Hibernate Search 8.1.0.Alpha1 released
by Marko Bekhta
Hello,
We are pleased to announce the first alpha release of Hibernate Search in
the new 8.1 series: 8.1.0.Alpha1.
This version brings improvements to aggregations, in particular, it is now
possible to create composite aggregations as well as define what the
aggregated values of terms/range aggregations are. Hibernate Search now
also provides several platform POM files that manage
the versions of Hibernate Search artifacts, their transitive dependencies,
and related artifacts that must be aligned. And as usual, a new version
brings compatibility with the latest Elasticsearch/OpenSearch versions,
dependency updates and other improvements.
See our blog for more information:
https://in.relation.to/2025/07/29/hibernate-search-8-1-0-Alpha1
See our website for more information about the 8.1 series in general:
https://hibernate.org/search/releases/8.1/
Have a nice day,
Marko Bekhta
Hibernate Team
marko(a)hibernate.org
1 month, 3 weeks
Foundation and funding
by Yoann Rodiere
Hello,
As we're settling at Commonhaus, the topic of funding the foundation
becomes increasingly relevant.
Thankfully Hibernate projects are sponsored directly by several very
invested companies, so resources (devs) are not a problem for us, and
neither is infrastructure (CI).
But Commonhaus itself obviously has admin/infrastructure costs and will
need money.
Without going as far as actively looking for funding, we could at least
start by establishing revenue streams. Commonhaus happens to have a few
things set up already for funnelling sponsorship from GitHub [1], we'd just
need to enable it and direct the money to Commonhaus. I created a pull
request [2] to do just that.
Enabling sponsoring will require a separate change of settings on relevant
repositories (which I think would be those of the major projects displayed
on our websites).
Of course there's no guarantee this will bring any money, but it's better
than the 0% chance if we don't set this up.
We could also set up dedicated "accounts" for Hibernate, so that
contributions to Hibernate are clearly identified and can be used for
Hibernate purposes. But:
1. We don't have an immediate need for that.
2. We can't do that independently from Commonhaus, which is the legal
entity owning Hibernate.
3. I know Erin (in CC) has something planned for precisely this, something
like delegated accounts in OpenCollective. We'd just need to spend some
time figuring it out.
WDYT? If you agree, please go to the PR [2] and approve. If not, please
explain here or on the PR.
Apart from that, I think we should document how to fund Hibernate in
various places. I'm thinking of doing that on the website (one entry in
each per-project menu + one page in the community section) and also in each
project's README (a short subsection with one sentence + a link to the
website). I'll try to send PRs for that at some point in the future, but
please voice any concerns now.
[1]
https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/managing-your-repositorys-setting...
[2] https://github.com/hibernate/.github/pull/5
Yoann Rodière
Hibernate team
2 months
