Ryan Baxter

Ryan Baxter

Currently, Ryan is working as a software engineer as part of the Spring Cloud team. Ryan has a passion for sharing what he learns via social media, including Twitter and his blog (http://ryanjbaxter.com), as well as in person at conferences. When he’s not coding, Ryan likes spending time with his daughter, ice fishing, running obstacle course races, and watching the Red Sox.

Recent Blog posts by Ryan Baxter

Spring Cloud 2025.1.4 (aka Northfields) Has Been Released

Releases | October 23, 2026 | ...
On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the General Availability (RELEASE) of the Spring Cloud 2025.1.4 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the 2025.1.4 release notes for more information. Notable Changes in the 2025.1.4 Release Train This release is based on Spring Boot 4.0.9 and supports Spring Boot 4.1.2 as well. This release contains several bug fixes across all projects. For a complete list of what was fixed in this release see this GitHub project. The following modules were updated as part of 2025.1.4: Module…

Spring Cloud 2026.0.0-RC1 (aka Paddington) Has Been Released

Releases | October 23, 2026 | ...
On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Release Candidate 1 (RC1) of the Spring Cloud 2026.0.0-RC1 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in the Spring milestone repository. You can check out the 2026.0.0-RC1 release notes for more information. Notable Changes in the 2026.0.0-RC1 Release Train This release is based on Spring Boot 4.2.0-RC1. Spring Cloud Bus is no longer its own project and has been incorporated into Spring Cloud Stream. The coordinates of all the Spring Cloud Bus artifacts remain the same so the move should be seamless to projects…

Spring Cloud 2026.0.0-M1 (aka Paddington) Has Been Released

Releases | September 24, 2026 | ...
On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Milestone 1 (M1) of the Spring Cloud 2026.0.0-M1 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in the Spring milestone repository. You can check out the 2026.0.0-M1 release notes for more information. Notable Changes in the 2026.0.0-M1 Release Train This release is based on Spring Boot 4.2.0-M2. Spring Cloud Circuitbreaker Upgraded to Resilience4J 2.4.0 (#301) Spring Cloud Config Add HTTP property path notifier (#3279) Add Azure DevOps workload identity support (#3272) Spring Cloud Gateway Migrated from Reactor Addons…

Spring Cloud 2025.1.3 (aka Oakwood) Has Been Released

Releases | August 20, 2026 | ...
On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the General Availability (RELEASE) of the Spring Cloud 2025.1.3 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the 2025.1.3 release notes for more information. Notable Changes in the 2025.1.3 Release Train This release is based on Spring Boot 4.0.x and is compatible with the Spring Boot 4.1.x line as well. Spring Cloud Circuitbreaker Default configuration of TimeLimiterConfig in Resilience4JCircuitBreakerFactory is no longer used (#284) Spring Cloud Commons Fix for CVE-2026-59284 — Spring…

Spring Cloud 2025.0.3 (aka Northfields) Has Been Released

Releases | June 11, 2026 | ...
On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the General Availability (RELEASE) of the Spring Cloud 2025.0.3 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the 2025.0.3 release notes for more information. Notable Changes in the 2025.0.3 Release Train This will be the final open source release of the Spring Cloud 2025.0.x release train. Open source support for SPring Cloud 2025.0.x will end on June 30th, 2026. This release is based on Spring Boot 3.5.15. Spring Cloud Gateway Fix for CVE-2026-47825 Add support for empty path prefixes…

Spring Cloud 2025.1.2 (aka Oakwood) Has Been Released

Releases | June 11, 2026 | ...
On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the General Availability (RELEASE) of the Spring Cloud 2025.1.2 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the 2025.1.2 release notes for more information. Notable Changes in the 2025.1.2 Release Train Spring Cloud 2025.1.2 is compatible with Spring Boot 4.0.7 and introduces compatibility for Spring Boot 4.1.0. Spring Cloud Kubernetes Move Fabric8 discovery to listers (#2133) Add support for spring.cloud.kubernetes.discovery.service-labels filter in Fabric8ServicesListSupplier…

Spring Cloud Function and Config Have Been Released To Address Several CVEs

Releases | May 08, 2026 | ...
On behalf of the Spring Cloud team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce the following releases of Spring Cloud Function and Spring Cloud Config: Spring Cloud Config 5.0.3 (OSS) 4.3.3 (OSS) 4.2.7 (Enterprise Only) 4.1.10 (Enterprise Only) 3.1.13 (Enterprise Only) The above releases address contain fixes for the following CVEs: CVE-2026-40982 CVE-2026-40981 CVE-2026-41002 CVE-2026-41004 Spring Cloud Function 5.0.2 (OSS) 4.3.3 (OSS) 4.1.10 (Enterprise Only) 4.2.6 (Enterprise Only) 3.2.16(Enterprise Only) The above releases address contain fixes for the following CVEs: CVE…

Spring Cloud 2025.0.2 (aka Northfields) Has Been Released

Releases | April 02, 2026 | ...
On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the General Availability (RELEASE) of the Spring Cloud 2025.0.2 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the 2025.0.2 release notes for more information. Notable Changes in the 2025.0.2 Release Train This release is based on Spring Boot 3.5.13. For a complete list of changes in this release, see this GitHub project. Spring Cloud Openfeign Upgrade to OpenFeign 13.6.1 Spring Cloud Kubernetes Upgrade to Fabric8 7.3.2 Spring Cloud Netflix Upgrade to Eureka 2.0.6 Exclude commons…

Spring Cloud 2025.1.1 (aka Oakwood) Has Been Released

Releases | January 29, 2026 | ...
On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the General Availability (RELEASE) of the Spring Cloud 2025.1.1 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the 2025.1.1 release notes for more information. Notable Changes in the 2025.1.1 Release Train Spring Cloud 2025.0.0 is incompatible with Spring Boot 4.0.1 and later 4.0.x releases due to changes in Spring Boot. This Spring Cloud release introduces compatibility with Spring Boot 4.0.1 and later 4.0.x release for the 2025.1.x Spring Cloud release train. Spring Cloud Kubernetes New…

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