What’s New in Spring Cloud 2022? Major Bug Fixes and Key Changes

“This release is critical: Spring Cloud 4.0 architecture fixes many issues (spring cloud 2022.0.0 some severe bugs may cause programs to fail).”

Spring Cloud 2022 is built on Spring Framework 6.x and Spring Boot 3.x, supports Jakarta EE, and requires at least Java 17.

<dependencyManagement>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-cloud-dependencies</artifactId>
            <version>2022.0.1</version>
            <type>pom</type>
            <scope>import</scope>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>

Bug Fixes

Spring Cloud Gateway

spring cloud gateway 4.0.1 fixes many bugs in the 4.0 architecture, especially:

CacheRequestBodyGatewayFilter memory leak issue

Fix Kotlin DSL style route configuration

Spring Cloud Commons

DefaultServiceInstance.secure

now provides a setter to configure HTTPS flag

Optimized weighted load‑balancing selector to keep time complexity O(1)

Spring Cloud Kubernetes

Kubernetes Java client implements CatalogWatch

Other modules with important changes