8.0 series - Hibernate ORM

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

Spatial support

Vector support

Envers audit support

Agroal connection pooling

HikariCP connection pooling

c3p0 connection pooling

Oracle UCP connection pooling

JCache second-level caching

Integration for Micrometer

Integration for Java Flight Recorder

Experimental extension to make it easier to compile applications into a GraalVM native image

Community-maintained SQL dialects

Hibernate Processor compile-time tooling

Leverages Jandex to support managed-resource scanning (entity discovery, etc) in Hibernate ORM.

Tools to integrate Hibernate with LLMs and generative AI functionalities

Annotation Processor to generate JPA 2 static metamodel classes

Maven plugin to integrate aspects of Hibernate into your build

Platform (BOM) for Hibernate ORM dependencies

Library providing functionality to perform reverse engineering Hibernate related artefacts from an existing database

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

Highlights of new features and enhancements can be found here:

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

Development versions (SNAPSHOTS)

The latest development versions of Maven artifacts for Hibernate ORM are published to the Sonatype Maven Central snapshots repository.

Sonatype Maven Central snapshots 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://central.sonatype.com/repository/maven-snapshots and to enable snapshots:

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