The Hibernate team is proud to announce the first candidate release for 5.0. The main changes since the Beta2 release include:

  • Initial generic typing for Hibernate native (Session, e.g.) APIs
  • Continued development of the new bytecode enhancement capabilities including improved support in the Maven and Gradle plugins
  • Support for parameterized types with AttributeConverter implementations
  • Improved OSGi integration testing using Pax Exam and Karaf, and publishing a hibernate-osgi Karaf features file
  • Auto quoting of keywords used as identifiers (User, e.g.).
  • Incorporating fixes, improvements and suggestions to the improved schema update and validation tooling

A lot of help from the community went into this release and the previous Beta releases. Thanks for all the help and work and testing and doggedness!

As always, see https://hibernate.org/orm/downloads/ for information on obtaining the releases.

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