Hibernate 3.6.4.Final is mainly a maintenance release with a couple of improvements.

Of interest are:

• HHH-2049 resulted in a entity's collection having missing elements if the collectoin was outer-joined using a subcriteria with restrictions; the only elements in the collection would be those that satisfied the subcriteria restriction.

• Envers bugfixes: HHH-4073, HHH-4787, HHH-5276, HHH-6069.

• HHH-6170 provides a way to customize the default TransactionFactory and TransactionManagerLookup if none is specified.

For more details about Hibernate 3.6.4-Final, see the release notes.

The artifacts have all been published to the JBoss Maven repository.

The release bundles have been uploaded to SourceForge.

Hibernate 3.6.1-Final has mainly bug fixes with several improvements.

Of particular interest are:

• HHH-5830 improves how Hibernate handles large string and binary (BLOB, LOB, LONGVARCHAR, LONGVARBINARY) SQL types, expecially for Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MS SQL Server.

• Fixes related to JPA 2.0.

• Improvements to better support MS SQL Server 2005 and 2008.

For more details about Hibernate 3.6.1-Final, see the release notes.

The artifacts have all been published to the JBoss Maven repository.

The release bundles have been uploaded to SourceForge.

Please report any issues to Jira. Visit us on IRC or the forums if you have usage questions.

Thanks!

Hibernate 3.6.0.CR2 has mainly minor bug fixes with several improvements.

The improvements are:

• HHH-5560 Envers has added support for ValidityAuditStrategy - an alternative way to write history entries. The new strategy offers increased query performance, at the cost of additional operations during audit writing. For details see the blogs here and here.

• Several improvements to annotations support for discriminators, column-level read/write expressions, and timestamp versions.

Some fixes of particular interest are:

• HHH-5552 and HHH-5563 fix classloading issues using Infinispan.

• HHH-892 would cause an exception when an HQL query has an ORDER BY clause that refers to a result variable (i.e., select expression alias).

For more details about Hibernate 3.6.0.CR2, see the release notes.

The artifacts have all been published to the JBoss Maven repository.

The release bundles have been uploaded to SourceForge.

Please report any issues to Jira. Visit us on IRC or the forums if you have usage questions.

Thanks!

Today we have released both 3.5.6-Final and 3.6.0.CR1.

3.5.6

3.5.6-Final is a maintenance release of mainly minor bug fixes. Some fixes of particular interest are:

• HHH-5310 would cause a MappingException when deploying a JEE application with orm20.xml compliant mapping
• HHH-5564 upgraded Infinispan to 4.2.x; in addition, there were several fixes to integration code for Infinispan.

For more details about Hibernate 3.5.6-Final, see the release notes.

The artifacts have all been published to the JBoss Maven repository.

The release bundles have been uploaded to SourceForge.

3.6.0.CR1

3.6.0.CR1 builds on the work from 3.6.0.Beta4 as well as from 3.5.6-Final.

In addition to the fixes mentioned above for 3.5.6-Final, the following are of particular interest:

• HHH-5441 completes the Getting Started Guide, which contains a collection of tutorials (including Envers) and information on the Hibernate community, etc. You can see it here.
• Several improvements in Hibernate's support for Sybase ASE 15.

For more details about Hibernate 3.6.0.CR1, see the release notes.

The artifacts have all been published to the JBoss Maven repository.

The release bundles have been uploaded to SourceForge.

Please report any issues to Jira. Visit us on IRC or the forums if you have usage questions.

Thanks!

3.5.3-Final is a maintenance release of mainly minor bug fixes. Some fixes of particular interest are:

• HHH-5098 would cause an AssertionFailure when Entity Manager builds the metamodel for an entity that has a parameterized collection.
• HHH-3220 would cause an AssertionFailure when a StatelessSession is used to execute a query that requires joins that exceed the maxfetchdepth setting.
• HHH-4036 would lead to an exception when an entity subclass is mapped with an entity name.

For the the full list of changes, see the release notes.

For more details about Hibernate 3.5.3-Final, see the release page

The artifacts have all been published to the JBoss Maven repository. You can find out more about the JBoss Maven repository here.

The release bundles have been uploaded to SourceForge.

Please report any issues to Jira. Visit us on IRC or the forums if you have usage questions.

Thanks!