On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the General Availability (RELEASE) of the Spring Cloud 2025.1.0 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the 2025.1.0 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2025.1.0 Release Train

This is a major release, each project has been updated to version 5.0.0. This release is based on Spring Framework 7 and Spring Boot 4.

A complete list of changes for this release can found in the 2025.1.0 GitHub Project.

Spring Cloud Release

• The spring-cloud-stater-parent artifact has been removed (#437)

Spring Cloud Gateway

• Spring Cloud Gateway now has null-safety annotations for all public API classes with JSpecify (#3953)
• Retry filter based on Spring Framework's retry functionality (#3970)
• Initial support for JSpecify (#3944)
• Use Google libraries for JSON processing in gRPC (#3853)
• Remove deprecated artifacts in favor of new ones. The new artifacts are spring-cloud-gateway-server-web{flux|mvc} and spring-cloud-gateway-proxyexchange-web{flux|mvc} #3858
• New API Versioning Predicate in Server WebFlux #3864

Spring Cloud Commons

• Spring Cloud Commons now has null-safety annotations for all public API classes with JSpecify (#1594)
• Add LoadBalancer API versioning support #1582
• LoadBalancer integration for Spring Interface Clients AutoConfiguration #1491, #1492
• CircuitBreaker integration for Spring Interface Clients AutoConfiguration #1538

Spring Cloud Circuitbreaker

• A new module has been added with a Spring Cloud Circuitbreaker implementation using the new resilience support in Spring Framework 7.0.0. (#256
• The module spring-cloud-circuitbreaker-spring-retry has been placed in maintenance only mode and will be removed when Spring Retry is no longer supported.
• Upgrade Resilience4j to 2.3.0
• The version of Spring Cloud Circuit Breaker has moved to 5.0.x to align with the rest of the release train, skipping version 4.0.x

Spring Cloud Config

• Transition to use Jackson 3 (#3131)
• Removed all deprecated classes and methods (#2908)

Spring Cloud Stream

• Support for caching and logging control options for KTable materialization
• Support for consumer priority support in Rabbit binder properties
• Migration to Jackson 3
• The artifact org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-stream-binder-kafka-reactive has been removed as Reactor Kafka has been discontinued. See this blog post for more information.

Spring Cloud Netflix

• Remove RestTemplate support (#4504)

Spring Cloud Consul

• Replaced ewcid-api with a non-blocking interface client (#475)
• Replaced 3rd party Consul HTTP Client with Interface Clients #840

Spring Cloud Function

• Significant enhancements in the discovery of complex input/output types.
• Support for post-processing Kotlin functions. Although the feature is mostly used in Spring Cloud Stream, the supporting implementation is in Spring Cloud Functions.
• Support for preserving AWS Context in AWS Custom Runutime support of AWS Lambda
• Migration to Jackson 3
• Discontinue spring-cloud-function-rscoket
• Discontinue spring-cloud-function-deployer

Spring Cloud Contract

• Removed support for REST Assured due to support being dropped in Spring REST Docs.
• stubrunner. -> spring.cloud.contract.stubrunner. property migration (#2309)
• Removed javax.inject and javax.annotation support #2206

Spring Cloud Kubernetes

• Leader election info contributor can now be disabled by setting management.info.leader.enabled=false (#2085)
• Deprecated classes and methods have been removed, and numerous other improvements to public classes have been made. See the milestone for a complete list of changes
• Upgraded Kubernetes Java Client to 24.0.0
• Upgraded Fabric8 Kubernetes Client to 7.4.0
• The version of Spring Cloud Kuberentes has moved to 5.0.x to align with the rest of the release train, skipping version 4.0.x

Spring Cloud Openfeign

• Remove deprecations. (#1268)

The following modules were updated as part of 2025.1.0:

Module	Version	Issues
Spring Cloud Stream	5.0.0	(issues)
Spring Cloud Netflix	5.0.0	(issues)
Spring Cloud Starter Build	2025.1.0	(issues)
Spring Cloud Commons	5.0.0	(issues)
Spring Cloud Circuitbreaker	5.0.0	(issues)
Spring Cloud Gateway	5.0.0	(issues)
Spring Cloud Config	5.0.0	(issues)
Spring Cloud Build	5.0.0	(issues)
Spring Cloud Consul	5.0.0	(issues)
Spring Cloud Function	5.0.0	(issues)
Spring Cloud Contract	5.0.0	(issues)
Spring Cloud Vault	5.0.0	(issues)
Spring Cloud Task	5.0.0	(issues)
Spring Cloud Kubernetes	5.0.0	(issues)
Spring Cloud Openfeign	5.0.0	(issues)
Spring Cloud Zookeeper	5.0.0	(issues)
Spring Cloud Bus	5.0.0	(issues)

As always, we welcome feedback on GitHub, on Gitter, on Stack Overflow, or on Twitter.

To get started with Maven with a BOM (dependency management only):

<dependencyManagement>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-cloud-dependencies</artifactId>
            <version>2025.1.0</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>

or with Gradle:

plugins {
  id 'java'
  id 'org.springframework.boot' version '4.0.0'
  id 'io.spring.dependency-management' version '1.1.7'
}

group = 'com.example'
version = '0.0.1-SNAPSHOT'
description = 'Demo project for Spring Boot'

repositories {
  mavenCentral()
}

ext {
  set('springCloudVersion', "2025.1.0")
}

dependencies {
  implementation 'org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-starter-config'
  implementation 'org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-starter-netflix-eureka-client'
  //...
}

dependencyManagement {
  imports {
    mavenBom "org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-dependencies:${springCloudVersion}"
  }
}