Hibernate Search Getting Started (ORM) Getting Started (Standalone)

8.4.0.Final 2026-05-27 latest stable

Upgrade to Hibernate ORM 7.4, compatibility with new versions of Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, other bugfixes, improvements and upgrades

8.2.2.Final 2026-02-18 limited-support

Pluggable Elasticsearch backend REST clients upgrade to Hibernate ORM 7.2, compatibility with new versions of Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, other bugfixes, improvements and upgrades

7.2.6.Final 2026-02-18 limited-support

Re-licensing as Apache License 2.0, query string predicates on numeric/date fields, analyzer API

8.3.2.Final 2026-05-24 end-of-life

Upgrade to Hibernate ORM 7.3, compatibility with new versions of Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, other bugfixes, improvements and upgrades

8.1.3.Final 2026-02-18 limited-support

Aggregation DSL improvements, platform BOMs, upgrade to Hibernate ORM 7.1 compatibility with new versions of Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, other bugfixes, improvements and upgrades

8.0.0.Final 2025-06-06 end-of-life

Integration with Hibernate ORM 7.0, metric aggregations, new Lucene-based backend, logging categories and more.

7.1.2.Final 2024-08-30 end-of-life

Vector search, new query string predicate, simplified Standalone POJO mapper

7.0.1.Final 2024-04-10 end-of-life

Switch to Jakarta EE / ORM 6.4 without -orm6 artifacts, Hibernate Search BOM

6.2.5.Final 2026-02-18 end-of-life

Standalone POJO Mapper, projection to custom (annotated) types, highlighting, excludePaths for @IndexedEmbedded, Elasticsearch schema export

6.1.8.Final 2023-01-31 end-of-life

Asynchronous, distributed automatic indexing, OpenSearch compatibility, conditional mass indexing, Jakarta EE / ORM 6 artifacts

6.0.11.Final 2023-01-31 end-of-life

API overhaul, safer and more concise Search DSL, more powerful bridges, smarter automatic indexing, nested documents

5.11.12.Final 2023-01-31 end-of-life

ORM 5.4 compatibility.

5.10.13.Final 2022-10-27 end-of-life

ORM 5.3 and JPA 2.2 compatibility, integration to DI frameworks through Hibernate ORM 5.3, upgrade to WildFly 17 and JGroups 4, JPMS automatic module names.

5.9.3.Final 2018-09-10 end-of-life

JSR 352 (Batch for Java) mass indexing job, WildFly feature packs, improvements and deprecations paving the road to Search 6

5.8.2.Final 2017-10-26 end-of-life

Experimental integration with Elasticsearch 5.x, AWS integration, improvements and deprecations paving the road to Search 6

5.7.3.Final 2017-10-26 end-of-life

Improved integration with Elasticsearch 2.x, compatible with Hibernate ORM 5.2.x

5.6.6.Final 2018-09-10 end-of-life

Introduces experimental support for Elasticsearch, last release supporting Hibernate ORM 5.0.z or 5.1.z

5.5.8.Final 2017-08-16 end-of-life

Being maintained as it’s included in WildFly. Supports Lucene only, requires Hibernate ORM 5.0.z or 5.1.z

5.4.0.Final 2015-09-03 end-of-life

Requires Hibernate ORM 5.0.0.Final; Last version compatible with Apache Lucene 4.x

5.3.0.Final 2015-06-10 end-of-life

Improved Faceting

5.2.1.Final 2015-09-04 end-of-life

Multi-tenancy, optimisations in criteria based loaders

5.1.2.Final 2015-04-24 end-of-life

Upgrade to Lucene 4 and much much more …​

5.0.1.Final 2015-01-12 end-of-life

Upgrade to Lucene 4 and much much more …​

4.5.3.Final 2015-01-12 end-of-life

Performance, WildFly 8 compatibility, JPA 2.1 / Hibernate ORM 4.3 compatibility

4.4.6.Final 2014-12-02 end-of-life

Dynamic index sharding, new Metadata API, Hibernate ORM 4.2.x compatible

4.3.0.Final 2013-06-07 end-of-life

4.2.0.Final 2013-01-15 end-of-life

4.1.1.Final 2012-05-09 end-of-life

4.0.0.Final 2011-12-15 end-of-life

3.4.2.Final 2012-02-29 end-of-life

3.3.0.Final 2010-12-14 end-of-life

3.2.1.Final 2010-07-25 end-of-life

3.1.1.GA 2009-05-28 end-of-life

3.0.1.GA 2008-02-28 end-of-life