How can I use Maven to get the latest Hibernate release?

Question

I am having trouble getting the latest release of Hibernate via Maven dependency. It appears that the latest I can fetch from a Maven central repository is 3.2.6.GA, and I

Answer 1

It's frustrating, but the newer versions just aren't there, and haven't been for a long time. The irony is that the Hibernate artifacts have some fairly intricate inter-dependencies and well-documented minimum versions of those dependencies, which would be ideally represented as a Maven POM. Instead, we have to download the binaries ourselves and try and express them locally.