What’s New in Spring Cloud 2022.0.3? Key Features, Bugs, and Dependency Updates

Spring Cloud 2022.0.3 Release

Spring Cloud 2022.0.3 is now available on Maven Central and is compatible with Spring Boot 3.1.x.

<code>&lt;dependencyManagement&gt;
    &lt;dependencies&gt;
        &lt;dependency&gt;
            &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework.cloud&lt;/groupId&gt;
            &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-cloud-dependencies&lt;/artifactId&gt;
            &lt;version&gt;2022.0.3&lt;/version&gt;
            &lt;type&gt;pom&lt;/type&gt;
            &lt;scope&gt;import&lt;/scope&gt;
        &lt;/dependency&gt;
    &lt;/dependencies&gt;
&lt;/dependencyManagement&gt;
...
&lt;dependencies&gt;
    &lt;dependency&gt;
        &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework.cloud&lt;/groupId&gt;
        &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-cloud-starter-config&lt;/artifactId&gt;
    &lt;/dependency&gt;
    &lt;dependency&gt;
        &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework.cloud&lt;/groupId&gt;
        &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-cloud-starter-netflix-eureka-client&lt;/artifactId&gt;
    &lt;/dependency&gt;
    ...
&lt;/dependencies&gt;</code>

Spring Cloud Config has a known bug related to service discovery; enable it by setting spring.cloud.config.discovery.enabled=true and spring.cloud.config.discovery.serviceId . The bug will be fixed in the next release.

Spring Cloud Commons

Fixed an issue where bootstrap property sources were added too late in the application context lifecycle (issue 1228).

Spring Cloud Gateway

Added batch route addition capability via an executor (issue 2915).

Added partial route refresh capability via an executor (issue 2916).

Spring Cloud Stream

Added support for regex‑based destination patterns in the Kafka reactive binder (issue 2709).

Spring Cloud Function

Initial support for deploying existing Spring MVC REST applications to serverless platforms such as AWS Lambda and Azure Functions.

Added functionality to use Spring Cloud Function within Spring Integration DSL via a new Spring Integration module.

Support for Spring Integration (issue 1032).

Spring Cloud Config

Added support for configuration files targeting specific configuration data (issue 2260).

Spring Cloud Netflix

Fixed issues where Jersey 1 classes were referenced instead of Jersey 3 (issues 4176, 4177).

Dependency Updates

Spring Cloud Kubernetes 3.0.3

Spring Cloud Task 3.0.3

Spring Cloud Function 4.0.3

Spring Cloud Commons 4.0.3

Spring Cloud Circuitbreaker 3.0.2

Spring Cloud OpenFeign 4.0.3

Spring Cloud Gateway 4.0.6

Spring Cloud Stream 4.0.3

Spring Cloud Contract 4.0.3

Spring Cloud Config 4.0.3

Spring Cloud Build 4.0.3

Spring Cloud Starter Build 2022.0.3

Spring Cloud Netflix 4.0.2

Looking Ahead

Work has begun on Spring Cloud 2023, codenamed “Leiden”, expected to be released in November 2023 and built on Spring Boot 3.2. Detailed plans are available on the Spring Cloud release milestones page.