The main branch of Hibernate ORM, which will soon be promoted as our 5.6 release, is looking good and stable;
we’re happy to announce tag 5.6.0.CR1 was released today and should already be available from your favourite Maven mirrors.
Compared to previous 5.6.0.Beta2, you should see no differences:
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The GraalVM support module was upgraded to compile with GraalVM 21.2.0.
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JMX integration is now marked deprecated, in preparation for Hibernate ORM 6 
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JACC integration was also marked deprecated, for the same reason 
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SchemaMigrator/SchemaValidator are undergoing some minor refactoring, to expose functionality to Hibernate Reactive 
Getting 5.6.0.CR1
All details are available and up to date on the dedicated page on hibernate.org.
Full changelog: changelog for 5.6.0.CR1
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