On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the General Availability (RELEASE) of the Spring Cloud 2024.0.0 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the 2024.0 release notes for more information.

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Notable Changes in the 2024.0 Release Train

This release is based upon Spring Boot 3.4.0 and Spring Framework 6.2.0.

See all issues in 2024.0.0 GA:

• 2024.0.0
• 2024.0.0-RC1
• 2024.0.0-M2
• 2024.0.0-M1

Spring Cloud Bus

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

Spring Cloud CircuitBreaker

• TimeLimiter disable by group or instance level (#202)

Spring Cloud Commons

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

Spring Cloud Config

• Adds MongoDB environment repository support (#2390)
• S3 Backend Behaves Differently With Multiple Application Names (#2642)

Spring Cloud Gateway

• Implement ModifyResponseBody in MVC Server (#3189
• Use new Spring Boot http client autoconfiguration framework (#3571
• Adds an enabled flag to a route (#3026)
• Cache gateway filters to avoid sorting in every single request (#2756)
• Support for SslBundles in HttpClientProperties (#2981)
• Provides configuration for Netty's http client pool leasing strategy (#3575)

Spring Cloud Kubernetes

• Adds support for the configuration watcher to shut down the application to refresh the application (#1799)

Spring Cloud Netflix

• Adds RestClient HTTP client implementation for Eureka Client (#4257, #4363)

Spring Cloud Stream

• Ensuring Thread-Safety for BindingServiceProperties.bindings #3011
• PostProcessing functionality does not work with Supplier #3009
• Change the use of synchronized in the getBinder method of DefaultBinderFactory class for virtual-threads compliant #3005

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The following modules were updated as part of 2024.0.0:

Module	Version	Issues
Spring Cloud Build	4.2.0	(issues)
Spring Cloud Bus	4.2.0	(issues)
Spring Cloud Circuitbreaker	3.2.0	(issues)
Spring Cloud Commons	4.2.0	(issues)
Spring Cloud Config	4.2.0	(issues)
Spring Cloud Consul	4.2.0	(issues)
Spring Cloud Contract	4.2.0	(issues)
Spring Cloud Function	4.2.0	(issues)
Spring Cloud Gateway	4.2.0	(issues)
Spring Cloud Kubernetes	3.2.0	(issues)
Spring Cloud Netflix	4.2.0	(issues)
Spring Cloud Openfeign	4.2.0	(issues)
Spring Cloud Starter Build	2024.0.0	(issues)
Spring Cloud Stream	4.2.0	(issues)
Spring Cloud Task	3.2.0	(issues)
Spring Cloud Vault	4.2.0	(issues)
Spring Cloud Zookeeper	4.2.0	(issues)

Feedback

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

Getting Started

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>2024.0.0</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 '3.4.0'
    id 'io.spring.dependency-management' version '1.1.6'
}

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

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

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}"
    }
}