Hibernate ORM

5.6 series stable

Dropped support for Javassist, Performance

Compatibility

Java 8, 11, 17 or 18
JPA 2.2
Jakarta Persistence 3.0

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

See also the Compatibility policy.

Documentation

Documentation for Hibernate ORM 5.6 can be accessed through the links below:

HTML API (JavaDoc)

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

How to get it

Maven, Gradle...

Maven artifacts of Hibernate ORM are published to Maven Central.

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

Maven artifacts

Below are the Maven coordinates of the main artifacts.

org.hibernate:hibernate-core:5.6.15.Final
Core implementation
org.hibernate:hibernate-osgi:5.6.15.Final
OSGi integration
org.hibernate:hibernate-spatial:5.6.15.Final
Spatial support
org.hibernate:hibernate-envers:5.6.15.Final
Envers audit support
org.hibernate:hibernate-hikaricp:5.6.15.Final
HikariCP connection pooling
org.hibernate:hibernate-c3p0:5.6.15.Final
c3p0 connection pooling
org.hibernate:hibernate-proxool:5.6.15.Final
Proxool connection pooling
org.hibernate:hibernate-jcache:5.6.15.Final
JCache second-level caching
org.hibernate:hibernate-infinispan:5.6.15.Final
Infinispan second-level caching
org.hibernate:hibernate-ehcache:5.6.15.Final
Ehcache second-level caching

Direct download

Individual Maven artifacts may be downloaded directly from Maven Central:

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.

Migrating

If you need to upgrade from a previous series, please refer to the migration guide:

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What's new

Latest release announcement (2023-02-06): 5.6.15.Final.

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

Removal of Javassist

When it comes to bytecode enhancement of entities, we used to support using either Byte Buddy or Javassist.

The Byte Buddy option has been for long the preferred choice, while Javassist was deprecated and is now removed.s

Releases in this series

5.6.15.Final

2023-02-06

important bug fixes, type pollution cache mitigations

How to get it

Maven artifacts Resolved issues Release announcement

5.6.14.Final

2022-11-04

important bug fixes, type pollution cache mitigations

Maven artifacts Resolved issues Release announcement

5.6.13.Final

2022-11-03

important bug fixes, type pollution cache mitigations

Maven artifacts Resolved issues Release announcement

5.6.12.Final

2022-09-27

5.6.11.Final

2022-08-30

5.6.10.Final

2022-07-07

5.6.9.Final

2022-05-15

5.6.8.Final

2022-04-13

Paving the road for Hibernate ORM 6

Maven artifacts Resolved issues

5.6.7.Final

2022-03-16

5.6.6.Final

2022-03-16

5.6.5.Final

2022-01-26

5.6.4.Final

2022-01-19

5.6.3.Final

2021-12-16

5.6.2.Final

2021-12-08

5.6.1.Final

2021-10-27

5.6.0.Final

2021-10-13

5.6.0.Beta1

2021-08-27

Dropped Javassist support, performance improvements

Maven artifacts Download Resolved issues Release announcement

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