Today—​or rather, late last night—​we released Hibernate ORM 7, which includes the latest version of Hibernate Data Repositories.
We’ve also released Hibernate Validator 9.





Hibernate ORM 7 features a complete implementation of Jakarta Persistence 3.2 and of Jakarta Data 1.0.



Hibernate Validator 9 implements Jakarta Validation 3.1.





This is the first production-ready version of our platform available entirely under the Apache Software License.
(Yes, that includes Envers!)
And it’s the first version of our platform to fully support Jakarta EE 11.



Compared to the massive reengineering effort that went into Hibernate 6, this release is much more incremental, and most users should experience a smoother migration.
But, as befits a major release, we’ve removed some deprecated functionality.
So let’s get the bad news out of the way first.

Hibernate Blog

Hibernate ORM 7 and Hibernate Validator 9 have been released. Key highlights include full implementation of Jakarta Persistence 3.2 and Jakarta Data 1.0, plus Jakarta Validation 3.1 support. This is the first release fully under the Apache Software License and the first to support Jakarta EE 11. Notable changes include removal of detached entity reassociation (no more saveOrUpdate()), a more powerful StatelessSession with second-level cache support, a new type-safe Specification/Restriction API for criteria queries, new FindOption/RefreshOption/LockOption APIs from JPA 3.2, embedded column naming prefixes/suffixes, improved EntityGraph definition, and new JSON/XML/set-returning functions. A rewritten introduction guide for Hibernate 7 is also available.

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