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A first CR for Hibernate ORM 7.3 has just been released.

Details about the release, as well as links to important resources, can be found at https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-orm/releases/tag/7.3.0.CR1

I recently appeared on the Tech Lead Journal podcast, and the host, Henry Suryawirawan, picked up on a comment I made about the cost of a mistake I made many years ago, namely, the mistake of underestimating the importance of Hibernate’s StatelessSession, and of not including it in the Java Persistence API.

You might think my statement a bit hyperbolic, and I guess it was intended in that vein, but let me give you a quick order-of-magnitude computation suggesting that my estimate was not far off.

The cost of this mistake should rightly include:

Hibernate ORM 7.1 Final has just been released.

Details about the release, as well as links to important resources, can be found at https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-orm/releases/tag/7.1.0

Today—​or rather, late last night—​we released Hibernate ORM 7, which includes the latest version of Hibernate Data Repositories. We’ve also released Hibernate Validator 9.

This is the first production-ready version of our platform available entirely under the Apache Software License. (Yes, that includes Envers!) And it’s the first version of our platform to fully support Jakarta EE 11.

Compared to the massive reengineering effort that went into Hibernate 6, this release is much more incremental, and most users should experience a smoother migration. But, as befits a major release, we’ve removed some deprecated functionality. So let’s get the bad news out of the way first.

Hibernate ORM 7.0 Final has just been released.

Details about the release, as well as links to important resources, can be found at https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-orm/releases/tag/7.0.0

A second CR for Hibernate ORM 7.0 has just been released. We cleaned up a few APIs and made some improvements to incubating contracts.

Details about the release, as well as links to important resources, can be found at https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-orm/releases/tag/7.0.0.CR2

A first (and hopefully last, obviously) CR for Hibernate ORM 7.0 has just been released.

Details about the release, as well as links to important resources, can be found at https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-orm/releases/tag/7.0.0.CR1

The JPQL select new syntax originated in the earliest days of Hibernate, providing a way to package a query projection list into a Java object. This was before Java had generics or record types, so you would use it like this:

The Hibernate team is ecstatic to report that we have successfully relicensed Hibernate ORM under the Apache 2.0 license! As discussed previously, this decision was solely about opening up wider acceptance amongst Apache/Jakarta projects and other places that (for whatever reasons) disallow the LGPL license.

This was a massive effort on the part of many people and took nearly 2 years to complete. We are grateful to all the contributors who explicitly agreed to allow the relicensing of their contributions - thank you!