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The Hibernate team is pleased to announce today's release of Hibernate 4.3.0.Beta1 which targets the (still not finalized) JPA 2.1 specification which is part of the upcoming Java EE 7 platform. This is the first release targeting JPA 2.1 support. As mentioned, JPA 2.1 is not completely finalized so this support should be considered a preview. JPA 2.1 defines a number of enhancements. I won't go in depth in each of them here as I plan to follow up with separate in-depth blog posts for some of these features. However, the web abounds with good summaries of the new features; for example:

Hibernate ORM 4.2.0.Final and 4.1.11.Final were just released. The full changelogs can be viewed here: 4.2.0.Final and 4.1.11.Final

Hibernate ORM 4.2.0.CR2 was just released. The full changelog can be viewed here: https://hibernate.onjira.com/issues/?jql=project=10031+AND+fixVersion=12651

Hibernate ORM 4.1.10.Final was just released. The full changelog can be viewed here: https://hibernate.onjira.com/issues/?jql=project=10031+AND+fixVersion=12650

Hibernate ORM 4.2.0.CR1 was just released. The full changelog can be viewed here: https://hibernate.onjira.com/issues/?jql=project=10031+AND+fixVersion=12651

Hibernate ORM 4.1.9.Final was released morning. We sincerely appreciate the large amount of community involvement on this release -- a large portion of the fixes were from contributor's pull requests. The full changelog can be viewed here: https://hibernate.onjira.com/issues/?jql=project=10031+AND+fixVersion=12367

Hibernate ORM 4.1.8.Final was released early this morning. This maintenance release contains just shy of 50 resolved issues, including several that were years old. As usual, we sincerely appreciate the large amount of community involvement on this release. The full changelog can be viewed here: https://hibernate.onjira.com/issues/?jql=project=10031+AND+fixVersion=12350

Hibernate ORM version 4.1.7 has just been released. This is a bug fix release containing 27 fixes. See the changelog for the complete list of fixes. Again, 4.1.7 benefited from a lot of community involvement. We really appreciate all the help in terms of pull requests, testing, comments, ideas, etc.

Hibernate ORM version 4.1.6.Final has just been released. This is a minor bug fix release containing 16 bug fixes, See the changelog for the complete list of fixes. Specific fixes of note include:

There is a blocker bug in the just released 4.1.5.Final, it would cause Natural id cache not usable with 2LC.