Spring gRPC has been promoted from experimental to a full member of the Spring Portfolio with the latest release being 0.8.0.
The release updated dependencies to version 4 of the protobuf-java libraries and offers starters for both server and client applications on Spring Boot.
With the upcoming 1.0.0 release, Spring gRPC features related to Spring Boot will transition to Spring Boot itself as part of the 4.0.0 release.
One of the notable changes is the support for automatically creating gRPC client stubs as bean definitions by adding @ImportGrpcClients to a @Configuration class.