Hi, I am happy to announce the availability of Hibernate Validator 5.2.2.Final. This release fixes several bugs, including a nasty regression around private property declarations in inheritance hierarchies and a tricky issue related to classloading in environments such as OSGi. Please refer to the announcement post [1] for all the details. --Gunnar [1] http://in.relation.to/2015/09/29/hibernate-validator-522-released/