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We just tagged and uploaded all artifacts for both:

Version 4.3.0.Beta5 release of the Hibernate ORM project has just been released. This is a step closer towards JPA 2.1 compliance, but also lots of other goodies. JPA 2.1 work of note includes:

Past night I've uploaded the Hibernate Search release 4.4.0.CR1 (Candidate Release for 4.4) to Sourceforce and the Maven repositories.

We have been very quiet on the announcement front for Hibernate OGM, but don't be fooled. Davide and Gunnar have been very busy bees and did bring significant foundation work for features that you will see in the next few months.

Hibernate Search 4.4.0.Beta1 is ready for downloads! You can get it either from Maven repositories or from Sourceforge.

It's been a long three years since my first posts on this site describing our ideas for the Ceylon language. Now, finally, Ceylon 1.0 is feature complete. From the announcement on ceylon-lang.org:

Hibernate ORM 4.2.6.Final was just released with 20 fixes. Please see the full changelog for more information: https://hibernate.atlassian.net/issues/?jql=project=10031+AND+fixVersion=14150.

Emmanuel is headed to JavaOne, where you can see his hands-on presentations: live on stage coding showing the latest features of Hibernate Search and Bean Validation. It's a unique experience to see how easy it is to get started with these technologies, and also what powerful features they can provide you in just one hour coding.

This 4.4.0.Alpha2 release might look like quite boring to end users as there apparently are no exciting new features.