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It’s my pleasure to announce the release of Hibernate Validator 5.2.3.Final!
Wait, didn’t we already do another Hibernate Validator release earlier this month? That’s right, indeed we pushed out the first Alpha of the 5.3 family a couple of days ago. And normally, that’d mean that there would be no further releases of earlier version families.
But in this case we decided to do an exception from the rule as we noticed that Hibernate Validator couldn’t be used with Java 9 (check out issue HV-1048 if you are interested in the details). As we don’t want to keep integrators and users of Hibernate Validator from testing their own software on Java 9, we decided to fix that issue on the current stable release line (in fact we strongly encourage you to test your applications on Java 9 to learn as early as possible about any potential changes you might need to make).
While we were at it, we backported some further bugfixes from 5.3 to 5.2, amongst them one for ensuring compatability with the Google App Engine. As always, you can find the complete list of fixes in the changelog.
It’s my pleasure to announce the first release of Hibernate Validator 5.3!
The overarching idea for the 5.3 timeline is to prototype several features which may potentially be standardized in the Bean Validation 2.0 specification. For instance we’ll work on a solution for the long-standing request for sorting the constraints on single properties.
If you’d like to see any specific features addressed in that prototyping work (and eventually included in BV 2.0), then please get in touch and let us know which are the most important things you are missing from the spec. We’ve compiled a first list of issues we are considering for inclusion in BV 2.0. For sure we cannot address all of them, so it’ll greatly help if you tell us what would be most helpful to you.
I am happy to announce the availability of Hibernate Validator 5.2.2.Final.
This release fixes several bugs, including a nasty regression around private property declarations in inheritance hierarchies and a tricky issue related to classloading in environments such as OSGi.
We also closed a gap in the API for constraint declaration which allows to ignore annotation-based constraints for specific methods, parameters etc.:
I know you have been waiting in anticipation, but now it is available - Hibernate Validator 5.2.1.Final :-). Given that it is a drop-in replacement for all 5.x releases, there is no reason to delay an upgrade. Just go and get it.
For the more cautious, here again the highlights of the 5.2 release with pointers to more information.
Moving along towards a 5.2 Final, we are happy to announce the release of Hibernate Validator 5.2.0.CR1. The main goal of this release was to fix bugs and polish some of the new features. For example, we reviewed the Optional validation support and made sure its behavior is (what we think) consistent in all cases. You can find the full change log on JIRA.
After some time in the making, we are happy to announce the first Hibernate Validator release of the 5.2 series - 5.2.0.Alpha1. This release focuses mainly on Java 8 support, but we will get to this in a bit.
This post is about validation, Bean Validation specifically. And the what it solves. It is a reaction to a post by Julien Tournay which basically claims - if I sum it up - that:
I am happy to announce Hibernate Validator 5.1.0.CR1, hopefully (fingers crossed) the last release prior Final. We used the release for last adjustments and some bug fixes.
