Hibernate ORM

Releases

Latest stable (5.5)
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Series

development

6.0 2021-08-04

Performance, HQL, Criteria, Type System

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development

5.6 2021-08-27

Dropped support for Javassist, Performance

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stable

5.5 2021-08-26

Introducing support for Jakarta JPA

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stable

5.4 2021-05-24

EntityGraph improvements, JDK 11 support

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stable

5.3 2021-08-23

JPA 2.2, inheritance caching

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stable

5.2 2018-11-16

Java 8, JCache support, hibernate-entitymanager consolidation

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stable

5.1 2018-11-28

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

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stable

5.0 2017-01-19

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

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See older series

Older series

stable

4.3 2015-08-05

JPA 2.1 support

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stable

4.2 2015-10-23

JPA 2.0

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Compatibility matrix

Hibernate ORM 6.0 5.6 5.5 5.4 5.3 5.2 5.1 5.0
Java 8, 11 or 17 8, 11 or 17 8, 11 or 17 8, 11 or 17 (with 5.4.32+) 8, 11 or 17 (with 5.3.22+) 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 2.2 2.2 2.1 2.1 2.1
Jakarta JPA N/A 3.0 3.0 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

See also the Compatibility 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.

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