What’s New in Spring Cloud 2022.0.0-M1? A Quick Overview

On the first day back to work, the author wishes Happy New Year and reviews recent Spring updates, focusing on Spring Cloud 2022.0.0-M1, the first milestone compatible with Spring Boot 3.

Spring Cloud 2022.0.0-M1 (Kilburn) was announced on January 27 as the first Spring Cloud milestone that aligns with Spring Boot 3.0.0-M1, which itself uses Spring Framework 6.0.0-M2, requires Java 17, and adopts Jakarta EE.

Key changes in the Spring Cloud family include:

Removal of Spring Cloud CloudFoundry and CLI from the release series.

Spring Cloud Commons: OAuth integration migrated from the deprecated Spring Security OAuth to OAuth2 support in Spring Security.

Spring Cloud Kubernetes: the annotation @ConditionalOnKubernetesEnabled is removed and replaced by @ConditionalOnCloudPlatform.

Spring Cloud Task: version 3.0.0-M1 aligns with Spring Boot 3.0.0-M1.

Spring Cloud Contract remains part of the 2022.0.0-M1 release and will be included in the upcoming M2.

Spring Cloud Netflix is not yet part of 2022.0.0-M1; it will be added when Eureka becomes Jakarta EE compatible.

Further details can be found in the official release notes at https://github.com/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-release/wiki/Spring-Cloud-2022.0-Release-Notes.