Hibernate Validator

6.1 series end-of-life

Jakarta Bean Validation, new Quarkus-tailored bootstrap

Compatibility

Java 8, 11 or 17
Jakarta Bean Validation 2.0
Jakarta 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 6.1 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 that you upgrade to a newer series if possible.

See also the Maintenance policy.

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:6.1.7.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.

Direct download

A ZIP archive containing all JAR files, documentation and source is available from SourceForge:

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

Maven Central subdirectory

See here for how to download all dependencies of your Maven project to a local directory on your filesystem.

See here for how to download an explicitly listed set of artifacts to a local directory on your filesystem.

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 that you upgrade to a newer series if possible.

See also the Maintenance policy.

If you want to start using Hibernate Validator 6.1, 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

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 that you upgrade to a newer series if possible.

See also the Maintenance policy.

6.1.6.Final

2020-09-30

ASL v2

fix potential infinite loop in method parameters validation, small fixes

Maven artifacts Download Resolved issues Release announcement

6.1.3.Final

2020-04-10

ASL v2

translation fixes, performance improvement for executables validation

Maven artifacts Download Resolved issues Release announcement

6.1.2.Final

2020-01-31

ASL v2

6.1.1.Final

2020-01-15

ASL v2

Localization support improvements via LocaleResolver SPI

Maven artifacts Download Resolved issues Release announcement

6.1.0.Final

2019-10-25

ASL v2

Jakarta Bean Validation, PropertyNodeNameProvider SPI, deprecation of @SafeHtml

Maven artifacts Download Resolved issues Release announcement

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