Breaking Changes

• Simplify interceptor registration #394
  • Lazy collect interceptors and global interceptor configurers
  • Changed API of global interceptor registry and configurers
• Removed stub creation via private constructors, which causes an incompatibility with kotlin.
  (The missing kotlin-grpc stub factory will be fixed asap in the next release)

Changes

• Change auto configs to use @Configuration(proxyBeanMethods = false)
  • This should improve compatibility with GraalVM's native images #383 #379

New Features

• Support 3rd party gRPC Java compilers via StubFactory #375 #382
• Request connection on startup #377
• Add option to configure the max metadata size for server #380
• Add more utility methods to CallCredentialsHelper #387
• Log connector selection (shaded-netty/netty/in-process) #386
• Log that the CallCredentials will be applied to all stubs automatically #388
• Throw exception if grpc-service is registered/implemented twice #392

Documentation

• Add example grpcurl usage for Windows #391
• Document setup for kubernetes #403

Dependencies

• grpc-java v1.31.1
• protobuf v3.12.4
• spring-boot v2.3.3
• spring-cloud Hoxton.SR7

Acknowledgements

Thanks to all our contributors:

• Alexey Genus @genuss
• Ophir Radnitz @liqweed
• @jbf154