On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Milestone 1 (M1) of the Spring Cloud 2025.1 (aka Oakwood) Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the 2025.1 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2025.1.0-M1 Release

Spring Cloud 2025.0.0-M1 depends on Spring Boot 4.0.0-M1. See all issues and pull requests that are part of the release here.

Spring Cloud Gateway

• 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

• LoadBalancer integration for Spring Interface Clients AutoConfiguration #1491, #1492
• CircuitBreaker integration for Spring Interface Clients AutoConfiguration #1538

Spring Cloud Contract

• Removed javax.inject and javax.annotation support #2206

Spring Cloud Config

• Removed all deprecated classes and methods (#2908)

Spring Cloud Kubernetes

• 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 Circuit Breaker

• 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 Stream

• 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 Consul

• Replaced 3rd party Consul HTTP Client with Interface Clients #840

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The following modules were updated as part of 2025.0.0-M1:

Module	Version	Issues
Spring Cloud OpenFeign	5.0.0-M1	(issues)
Spring Cloud Config	5.0.0-M1	(issues)
Spring Cloud Build	5.0.0-M1	(issues)
Spring Cloud Stream	5.0.0-M1	(issues)
Spring Cloud Netflix	5.0.0-M1	(issues)
Spring Cloud Circuitbreaker	3.3.0-M1	(issues)
Spring Cloud Contract	5.0.0-M1	(issues)
Spring Cloud Commons	5.0.0-M1	(issues)
Spring Cloud Consul	5.0.0-M1	(issues)
Spring Cloud Gateway	5.0.0-M1	(issues)
Spring Cloud Vault	5.0.0-M1	(issues)
Spring Cloud Function	5.0.0-M1	(issues)
Spring Cloud Dependencies	2025.1.0-M1	(issues)
Spring Cloud Task	3.3.0-M1	(issues)
Spring Cloud Kubernetes	3.3.0-M1	(issues)
Spring Cloud Bus	5.0.0-M1	(issues)
Spring Cloud Zookeeper	5.0.0-M1	(issues)

As always, we welcome feedback on GitHub, 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>2025.1.0-M1</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-M1'
  id 'io.spring.dependency-management' version '1.1.7'
}

//...

ext {
  set('springCloudVersion', "2025.1.0-M1")
}

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}"
  }
}

//...