The maintenance of Hibernate projects focuses on the latest series. Maintenance of that series ends or switches to a limited mode as soon as a newer series gets released.
Application developers requiring longer support windows and/or contractually binding guarantees should look for commercial, long-term support.
Commercial Offerings
Below are commercial offerings that the Hibernate team is familiar with, and which provide long-term support for Hibernate projects (among others).
IBM’s Java stack based on Quarkus.
Red Hat’s application runtimes offering, spanning Quarkus, Red Hat JBoss EAP, and more.
Red Hat’s Jakarta EE application server based on WildFly.
Red Hat’s Java stack based on Quarkus.