Hibernate Validator

6.1 series end-of-life

Jakarta Bean Validation, new Quarkus-tailored bootstrap

Hibernate Validator 6.1 has reached its end-of-life:

  • it is unlikely to see another release;

  • bugs are unlikely to get fixed in this version, even security vulnerabilities;

  • pull requests against this version will be rejected;

  • bug reproducers using this version will be given lower priority.

We encourage you to upgrade to a newer series if possible.

Compatibility

Java 8, 11 or 17
Jakarta 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 6.1 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 6.1 has reached its end-of-life: we recommend you use a newer series if possible.

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.validator:hibernate-validator:6.1.7.Final
Core implementation
org.hibernate.validator:hibernate-validator-cdi:6.1.7.Final
CDI integration
org.hibernate.validator:hibernate-validator-osgi:6.1.7.Final
OSGi integration
org.hibernate.validator:hibernate-validator-annotation-processor:6.1.7.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:

Download Zip archive

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

Getting started

Hibernate Validator 6.1 has reached its end-of-life: we recommend you use a newer series if possible.

If you want to start using Hibernate Validator 6.1, 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 (2020-12-16): 6.1.7.Final.

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

Jakarta Bean Validation

Hibernate Validator 6.1 uses the Jakarta Bean Validation API artifact i.e. jakarta.validation:jakarta.validation-api.

No API changes.

Quarkus-tailored bootstrap

To better fit Quarkus architecture, we have developed a new bootstrap that allows to collect the Hibernate Validator metadata at build time.

This allows to drastically reduce the Hibernate Validator contribution to the Quarkus startup time.

Performance and memory footprint improvements

Hibernate Validator 6.1 comes with some new performance and memory footprint improvements.

Releases in this series

Hibernate Validator 6.1 has reached its end-of-life: we recommend you use a newer series if possible.

6.1.6.Final

2020-09-30

fix potential infinite loop in method parameters validation, small fixes

Maven artifacts Download Resolved issues Release announcement

6.1.3.Final

2020-04-10

translation fixes, performance improvement for executables validation

Maven artifacts Download Resolved issues Release announcement

6.1.2.Final

2020-01-31

6.1.1.Final

2020-01-15

Localization support improvements via LocaleResolver SPI

Maven artifacts Download Resolved issues Release announcement

6.1.0.Final

2019-10-25

Jakarta Bean Validation, PropertyNodeNameProvider SPI, deprecation of @SafeHtml

Maven artifacts Download Resolved issues Release announcement

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