Hibernate ORM

Releases

Latest stable (5.4)

Development (6.0)

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Series

development

Performance, HQL, Criteria, Type System

stable

EntityGraph improvements, JDK 11 support

stable

JPA 2.2, inheritance caching

stable

Java 8, JCache support, hibernate-entitymanager consolidation

stable

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

stable

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

See older series

Older series

stable

JPA 2.1 support

stable

JPA 2.0

Compatibility matrix

Hibernate ORM	6.0	5.4	5.3	5.2	5.1	5.0
Java	8 or 11	8 or 11	8 or 11	8	6/7/8 through 5.1.3; 7/8 through 5.1.16; 8 for 5.1.17	6, 7 or 8
JPA	2.2	2.2	2.2	2.1	2.1	2.1

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+

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.