diff --git a/bom/application/pom.xml b/bom/application/pom.xml
index b306141de834a..c35fc4298fd36 100644
--- a/bom/application/pom.xml
+++ b/bom/application/pom.xml
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@
         <commons-lang3.version>3.12.0</commons-lang3.version>
         <commons-codec.version>1.15</commons-codec.version>
         <classmate.version>1.5.1</classmate.version>
-        <hibernate-orm.version>5.5.2.Final</hibernate-orm.version>
+        <hibernate-orm.version>5.5.3.Final</hibernate-orm.version>
         <hibernate-reactive.version>1.0.0.CR7</hibernate-reactive.version>
         <hibernate-validator.version>6.2.0.Final</hibernate-validator.version>
         <hibernate-search.version>6.0.4.Final</hibernate-search.version>
diff --git a/extensions/hibernate-orm/runtime/src/main/java/io/quarkus/hibernate/orm/runtime/FastBootHibernatePersistenceProvider.java b/extensions/hibernate-orm/runtime/src/main/java/io/quarkus/hibernate/orm/runtime/FastBootHibernatePersistenceProvider.java
index 34858d5c20b04..e57ed4a5f33dd 100644
--- a/extensions/hibernate-orm/runtime/src/main/java/io/quarkus/hibernate/orm/runtime/FastBootHibernatePersistenceProvider.java
+++ b/extensions/hibernate-orm/runtime/src/main/java/io/quarkus/hibernate/orm/runtime/FastBootHibernatePersistenceProvider.java
@@ -340,6 +340,9 @@ private static void injectRuntimeConfiguration(String persistenceUnitName,
             runtimeSettingsBuilder.put(AvailableSettings.HBM2DDL_HALT_ON_ERROR, "true");
         }
 
+        //Never append on existing scripts:
+        runtimeSettingsBuilder.put(AvailableSettings.HBM2DDL_SCRIPTS_CREATE_APPEND, "false");
+
         runtimeSettingsBuilder.put(AvailableSettings.HBM2DDL_SCRIPTS_ACTION,
                 persistenceUnitConfig.scripts.generation.generation);