On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that Milestone 4 (M4) of the Spring Cloud 2025.1.0 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the 2025.1.0 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2025.1.0 Release Train

Spring Cloud 2025.1.0-M4 depends on Spring Boot 4.0.0-M3. See all issues and pull requests that are part of the release here.

Spring Cloud Kubernetes

• Deprecated classes and methods have been removed, and numerous other improvements to public classes have been made. See the milestone for a complete list of changes

Spring Cloud Gateway

• Initial support for JSpecify (#3944)
• Use Google libraries for JSON processing in gRPC (#3853)

Spring Cloud Netflix

• Remove RestTemplate support (#4504)

Spring Cloud OpenFeign

• Remove deprecations. (#1268)

The following modules were updated as part of 2025.1.0-M4:

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.404ofchina.website/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-M4</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-M3'
  id 'io.spring.dependency-management' version '1.1.7'
}

group = 'com.example'
version = '0.0.1-SNAPSHOT'
description = 'Demo project for Spring Boot'

repositories {
  mavenCentral()
}

ext {
  set('springCloudVersion', "2025.1.0-M4")
}

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}"
  }
}
//...