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Emmanuel mentioned in his previous Search post the new Statistics interface which is new in Hibernate search 3.3 (latest version 3.3.0.Beta1). I thought it is time to write a little bit more about it. The API is actually self-explanatory:

There are no functional changes between CR1 and this Final release. Some minor issues in the @Min, @Max and @EmailValidator got fixed (HV-335, HV-339) as well as some documentation typos. We also spend some time improving the parsing and validation speed by reviewing and improving some reflection based code (HV-340, HV-341, HV-342). Review the full release notes for details.

Hibernate Validator 4.1.0.CR1 is now available. This is the last milestone build before the Final release. Not much has happened between Beta2 and CR1. The programmatic API as described in the previous release blog entry stayed as is and there were only three minor bug fixes. See release notes for details.

Hibernate Validator 4.1.0.Beta2 is out. A total of 29 issues got resolved since the last release and you can review then in the Jira changelog. Amongst others we added the @ScriptAssert constraints as promised in the previous release blog. Initially we wanted to release 4.1.0.CR directly, but we added a new programmatic constraint configuration API (HV-274) for which we want to first gather some feedback.

One unsolved problem with Bean Validation is how to apply a constraint on the elements of a collection (or iterable). Think about a User entity with a list of emails (primary, secondary, ...). This could be modeled like this:

Time has not been standing still for Hibernate Validator and I am happy to announce the 4.1.0.Beta1 release of Hibernate Validator. The focus towards the final 4.1.0 release is to add new custom constraints, provide enhancement which go beyond the Bean Validation specification and give the developers an annotation processor to verify the correct placement of constraints. You can see what is already implemented in this beta release by referring to the Jira release notes. The roadmap towards 4.1.0 can be seen here. On the custom constraint side we added @CreditCardNumber, @NotBlank and @URL and are planning to add @ScriptAssert for the next release. We also introduced a new interface ResourceBundleLocator which allows users to make a better use of ResourceBundleMessageInterpolator. Instead of just loading resource bundles from the classpath using ResourceBundle.getBundle, you can now provide a custom implementation of ResourceBundleLocator providing the ResourceBundleMessageInterpolator with the message resource bundles to use:

It has been quite some time since the latest Hibernate Search release, but we are happy to announce the first beta release of version 3.2.0 with tons of bug fixes and exciting new features. In fact there are so many new features that we are planning to write a whole series of blog entries covering the following topics:

Steve mentioned in his Hibernate 3.5.0 Beta2 blog entry briefly the Hibernate Static Metamodel Generator Annotation Processor. Time to have a closer look what this annotation processor actually does.

Hibernate Validator 4.0.2 is now available for download. This release was necessary for the JCP integration efforts for JSR-303 and addresses a potential NullPointerException (HV-263). Refer to the 4.0.2 release notes for a full list of changes.

Hibernate Validator 4.0.1 is now available and can be downloaded from here. This release addresses issues discovered by the JCP integration efforts for JSR-303. Of course we used this opportunity to also fix some bugs identified by the community. Thanks for all the feedback.