diff --git a/src/asciidoc/data-access.adoc b/src/asciidoc/data-access.adoc
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--- a/src/asciidoc/data-access.adoc
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@@ -5130,7 +5130,9 @@ chapter will then cover the other ORM technologies, showing briefer examples the
 
 [NOTE]
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-As of Spring 4.0, Spring requires Hibernate 3.6 or later. We recommend Hibernate 5.0+.
+As of Spring 4.0, Spring requires Hibernate 3.6 or later. Note that the Hibernate team
+stopped supporting Hibernate 3 years ago and even phased out support for Hibernate 4.x
+in late 2015. We therefore recommend Hibernate 5.1 and higher from a 2016+ perspective.
 ====