On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce that Release Candidate 1 (RC1) of the Spring Cloud Camden Release Train is available today. The release can be found in our Spring Milestone repository. This is mostly a bug fix release as Camden prepares for General Availability (GA). You can check out the Camden release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the Camden Release Train

Spring Cloud Contract is a new project that provides support for Consumer Driven Contracts and service schemas in Spring applications. Spring Cloud Netflix supports customization of Ribbon component classes via properties, uses the new community maintained OpenFeign and made various fixes and improvements to Zuul. Spring Cloud Consul adds support for Spring Cloud Bus using Consul's event api. The CLI adds a spring cloud command to start various Spring Cloud servers with a single command. Supported servers include Eureka, Config Server and Hystrix Dashboard.

The following modules were updated as part of Camden.RC1:

NOTE: Spring Cloud CLI 1.2.0.RC1 will be released after Spring Boot 1.4.1 is released because of a regression.

The combined release train documentation is available here.

And, as always, we welcome feedback: either on GitHub, on Gitter, on Stack Overflow, or on Twitter.

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

<repositories>
    <repository>
        <id>spring-milestones</id>
        <name>Spring Milestones</name>
        <url>http://repo.spring.io/milestone</url>
        <snapshots>
            <enabled>false</enabled>
        </snapshots>
    </repository>
</repositories>
<dependencyManagement>
  <dependencies>
    <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-cloud-dependencies</artifactId>
    <version>Camden.RC1</version>
    <type>pom</type>
    <scope>import</scope>
  </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-eureka</artifactId>
  </dependency>
  ...
</dependencies>

or with Gradle:

buildscript {
  dependencies {
    classpath "io.spring.gradle:dependency-management-plugin:0.6.0.RELEASE"
  }
}
repositories {
    maven {
        url 'http://repo.spring.io/milestone'
    }
}
apply plugin: "io.spring.dependency-management"

dependencyManagement {
  imports {
    mavenBom 'org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-dependencies:Camden.RC1'
  }
}

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