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We are happy to announce that, starting with the upcoming releases of Hibernate ORM 7.4, the core modules of Hibernate Tools will be integrated directly into the Hibernate ORM repository.

In this post we will cover the motivation behind the move, what it means for your build files, what happens to the Eclipse tooling, and how to get started with the new coordinates.

Today we released the second milestone build of Jakarta Persistence 4.0.

I previously blogged about the new features of JPA 4 which were already available in the first milestone. Here I’m going to list the changes we’ve made since then.

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 -

Hibernate Reactive 4.3.0.Final is now available.

Hibernate Reactive 4.3.0.Final is compatible with Hibernate ORM 7.3.0.Final, and Vert.x SQL client 5.0.8.

If you need a Hibernate Reactive version compatible with older Hibernate ORM releases or Vert.x releases, you can find a compatibility matrix on the Hibernate website.

We just published Hibernate Search 8.3.0.Final.

Compared to the previously released 8.3.0.CR1, this version is mostly identical, and only adds a few changes to adapt to the final release of Hibernate ORM 7.3.0.Final.

We are pleased to announce the release of Hibernate Search 6.2.5.Final, 7.2.6.Final, 8.1.3.Final and 8.2.2.Final.

These releases bring a few bug fixes and clarifications in the migration guides.

We just published Hibernate Search 8.3.0.CR1, the first candidate release of the next minor version of Hibernate Search.

This version brings compatibility with the latest Hibernate ORM 7.3, Elasticsearch 9.3 and OpenSearch 3.4.

Another release candidate version for Hibernate ORM 7.3 has just been released: 7.3.0.CR2.

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.CR2

Hibernate Reactive 4.3.0.CR1 is now available.

Hibernate Reactive 4.3.0.CR1 is compatible with Hibernate ORM 7.3.0.CR2, and Vert.x SQL client 5.0.7.

If you need a Hibernate Reactive version compatible with older Hibernate ORM releases or Vert.x releases, you can find a compatibility matrix on the Hibernate website.

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/.