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Hibernate

Category
Frameworks and libraries
Latest
7.4.15
Released
Nov 1, 2026
Docs outline
14 sections

Official docs outline

hibernate.org
  1. Architecture

    SessionFactory, Session, persistence context and transactions.

  2. Bootstrap and Configuration

    Configuring Hibernate and building a SessionFactory.

  3. Domain Model

    Entities, embeddables, basic types and identifiers.

  4. Associations

    One-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-many mappings.

  5. Persistence Context

    Entity states, flushing and dirty checking.

  6. Fetching

    Lazy vs eager fetching and the N+1 problem.

  7. HQL and JPQL

    Hibernate Query Language.

  8. Criteria Queries

    Type-safe query building.

  9. Locking

    Optimistic and pessimistic locking.

  10. Caching

    Second-level and query caches.

  11. Batching

    JDBC batch processing.

  12. Schema Generation

    Automatic DDL generation.

  13. Events and Interceptors

    Event listeners and callbacks.

  14. Multitenancy

    Multi-tenant strategies.

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Versions and support

6 release lines
LineReleasedLatestSupport
7.4 May 26, 2026 7.4.15 Supported
7.3 Mar 16, 2026 7.3.13 Ended Jun 7, 2026
7.2 Oct 8, 2025 7.2.25 Ended Jun 9, 2026
7.1 Aug 8, 2025 7.1.36 Ended Jun 7, 2026
7.0 May 20, 2025 7.0.10 Ended Aug 10, 2025
6.6 Aug 8, 2024 6.6.59 Ended Jun 9, 2026

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