce our next major release, Spring Cloud Ilford. This will be the first major release since the release of Spring Cloud Finchley, which provided support for Spring Boot 2.x and Spring Framework 5.x. By making Ilford a major release, it will allow us to remove modules that have entered maintenance mode and to complete the simplification of the release train announced earlier this year. It will also…

Spring Cloud Hoxton Service Release 1 (SR1) is available.

Releases | December 21, 2019 | ...

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Service Release 1 (SR1) of the Spring Cloud Hoxton Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the Hoxton release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the Hoxton Release Train

This milestone was primarily a bugfix release.

Please see the Hoxton.SR1 Github Project for all issues closed.

This milestone release is built with Spring Boot 2.2.2.RELEASE.

Spring Cloud Config

Besides bug fixes, Vault authentication was changed to use the Spring Vault project providing more options…

Spring Cloud Hoxton.M3 is now available

Releases | October 05, 2019 | ...

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that Milestone 3 (M3) of the Spring Cloud Hoxton Release Train is available today. The release can be found in the Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the Hoxton release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the Hoxton Release Train

This milestone release is compatible with Spring Boot 2.2.0.RC1.

Spring Cloud Circuit Breaker

We welcome Spring Cloud Circuit Breaker as a new project under the Spring Cloud release train. This project provides an abstraction API for adding circuit breakers to your application. At the time of…

Simplifying the Spring Cloud Release Train

Releases | July 24, 2019 | ...

Spring Cloud continues to prove immensely popular, and over the last few years a number of IaaS providers have provided integration with their technology and joined the release train. This has typically involved getting into the spring-cloud GitHub org and publishing in the org.springframework.cloud Maven groupid. As the number of projects included looks to increase, it is becoming a little unwieldy, and we wanted to take a step back and review the pros and cons that this model provides and propose a better path forward that benefits all projects involved.

Perhaps the biggest downside to being…

Spring Cloud Hoxton.M1 is available.

Releases | July 03, 2019 | ...

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that Milestone 1 (M1) of the Spring Cloud Hoxton Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the Hoxton release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the Hoxton Release Train

This milestone release is compatible with Spring Boot 2.2.0.M4.

Spring Cloud Gateway

Spring Cloud Gateway has added support for RSocket. Look for more in an upcoming blog post.

Spring Cloud Contract

Gradle support has been updated to 5.5, and Groovy to version 2.5. A major refactoring has happened…

Spring Cloud Greenwich.SR2 is available.

Releases | June 27, 2019 | ...

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that Service Release 2 (SR2) of the Spring Cloud Greenwich Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the Greenwich release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the Greenwich Release Train

All projects were updated in coordination with the Spring nohttp effort.

Spring Cloud Gateway

Many updates and fixes were included via Reactor and Reactor Netty. Gateway also efficiently caches the request body when Retry is enabled or if the Read Body Predicate is used.

Spring Cloud Config

Preview releases of Spring Cloud Alibaba are available: 0.9.0, 0.2.2, and 0.1.2

Releases | April 19, 2019 | ...

NOTE: This is a guest post from our friends at Alibaba.

Hi! Today, we’re very excited to announce that the 0.9.0, 0.2.2, and 0.1.2 releases of Spring Cloud Alibaba are now available.

Release Highlight

Included in this GA are 3 new releases:

  • Release 0.9.0: Compatible with Spring Cloud Greenwich
  • Release 0.2.2: Compatible with Spring Cloud Finchley
  • Release 0.1.2: Compatible with Spring Cloud Edgware

Four new modules were added to all three releases:

  • spring-cloud-alibaba-sentinel-zuul
  • spring-cloud-alibaba-seata
  • spring-cloud-alibaba-dubbo (not available in Release 0.1.2)
  • spring-cloud-alibaba-sms

CVE-2019-3799: Spring Cloud Config 2.1.2, 2.0.4, 1.4.6 Released

Releases | April 17, 2019 | ...

We have released Spring Cloud Config 2.1.2, 2.0.4, and 1.4.6 to address CVE-2019-3799: Directory Traversal with spring-cloud-config-server. Please review the information in the CVE report and upgrade immediately.

These fixes will be included in the next release of the respective Spring Cloud release train.

NOTE: To override the version in Maven, update the dependency to include the version, such as:

<dependency>
	<groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
	<artifactId>spring-cloud-config-server</artifactId>
	<version>2.1.2.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>

Similarly, in Gradle:

dependencies…

Spring Cloud for Alibaba 0.2.1 released

Releases | December 21, 2018 | ...

NOTE: This is a guest post from our friends at Alibaba.

Hello everyone! Today, we’re very excited to announce that the 0.2.1.RELEASE of Spring Cloud Alibaba is available now.

Release highlights:

  • Added two new modules to Spring Cloud Alibaba: spring-cloud-alibaba-schedulerx and spring-cloud-stream-binder-rocketmq.
  • Added some new features in spring-cloud-alibaba-nacos and spring-cloud-alibaba-sentinel.
  • Fixed some bugs in the previous version.

Notes:

  • The Spring Cloud Alibaba project is a community project maintained by Alibaba.

  • The 0.2.1.RELEASE is compatible with Spring Cloud Finchley. Also included in this version is a 0.1.1.RELEASE, which is compatible with Spring Cloud Edgware. 0.1.1.RELEASE also contains the components and features that are new in 0.2.1.

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