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:
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. |
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:
Migrating
If you need to upgrade from a previous series, please refer to the migration guide:
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:
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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
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Constraint validator payload: ability to pass a payload to your constraint validators
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Additional constraints:
@ISBN
,@UniqueElements
and@CodePointLength
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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. |
6.0.23.Final
2022-02-09
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
6.0.16.Final
2019-03-21
bugfixes, JDK 12 support, Windows build
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6.0.15.Final
2019-02-18
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
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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