7.0 series - Hibernate ORM

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Hibernate ORM 7.0 is still in development:

some features may be incomplete;
newly introduced features may change in a backward-incompatible way before the stable release.

We encourage you to give it a try and to let us know of any bugs or problems you encounter.

Compatibility

Java	17, 21 or 23
Jakarta Persistence	3.2
Jakarta EE	11

Not compatible with your requirements? Have a look at the other series.

See also the Compatibility policy and Maintenance policy.

Documentation

Documentation for Hibernate ORM 7.0 can be accessed through the links below:

Getting started guide HTML

What's new HTML

Migration guide HTML

Short guide HTML PDF

Reference HTML API (Javadoc)

You can find more documentation for all series on the documentation page.

How to get it

Current series status: development

Maven artifacts of Hibernate ORM are published to Maven Central. Most build tools fetch artifacts from Maven Central by default, but if that's not the case for you, see this page to configure your build tool.

You can find the Maven coordinates of all artifacts through the link below:

Maven artifacts

Below are the Maven coordinates of the main artifacts.

Core implementation

Spatial support

Vector support

Envers audit support

Agroal connection pooling

HikariCP connection pooling

c3p0 connection pooling

JCache second-level caching

Integration for Micrometer

Integration for Java Flight Recorder

Community-maintained SQL dialects

Hibernate Processor compile-time tooling

Leverages Jandex to support managed-resource scanning (entity discovery, etc) in Hibernate ORM.

Direct download

Individual Maven artifacts may be downloaded directly from the Maven repository:

Maven Central subdirectory

See here for how to download all dependencies of your Maven project to a local directory on your filesystem.

See here for how to download an explicitly listed set of artifacts to a local directory on your filesystem.

More information about specific releases (announcements, download links) can be found here.

What's new

Latest release announcement (2025-04-24): 7.0.0.CR1.

Highlights of new features and enhancements can be found here:

HTML

A detailed list of new features, improvements and fixes in this series can be found on our issue tracker.

Development versions (SNAPSHOTS)

The latest development versions of Maven artifacts for Hibernate ORM are published to the OSSRH snapshots repository.

OSSRH snapshots subdirectory

You should only need those (unstable) versions for testing recently merged patches, and should never use them in production.

To consume these artifacts, you may need to configure your build tool to fetch artifacts from https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots and to enable snapshots:

Maven Gradle