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8.0

8.0.0.Alpha1 2026-02-02 development

Jakarta Persistence 4.0

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7.4

7.4.0.Final 2026-05-26 latest stable

@Temporal, @Audited, Limits & fetch joins, hbm.xml transformation, CacheMode.REFRESH_SESSION

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7.3

7.3.6.Final 2026-05-24 limited-support

@NaturalIdClass, tenant-specific credentials, entities and embeddables with no default constructor, check constraints on List order columns

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6.6

6.6.51.Final 2026-05-24 limited-support

Jakarta Data, @ConcreteProxy, Extended Array Support, Embeddable Inheritance

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7.2

7.2.16.Final 2026-05-24 limited-support

Pessimistic Locking Improvements, @EmbeddedTable, FindMultipleOptions, Vector Support for SQL Server

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7.1

7.1.28.Final 2026-05-24 limited-support

Resource Scanning, Locking Improvements

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7.0

7.0.10.Final 2025-08-10 end-of-life

Apache License, Jakarta Persistence 3.2, Java 17, QuerySpecification, mapping.xsd, Hibernate Models

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6.5

6.5.3.Final 2024-09-18 end-of-life

Java Time Handling, Configurable Query Cache Layout, records as @IdClass, auto-enabled Filters, Key-based Pagination, Jakarta Data (tech preview)

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6.4

6.4.10.Final 2024-08-06 end-of-life

soft-delete, array functions, non-String tenant-id

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6.3

6.3.1.Final 2023-09-19 end-of-life

Jakarta Persistence 3.1, query methods, finder methods

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6.2

6.2.52.Final 2026-05-03 limited-support

Jakarta Persistence 3.1, records, structs, value generation, partitioning, SQL `MERGE`

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6.1

6.1.7.Final 2023-02-07 end-of-life

Subquery in FROM clause, JDBC Array support, Unified Mapping XSD

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6.0

6.0.2.Final 2022-05-25 end-of-life

Performance, HQL, Criteria, Type System

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5.6

5.6.15.Final 2023-02-06 end-of-life

Dropped support for Javassist, Performance

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5.5

5.5.9.Final 2021-12-16 end-of-life

Introducing support for Jakarta JPA

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5.4

5.4.33.Final 2021-12-16 end-of-life

EntityGraph improvements, JDK 11 support

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5.3

5.3.38.Final 2026-01-19 end-of-life

JPA 2.2, inheritance caching

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5.2

5.2.18.Final 2018-11-16 end-of-life

Java 8, JCache support, hibernate-entitymanager consolidation

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5.1

5.1.17.Final 2018-11-28 end-of-life

Entity joins, load-by-multiple-ids, association traversal in AuditQuery

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5.0

5.0.12.Final 2017-01-19 end-of-life

Improved bootstrapping, hibernate-java8, hibernate-spatial, Karaf support

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4.3

4.3.11.Final 2015-08-05 end-of-life

JPA 2.1 support

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4.2

4.2.21.Final 2015-10-23 end-of-life

JPA 2.0

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