Fixes

• Stop exceptions from being thrown when connection to Consul temporarily breaks (#220)

New features

• New configuration format supported: JSON files - #152

Fixes

• Using default environment ("") throws exception with ClasspathConfigurationSource - #155
• Fixed invalid exception message - #159
• Improved documentation

New features

• New configuration source: System properties - #128, #146
• New configuration source: Environment variables - #128, #146
• Detect both *.yaml and *.yml files as YAML files - #141

Fixes

• #136 - FallbackConfigurationSource would fail when one of the underlying sources threw SourceCommunicationException

Improvements

• #139 - notify user when the getConfiguration() method gets called before init() or after failed reload() call

New features

• Added support for Java 7

Fixes

• Improved log levels

Fixes

• NPE when loading an empty Yaml document

Fixes

• Fix race condition - configuration provider returns null values while reloading configuration from Consul

Fixes

• PeriodicalReloadStrategy dies on source throwing an exception

New features

• new source: in-memory, backed by Properties object (see InMemoryConfigurationSource)
• ConfigurationProvider can now emit performance and usage metrics (see ConfigurationProviderBuilder#withMetrics)

Other

• upgrade dependencies
• more integration tests
• improve source connection management (delay first connection to the moment when it's needed)