The Official Continuation of Spring Cloud Contract
Stubborn Contract is the
official continuation of
Spring Cloud Contract
Led by Marcin Grzejszczak, one of its original creators. Spring Cloud Contract is transitioning out of the Spring Cloud portfolio, and future development continues under the Stubborn organization. Here's what's changing, what isn't, and what CTOs and enterprises should do next.
Where things stand
A new, independent home, not a fork of convenience
Spring Cloud Contract is entering a new chapter. Stubborn Contract is its official continuation, led by Marcin Grzejszczak, one of the project's original creators.
Stubborn Contract 0.1.2 is
released, published to Maven Central under the sh.stubborn
groupId, with renamed packages, published migration instructions, and Spring-free messaging
building blocks for Kafka, RabbitMQ, and JMS. Your existing Spring Cloud Contract contracts,
WireMock stubs, and stub-runner configuration keep working.
Read the announcement.
Read the official announcement on the Spring blog, and Marcin's take on the transition.
Official continuation of Spring Cloud Contract
Stubborn Contract carries the project forward after its transition from the Spring Cloud portfolio. Same contract-testing philosophy, an independent home under the Stubborn organization.
Open-source core
The consumer-driven contract testing core remains available under Apache 2.0. Existing Spring Cloud Contract users can keep using their current versions while planning the transition.
Commercial platform capabilities
Stubborn Broker adds branch-aware governance, a dependency graph, and CI-friendly can-i-deploy gating on top of the contract-testing core, for teams that need production-grade rollout safety.
Enterprise-funded roadmap
The first Stubborn-branded release has shipped. Further major initiatives, deeper migration tooling, and accelerated development are funded through a small number of Enterprise Partnerships.
Sustainable by design
The open-source core remains available to everyone. Major initiatives and accelerated roadmap work are funded through a small number of Enterprise Partnerships.
Open-source core
The broker, dashboard, contract publishing, verification, Maven and Gradle plugins, and CLI stay free and available under Apache 2.0.
Get Started →Enterprise Partnerships
Organizations that depend on Stubborn Contract in production can become Enterprise Partners, funding roadmap acceleration, migration planning, and priority engineering.
Learn More →No public pricing here by design. Every partnership is scoped to the organization. See what Enterprise Partnerships include →
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