Hibernate ORM

5.4 series end-of-life

EntityGraph improvements, JDK 11 support

Compatibility

Java 8, 11 or 17 (with 5.4.32+)
JPA 2.2

Not compatible with your requirements? Have a look at the other series.

See also the Compatibility policy and Maintenance policy.

Documentation

Documentation for Hibernate ORM 5.4 can be accessed through the links below:

HTML API (JavaDoc)

You can find more documentation for all series on the documentation page.

How to get it

Hibernate ORM 5.4 has reached its end-of-life: we recommend that you upgrade to a newer series if possible.

See also the Maintenance policy.

Maven, Gradle...

Maven artifacts of Hibernate ORM are published to Maven Central. Most build tools fetch artifacts from Maven Central by default, but if that's not the case for you, see this page to configure your build tool.

You can find the Maven coordinates of all artifacts through the link below:

Maven artifacts

Below are the Maven coordinates of the main artifacts.

org.hibernate:hibernate-core:5.4.33.Final
Core implementation
org.hibernate:hibernate-osgi:5.4.33.Final
OSGi integration
org.hibernate:hibernate-spatial:5.4.33.Final
Spatial support
org.hibernate:hibernate-envers:5.4.33.Final
Envers audit support
org.hibernate:hibernate-hikaricp:5.4.33.Final
HikariCP connection pooling
org.hibernate:hibernate-c3p0:5.4.33.Final
c3p0 connection pooling
org.hibernate:hibernate-proxool:5.4.33.Final
Proxool connection pooling
org.hibernate:hibernate-jcache:5.4.33.Final
JCache second-level caching
org.hibernate:hibernate-infinispan:5.4.33.Final
Infinispan second-level caching
org.hibernate:hibernate-ehcache:5.4.33.Final
Ehcache second-level caching

Direct download

A ZIP archive containing all JAR files, documentation and source is available from SourceForge:

Download ZIP archive

Individual Maven artifacts may be downloaded directly from the Maven repository:

Maven Central subdirectory

See here for how to download all dependencies of your Maven project to a local directory on your filesystem.

See here for how to download an explicitly listed set of artifacts to a local directory on your filesystem.

More information about specific releases (announcements, download links) can be found here.

Getting started

Hibernate ORM 5.4 has reached its end-of-life: we recommend that you upgrade to a newer series if possible.

See also the Maintenance policy.

If you want to start using Hibernate ORM 5.4, please refer to the getting started guide:

HTML

Migrating

If you need to upgrade from a previous series, please refer to the migration guide:

HTML

What's new

Latest release announcement (2021-12-16): 5.4.33.Final.

A detailed list of new features, improvements and fixes in this series can be found on our issue tracker.

EntityGraph improvements

Hibernate ORM 5.4 adds 2 new features to help make working with EntityGraphs easier:

  • EntityGraph parsing

  • EntityGraph manipulation

The entry point for these 2 features is the org.hibernate.graph.EntityGraphs class.

JDK 11 support

Hibernate ORM now supports JDK 11 out of the box.

JDK 13 support

Support for JDK 13 was introduced in version 5.4.5.Final.

Releases in this series

Hibernate ORM 5.4 has reached its end-of-life: we recommend that you upgrade to a newer series if possible.

See also the Maintenance policy.

5.4.32.Final

2021-05-24

5.4.31.Final

2021-04-30

5.4.30.Final

2021-03-19

5.4.29.Final

2021-03-03

5.4.28.Final

2021-02-09

5.4.27.Final

2020-12-22

5.4.26.Final

2020-12-14

5.4.25.Final

2020-12-01

5.4.24.Final

2020-11-19

5.4.23.Final

2020-11-03

memory improvements, bugfixes with Oracle RefCursor

Maven artifacts Download Resolved issues Release announcement

5.4.22.Final

2020-10-01

5.4.21.Final

2020-08-27

5.4.19.Final

2020-07-27

5.4.18.Final

2020-06-22

5.4.6.Final

2019-09-30

bugfixes, bytecode enhancement Gradle plugin improvement

Maven artifacts Download Resolved issues Release announcement

5.4.0.Final

2018-12-12

5.4.0.CR2

2018-11-29

JAXB upgrade, bug fixes, documentation improvements

Maven artifacts Download Resolved issues Release announcement

5.4.0.CR1

2018-11-15

EntityGraph improvements, JDK 11 support, bug fixes

Maven artifacts Download Resolved issues Release announcement

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