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Hibernate ORM 8.0.0.Beta4 is now available. This fourth beta of Hibernate ORM 8.0 adds new mapping capabilities, more flexible dependency management, and new integration options, along with fixes across querying, locking, stateless sessions, and XML mapping migration.

Hibernate ORM 8.0.0.Beta3 is now available.

Coming just a few days after Beta2, the third beta of Hiberante ORM 8.0 is a bit lighter than usual.

Compared to Beta2, notable changes include:

Hibernate ORM 8.0.0.Beta2 is now available

The second beta of Hibernate ORM 8.0 brings stronger concurrency guarantees, expanded Jakarta Persistence 4 support, and substantial improvements to migration from legacy XML mappings. It also introduces more convenient configuration options and clarifies the contracts available to integration and dialect providers.

Highlights include:

ORM 8.0.0.Beta1 has just been released -

Details about the release can be found at https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-orm/releases/tag/8.0.0.Beta1.

Hibernate ORM 7.4 Final has been released.

Details about the release, as well as links to important resources, can be found at https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-orm/releases/tag/7.4.0.

Some of the new features include -

Hibernate ORM 7.3 Final was released a few weeks ago and today 7.3.1 will be released.

Details about the release, as well as links to important resources, can be found at https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-orm/releases/tag/7.3.0.

Some of the new features include -

A first Alpha of ORM 8.0 has just been released implementing support for JPA 4.0 (as of its first milestone). The vast majority of things are implemented, but a few still remain (default fetch type for to-one associations and @ExcludedFromVersioning, e.g.).

Details about the release can be found at https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-orm/releases/tag/8.0.0.Alpha1.

Details about JPA 4.0 can be found at https://in.relation.to/2026/01/20/JPA-4-M1/.

Hibernate ORM 7.1 Final has just been released.

Details about the release, as well as links to important resources, can be found at https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-orm/releases/tag/7.1.0

Hibernate ORM 7.0 Final has just been released.

Details about the release, as well as links to important resources, can be found at https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-orm/releases/tag/7.0.0

A second CR for Hibernate ORM 7.0 has just been released. We cleaned up a few APIs and made some improvements to incubating contracts.

Details about the release, as well as links to important resources, can be found at https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-orm/releases/tag/7.0.0.CR2