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We are excited to announce the release of 6.0 Alpha1.

The main design goal for 6.0 is to improve even more Hibernate’s through-put performance. High-load performance testing showed that Hibernate’s approach of reading values from ResultSet by name to be its most limiting factor in scaling through-put. At its most basic, 6.0 is all about changing from its old strategy of read-by-name to read-by-position. But that simple goal has a lot of ramifications.

We have come really far, but still it is an Alpha, so there is still plenty more to do. Each section below breaks down what works, what does not work, what is not yet implemented.

Hibernate ORM version 5.3.0.Final has just been released.

This is the second CR release for the Hibernate ORM 5.3 family. 5.3 represents a JPA 2.2 compatible version on top of 5.2.

CR1 was work done to verify against the JPA 2.2 TCK. CR2 was, partially, work done based on the efforts of WildFly to certify against the full EE TCK, which has additional JPA-related tests.

The remainder of CR2 work mainly focused on binary compatibility for 5.3 with 5.1 and 5.2. Most of that work has been done under HHH-12424 and its sub-tasks. It was this work mainly that caused the delays in getting CR2 released. I apologize for that delay, but this was deemed a very important task.

This is the first CR release for the Hibernate ORM 5.3 family. 5.3 represents a JPA 2.2 compatible version on top of 5.2. CR1 indicates that we have verified that this release passes the JPA 2.2 TCK. In 2 weeks (Feb 28) we will release either Final or CR2.

See Jira for the complete list of changes

See the downloads page for details on obtaining this release

This is the second Beta release in the Hibernate ORM 5.3 family. 5.3 represents a JPA 2.2 compatible version on top of 5.2. Beta2 is mainly minor bug-fixes and improvements. Changes of note include:

See Jira for the complete list of changes

This is a first Beta release in the Hibernate ORM 5.3 family. 5.3 represents a JPA 2.2 compatible version on top of 5.2 which includes the changes discussed below.

See Jira for the complete list of changes

See the downloads page for details on obtaining this release

NOTE : we have been having trouble getting documentation uploaded to the JBoss doc server. So the documentation may not be available online at this time. In that case, the documentation can be obtained from the release bundles from SourceForge. See the downloads page

The 5.2.0 release of Hibernate ORM has just been tagged and published.

Many of the changes in 5.2.0 have important ramifications in terms of both usage and extension. Be sure to read the 5.2 Migration Guide for details.

The complete list of changes can be found here. Below is a discussion of the major changes.

The Hibernate team is proud to announce the release of ORM 5.1 which includes a number of new features and enhancements, including:

The 7th bug-fix release for Hibernate ORM 5.0 has just been tagged and published.

The complete list of changes can be found here (or here for people without a Hibernate Jira account).

For information on consuming the release via your favorite dependency-management-capable build tool, see https://hibernate.org/orm/downloads/

The 5th bug-fix release for Hibernate ORM 5.0 has just been tagged and published. This release and the upcoming 5.0.6 release have been done on an accelerated timebox of 2 weeks (from the normal 4 weeks for bugfix releases) due to US holidays.

The complete list of changes can be found here (or here for people without a Hibernate Jira account).

For information on consuming the release via your favorite dependency-management-capable build tool, see https://hibernate.org/orm/downloads/