Issues

Assembly plugin logs warning about javax.el:el-api exclusion

Upgrade JSoup dependecy

Using NaN and Infinity triggers an exception for (Decimal)Min and (Decimal)Max constraints

ConstraintLocation does not specify equals() and hashCode()

Minimum requirement for 5.5.2 is Java 7 not Java 6 as indicated

Remove license headers in source files

Implement rules for automatic value unwrapping

Make HV 5.1.x compatible with Java 6

Precalculate identifier of Executable element instead of using string concatenation on each getIdentifier() call

Avoid unnecessary conversions from Collections to arrays and vice versa

Use precompiled regexp Pattern instances in AbstractMessageInterpolator for meta character replacements

URLValidator performance

Disable BeanMetaDataManagerTest

Improve integration with Java's security manager

Fix Chinese translation file

Unwanted classes during build created in source tree of annotation-processor

org.hibernate.validator.constraints.CreditCardNumber does not fail on a non-numbers string

Allow for auto unwrapping of values

Improve error message HV000030

Cascading validation does not work on classes which implement Iterable.

Luhn Credit Card Validator incorrect return statement

Add dedicated Java 8 chapter to summarize and reference Java 8 features and specifics

@Valid doesn't work together with @UnwrapValidatedValue

Check release process for Java 8

Improve execution speed of BeanMetaDataManagerTest under JDK 8

Translation error in ValidationMessages_zh_CN.properties

ValidationMessage for Korean

Javadoc of URL constraint is really misleading

Switch build to use JDK 8

@CreditCardNumber throws PropertyNotFoundException on validation error

Integrate with the new Optional type and/or JavaFX types

Use type annotations to support constraints on collection elements

Retrieve parameter names via reflection to report parameter constraint violations

Support new date/time datatypes (JSR 310)

Provide a NonElMessageInterpolator for usecases where no EL is provided

Provide a mechanism to automatically discover custom constraint validators

Switch from docbook to asciidoc

Integration with Java 8

Apply constraints on the elements of an Iterable instance