Hibernate Validator

5.2 series end-of-life

Java 8 support and more

Compatibility

Java 6, 7 or 8
Bean Validation 1.1

Not compatible with your requirements? Have a look at the other series.

See also the Compatibility policy and Maintenance policy.

Documentation

Documentation for Hibernate Validator 5.2 can be accessed through the links below:

HTML PDF API (JavaDoc)

You can find more documentation for all series on the documentation page.

How to get it

Hibernate Validator 5.2 has reached its end-of-life: we recommend that you upgrade to a newer series if possible.

See also the Maintenance policy.

Maven, Gradle...

Maven artifacts of Hibernate Validator 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-validator:5.2.4.Final
Core implementation
org.hibernate:hibernate-validator-cdi:5.2.4.Final
CDI integration
org.hibernate:hibernate-validator-osgi:5.2.4.Final
OSGi integration
org.hibernate:hibernate-validator-annotation-processor:5.2.4.Final
Annotation processor

All Maven artifacts of this project released after 2022-02-08 are signed.

To verify signed Maven artifacts, head to this page.

Direct download

A ZIP archive containing all JAR files, documentation and source is available from SourceForge:

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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.

Getting started

Hibernate Validator 5.2 has reached its end-of-life: we recommend that you upgrade to a newer series if possible.

See also the Maintenance policy.

If you want to start using Hibernate Validator 5.2, please refer to the getting started guide:

HTML PDF

Migrating

If you need to upgrade from a previous series, please refer to the migration guide:

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What's new

Latest release announcement (2016-02-17): 5.2.4.Final.

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

Releases in this series

Hibernate Validator 5.2 has reached its end-of-life: we recommend that you upgrade to a newer series if possible.

See also the Maintenance policy.

5.2.4.Final

2016-02-17

ASL v2

bug fixes related to default group sequence handling

How to get it

Maven artifacts Download Resolved issues Release announcement

5.2.3.Final

2016-01-27

ASL v2

bug fixes, allow to use on JDK 9

Maven artifacts Download Resolved issues Release announcement

5.2.2.Final

2015-09-29

ASL v2

bug fixes, improved annotation ignore options in constraint declaration API

Maven artifacts Download Resolved issues Release announcement

5.2.1.Final

2015-07-30

ASL v2

Java 8 support and more

Maven artifacts Download Resolved issues Release announcement

5.2.0.CR1

2015-05-22

ASL v2

Bug fix release

Maven artifacts Download Resolved issues Release announcement

5.2.0.Beta1

2015-02-24

ASL v2

Specify external ClassLoader, features.xml, ConstraintMapping- and ConstraintDefinitionContributor

Maven artifacts Download Resolved issues Release announcement

5.2.0.Alpha1

2014-10-22

ASL v2

Java 8 and much more …​

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