What’s New in Spring Cloud 2022.0.4? Key Updates and Migration Tips

Spring Cloud 2022.0.4 release is now available on Maven Central, built on Spring Boot 3.0.9. See the version notes for details.

<dependencyManagement>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-cloud-dependencies</artifactId>
            <version>2022.0.4</version>
            <type>pom</type>
            <scope>import</scope>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-cloud-starter-config</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-cloud-starter-netflix-eureka-client</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    ...
</dependencies>

Important changes in the 2022.0.4 Release Train

This version is based on Spring Boot 3.0.9.

Spring Cloud CLI

Maintenance stopped.

Spring Cloud Cloudfoundry

Maintenance stopped.

Spring Cloud Sleuth

Maintenance stopped. Core functionality moved to the Micrometer Tracing project; related tools are now part of Micrometer and individual projects.

Spring Cloud Commons

Added retry‑aware load‑balancing support for ServiceInstanceListSupplier delegate.

Removed AsyncRestTemplate in Spring Framework 6, disabling LoadBalancer auto‑configuration.

Migrated token relay to the new Spring Security OAuth2.

spring.config.use-legacy-processing=true no longer enabled; use spring.cloud.bootstrap.enabled=true instead.

Spring Cloud OpenFeign

LoadBalancer ResponseData now uses org.springframework.http.HttpStatusCode.

OAuth2 support moved to Spring Security OAuth2 client.

feign.autoconfiguration.jackson.enabled defaults to true.

decode404 property renamed to dismiss404 to align with upstream Feign changes.

Support for Apache HttpClient 4 removed; Apache HttpClient 5 is recommended.

spring.cloud.openfeign.metrics property prefix changed to spring.cloud.openfeign.micrometer.

OpenFeign property prefix changed from feign to spring.cloud.openfeign.

Spring Cloud Netflix

Unnecessary @EnableEurekaClient annotation removed.

Deprecated RestTemplateDiscoveryClientOptionalArgs constructor removed.

Default @FeignClient attribute resolution switched; to revert, set spring.cloud.openfeign.lazy-attributes-resolution=true.

Updated modules and their versions

Spring Cloud Zookeeper – 4.0.1

Spring Cloud Kubernetes – 3.0.4

Spring Cloud Function – 4.0.5

Spring Cloud Commons – 4.0.4

Spring Cloud CircuitBreaker – 3.0.3

Spring Cloud OpenFeign – 4.0.4

Spring Cloud Gateway – 4.0.7

Spring Cloud Stream – 4.0.4

Spring Cloud Consul – 4.0.3

Spring Cloud Build – 4.0.5

Spring Cloud Config – 4.0.4

Spring Cloud Contract – 4.0.4

Spring Cloud Starter Build – 2022.0.4

Spring Cloud Netflix – 4.0.3