Hibernate is first and foremost an open source community.Code, issues and discussions are in the open and each project is released under an open source license.

If you have a question regarding one of our projects, the following resources will help youfinding the answer:

Documentation

Best to first check the documentation. Yes it sounds boring, but knowing a tool makes the difference.

ORMSearchValidatorReactiveToolsMongoDB Extension for ORM

Stack Overflow

After the documentation, probably the best place to look for answers.

hibernatehibernate-searchhibernate-validatorhibernate-reactivehibernate-toolsmongo-hibernate

Forum

If your question doesn’t fit the Stack Overflow format, our forum is here for you. Come join us and discuss! We have a category for each project:

Hibernate ORMHibernate SearchHibernate ValidatorHibernate ReactiveHibernate Tools

Chat

If you prefer live conversations (we do), join the Hibernate User help channel,powered byZulip:
hibernate-user

You will need to register an account in order to access the chat; registration is free and only requires an email address.You can also log in using external accounts such as your GitHub account.

Bear in mind that people who can help answer your questions may not even see that message for hours - be patient for a reply.

Issue tracker

If you need to report a bug or request a new feature, look for a similar one on JIRA.If you don’t find any, create a ticket.Here are the pages dedicated to each project:

Hibernate ORMHibernate SearchHibernate ValidatorHibernate ReactiveHibernate ToolsMongoDB Extension for Hibernate ORM

If you’re unsure whether you found a bug or simply made a mistake,please try to get help on Stack Overflow or on our forums first (see above).

Blog

The Hibernate team maintains ateam blog where we announce the latest releases,describe new features and discuss Hibernate in general.

Announcement mailing list

Very low volume list for general announcements such as release notifications.

Twitter

You know, like a twitter account.

There are many forms of contribution, from helping other users on the forum, to opening qualifiedissues, writing documentation or providing code patches.

If you want to know more, look through one of these avenues:

Contributing guidelines

This page lists all the way you can contribute to Hibernate projects.

Jira issue tracker

Jira is where most tasks are reported and tracked.In particular look for the ones marked asgood first issues.

For security issues, please do not use our (public) issue tracker.Instead, follow instructions foundhere.

GitHub issue tracker

Some projects, in particular Hibernate Reactive, use GitHub issues for task reporting and tracking.In particular look for the ones marked asgood first issues.

For security issues, please do not use our (public) issue tracker.Instead, follow instructions foundhere.

Development mailing list

Discussion list for developers to brainstorm ideas. Between JIRA and this mailing, you will not missany discussion.

Zulip

The Hibernate team maintains multiple development-orientedZulip channels (called "streams"), one per project.

hibernate-orm-devhibernate-search-devhibernate-validator-devhibernate-reactive-devhibernate-tooling-dev

You will need to register an account in order to access the chat; registration is free and only requires an email address.You can also log in using external accounts such as your GitHub account.Once you’re logged in, you will need to explicitly subscribe to streams by clicking the settings icon on the top right,thenmanage streams.

GitHub

It’s all code in the end. Even this website is ona GitHub hosted repo.Follow what we do on GitHub and open pull requests for your contributions.We loooove pull requests :-)

Hibernate commits mailing list

Source control commit notifications.

Hibernate issues notification mailing list

Automatic notifications from issue tracking (JIRA).