On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Release Candidate 2 (RC2) 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 Release Train

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Spring Cloud 2022.0.0-RC2 requires Spring Boot 3.0.0-RC2.

All Spring Cloud projects are now using Apache HttpClient v5.

Spring Cloud Contract

This release contains a lot of changes including dependency upgrades and some breaking ones. Please check them out and give us feedback!

Breaking changes:

• Remove Spring Cloud Contract Pact integration
• Maven 3.6 as prerequisite for Maven plugin
• Leave only code input triggers and output message type and #1837
• Removing support for mocked AMQP, OOB AMQP and OOB Kafka

You can read more about the migration process over here.

Spring Cloud OpenFeign

• Removed usage of Spring Cloud Commons HttpClient interfaces (#788)
• Apache HttpClient 4 has been removed in favour of Apache HttpClient 5 (#783)
• Upgraded to Feign 12.0 (#782)

Spring Cloud Commons

• Removed Interfaces relying on Apache HttpClient v4. Removed OK HttpClient interfaces as they were only used by Spring Cloud OpenFeign. Spring Cloud OpenFeign now uses the OK HttpClient directly (#1171)

• Deprecated classes and interfaces have been removed. See breaking changes in the Spring Cloud 2022 Release Notes

Spring Cloud Gateway

Added native image support

The following modules were updated as part of 2022.0.0-RC2:

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-RC2</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 '3.0.0-RC2'
  id 'io.spring.dependency-management' version '1.1.0'
}

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

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

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

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