Hibernate ORM

5.6 series end-of-life

Dropped support for Javassist, Performance

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

What's new HTML

Migration guide HTML

Short guide HTML PDF

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.

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 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

Releases in this series

Hibernate ORM 5.6 has reached its end-of-life: we recommend that you upgrade to a newer series if possible.

See also the Maintenance policy.

5.6.15.Final

2023-02-06

LGPL v2.1

important bug fixes, type pollution cache mitigations

How to get it

Maven artifacts Resolved issues Release announcement

5.6.14.Final

2022-11-04

LGPL v2.1

important bug fixes, type pollution cache mitigations

Maven artifacts Resolved issues Release announcement

5.6.13.Final

2022-11-03

LGPL v2.1

important bug fixes, type pollution cache mitigations

Maven artifacts Resolved issues Release announcement

5.6.12.Final

2022-09-27

LGPL v2.1

small improvements, bug fixes

Maven artifacts Resolved issues Release announcement

5.6.11.Final

2022-08-30

LGPL v2.1

small improvements, bug fixes

Maven artifacts Resolved issues Release announcement

5.6.10.Final

2022-07-07

LGPL v2.1

small improvements, bug fixes

Maven artifacts Resolved issues Release announcement

5.6.9.Final

2022-05-15

LGPL v2.1

Paving the road for Hibernate ORM 6

Maven artifacts Resolved issues Release announcement

5.6.8.Final

2022-04-13

LGPL v2.1

Paving the road for Hibernate ORM 6

Maven artifacts Resolved issues

5.6.7.Final

2022-03-16

LGPL v2.1

Paving the road for Hibernate ORM 6

Maven artifacts Resolved issues Release announcement

5.6.6.Final

2022-03-16

LGPL v2.1

Paving the road for Hibernate ORM 6

Maven artifacts Resolved issues Release announcement

5.6.5.Final

2022-01-26

LGPL v2.1

Paving the road for Hibernate ORM 6

Maven artifacts Download Resolved issues Release announcement

5.6.4.Final

2022-01-19

LGPL v2.1

Paving the road for Hibernate ORM 6

Maven artifacts Download Resolved issues Release announcement

5.6.3.Final

2021-12-16

LGPL v2.1

Paving the road for Hibernate ORM 6

Maven artifacts Download Resolved issues Release announcement

5.6.2.Final

2021-12-08

LGPL v2.1

Paving the road for Hibernate ORM 6

Maven artifacts Download Resolved issues Release announcement

5.6.1.Final

2021-10-27

LGPL v2.1

Bugfixes

Maven artifacts Download Resolved issues

5.6.0.Final

2021-10-13

LGPL v2.1

Paving the road for Hibernate ORM 6

Maven artifacts Download Resolved issues Release announcement

5.6.0.CR1

2021-09-28

LGPL v2.1

Getting ready

Maven artifacts Download Resolved issues Release announcement

5.6.0.Beta2

2021-09-21

LGPL v2.1

Maven artifacts Download Resolved issues Release announcement

5.6.0.Beta1

2021-08-27

LGPL v2.1

Dropped Javassist support, performance improvements

Maven artifacts Download Resolved issues Release announcement

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