What’s New in Spring Cloud Hoxton SR3? Upgrade Guide and Key Changes

Spring Cloud Hoxton SR3 Release

<dependencyManagement>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-cloud-dependencies</artifactId>
            <version>Hoxton.SR3</version>
            <type>pom</type>
            <scope>import</scope>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>

This is a bug‑fix version.

Built on Spring Boot 2.2.5.

Note: the official release skipped SR2; see the SR2 announcement for details.

Upgrade Notes

Spring Cloud Config

Provides custom ConfigTokenProvider functionality.

Fixes performance issue in KeyStoreTestEncryptorLocator.

Spring Cloud OpenFeign

Upgrades OpenFeign to 10.7.4.

Supports Spring @MatrixVariable annotation (see Spring MVC matrixVariable guide).

Spring Cloud Gateway

Adds RetryFilter. RouteDefinition now includes service instance metadata.

Supports rate limiting below 1 req/s.

Spring Cloud CircuitBreaker

Supports custom circuit‑breaker implementations.

Spring Cloud Commons

Spring Cloud LoadBalancer

now supports instance health‑check similar to Ribbon ServerList.

Dependency Updates

Spring Cloud Aws 2.2.1.RELEASE
Spring Cloud Vault 2.2.2.RELEASE (issues)
Spring Cloud Circuitbreaker 1.0.2.RELEASE (issues)
Spring Cloud Cli 2.2.1.RELEASE
Spring Cloud Gateway 2.2.2.RELEASE (issues)
Spring Cloud Zookeeper 2.2.1.RELEASE
Spring Cloud Starter Hoxton.SR3
Spring Cloud Build 2.2.3.RELEASE
Spring Cloud Config 2.2.2.RELEASE (issues)
Spring Cloud Dependencies Parent 2.2.2.RELEASE
Spring Cloud Sleuth 2.2.2.RELEASE (issues)
Spring Cloud Contract 2.2.2.RELEASE (issues)
Spring Cloud Gcp 1.2.2.RELEASE
Spring Cloud Bus 2.2.1.RELEASE
Spring Cloud Consul 2.2.2.RELEASE
Spring Cloud Stream Horsham.SR3 (issues)
Spring Cloud Kubernetes 1.1.2.RELEASE (issues)
Spring Cloud Release Hoxton.SR3
Spring Cloud Openfeign 2.2.2.RELEASE (issues)
Spring Cloud Commons 2.2.2.RELEASE (issues)
Spring Cloud Task 2.2.3.RELEASE
Spring Cloud Function 3.0.3.RELEASE
Spring Cloud Netflix 2.2.2.RELEASE (issues)
Spring Cloud Security 2.2.1.RELEASE
Spring Cloud Cloudfoundry 2.2.1.RELEASE

More References

Spring Cloud Hoxton Service Release 3 (SR3) is available.