Series
8.0 2025-03-24
Integration with Hibernate ORM 7.0, metric aggregations, new Lucene-based backend, logging categories and more.
7.2 2025-03-18
Re-licensing as Apache License 2.0, query string predicates on numeric/date fields, analyzer API
7.0 2024-04-10
Switch to Jakarta EE / ORM 6.4 without -orm6 artifacts, Hibernate Search BOM
6.2 2024-04-10
Standalone POJO Mapper, projection to custom (annotated) types, highlighting, excludePaths for @IndexedEmbedded, Elasticsearch schema export
Older series
7.1 2024-08-30
Vector search, new query string predicate, simplified Standalone POJO mapper
6.1 2023-01-31
Asynchronous, distributed automatic indexing, OpenSearch compatibility, conditional mass indexing, Jakarta EE / ORM 6 artifacts
6.0 2023-01-31
API overhaul, safer and more concise Search DSL, more powerful bridges, smarter automatic indexing, nested documents
5.10 2022-10-27
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 2018-09-10
JSR 352 (Batch for Java) mass indexing job, WildFly feature packs, improvements and deprecations paving the road to Search 6
5.8 2017-10-26
Experimental integration with Elasticsearch 5.x, AWS integration, improvements and deprecations paving the road to Search 6
5.7 2017-10-26
Improved integration with Elasticsearch 2.x, compatible with Hibernate ORM 5.2.x
5.6 2018-09-10
Introduces experimental support for Elasticsearch, last release supporting Hibernate ORM 5.0.z or 5.1.z
5.5 2017-08-16
Being maintained as it’s included in WildFly. Supports Lucene only, requires Hibernate ORM 5.0.z or 5.1.z
5.4 2015-09-03
Requires Hibernate ORM 5.0.0.Final; Last version compatible with Apache Lucene 4.x
4.5 2015-01-12
Performance, WildFly 8 compatibility, JPA 2.1 / Hibernate ORM 4.3 compatibility
Compatibility matrix
| Hibernate Search | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8.0 | 7.2 | 7.0 | 6.2 | |
| Java | 17, 21, or 23 | 11, 17, 21, 22 or 23 | 11, 17 or 21 | 8, 11, 17, 20 or 21 |
| Hibernate ORM | 7.0 | 6.6 | 6.4 |
5.6 in the main artifacts 6.2 - 6.3 through *-orm6 artifacts
|
| Apache Lucene | 9.12 / 10.0 | 9.11 | 9.8 | 8.11 |
| Elasticsearch server | 7.10 - 8.17 | 7.10 - 8.15 | 7.10 - 8.12 | 5.6 - 8.10 |
| OpenSearch server | 1.3 - 2.19 | 1.3 - 2.16 | 1.3 - 2.11 | 1.0 - 2.11 |
See also the Compatibility policy and Maintenance policy.
