Series
8.4 8.4.0.Final 2026-05-27
Upgrade to Hibernate ORM 7.4, compatibility with new versions of Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, other bugfixes, improvements and upgrades
8.2 8.2.2.Final 2026-02-18
Pluggable Elasticsearch backend REST clients upgrade to Hibernate ORM 7.2, compatibility with new versions of Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, other bugfixes, improvements and upgrades
7.2 7.2.6.Final 2026-02-18
Re-licensing as Apache License 2.0, query string predicates on numeric/date fields, analyzer API
Older series
8.3
8.3.2.Final
2026-05-24
Upgrade to Hibernate ORM 7.3, compatibility with new versions of Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, other bugfixes, improvements and upgrades
8.1
8.1.3.Final
2026-02-18
Aggregation DSL improvements, platform BOMs, upgrade to Hibernate ORM 7.1 compatibility with new versions of Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, other bugfixes, improvements and upgrades
8.0
8.0.0.Final
2025-06-06
Integration with Hibernate ORM 7.0, metric aggregations, new Lucene-based backend, logging categories and more.
7.1
7.1.2.Final
2024-08-30
Vector search, new query string predicate, simplified Standalone POJO mapper
7.0
7.0.1.Final
2024-04-10
Switch to Jakarta EE / ORM 6.4 without -orm6 artifacts, Hibernate Search BOM
6.2
6.2.5.Final
2026-02-18
Standalone POJO Mapper, projection to custom (annotated) types, highlighting, excludePaths for @IndexedEmbedded, Elasticsearch schema export
6.1
6.1.8.Final
2023-01-31
Asynchronous, distributed automatic indexing, OpenSearch compatibility, conditional mass indexing, Jakarta EE / ORM 6 artifacts
6.0
6.0.11.Final
2023-01-31
API overhaul, safer and more concise Search DSL, more powerful bridges, smarter automatic indexing, nested documents
5.10
5.10.13.Final
2022-10-27
ORM 5.3 and JPA 2.2 compatibility, integration to DI frameworks through Hibernate ORM 5.3, upgrade to WildFly 17 and JGroups 4, JPMS automatic module names.
5.9
5.9.3.Final
2018-09-10
JSR 352 (Batch for Java) mass indexing job, WildFly feature packs, improvements and deprecations paving the road to Search 6
5.8
5.8.2.Final
2017-10-26
Experimental integration with Elasticsearch 5.x, AWS integration, improvements and deprecations paving the road to Search 6
5.7
5.7.3.Final
2017-10-26
Improved integration with Elasticsearch 2.x, compatible with Hibernate ORM 5.2.x
5.6
5.6.6.Final
2018-09-10
Introduces experimental support for Elasticsearch, last release supporting Hibernate ORM 5.0.z or 5.1.z
5.5
5.5.8.Final
2017-08-16
Being maintained as it’s included in WildFly. Supports Lucene only, requires Hibernate ORM 5.0.z or 5.1.z
5.4
5.4.0.Final
2015-09-03
Requires Hibernate ORM 5.0.0.Final; Last version compatible with Apache Lucene 4.x
4.5
4.5.3.Final
2015-01-12
Performance, WildFly 8 compatibility, JPA 2.1 / Hibernate ORM 4.3 compatibility
4.4
4.4.6.Final
2014-12-02
Dynamic index sharding, new Metadata API, Hibernate ORM 4.2.x compatible
4.3
4.3.0.Final
2013-06-07
4.2
4.2.0.Final
2013-01-15
4.1
4.1.1.Final
2012-05-09
4.0
4.0.0.Final
2011-12-15
3.4
3.4.2.Final
2012-02-29
3.3
3.3.0.Final
2010-12-14
3.2
3.2.1.Final
2010-07-25
3.1
3.1.1.GA
2009-05-28
3.0
3.0.1.GA
2008-02-28
Compatibility matrix
| Hibernate Search | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 8.4 | 8.2 | 7.2 | |
| Java | 17, 21, 25 or 26 | 17, 21 or 25 | 11, 17, 21, 23 or 25 |
| Apache Lucene |
9.12 or 10.4 (through *-backend-lucene-next)
|
9.12 or 10.3 (through *-backend-lucene-next)
|
9.11 |
| Elasticsearch server | 7.10 → 9.4 | 7.10 → 9.2 | 7.10 → 8.18 |
| OpenSearch server | 1.3 → 3.6 | 1.3 → 3.4 | 1.3 → 2.16 |
| Hibernate ORM | 7.4 | 7.2 | 6.6 |
| Quarkus | 3.37 → 3.39 | 3.31 → 3.34 | 3.14 → 3.23 |
| WildFly | 41 | N/A | 34 → 39 or 40 → 41 (EE 10 variant) |
| Red Hat EAP | N/A | N/A | 8.1 |
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