On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Service Release 9 (SR9) 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

See all issues included in this release here.

This was primarily a bug fix and documentation release.

See all of the included issues and pull requests at the GitHub project. Hoxton.SR9 is compatible with Spring Boot 2.3.x and 2.2.x.

Spring Cloud Gateway

• Added support for setting SecureHeaders filter header values per route
• Added support for exposing RouteDefinitions via an actuator endpoint
• Added BooleanOpSpec.not() predicate operator
• Improved reactive LoadBalancer performance
• Added support for disabling filters and predicates by a property
• Added the possibility to customize gateway metrics prefix
• Support case-insensitive MVC headers matching

Spring Cloud Commons

• Added support for blocking retries in SC LoadBalancer

Spring Cloud Netflix

• Upgraded various dependencies
• Added support for ReactiveHealthIndicator

Spring Cloud OpenFeign

• Added the possibility to configure clients to send default headers
• Added support for sorting request interceptors
• Added support for Spring Retry with Spring Cloud LoadBalancer
• Upgraded various dependencies

Spring Cloud Contract

• Added option to disable .git suffix in git URLs

Spring Cloud Sleuth

• Added instrumentation for RetryableFeignBlockingLoadBalancerClient

Spring Cloud Config

• Added support for optionally sending application/json instead of v2 media type
• Make throwing an exception when a repository can't be read optional

Spring Cloud Consul

• Allowed ConsulHealthIndicator to bypass the services query
• Allowed ignoring SQL exceptions

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The following modules were updated as part of Hoxton.SR9:

| Module | Version | Issues |--- |--- |--- |--- | Spring Cloud Starter Build | Hoxton.SR9 |
| Spring Cloud Netflix | 2.2.6.RELEASE | (issues) | Spring Cloud Openfeign | 2.2.5.RELEASE | (issues) | Spring Cloud Config | 2.2.6.RELEASE | (issues) | Spring Cloud Aws | 2.2.5.RELEASE | (issues) | Spring Cloud Gateway | 2.2.6.RELEASE | (issues) | Spring Cloud Gcp | 1.2.6.RELEASE |
| Spring Cloud Commons | 2.2.6.RELEASE | (issues) | Spring Cloud Consul | 2.2.5.RELEASE | (issues) | Spring Cloud Contract | 2.2.5.RELEASE | (issues) | Spring Cloud Kubernetes | 1.1.7.RELEASE | (issues) | Spring Cloud Sleuth | 2.2.6.RELEASE | (issues) | Spring Cloud Vault | 2.2.6.RELEASE |
| Spring Cloud Zookeeper | 2.2.4.RELEASE |
| Spring Cloud CLI | 2.2.3.RELEASE |

As always, we welcome feedback on GitHub, on Gitter, on Stack Overflow, or on Twitter.

To get started with Maven with a BOM (dependency management only):

<dependencyManagement>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-cloud-dependencies</artifactId>
            <version>Hoxton.SR9</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>

or with Gradle:

buildscript {
  dependencies {
    classpath "io.spring.gradle:dependency-management-plugin:1.0.10.RELEASE"
  }
}

apply plugin: "io.spring.dependency-management"

dependencyManagement {
  imports {
    mavenBom 'org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-dependencies:Hoxton.SR9'
  }
}

dependencies {
  compile 'org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-starter-config'
  compile 'org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-starter-netflix-eureka-client'
  //...
}