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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.

Mark Little, the CTO of JBoss, blogged about our vision for component models in JBoss platforms - he gives a great overview, describing how Seam (and JSR-299/Weld) will form the core programming model.

The second release towards JPA 2 support. Specific JPA 2 related enhancements from Beta-1 include:

This is the first release towards supporting JPA 2. Most of the APIs are implemented. Some know limitations for this beta include:

Just got done releasing 3.3.2 with tons of fixes/enhancements/improvements including some much needed documentation updates and again building translated docs.

I just pushed a new Hibernate Core maintenance release 3.2.7 for download. It is mostly minor fixes and improvements; check out the specifics in the change log either in Jira or SourceForge.

Linda has written up the new typesafe query API. I previously blogged the reasoning behind this stuff here and here.

In the last few weeks I had to migrate a MySQL database and it turned out to be more difficult than I thought. In the past I've used the tools that ship with MySQL, such as mysqldump and its various options. For the recent migrations that was surprisingly... impossible.