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Aggregator of the Hibernate Validator modules.
Last release 2 months ago
26 Jul 2026
Release timing varies
gaps range from 3 weeks to 1.1 years
Some releases are documented
notes for 27 of the last 60 stable releases
Nothing withdrawn
no release was ever pulled
19 years old
151 releases · first in 2007
HV-1628 - annotation-processor, engine, tests - Configure a stricter forbidden-apis policy and remove calls deprecated in Java 10
One column per quarter.
HV-1614 - engine - Unable to specify constraints at more than 1 nested parameter of a typed container
HV-1596 - engine - NPE upon upgrade from HV 5.x to 6.0.8
HV-1554 - integration - OSGi tests running on Payara fail randomly
HV-1548 - build - Upgrade the Bean Validation API and TCK to 2.0.1.Final
HV-1533 - engine - Small performance improvements
HV-1520 - engine - Fix *ProcessedUnit equals() implementations
HV-1508 - engine - Reset the hashCode of PathImpl when we remove the leaf node
HV-1494 - validators - Hibernate Validator specific @NotEmpty used on return type throws an exception
HV-1471 - engine - Properly reset the context after constraint validation
HV-1460 - build - Remove the Maven version prerequisite as it's redundant with the enforcer configuration and now generates a warning
HV-1458 - engine - Avoid performance regression for cascaded validation
HV-1429 - integration - Incorrect URL in Paranamer Karaf feature
HV-1410 - extensions - CDI Integration uses deprecated API
HV-1403 - engine - Container class and type argument index information not present in case of implicit unwrapping
HV-1343 - engine - TypeArgumentConstraintLocation equals/hashCode implementation is broken
HV-1309 - engine - @Deprecated should be ignored as a potential composing constraint annotation
HV-1293 - validators - @Size validator is not declared for short[]
HV-1120 - engine - Remove deprecated ignoreAnnotations() method
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HV-1220 - engine - Programmatically defined cross parameter method constraints don't work on method returning void
HV-1198 - engine - @Past and @Future break with too far in past/future for Java8
HV-1170 - documentation - Typo in documentation
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HV-1176 - engine - Type argument constraints for Optional are ignored for method parameters and return value if there are no other constraints
HV-1155 - engine - ClassLoader issues in modularized environments
HV-1153 - engine - Missing javax.el impl throws a javax.el.ELException instead of a ValidationException
HV-1140 - engine - StringHelper#decapitalize not working properly on turkish locale
HV-1117 - build - Downgrade to surefire and failsafe 2.18.1
HV-1065 - engine - Add hibernate.validator.constraint_mapping_contributor*s* to take a list of contributors and deprecate hibernate.validator.constrai…
HV-872 - Implement optional relaxation of parameter validation consistent with Section 4.5.5
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HV-1012 - XSS vulnerability not caught by SafeHtml
HV-1007 - Unable to parse validation.xml with IBM JDK
HV-992 - Documentation not very clear: do I need interceptor to trigger method validation?
HV-726 - Retrieve constraint target from composing constraints for purely composed constraints
HV-861 - AIOOBE in ReflectionHelper#parametersResolveToSameTypes
HV-874 - Support new date/time datatypes (JSR 310)
HV-924 - Make HV 5.1.x compatible with Java 6
HV-889 - Translation error in ValidationMessages_zh_CN.properties
HV-871 - hv test suite isn't compatible with java 8
HV-865 - java.lang.NullPointerException at org.hibernate.validator.internal.cdi.InjectingConstraintValidatorFactory.releaseInstance
HV-834 - Support curly braces within EL expressions
HV-596 - Improve error message for unsupported validateValue() invocations
HV-691 - Failed tests: testBeanMetaDataCanBeGarbageCollected(org.hibernate.validator.test.internal.metadata.BeanMetaDataManagerTest)
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HV-702 - Upgrade JPA version used in HV
HV-787 - javax.enterprise.inject.spi.Bean implementations should also implement PassivationCapable
HV-778 - Provide a way to deactivate cdi extension
HV-678 - Constraint is validated several times if part of several groups
HV-704 - Mark dependency to UEL as provided
HV-704 - Mark dependency to UEL as provided
HV-683 - Meta model should not be retrievable in case of illegal parameter constraints in hierarchies
HV-618 - Unable to validate methods in complex inheritance hierarchy
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