Hibernate Version History

Hibernate was started in 2001 by Gavin King as an alternative to using EJB2-style entity beans. Its mission back then was to simply offer better persistence capabilities than offered by EJB2 by simplifying the complexities and allowing for missing features.

Early in 2003, the Hibernate development team began Hibernate2 releases which offered many significant improvements over the first release.

JBoss, Inc. (now part of Red Hat) later hired the lead Hibernate developers and worked with them in supporting Hibernate.

As of 2010^[update] the current version of Hibernate is Version 3.x. This version introduced new features like a new Interceptor/Callback architecture, user defined filters, and JDK 5.0 Annotations (Java's metadata feature). As of 2010^[update] Hibernate 3 (version 3.5.0 and up) is a certified implementation of the Java Persistence API 2.0 specification via a wrapper for the Core module which provides conformity with the JSR 317 standard.^[2]

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Name	Modified	Size	Status
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Totals: 70 Items
3.6.5.Final	2011-06-09
3.6.4.Final	2011-05-05
3.6.3.Final	2011-04-06
3.6.2.Final	2011-03-10
3.6.1.Final	2011-02-03
3.6.0.Final	2010-10-14
3.6.0.CR2	2010-09-29
3.6.0.CR1	2010-09-16
3.5.6-Final	2010-09-15
3.6.0.Beta4	2010-09-02
3.5.5-Final	2010-08-18
3.6.0.Beta3	2010-08-18
3.6.0.Beta2	2010-08-04
3.5.4-Final	2010-07-22
3.6.0.Beta1	2010-07-21
3.5.3-Final	2010-06-17
3.5.2-Final	2010-05-14
3.5.1-Final	2010-04-15
3.5.0-Final	2010-03-31
3.5.0-CR-2	2010-02-25
3.5.0-CR-1	2010-02-10
3.5.0-Beta-4	2010-01-29
3.5.0-Beta-3	2010-01-14
3.5.0-Beta-2	2009-11-03
3.5.0.Beta-1	2009-08-21
3.3.2.GA	2009-06-24
3.2.7.ga	2009-06-03
3.3.1.GA	2008-09-11
3.3.0.SP1	2008-08-20
3.3.0.GA	2008-08-15
3.3.0.cr2	2008-08-01
3.3.0.cr1	2008-04-29
3.2.6.ga	2008-02-07
3.2.5.ga	2007-07-31
3.2.4.sp1	2007-05-18
3.2.4.ga	2007-05-09
3.2.3.ga	2007-04-02
3.2.2.ga	2007-01-24
3.2.1.ga	2006-11-17
3.2.0.ga	2006-10-16
3.2.0.cr5	2006-10-05
3.2.0.cr4	2006-08-25
3.2.0.cr3	2006-07-06
3.2 cr2	2006-05-06
3.2 cr1	2006-03-27
3.1.3	2006-03-20
3.2 alpha2	2006-03-16
3.2 alpha1	2006-03-01
3.1.2	2006-01-28
3.1.1	2006-01-18
3.1	2005-12-12
3.1 rc1	2005-12-12
3.1 rc3	2005-11-18
3.1 rc2	2005-10-17
3.1 beta 3	2005-09-13
3.1 beta2	2005-08-16
3.1 beta1	2005-07-21
3.1 alpha1	2005-06-24
3.0.5	2005-05-25
3.0.4	2005-05-23
3.0.3	2005-05-08
3.0.2	2005-04-27
3.0.1	2005-04-18
3.0 final	2005-03-31
3.0 rc 1	2005-02-28
3.0 beta 4	2005-02-11
3.0 beta 3	2005-01-30
3.0 beta 2	2005-01-24
3.0 beta 1	2004-12-20
3.0 alpha	2004-08-23