In Relation To

The first candidate release!

Hibernate ORM version 5.6.5.Final is now available, improving compatibility with the latest version of H2.

We just released Hibernate ORM version 5.6.4.Final.

Hibernate ORM 6.0.0.Beta3 has been released. Just in time for the holidays!

We are especially excited for this release because it feels like the last beta on the long journey it has taken to develop 6.0. Lots of work has gone into Beta3, but like Beta2 most of that work has been behind the scenes. A few specific things of note:

Hibernate projects are not affected by the vulnerabilities behind CVE-2021-45046 and CVE-2021-44228: none of the Hibernate projects has a runtime dependency on Log4j core.

We use JBoss Logging, which provides a minimal API bridging to your logger backend of choice and does not come with fancy features relying on JNDI lookups.

We do use Log4j during development of the Hibernate libraries as it’s a dependency of our testsuites; therefore we’ve still upgraded all branches.

Hibernate ORM version 5.6.2.Final is now available.

This is a maintenance release of the latest stable branch 5.6; speaking of branches, it’s worth highlight that our main branch is now pointing to the sources of the upcoming version 6.0.

The second Beta of Hibernate ORM 6.0 has just been released.

Quite a lot has gone into this release, but at a high level -

The Hibernate team is pleased to announce availability of version 5.6.0.Final of our flagship ORM library.

Compared to previous candidate releases, not much has changed:

The first Beta of Hibernate ORM 6.0 has just been released.

We had a few main focuses for this Beta:

The main branch of Hibernate ORM, which will soon be promoted as our 5.6 release, is looking good and stable; we’re happy to announce tag 5.6.0.CR1 was released today and should already be available from your favourite Maven mirrors.

Compared to previous 5.6.0.Beta2, you should see no differences: