What’s New in Spring Cloud Alibaba 0.9.x & 0.2.x? A Deep Dive into Updated Modules

Version Changes

Spring Cloud Alibaba aligns with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud versions as follows:

Spring Boot 2.1.x ↔ Spring Cloud Greenwich ↔ Spring Cloud Alibaba 0.9.x

Spring Boot 2.0.x ↔ Spring Cloud Finchley ↔ Spring Cloud Alibaba 0.2.x

Spring Boot 1.5.x ↔ Spring Cloud Edgware ↔ Spring Cloud Alibaba 0.1.x

Spring Boot 1.5.x ↔ Spring Cloud Dalston ↔ Spring Cloud Alibaba 0.1.x

New Modules

spring-cloud-alibaba-dubbo

This module integrates Dubbo into the Spring Cloud ecosystem, allowing Dubbo users to benefit from Spring Cloud’s extensive infrastructure and simplifying registration by supporting all Spring Cloud registry implementations, including Nacos.

Supports all Spring Cloud registry implementations, unifying service registration.

Enables RestTemplate calls with @Bean and @DubboTransported annotations.

Enables Feign clients with @FeignClient and @DubboTransported annotations.

spring-cloud-alibaba-seata

Seata, an open‑source distributed transaction solution co‑created by Alibaba and Ant Financial, allows transaction context propagation in Spring MVC, RestTemplate, and FeignClient calls and integrates with Hystrix and Sentinel for comprehensive transaction management.

spring-cloud-alibaba-sentinel-zuul

This module provides custom Zuul filters— SentinelPreFilter, SentinelPostFilter, and SentinelErrorFilter —enabling traffic control at the gateway layer via Sentinel configuration.

spring-cloud-alibaba-sms

The SMS module integrates Alibaba Cloud’s commercial SMS service, offering a convenient way for Spring Cloud users who also use Alibaba Cloud products to send messages.

Module Upgrades

Nacos upgraded from 0.6.2 to 1.0.0.

Sentinel upgraded from 1.4.0 to 1.5.2.

For detailed functionality changes, refer to the Nacos 1.0.0 and Sentinel 1.5.2 documentation.

References

Preview releases of Spring Cloud Alibaba are available: 0.9.0, 0.2.2, and 0.1.2 – http://t.cn/Eay8ZJF