Hibernate ORM

Releases

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Series

latest stable

7.2 2025-12-12

Pessimistic Locking Improvements, @EmbeddedTable, FindMultipleOptions, Vector Support for SQL Server

limited-support

6.6 2025-11-30

Jakarta Data, @ConcreteProxy, Extended Array Support, Embeddable Inheritance

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Older series

end-of-life

7.1 2025-12-01

Resource Scanning, Locking Improvements

end-of-life

7.0 2025-08-10

Apache License, Jakarta Persistence 3.2, Java 17, QuerySpecification, mapping.xsd, Hibernate Models

end-of-life

6.5 2024-09-18

Java Time Handling, Configurable Query Cache Layout, records as @IdClass, auto-enabled Filters, Key-based Pagination, Jakarta Data (tech preview)

end-of-life

6.4 2024-08-06

soft-delete, array functions, non-String tenant-id

end-of-life

6.3 2023-09-19

Jakarta Persistence 3.1, query methods, finder methods

limited-support

6.2 2025-11-24

Jakarta Persistence 3.1, records, structs, value generation, partitioning, SQL MERGE

end-of-life

6.1 2023-02-07

Subquery in FROM clause, JDBC Array support, Unified Mapping XSD

end-of-life

6.0 2022-05-25

Performance, HQL, Criteria, Type System

end-of-life

5.6 2023-02-06

Dropped support for Javassist, Performance

end-of-life

5.5 2021-12-16

Introducing support for Jakarta JPA

end-of-life

5.4 2021-12-16

EntityGraph improvements, JDK 11 support

limited-support

5.3 2024-02-08

JPA 2.2, inheritance caching

end-of-life

5.2 2018-11-16

Java 8, JCache support, hibernate-entitymanager consolidation

end-of-life

5.1 2018-11-28

Entity joins, load-by-multiple-ids, association traversal in AuditQuery

end-of-life

5.0 2017-01-19

Improved bootstrapping, hibernate-java8, hibernate-spatial, Karaf support

end-of-life

4.3 2015-08-05

JPA 2.1 support

end-of-life

4.2 2015-10-23

JPA 2.0

Compatibility matrix

Hibernate ORM
7.2 6.6
Java 17, 21 or 25 11, 17, 21, 22 or 23
Jakarta Persistence 3.2 3.1
Jakarta EE 11 10
MongoDB Extension N/A 1.0

See also the Compatibility policy and Maintenance policy.

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