5.6 series - Hibernate ORM

Hibernate ORM 5.6 is in limited support mode:

releases may be delayed until a significant need arises;
bugs will only be fixed if they are considered significant enough or in the context of paid support;
pull requests against this version might be rejected for bugs that are not considered critical enough;
bug reproducers using this version will be given lower priority.

We recommend that you upgrade to a newer series if possible or look for paid support.

Compatibility

Java	8, 11, 17 or 18
JPA	2.2
Jakarta Persistence	3.0
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 5.6 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: limited-support

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

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 (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

Development versions (SNAPSHOTS)

The latest development versions of Maven artifacts for Hibernate ORM are published to the JBoss Nexus repository.

JBoss Nexus subdirectory

You should only need those (unstable) versions for testing recently merged patches, and should never use them in production.

To consume these artifacts, you may need to configure your build tool to fetch artifacts from https://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/repositories/public and to enable snapshots:

Maven Gradle

Releases in this series

Hibernate ORM 5.6 is in limited maintenance mode: we recommend that you upgrade to a newer series if possible or look for paid support.

Hibernate ORM

5.6 series limited-support

Dropped support for Javassist, Performance