Hibernate ORM

Releases

Latest stable (6.4)

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Series

latest stable

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

limited-support

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

limited-support

Dropped support for Javassist, Performance

See older series

Older series

end-of-life

Jakarta Persistence 3.1, query methods, finder methods

end-of-life

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

end-of-life

Performance, HQL, Criteria, Type System

end-of-life

Introducing support for Jakarta JPA

end-of-life

EntityGraph improvements, JDK 11 support

limited-support

JPA 2.2, inheritance caching

end-of-life

Java 8, JCache support, hibernate-entitymanager consolidation

end-of-life

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

end-of-life

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

end-of-life

JPA 2.1 support

end-of-life

JPA 2.0

Compatibility matrix

Hibernate ORM	6.4	6.2	5.6
Java	11, 17 or 21	11, 17, 20 or 21	8, 11, 17 or 18
JPA	N/A	N/A	2.2
Jakarta Persistence	3.1	3.1	3.0

See also the Compatibility policy and Maintenance policy.

Supported JPA Versions

JPA 1.0: ORM 3.2+
JPA 2.0: ORM 3.5+
JPA 2.1: ORM 4.3+
JPA 2.2: ORM 5.3+
JPA 3.0: ORM 5.5+

Note that newer ORM releases are backwards compatible with older JPA versions (ex: ORM 4.3 with JPA 1.0). However, newer ORM releases may not be compatible with older JPA containers.