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We just released Hibernate Validator 6.0.14.Final which comes with a critical bugfix.

This is a recommended upgrade for everyone using Hibernate Validator and it is a drop-in replacement for 6.0.13.Final.

We just released Hibernate Validator 6.0.13.Final which comes with very few changes.

It will be the version included in WildFly 14.

This is a recommended upgrade for everyone using Hibernate Validator and it is a drop-in replacement for 6.0.12.Final.

We released Hibernate Validator 6.0.12.Final which comes with a change to our CDI integration and fixes and improvements to our JDK 11 support.

This is a recommended upgrade for everyone using Hibernate Validator and it is a drop-in replacement for 6.0.11.Final in most cases (see our migration guide).

We just released Hibernate Validator 6.0.11.Final which comes with an improved compatibility with JDK 11 and a couple of bugfixes.

This is a recommended upgrade for everyone using Hibernate Validator and it is a drop-in replacement for 6.0.10.Final in most cases (see our migration guide).

We just released Hibernate Validator 6.0.10.Final which comes with bugfixes and a brand new Dutch translation.

This is a recommended upgrade for everyone using Hibernate Validator and it is a drop-in replacement of 6.0.9.Final (see our migration guide).

Following the "release early, release often" motto, here comes a new version of Hibernate Validator, 6.0.9.Final.

It brings some nice improvements and fixes a couple of bugs.

This is a recommended upgrade for everyone using Hibernate Validator and it is a drop-in replacement of 6.0.8.Final, except if you already started to use the new constraint validator payload feature (see below).

Hibernate Validator 6.0 has matured a lot since its first release, last August.

We added a couple of new features but we also invested a lot of work in improving the overall performances.

I published a first blog post last October to share an update about our performance work based on 6.0.4.Final.

We just released 6.0.8.Final and have a couple more improvements baked for our next release so it’s definitely time for an update.

It has been a couple of months since our last Hibernate Validator release and we have made some significant progress since then.

We just released Hibernate Validator 6.0.8.Final containing all these bugfixes and enhancements.

This is a recommended upgrade for everyone using Hibernate Validator 6.0.x and it is a drop-in replacement of 6.0.7.Final.

The most significant feature in Bean Validation 2.0 (JSR 380) is the support for container element constraints. I.e. you can now apply constraints to the contents of container types such as List, Map or Optional by annotating their type arguments (which became possible with Java 8): List<@Future LocalDate> shipmentDates.

In this blog post you’ll learn how to take advantage of that for the validation of custom container types, such as Multimap, Table or Graph from Google’s widely known Guava library.

We used to be very conservative on the constraints included in Hibernate Validator but we changed this policy recently and we would like to have more constraints built-in.

Of course, we won’t accept everything: the proposed constraints needs to be of general usage and well defined but the idea is to have more features in Hibernate Validator out of the box.

This post will be useful to those who have some interesting custom Bean Validation constraints and want to share them with the community.