Hibernate Validator

6.0 series end-of-life

Bean Validation 2.0 support, performance improvements.

Compatibility

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

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

See also the Compatibility policy.

Documentation

Documentation for Hibernate Validator 6.0 can be accessed through the links below:

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

How to get it

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

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.validator:hibernate-validator:6.0.23.Final
Core implementation
org.hibernate.validator:hibernate-validator-cdi:6.0.23.Final
CDI integration
org.hibernate.validator:hibernate-validator-osgi:6.0.23.Final
OSGi integration
org.hibernate.validator:hibernate-validator-annotation-processor:6.0.23.Final
Annotation processor

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

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Direct download

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

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

Getting started

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

If you want to start using Hibernate Validator 6.0, please refer to the getting started guide:

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Migrating

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

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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

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.

6.0.23.Final

2022-02-09

small bugfixes

How to get it Getting started

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6.0.22.Final

2020-12-16

fix issue when using non-Hibernate Validator config class

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6.0.21.Final

2020-09-30

expose property path in context, small fixes

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6.0.20.Final

2020-05-07

fix for CVE-2020-10693

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6.0.19.Final

2020-03-27

translation fixes, BeanMetaDataClassNormalizer

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6.0.18.Final

2019-10-25

bugfixes, deprecation of @SafeHtml

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6.0.17.Final

2019-06-13

bugfixes

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6.0.16.Final

2019-03-21

bugfixes, JDK 12 support, Windows build

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6.0.15.Final

2019-02-18

bugfix

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6.0.14.Final

2019-01-07

critical bugfix, Dutch translation fixes, WildFly 15.0.0.Final support

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6.0.13.Final

2018-08-23

minor bugfixes

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6.0.12.Final

2018-08-13

CDI integration changes, JDK 11 support

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6.0.11.Final

2018-07-18

JDK 11 support, bugfixes

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6.0.10.Final

2018-05-15

bugfixes, Dutch translation

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6.0.9.Final

2018-03-27

constraint validator payload, bugfixes, performance improvements

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6.0.8.Final

2018-03-08

constraint validator payload, bugfixes, performance improvements

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6.0.7.Final

2017-12-20

upgrade to Bean Validation 2.0.1.Final

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6.0.6.Final

2017-12-14

@ISBN constraint, performance improvements

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6.0.5.Final

2017-11-15

bugfixes, @UniqueElements constraint, temporal validation tolerance

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6.0.4.Final

2017-10-25

WildFly 11 Final patch, performance improvements

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6.0.3.Final

2017-10-19

new ScriptEvaluatorFactory SPI, new @CodePointLength constraint, bugfixes

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6.0.2.Final

2017-08-22

bug fixes, updated Brazilian Portuguese translation

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6.0.1.Final

2017-08-07

Bean Validation 2.0 support, performance improvements

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6.0.0.Final

2017-08-07

Not publicly released.

6.0.0.CR3

2017-07-11

Bean Validation 2.0.0.CR3 support

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6.0.0.CR2

2017-07-05

Bean Validation 2.0.0.CR2 support

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6.0.0.CR1

2017-06-29

Bean Validation 2.0.0.CR1 support

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6.0.0.Beta2

2017-05-24

Bean Validation 2.0.0.Beta2 support

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6.0.0.Beta1

2017-05-16

improved Bean Validation 2.0 support, improved container element constraint support

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6.0.0.Alpha2

2017-03-30

improved Bean Validation 2.0 support, improved container element constraint support

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6.0.0.Alpha1

2017-02-16

Bean Validation 2.0 initial support, nested type argument constraints, lambdas

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