diff --git a/jOOQ-examples/jOOQ-jpa-example-entities/pom.xml b/jOOQ-examples/jOOQ-jpa-example-entities/pom.xml
index c11f8c1e3a..4a9b7955c3 100644
--- a/jOOQ-examples/jOOQ-jpa-example-entities/pom.xml
+++ b/jOOQ-examples/jOOQ-jpa-example-entities/pom.xml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 
     <properties>
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
-        <org.hibernate.version>5.3.7.Final</org.hibernate.version>
+        <org.hibernate.version>5.4.2.Final</org.hibernate.version>
     </properties>
 
     <dependencies>
diff --git a/jOOQ-examples/jOOQ-jpa-example/pom.xml b/jOOQ-examples/jOOQ-jpa-example/pom.xml
index 3cbaf17b02..b2923e6121 100644
--- a/jOOQ-examples/jOOQ-jpa-example/pom.xml
+++ b/jOOQ-examples/jOOQ-jpa-example/pom.xml
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
         <org.jooq.version>3.12.0-SNAPSHOT</org.jooq.version>
         <org.h2.version>1.4.199</org.h2.version>
-        <org.hibernate.version>5.3.1.Final</org.hibernate.version>
+        <org.hibernate.version>5.4.2.Final</org.hibernate.version>
         <org.springframework.version>5.0.7.RELEASE</org.springframework.version>
     </properties>
 
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index d6596b34ba..58d1de0dec 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
                 <artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
-                <version>5.3.5.Final</version>
+                <version>5.4.2.Final</version>
             </dependency>
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>