What’s New in Spring Cloud 2020? Release Plans, Deprecations, and Migration Paths

Spring Cloud co‑founder

Spencer Gibb

announced the Spring Cloud 2020 roadmap.

Code name: Ilford

The next Spring Cloud version is codenamed

Ilford

, with the first release planned for March 2020.

Core dependencies

Spring Framework 5.3

and

Spring Boot 2.4

.

Deprecated Netflix modules

spring-cloud-netflix-archaius

spring-cloud-netflix-hystrix-contract

spring-cloud-netflix-hystrix-dashboard

spring-cloud-netflix-hystrix-stream

spring-cloud-netflix-hystrix

spring-cloud-netflix-ribbon

spring-cloud-netflix-turbine-stream

spring-cloud-netflix-turbine

spring-cloud-netflix-zuul

Recommended component replacements

Hystrix → Resilience4j

Hystrix Dashboard → Turbine

Ribbon → Spring Cloud Loadbalancer

Zuul 1 → Spring Cloud Gateway

Archaius 1 → Spring Boot external config + Spring Cloud Config

Developers in China are encouraged to follow

Spring Cloud Alibaba

, an open‑source microservice stack built on Alibaba’s extensive middleware experience.

Simplifying Spring Cloud release process

More vendors are joining the Spring Cloud ecosystem (e.g., Spring Cloud Alibaba, Spring Cloud Azure). Since 2019, the release workflow has been streamlined: after Spring Cloud Alibaba graduates, its groupId changes from

org.springframework.cloud

to

com.alibaba.cloud

, making its release process much simpler and aligned with the main Spring Cloud project.

Current version development plan

Spring Cloud Hoxton

The first Hoxton Service Release was published on 2019‑12‑21. A second Hoxton Service Release is scheduled for February 2020, after the Chinese New Year.

Spring Cloud Greenwich

The final Greenwich Service Release is planned for January 2020, supporting Spring Boot 2.1.x. After SR5, the project will enter maintenance mode.

What is maintenance mode?

In maintenance mode, Spring Cloud will no longer add new features to the version; focus shifts to bug fixes and urgent security patches. Pull requests are still accepted and merged when appropriate.