5.5 series - Hibernate ORM

Compatibility

Java	8, 11 or 17
JPA	2.2
Jakarta Persistence	3.0
Java EE	8
Jakarta EE	9

Not compatible with your requirements? Have a look at the other series.

See also the Compatibility policy and Maintenance policy.

Documentation

Documentation for Hibernate ORM 5.5 can be accessed through the links below:

Getting started guide HTML

Migration guide HTML

Reference HTML API (Javadoc)

You can find more documentation for all series on the documentation page.

How to get it

Current series status: end-of-life

Maven artifacts of Hibernate ORM are published to Maven Central. Most build tools fetch artifacts from Maven Central by default, but if that's not the case for you, see this page to configure your build tool.

You can find the Maven coordinates of all artifacts through the link below:

Maven artifacts

Below are the Maven coordinates of the main artifacts.

Core implementation

OSGi integration

Spatial support

Envers audit support

HikariCP connection pooling

c3p0 connection pooling

Proxool connection pooling

JCache second-level caching

Infinispan second-level caching

Ehcache second-level caching

Direct download

A ZIP archive containing all JAR files, documentation and source is available from SourceForge:

Download ZIP archive

Individual Maven artifacts may be downloaded directly from the Maven repository:

Maven Central subdirectory

See here for how to download all dependencies of your Maven project to a local directory on your filesystem.

See here for how to download an explicitly listed set of artifacts to a local directory on your filesystem.

More information about specific releases (announcements, download links) can be found here.

What's new

Latest release announcement (2021-12-16): 5.5.9.Final.

A detailed list of new features, improvements and fixes in this series can be found on our issue tracker.

Jakarta JPA 2.2 and 3.0

Hibernate ORM 5.5 adds new artifacts with the artifact id suffix "-jakarta" like hibernate-core-jakarta.

The hibernate-core-jakarta artifact implements the Jakarta JPA 3.0 specification, while the hibernate-core artifact still implements the Jakarta JPA 2.2 specification.

The artifacts are both certified as compatible implementations:

Please note that the Jakarta artifacts are still considered experimental.

Bytecode enhancement

The bytecode enhancement configuration was adapted to turn on enhancement-as-proxy by default and remove the switch for configuring this.

Releases in this series

Hibernate ORM 5.5 has reached its end-of-life: we recommend that you upgrade to a newer series if possible.

Hibernate ORM

5.5 series end-of-life

Introducing support for Jakarta JPA