I just saw that the 4th candidate got released for Hibernate 5. What's new in 5 compared to earlier versions?
Significant new features include a migration to the Jakarta Persistence 3.0 specification, performance improvements to JDBC, and HQL translation and criteria translation. With this release, Hibernate requires a minimum of Java 11.
JPA and Hibernate ORM are a great fit for standard CRUD operations. They make the implementation of these use cases very easy and efficient.
A detailed list of new features, improvements and fixes in this series can be found on our issue tracker. Hibernate ORM 5.5 adds new artifacts with the artifact id suffix "-jakarta" like hibernate-core-jakarta.
Hibernate ORM 5.5 adds new artifacts with the artifact id suffix "-jakarta" like hibernate-core-jakarta. The hibernate-core-jakarta artifact implements the Jakarta JPA 3.0 specification, while the hibernate-core artifact still implements the Jakarta JPA 2.2 specification.
Maven artifacts of Hibernate ORM are published to Maven Central and to the JBoss Maven repository. Refer to the Maven Getting Started guide on the JBoss Wiki for more information on how to configure the JBoss Maven repository.
Some exciting features has been added/enhanced in Hibernate 5.x. Have a quick look.
Hibernate Search transparently indexes your objects and offers fast regular, full-text and geolocation search. Ease of use and easy clustering are core.
For more details on Hibernate Search view this.
Hibernate Validator comes with a handful of built-in validation rules like Email, Length, NotBlank etc.
Express validation rules in a standardized way using annotation-based constraints and benefit from transparent integration with a wide variety of frameworks.
For more details on Hibernate Validator view this.
Java 8 date/time data types (JSR 310) are supported and can be validated via @Past and @Future. Also Optional and JavaFX types are supported via an improved ValidatedValueUnwrapper.
Just released the first stable version.
New bootstrapping API - better determinism, better integration
A few other things:
Check Hibernate ORM Roadmap for more details.
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