Bug

• HV-2029 - Exactly the same ConvertGroup defined on both original and overridden methods lead to an exception
• HV-2018 - Validator.validateValue() prints no violations on an interface

Improvement

• HV-2032 - Support strict Jaxp security settings from JDK 23
• HV-2031 - Make PredefinedScopeHibernateValidatorFactory aware of constraint mappings defined purely in XML

Remove Feature

• HV-2043 - Remove deprecated PropertyTarget#property
• HV-2042 - Remove deprecated org.hibernate.validator.constraints.ModCheck constraint
• HV-2040 - Remove deprecated AnnotationProcessingOptions
• HV-2039 - Remove deprecated PredefinedScopeHibernateValidatorConfiguration#initializeLocales
• HV-2038 - Remove deprecated ReflectionParameterNameProvider
• HV-2037 - Remove deprecated org.hibernate.validator.constraints.NotEmpty constraint
• HV-2036 - Remove deprecated org.hibernate.validator.constraints.NotBlank constraint
• HV-2035 - Remove deprecated org.hibernate.validator.constraints.Email constraint
• HV-2034 - Remove deprecated hibernate.validator.constraint_mapping_contributor
• HV-2025 - Remove OSGi testing and support

Task

• HV-2041 - Update to new versions of hibernate-infra extensions/theme that depend on AsciidoctorJ 3.0
• HV-2033 - Test against wildfly-preview 33.0.1.Final
• HV-2026 - Use Maven 3.9.8 as a required minimum version for the build
• HV-2022 - Try using offline links for Javadoc generation
• HV-2021 - Add simple GH actions to build Hibernate Validator
• HV-2019 - FIx snapshot publishing

Hibernate Validator 8.0.5.Final released

We are pleased to announce the release of Hibernate Validator 8.0: 8.0.5.Final.

You can find the full list of 8.0.5.Final changes here.

What's new

This release introduces a few minor improvements as well as bug fixes.

Conclusion

For additional details, see:

• the release page
• the Migration Guide
• the Getting started
• the Reference Guide
• the API docs

Visit the website for details on getting in touch with us.

Hibernate Validator 8.0.4.Final released

We are pleased to announce the release of Hibernate Validator 8.0: 8.0.4.Final.

You can find the full list of 8.0.4.Final changes here.

What's new

This release introduces a few minor improvements as well as bug fixes.

Conclusion

For additional details, see:

• the release page
• the Migration Guide
• the Getting started
• the Reference Guide
• the API docs

Visit the website for details on getting in touch with us.

Bug

• HV-1949 - Nondeterministic behavior of HibernateValidator (in springboot?) when both annotation and xml-based definition are used
• HV-1932 - Incomplete @Positive annotation's default message in fr
• HV-1939 - Annotations on constructors of named classes declared in method get ignored

Improvement

• HV-1943 - Some french validation messages are not quite accurate
• HV-1941 - Add support for European Portuguese for ValidationMessages
• HV-1927 - Use Executable#getAnnotatedParameterTypes() instead of Executable#getGenericParameterTypes()

Task

• HV-1956 - Update Weld test dependency to 5.1.1.Final
• HV-1954 - Test Hibernate Validator against JDK 22
• HV-1944 - Upgraded JBoss Logging, Maven Enforcer plugin and Guava to latest version
• HV-1938 - Update ByteBuddy test dependency to 1.13.0
• HV-1935 - Test Hibernate Validator against JDK 21
• HV-1934 - Upgrade to hibernate-asciidoctor-theme 1.0.6

Task

• HV-1925 - Switch to WildFly 27 for testing and remove the remaining javax stuff
• HV-1924 - Bump expressly from 5.0.0-M2 to 5.0.0

Bug

• HV-1922 - Switch to use arquillian-protocol-servlet-jakarta artifact instead of arquillian-protocol-servlet for testing with WildFly 27

Task

• HV-1920 - Upgrade Spring Expression test dependency to 5.3.22
• HV-1919 - Upgrade Maven Assembly Plugin to 3.4.2
• HV-1914 - Test against JDK 20 (early access)

Bug

• HV-1853 - Inconsistency of getter method detection in GetterPropertySelectionStrategy

Improvement

• HV-1901 - Provide an easy way to run the TCK with a provided WildFly

Task

• HV-1911 - Upgrade jakarta.el-api to 5.0.1
• HV-1910 - Update jakarta.annotation-api to 2.1.1
• HV-1909 - Update Weld to 5.0.1.Final
• HV-1908 - Update CDI API to 4.0.1 and Weld to 5.0.0.SP2
• HV-1907 - Update Jakarta EL API to 5.0.0 and Expressly to 5.0.0-M2
• HV-1906 - Update Bean Validation API to 3.0.2 and TCK to 3.0.1
• HV-1904 - Update Jakarta EE 10 dependencies to stable versions
• HV-1898 - Bump jakarta.persistence-api to 3.1.0
• HV-1897 - Bump jakarta.annotation-api to 2.1.0
• HV-1896 - Upgrade Jackson Databind test dependency to 2.13.2.2

Bug

• HV-1895 - Bundle plugin 3.5.0 produces unusable osgi values in manifest

Task

• HV-1893 - Make test suite locale independent

Bug

• HV-1889 - Fix imagesdir for documentation

Task

• HV-1892 - Update Java 9 section in documentation
• HV-1891 - Update EL dependency to Expressly in documentation
• HV-1890 - Fix Jakarta Bean Validation versions in documentation
• HV-1888 - Rename jakarta.annotation.processing.Processor to javax.annotation.processing.Processor
• HV-1887 - Make Java 11 the base version for Hibernate Validator 8

Bug

• HV-1857 - Hibernate Validator version for EE 10/EL 5?

New Feature

• HV-1867 - Add UUID validation

Task

• HV-1886 - Fix incontainer build for main
• HV-1882 - Use a different JDK for running Maven than for compiling/launching tests in JDK CI jobs

Bug

• HV-1854 - PESELValidator does not valid correct
• HV-1833 - DomainNameUtil issues java.lang.StackOverflowError on very large error (@Email validation)

Improvement

• HV-1840 - Remove deprecated CDI API usage

Task

• HV-1862 - Update Log4j 2 test dependency to 2.16.0
• HV-1861 - Switch to the nexus-staging-maven-plugin
• HV-1860 - Add GitHub SSH keys to SSH agent during Jenkinsfile release
• HV-1859 - Update Log4j 2 test dependency to 2.15.0
• HV-1858 - Switch to OSSRH for deployment to Maven Central
• HV-1848 - Set up SSH config as part of the Jenkinsfile
• HV-1846 - Upgrade to Byte Buddy 1.11.6 in tests
• HV-1845 - Test Hibernate Validator against JDK 18
• HV-1844 - Upgrade Jakarta EL to 4.0.1
• HV-1843 - Upgrade Jackson test dependency to 2.12.3
• HV-1842 - Upgrade Guava test dependency to 30.1.1-jre
• HV-1841 - Expose a getter for the configured PropertyNodeNameProvider
• HV-1838 - Skip forbiddenapis on JDK17+
• HV-1837 - Language rework initiative
• HV-1836 - Restore CI for JDK 15
• HV-1835 - Test Hibernate Validator against JDK17

Task

• HV-1826 - tck-runner - Reintroduce TCK Runner in container tests for Jakarta EE 9 using WildFly Preview

Bug

• HV-1821 - engine - HV-1755 introduces NPE in org.hibernate.validator.internal.engine.ValidatorFactoryImpl constructor

New Feature

• HV-1822 - validators - Add Russian specific validator for russian taxpayer identification number

Bug

• HV-1804 - translations - Fix Dutch translation for @Size constraint
• HV-1797 - validators - Validation on classes with a bidirectional relationship cause stack overflow on 6.1.x

Improvement

• HV-1815 - translations - Fix DecimalMax and DecimalMin in zh_CN translation
• HV-1814 - tests - Upgrade JUnit to 4.13.1
• HV-1812 - engine - Avoid reflection-based metadata extraction for built-in value extractors

New Feature

• HV-1816 - engine - Disable Expression Language by default for custom constraint violations

Task

• HV-1820 - engine - Upgrade JBoss Logging to 3.4.1.Final
• HV-1819 - engine - Upgrade Classmate to 1.5.1
• HV-1818 - build - Upgrade Jakarta API dependencies
• HV-1817 - build - Upgrade to checkstyle 8.38
• HV-1809 - tests - Upgrade to TestNG 6.14.3
• HV-1808 - tests - Upgrade to Arquillian 1.7.0.Alpha4
• HV-1807 - build - Add Maven profile to improve contributor experience on Intellij IDEA
• HV-1806 - tests - Use the local repository from the Maven build in OSGi/WildFly integration tests
• HV-1805 - build - Add a Jenkinsfile to test multiple JDKs from a single job
• HV-1803 - tests - Move the tests to log4j2
• HV-1802 - tests - Update ByteBuddy test dependency to 1.10.16
• HV-1795 - build - Remove link to JavaMoney javadoc

Task

• HV-1792 - tck-runner - Upgrade Bean Validation TCK to 3.0.0

Bug

• HV-1761 - engine - Interpolation of primitive arrays causes a ClassCastException

Remove Feature

• HV-1790 - engine, validators - Remove the SafeHtml constraint

Task

• HV-1789 - engine, tests - Upgrade to Bean Validation 3.0.0 and update the XML namespaces

Improvement

• HV-1782 - translations - Remove trailing dot from @Max constraint German translation

New Feature

• HV-1780 - validators - Add @Normalized contraint that validates if text is normalized in a given form

Task

• HV-1787 - build - Upgrade Jakarta EE dependencies
• HV-1786 - tck-runner - Upgrade Bean Validation TCK to 3.0.0-M2
• HV-1783 - tests - Upgrade to Arquillian 1.7.0.Alpha1

Bug

• HV-1781 - engine - Fix Jakarta Persistence class presence test

Bug

• HV-1776 - annotation-processor - Rename annotation processor service file for new jakarta package
• HV-1775 - integration - Rename CDI extension service file for new jakarta package
• HV-1774 - engine - Invalid parsing of EL expression can lead to invalid EL expressions considered valid
• HV-1772 - engine - Building multiple ValidatorFactory instances from a single Configuration violates specification for MessageInterpolator
• HV-1771 - translations - Fix DecimalMin message German translation
• HV-1760 - validators - @Negative*/@Positive* do not support CharSequence as documented

Improvement

• HV-1773 - documentation - Be more explicit about issues with EL injection and how to avoid them
• HV-1770 - engine - Relax constraint consistency checking for built-in constraints
• HV-1769 - engine - Only create the default TraversableResolver if none has been specified
• HV-1767 - engine - Reduce the overhead of ConstraintHelper initialization in the predefined scope case
• HV-1763 - engine - Improve performances of ExecutableHelper#getSignature
• HV-1762 - engine - Avoid cloning overhead from Method.getParameterTypes()

Task

• HV-1778 - extensions - Reenable CDI extension testing
• HV-1777 - build - Upgrade Jakarta dependencies to latest
• HV-1765 - integration - Upgrade WildFly versions to 18.0.1.Final and 19.0.0.Final
• HV-1764 - tests - Upgrade Jackson test dependencies to 2.10.3

Bug

• HV-1758 - translations - Extra dollar sign in validation messages for ModCheck

New Feature

• HV-1759 - build, engine, integration - Switch to the new jakarta.* packages
• HV-1755 - engine - Introduce the notion of BeanMetaDataClassNormalizer in the standard ValidatorFactory

Bug

• HV-1756 - translations - Incorrect variables in the newly added translations

Task

• HV-1753 - tests - Force Pax-Exam and Karaf to use Maven Central repository with SSL enabled

Improvement

• HV-1750 - engine - Add debug log when expression factory has failed to load
• HV-1747 - engine - Allow overriding the message interpolator in PredefinedScopeValidatorFactory context
• HV-1744 - documentation - Use auto-expanding entries in the documentation TOC

New Feature

• HV-1749 - engine - Introduce a LocaleResolver SPI
• HV-1748 - engine - Improve localization support via Locale.LanguageRange

Task

• HV-1745 - tests - Bump Jackson test dependency to 2.10.1

Bug

• HV-1730 - engine - JavaBeanExecutable fails to initialize for enum type
• HV-1715 - engine - Validation can sometimes proceed to the next group in sequence even after one of the constraints generated a violation

Improvement

• HV-1729 - performance - Skip allocation of an action for each need to access the context classloader

Task

• HV-1743 - build - Upgrade maven-compiler-plugin to 3.8.1
• HV-1742 - build - Upgrade to WildFly 18.0.0.Final
• HV-1741 - build - Upgrade ByteBuddy test dependency to 1.10.2
• HV-1740 - engine - Deprecate @SafeHtml
• HV-1739 - engine - CVE-2019-10219 Security issue with @SafeHtml
• HV-1738 - build - Update Jackson test dependency to 2.9.10
• HV-1733 - tests - Fix locale settings of PredefinedScopeValidatorFactoryTest
• HV-1732 - build - Change tarLongFileMode to posix for assembly building
• HV-1731 - tck-runner - Move TCK signature check to tck-runner module
• HV-1728 - build - Upgrade to WildFly 17.0.1.Final
• HV-1727 - build - Update Jackson Databind test dependency to 2.9.9.2
• HV-1725 - build - Switch to using Jakarta EE artifacts
• HV-1724 - build - Update to OpenJFX 11.0.2
• HV-1680 - engine - Avoid reflection by using instrumentation - build the enhancer

Bug

• HV-1722 - engine - Remove settings-example.xml reference from .travis.yml
• HV-1721 - engine - Take into account Hibernate Validator-specific configuration with PredefinedScopeValidatorFactoryImpl
• HV-1720 - engine - Support bounded wildcard types in container value unwrapping

New Feature

• HV-1723 - validators - Provide a DigitsValidatorForMonetaryAmount to support @Digits on MonetaryAmounts

Task

• HV-1726 - engine - Make PredefinedScopeHibernateValidatorFactory extend HibernateValidatorFactory

Bug

• HV-1713 - engine - Missing violation when a bean is validated with different groups
• HV-1709 - validators - Polish Identification numbers are not considering length of the value
• HV-1706 - validators - ISBN-13 algorithm does not handle checksum 10

Improvement

• HV-1719 - engine - Accept setting per-validator TraversableResolver with PredefinedScopeValidatorFactoryImpl
• HV-1708 - translations - Add Danish translations of validation messages
• HV-1707 - validators - Add ISBN.Type.ANY

New Feature

• HV-823 - engine - Provide contract for customization of property names in constraint violation

Task

• HV-1718 - engine - Predefined scope ValidatorFactory: uninitialized bean class shouldn't throw an exception
• HV-1717 - build - Update test dependencies
• HV-1716 - build - Update WildFly secondary version to 17.0.0.Beta1
• HV-1712 - engine - Add org.hibernate.validator.metadata to OSGi manifest
• HV-1711 - build - Fix aggregated javadoc build with recent JDK 11
• HV-1710 - build - Remove settings-example.xml

Bug

• HV-1704 - build - Build fails on Windows
• HV-1699 - validators - Rounding error when having a BigDecimal at runtime with @Max/@Min annotation set on a Number field

Improvement

• HV-1701 - - Add Max/MinValidatorForInteger
• HV-1700 - tests - Remove reference of absent valueextractor from test resources
• HV-1697 - engine - Reduce memory allocation of ValidationContexts
• HV-1696 - engine - Avoid using computeIfAbsent for the common case when getting bean metadata
• HV-1695 - engine - Avoid creating an empty map for group conversions
• HV-1694 - engine - Reduce memory allocation for unconstrained beans

Task

• HV-1705 - build - Upgrade WildFly to 16.0.0.Final
• HV-1702 - build - Upgrade to checkstyle 8.18 and maven-checkstyle-plugin 3.0.0
• HV-1693 - build - Test compatibility with JDK 12

Bug

• HV-1692 - engine - Custom group sequence might cause StackOverflowError on objects with cycles
• HV-1684 - validators - StackOverflowError with Hibernate Validator 6.0.13.Final

Improvement

• HV-1691 - engine - IndexOutOfBoundsException in PathImpl
• HV-1689 - engine - In GetInstancesFromServiceLoader, do not hide ServiceConfigurationError
• HV-1687 - engine - Reduce bootstrap log verbosity
• HV-1686 - translations - Fix a few typos in the Dutch translation
• HV-1683 - build - Upgrade javadoc plugin

New Feature

• HV-1657 - engine - Make the “propertyPath” available via the “HibernateMessageInterpolatorContext”

Task

• HV-1685 - integration - Upgrade the WildFly versions we generate patches for to 14.0.1.Final and 15.0.0.Final

Bug

• HV-1681 - engine - PredefinedScopeValidatorFactory and @Valid on unregistered bean throws a NPE

Improvement

• HV-1651 - translations - Contribute additional language translations from OpenLiberty

New Feature

• HV-1682 - engine - Provide a way to normalize the class before getting the bean metadata

Bug

• HV-1650 - validators - French translations are badly encoded
• HV-1645 - extensions - Revert HV-1609 due to increased CDI startup caused by ValidateableBeanFilter
• HV-1644 - build - Using Hibernate Validator with Java 11 brings JavaFX on the classpath
• HV-1637 - translations - PropertyNotFoundException for @DecimalMax when using the German translation
• HV-1634 - engine - Deal with synthetic and implicit parameters properly when getting the generic type of a parameter
• HV-1510 - validators - @NotNull doesn't work in 50% when annotated method is extended from multiple classes
• HV-1450 - engine - BeanMetaDataImpl.BeanMetaDataBuilder#build() can choose ConstraintMetaData w/o constraints

Improvement

• HV-1662 - engine - Extract BeanMetaDataBuilder to its own class file
• HV-1661 - engine - Remove impossible case from ValidatorImpl#buildNewLocalExecutionContext()
• HV-1656 - translations - Add translation of Validation Messages for Japanese language
• HV-1653 - engine - Improve the javadoc of ParameterScriptAssert
• HV-1643 - translations - Fix Russian translation for @Null constraint
• HV-1636 - engine - Avoid instantiating unnecessary objects during constraint metadata creation
• HV-1631 - engine - Avoid doing two lookups in the read methods of AnnotationProcessingOptionsImpl
• HV-1630 - engine - Introduce StringHelper.format()
• HV-1629 - engine - Fix compiler warnings
• HV-1628 - annotation-processor, engine, tests - Configure a stricter forbidden-apis policy and remove calls deprecated in Java 10
• HV-1626 - build - Remove useless Maven plugins and extensions
• HV-1623 - engine - Build an abstraction over reflection in engine
• HV-1622 - integration - Update the WildFly integration tests to use WildFly 13
• HV-1617 - build - Make our pom files more consistent with WildFly and JBoss parent pom files
• HV-1599 - engine - Avoid creating later discarded violations when reportAsSingleViolation is true
• HV-1526 - engine - Create separate validation context for different validation kinds
• HV-1484 - build - Unify JPMS module names and OSGi bundle names
• HV-667 - engine - Consider to create descriptor model lazily

New Feature

• HV-1671 - engine - Allow to retrieve all the built-in constraint annotations from ConstraintHelper
• HV-1670 - engine - Add the ability to preload a set of locales
• HV-1667 - engine - Create a predefined scope ValidatorFactory which initializes things eagerly
• HV-1363 - engine - Support for non-standard Java beans

Remove Feature

• HV-1624 - engine - Remove the StaticFieldELResolver

Task

• HV-1677 - engine - Allow for an explicit environment variable to disable the JavaFX extensions
• HV-1674 - engine - Make the name of the default bundle public in AbstractMessageInterpolator
• HV-1673 - engine - Audit new privileged calls in the reflection abstraction
• HV-1669 - engine - Only enable the SafeHtml constraint if jsoup in in the classpath
• HV-1668 - engine - Properly register all built-in constraints
• HV-1659 - integration - Upgrade WildFly to 14.0.1
• HV-1658 - engine - Remove a couple of stream usages in ConstraintHelper that cause a problem for another project
• HV-1649 - tck-runner - Upgrade to Bean Validation TCK 2.0.4.Final
• HV-1648 - build, integration - Reenable WildFly integration tests for JDK 11
• HV-1647 - tck-runner - Allow running TCK tests in container mode with JDK 11
• HV-1646 - build, integration, tck-runner - Upgrade WildFly to 14.0.0.Beta1
• HV-1641 - build - Use the OSS snapshot repository to download the JavaFX dependencies when building with JDK 11
• HV-1640 - build - Add compatibility with the latest JDK 11 build 22
• HV-1635 - documentation - Remove specific instructions for building with JDK 9 from the README
• HV-1627 - build - Upgrade our JPA test dependency to 2.2
• HV-1610 - integration - Reenable OSGi tests for JDK 10
• HV-1608 - build - Have the build work with JDK 11
• HV-1577 - engine - Use Stax instead of JAXB to parse the XML descriptors

Bug

• HV-1652 - engine - Fix a few theoretical null pointer dereference issues
• HV-1650 - validators - French translations are badly encoded

Bug

• HV-1645 - extensions - Revert HV-1609 due to increased CDI startup caused by ValidateableBeanFilter
• HV-1644 - build - Using Hibernate Validator with Java 11 brings JavaFX on the classpath

Improvement

• HV-1643 - translations - Fix Russian translation for @Null constraint

Task

• HV-1649 - tck-runner - Upgrade to Bean Validation TCK 2.0.4.Final
• HV-1648 - build, integration - Reenable WildFly integration tests for JDK 11
• HV-1647 - tck-runner - Allow running TCK tests in container mode with JDK 11
• HV-1646 - build, integration, tck-runner - Upgrade WildFly to 14.0.0.Beta1
• HV-1627 - build - Upgrade our JPA test dependency to 2.2