Yaay, we made it! :)
Here is the list of the major accomplishments embodied in 3.5.0-Final
- JSR 317 (JPA2) support.
- Integration of hibernate-annotations, hibernate-entitymanager and hibernate-envers into the core project. See http://in.relation.to/14172.lace for details
- Added Infinispan as a standard second-level cache. See http://infinispan.blogspot.com/2009/10/infinispan-based-hibernate-cache.html for details
- Improvements to the new second-level caching SPI introduced in 3.3 based on feedback from implementers including Ehcache, Inifinispan and JBoss Cache.
- Far better
read only
/immutable
support. See the new chapter added to the core reference manual dedicated to the subject. - Support for JDBC 4 such that Hibernate can be used in JDK 1.6 JVMs and make use of JDBC4-compliant drivers.'
- Support for column-level read/write fragments (HBM only for now)
- Initial support for fetch profiles
Check out the release page for the full list of changes (just in 3.5.0-Final, aka not cumulative).
The artifacts have all been published to the JBoss Maven repository and the release bundles have been uploaded to SourceForge.
Please report any issues to Jira. Visit us on IRC or the forums if you have a usage question.
Thanks!
