What’s New in Spring Cloud Alibaba 2021.0.4.0? Core Dependency Upgrades Explained

Core Dependency Upgrade

Spring Cloud Alibaba 2021.0.4.0 builds on Spring Cloud 2021.0.4 and Spring Cloud 2.6.11, upgrading many components such as registration, configuration center, and distributed messaging, and fixing bugs.

Seata upgraded to 1.5.2, adding xid consistency load‑balancing and fixing security issues.

RocketMQ upgraded to 4.9.4, offering lightweight queues and asynchronous delayed‑message sending.

Sentinel upgraded to 1.8.5, providing automatic parameter extraction for ParamFlowSlot and fixing Dashboard bugs.

Nacos client upgraded to 2.0.4, adding authentication and configuration encryption plugins.

Spring Boot adapted to 2.6.11, fixing stack overflow and BasicJsonParser stop‑issue bugs.

Spring Cloud adapted to 2021.0.4, allowing binary content‑type overrides in OpenFeign and adding native JSON to gRPC filters in Spring Cloud Gateway.

In addition to component upgrades, several previous issues were fixed, further improving the stability and robustness of Spring Cloud Alibaba.

Maven Dependency

<code>&lt;dependencyManagement&gt;
    &lt;dependencies&gt;
        &lt;dependency&gt;
            &lt;groupId&gt;com.alibaba.cloud&lt;/groupId&gt;
            &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-cloud-alibaba-dependencies&lt;/artifactId&gt;
            &lt;version&gt;2021.0.4.0&lt;/version&gt;
            &lt;type&gt;pom&lt;/type&gt;
            &lt;scope&gt;import&lt;/scope&gt;
        &lt;/dependency&gt;
    &lt;/dependencies&gt;
&lt;/dependencyManagement&gt;</code>

Supports smooth upgrade from 2021.0.1.0 to 2021.0.4.0.