Today, we released a new maintenance release of Hibernate ORM 5.3.

It will be the version included in WildFly 14.

What’s new

Bug fixes

This release mostly contains bugfixes:

  • HHH-12875 and HHH-12882 - Various fixes regarding @Where support

  • HHH-12871 - Metamodel contains managed types related to dynamic-map entities that have been excluded

  • HHH-12905 - Passing null as parameter is not allowed even when enablePassingNulls() has been called

  • HHH-12906 - Statistics.getCollectionRoleNames() reports incorrect value

  • HHH-12907 - Avoid garbage collection pressure when creating proxies with ByteBuddy

Naive limit handler for Sybase

We implemented a naive limit handler for Sybase: it will only be triggered for traditional SELECT and SELECT DISTINCT queries and will add a TOP clause to these queries.

While simple, it should be useful in a lot of common scenarios.

Dependency upgrade

You should update your ByteBuddy dependency to 1.8.17 if you define it manually.

Full changelog

You can find the full list of changes here (or, for people without a Hibernate Jira account, here).

Getting 5.3.5.Final

All details are available and up to date on the dedicated page on hibernate.org.

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