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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/.

A first CR for Hibernate ORM 7.3 has just been 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.CR1

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

Jakarta Persistence—​more commonly known as JPA—​defines the industry standard for management of persistence and object/relational mapping in Java. It’s the most widely used persistence solution in the Java ecosystem and by far the most successful object/relational mapping API in any programming language. JPA4 is easily the most significant revision of the specification since JPA 2.0 was released in December 2009.

This milestone build is being made available for wider community review with the purpose of collecting feedback from users and implementors. Remember: now is the time to send feedback. JPA 4 is still not feature complete, and none of the changes I’m about to describe are set in stone. Don’t wait for the specification to go final later this year before trying it out.

Let’s see what’s new in this release.

We are pleased to announce the release of Hibernate Search 7.2.5.Final.

This release contains the update to Hibernate ORM 6.6.40 that brings JDK 25 support. Hibernate Search 7.2 was already tested against JDK 25.

Hibernate Reactive 4.2.1.Final is now available.

Hibernate Reactive 4.2.1.Final is compatible with Hibernate ORM 7.2.0.Final, and Vert.x SQL client 5.0.2.

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.

Hibernate Reactive 3.2.1.Final is now available.

Hibernate Reactive 3.2.1.Final is compatible with Hibernate ORM 7.2.0.Final, and Vert.x SQL client 4.5.

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.

Hibernate Search 8.2.1.Final maintenance release is out.

This release contains some improvements in the AWS integration for the Elasticsearch backend, compatibility with OpenSearch 3.4 and a few dependency updates.

We are excited to announce the release of Hibernate Search 8.2.0.Final.

Compared to the 8.1 series, 8.2 brings compatibility with the latest Hibernate ORM 7.2, Elasticsearch 9.2 and OpenSearch 3.2/3.3. It also introduces the pluggable Elasticsearch backend clients.

Compared to the previously released 8.2.0.CR1, this version is almost identical, and only adds a few changes to adapt to the newly released Hibernate ORM 7.2.0.Final.