On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Release Candidate 1 (RC1) of the Spring Cloud 2022.0 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the 2022.0 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2022.0.0 Release Train

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Spring Cloud Function

• Updates for Observability and Native Hints

Spring Cloud OpenFeign

• Added support for target URL refreshing (#710)
• Added support for LoadBalancer X-Forwarded Headers (#748)
• Set Jackson Autoconfiguration to be enabled by default (#476)
• Removed deprecations and adjusted to the API changes in Feign (#768)

Spring Cloud Commons

• Support added for property-based configuration for weighted load-balancing (#1163)

Spring Cloud Netflix

• Migrated Apache HttpClient to Apache HC5 HttpClient (#4126)

Spring Cloud Stream

• Updates for Observability

Spring Cloud Gateway

• Added option to configure CORS per route
• Added support for URI variables for Circuit Breaker filter
• Added support for a local response cache filter

Spring Cloud Config

• Added support for Spring Native support for Config Client

The following modules were updated as part of 2022.0.0-RC1:

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):

<repositories>
    <repository>
        <id>spring-milestones</id>
        <name>Spring Milestones</name>
        <url>https://repo.spring.io/milestone</url>
        <snapshots>
            <enabled>false</enabled>
        </snapshots>
    </repository>
</repositories>
<dependencyManagement>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-cloud-dependencies</artifactId>
            <version>2022.0.0-RC1</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 'org.springframework.boot' version '3.0.0-RC1'
  id 'io.spring.dependency-management' version '1.1.0'
  id 'java'
}

group = 'com.example'
version = '0.0.1-SNAPSHOT'
sourceCompatibility = '17'

repositories {
  mavenCentral()
  maven { url 'https://repo.spring.io/milestone' }
}

ext {
  set('springCloudVersion', "2022.0.0-RC1")
}

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