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In triaging a reported issue I ended up having to once again delve into investigating PostgreSQL BLOB suppport. So for the sake of posterity and for the sake of my swiss cheese memory I decided to record my findings here.

3.5.1-Final is a maintenance release of mainly minor bug fixes. Two fixes in particular were non-minor:

Yaay, we made it! :)

Ehcache 2.0, which was recently released, supports the new Hibernate 3.3/3.5 SPI with its CacheRegionFactory.

Norman Richards has left Red Hat to work for a startup company. Thanks, Norman, for all your work on the Seam project over the last 4 years, and good luck with your new endeavor.

We have just released 3.5.0-CR-2. The main focus for this release was bugfixes and documentation.

I am pleased to announce that we have just released Hibernate version 3.5.0-CR-1. As a refresher, Hibernate follows the JBoss versioing scheme where CR is a Candidate for Release (what many of you might call RC). The main stated goal of 3.5 is JPA 2 compliance. This is the first release we believe achieves that goal entirely. In fact we are in the process of certifying for standalone JPA 2 compliance and have integrated this CR into the imminent JBoss AS M2 release as part of their effort towards full Java EE 6 compliance.

In terms of JPA 2, its really easier to start talking about things not yet implemented :) The set of missing features are defined by the unresolved subtasks of the following 2 Jira issues:

Specific JPA 2 related enhancements from Beta-2 include:

IntelliJ now has support for the new JPA 2.0 typesafe query facility I've been blogging about. It's very important that this stuff works smoothly with tooling, so it's great to see that the tooling vendors are on this early.