6.0 series - Hibernate Validator

Compatibility

Java	8, 11 or 17
Bean Validation	2.0
Java EE	8

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 6.0 can be accessed through the links below:

Getting started guide HTML PDF

What's new HTML

Migration guide HTML

Reference HTML PDF API (Javadoc)

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

How to get it

Current series status: end-of-life

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.

Core implementation

CDI integration

OSGi integration

Annotation processor

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

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Direct download

Individual Maven artifacts may be downloaded directly from the Maven repository:

Maven Central subdirectory

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

What's new

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

Bean Validation 2.0

Hibernate Validator 6.0 is the Reference Implementation of the Bean Validation 2.0 specification so it comes with all its new features:

First class support of container element constraints and cascaded validation (think private Map<@Valid @NotNull OrderCategory, List<@Valid @NotNull Order>> orderByCategories;);
Support for the new JSR 310 date/time data types for @Past and @Future;
New built-in constraints: @Positive, @PositiveOrZero, @Negative, @NegativeOrZero, @PastOrPresent and @FutureOrPresent

We also have leveraged the new features of JDK 8 (built-in constraints are marked repeatable, parameter names are retrieved via reflection) as it is now the minimal version required.

Other new features

Constraint validator payload: ability to pass a payload to your constraint validators
Additional constraints: @ISBN, @UniqueElements and @CodePointLength
Temporal validation tolerance
ScriptEvaluatorFactory SPI: ability to support non JSR 223 scripting languages such as Spring EL

Performance improvements

We have done quite a lot of benchmarking and have significantly improved the performances of Hibernate Validator.

It can be up to four times faster than Hibernate Validator 5.4.2.Final in some cases.

Memory footprint improvements

Hibernate Validator collects a lot of metadata on the constrained beans. We reduced significantly the memory occupied by these metadata.

Releases in this series

Hibernate Validator 6.0 has reached its end-of-life: we recommend that you upgrade to a newer series if possible.

See also the Maintenance policy.

6.0.23.Final

2022-02-09

Hibernate Validator

6.0 series end-of-life

Bean Validation 2.0 support, performance improvements.