On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Release Candidate 1 (RC1) of the Spring Cloud 2024.0.0 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the 2024.0.0-RC1 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2024.0.0-RC1 Release Train

This release of Spring Cloud is based on Spring Boot 3.4.0-RC1.

The GitHub project for this release can be found here.

Spring Cloud Gateway

• Implement ModifyResponseBody in MVC Server (#3189
• Use new Spring Boot http client autoconfiguration framework (#3571

Spring Cloud Netflix

• Add RestClient support and make it the default HTTP client used by SC Netflix Eureka (#4257, #4363)

Spring Cloud Commons

• Add support for load-balanced RestTemplateBuilder (#1402)

Spring Cloud Config

• Let The Config Server Handle Multiple Labels Instead Of The Client (#2583

Spring Cloud Bus

• Add a shutdown event, endpoint, and listener (#277)

The following modules were updated as part of 2024.0.0-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>2024.0.0-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 'java'
  id 'org.springframework.boot' version '3.4.0-RC1'
  id 'io.spring.dependency-management' version '1.1.6'
}

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

ext {
  set('springCloudVersion', "2024.0.0-RC1")
}

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}"
  }
}