Hibernate Validator

5.2 series stable

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.

Documentation

Documentation for this specific series 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

Maven, Gradle...

Maven artifacts of Hibernate Validator are published to Maven Central and to the JBoss Maven repository. Refer to the Maven Getting Started guide on the JBoss Wiki for more information on how to configure the JBoss Maven repository.

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.

Zip archive

Direct download is available from SourceForge:

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More information about specific releases (announcements, download links) can be found here.

Getting started

If you want to start using Hibernate Validator, 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

5.2.4.Final

2016-02-17

bug fixes related to default group sequence handling

How to get it Getting started

Maven artifacts Download Resolved issues Release announcement

5.2.3.Final

2016-01-27

bug fixes, allow to use on JDK 9

Maven artifacts Download Resolved issues Release announcement

5.2.2.Final

2015-09-29

bug fixes, improved annotation ignore options in constraint declaration API

Maven artifacts Download Resolved issues Release announcement

5.2.1.Final

2015-07-30

Java 8 support and more

Maven artifacts Download Resolved issues Release announcement

5.2.0.CR1

2015-05-22

Bug fix release

Maven artifacts Download Resolved issues Release announcement

5.2.0.Beta1

2015-02-24

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

Maven artifacts Download Resolved issues Release announcement

5.2.0.Alpha1

2014-10-22

Java 8 and much more ...

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