From 44a9c495ab3268953e8a7c5c4e51b864b46801d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Juergen Hoeller Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 12:07:31 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Strong Hibernate 5.1 recommendation Issue: SPR-13480 Issue: SPR-14176 --- src/asciidoc/data-access.adoc | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/asciidoc/data-access.adoc b/src/asciidoc/data-access.adoc index 3e0ad7d58f..12c6d1662d 100644 --- a/src/asciidoc/data-access.adoc +++ b/src/asciidoc/data-access.adoc @@ -5130,7 +5130,9 @@ chapter will then cover the other ORM technologies, showing briefer examples the [NOTE] ==== -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. ====