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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

A first (and hopefully last, obviously) CR for Hibernate ORM 7.0 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.CR1

The Hibernate team is ecstatic to report that we have successfully relicensed Hibernate ORM under the Apache 2.0 license! As discussed previously, this decision was solely about opening up wider acceptance amongst Apache/Jakarta projects and other places that (for whatever reasons) disallow the LGPL license.

This was a massive effort on the part of many people and took nearly 2 years to complete. We are grateful to all the contributors who explicitly agreed to allow the relicensing of their contributions - thank you!