Hibernate Validator

9.2 series development

Hibernate Validator 9.2 is still in development:

  • some features may be incomplete;

  • newly introduced features may change in a backward-incompatible way before the stable release.

We encourage you to give it a try and to let us know of any bugs or problems you encounter.

Compatibility

Java 17, 21, 25 or 26
Jakarta Validation 3.1
Jakarta EE 11
Quarkus 4.0

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 9.2 can be accessed through the links below:

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

How to get it

Current series status: development

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-bom:9.2.0.Beta1
BOM to help manage published Hibernate Validator artifacts
org.hibernate.validator:hibernate-validator:9.2.0.Beta1
Core implementation
org.hibernate.validator:hibernate-validator-cdi:9.2.0.Beta1
CDI integration
org.hibernate.validator:hibernate-validator-annotation-processor:9.2.0.Beta1
Annotation processor
org.hibernate.validator:hibernate-validator-test-utils:9.2.0.Beta1
Set of test utilities that can help testing custom constraints.

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

To verify signed Maven artifacts, head to this page.

Direct download

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.

What's new

Latest release announcement (2026-10-13): 9.2.0.Beta1.

Highlights of new features and enhancements can be found here:

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

Development versions (SNAPSHOTS)

The latest development versions of Maven artifacts for Hibernate Validator are published to the Sonatype Maven Central snapshots repository.

Sonatype Maven Central snapshots subdirectory

You should only need those (unstable) versions for testing recently merged patches, and should never use them in production.

To consume these artifacts, you may need to configure your build tool to fetch artifacts from https://central.sonatype.com/repository/maven-snapshots and to enable snapshots:

Maven Gradle

Releases in this series

9.2.0.Beta1

2026-10-13

ASL v2

This series introduces new constraints, including password validation, adds a bean resolution system for integrating application services, provides configurable property access through Hibernate Accessor, improves validation performance, updates dependencies, and includes improvements and bug fixes.

How to get it

Maven artifacts Resolved issues Release announcement

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