Editing Hibernate (framework) (section)

==History==
Hibernate was started in 2001 by Gavin King with colleagues from Cirrus Technologies as an alternative to using EJB2-style entity beans. The original goal was to offer better persistence capabilities than those offered by EJB2; by simplifying the complexities and supplementing certain missing features.

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

[[JBoss (company)|JBoss, Inc.]] (now part of [[Red Hat]]) later hired the lead Hibernate developers in order to further its development.

In 2005, Hibernate version 3.0 was released. Key features included a new Interceptor/Callback architecture, user defined filters, and JDK 5.0 [[Java annotation|Annotations]] (Java's [[metadata]] feature). {{As of | 2010}}, Hibernate 3 (version 3.5.0 and up) was a certified implementation of the [[Java Persistence API#JPA 2.0|Java Persistence API 2.0]] specification via a wrapper for the Core module which provides conformity with the JSR 317 standard.<ref>{{cite web|title=Hibernate 3.5.0-Final release|date=April 2010 |url=http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/Hibernate350FinalRelease|publisher=In Relation To...}}</ref>

In Dec 2011, Hibernate Core 4.0.0 Final was released. This includes new features such as [http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/orm/5.3/userguide/html_single/Hibernate_User_Guide.html#multitenacy multi-tenancy] support, introduction of ServiceRegistry (a major change in how Hibernate builds and manages "services"), better session opening from SessionFactory, improved integration via ''org.hibernate.integrator.spi.Integrator'' and auto discovery, [[Internationalization and localization|internationalization]] support, message codes in logging, and a more distinction between the API, SPI or implementation classes.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://hibernate.org/orm/releases/|title=Releases - Hibernate ORM|website=hibernate.org}}</ref>

In December 2012, Hibernate ORM 4.1.9 Final was released.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://in.relation.to/23792.lace |title=In Relation To... Hibernate ORM 4.1.9.Final Released |access-date=2012-12-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130129164633/http://in.relation.to/23792.lace |archive-date=2013-01-29 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In Mar 2013, Hibernate ORM 4.2 Final was released.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://grepcode.com/snapshot/repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/repositories/releases/org.hibernate/hibernate-core/4.2.0.Final |title=GC: Hibernate-core-4.2.0.Final.jar - GrepCode Java Project Source |access-date=2014-11-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141205114143/http://grepcode.com/snapshot/repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/repositories/releases/org.hibernate/hibernate-core/4.2.0.Final |archive-date=2014-12-05 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In December 2013, Hibernate ORM 4.3.0 Final was released.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://grepcode.com/snapshot/repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/repositories/releases/org.hibernate/hibernate-core/4.3.0.Final |title=GC: Hibernate-core-4.3.0.Final.jar - GrepCode Java Project Source |access-date=2014-11-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141205112808/http://grepcode.com/snapshot/repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/repositories/releases/org.hibernate/hibernate-core/4.3.0.Final |archive-date=2014-12-05 |url-status=dead }}</ref> It features [[Java Persistence API#JPA 2.1|Java Persistence API 2.1]].

In September 2015, Hibernate ORM 5.0.2 Final was released. It has improved bootstrapping, hibernate-java8, hibernate-spatial, Karaf support.

In November 2018, Hibernate ORM 5.1.17 Final was released. This is the final release of the 5.1 series.

In October 2018, Hibernate ORM 5.3 Final was released. It featured [[Java Persistence API#JPA 2.2|Java Persistence API 2.2]] inheritance caching.

In December 2018, Hibernate ORM 5.4.0 Final was released.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://hibernate.org/orm/releases/|title=Releases - Hibernate ORM|website=hibernate.org}}</ref>

In October 2022, Hibernate ORM 6.1.4 Final was released.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Boriero |first=Andrea |title=Hibernate ORM 6.1.4.Final released |url=https://in.relation.to/2022/10/05/hibernate-orm-614-final/ |access-date=2022-10-11 |website=In Relation To |date=5 October 2022 |language=en}}</ref>