What's New in Spring Cloud Hoxton SR9? Key Features and Updates

Spring Cloud Hoxton.SR9 has been officially released as a bug‑fix version, compatible with Spring Boot 2.3.x and 2.2.x.

<dependencyManagement>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-cloud-dependencies</artifactId>
            <version>Hoxton.SR9</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>

Spring Cloud Gateway

Added SecureHeadersGatewayFilter to modify SecureHeader before routing.

Support viewing gateway route definitions via /actuator/routedefinitions .

Added BooleanOpSpec.not() predicate operation.

Optimized ReactiveLoadBalancer code for better performance.

Added @ConditionalOnEnabledFilter to support filter filtering.

Added unified configuration for gateway metric prefix.

HttpHeadersFilters now support case‑insensitive matching.

Spring Cloud Commons

Blocking LoadBalancer now supports retry mechanism.

Unified component EndpointId rule to avoid startup warnings.

Spring Cloud Netflix

Upgraded related dependency versions.

Added non‑blocking monitoring checker.

Spring Cloud OpenFeign

Added configuration option to customize request headers.

Interceptor now supports ordering.

Added support for Spring Cloud LoadBalancer retry mechanism.

Upgraded related dependency versions.

Spring Cloud Contract

Added option to disable .git suffix in Git URL.

Spring Cloud Sleuth

Supported tracing for RetryableFeignBlockingLoadBalancerClient.

Spring Cloud Config

Client added compatibility for V1_JSON.

Added configuration to provide clear exception messages when repository cannot be read.

Spring Cloud Consul

Supported bypassing service queries for Consul monitoring checks.

Allowed ignoring SQL exceptions.

You can find more information about Hoxton.SR9 updates at the Spring Cloud release notes.

Spring Cloud provides developers with tools for distributed system patterns such as configuration management, service discovery, circuit breaking, intelligent routing, micro‑proxy, control bus, one‑time tokens, global locks, leader election, distributed sessions, and cluster state, integrating well‑tested modules to reduce development effort.