In Relation To

Hibernate Core 3.6.8.Final is a maintenance release with some bugfixes and improvements:

Hibernate Core 4.0.0.CR4 has just been released. The complete list of changes can be found in the JIRA release notes.

Hibernate Core 4.0.0.CR3 has just been released. The complete list of changes can be found in the JIRA release notes.

Hibernate Core 4.0.0.CR2 has just been released. The complete list of its changes can be found in the JIRA release notes.

Progress on the new metamodel ended up being much slower then anticipated, so we decided to move ahead with the 4.0 release and will continue development of it after 4.0. At that point the rest of the work for 4.0 had already been completed which brings us to the first CR release. The complete list of its changes can be found in the JIRA release notes.

Hibernate Core 3.6.7.Final is a maintenance release with just a couple of fixes.

Hibernate Core 4.0.0.Beta4 has just been released. The complete list of changes can be found in JIRA release notes

Hibernate 3.6.6.Final is mainly a maintenance release with a couple of improvements.

Hibernate Core 4.0.0.Beta2 has just been released. Most of the work in this release deals with continuing to tidy up the new metamodel. The complete list of its changes can be found in the JIRA release notes

Hibernate Core 4.0.0.Beta1 has just been released. The complete list of changes can be found in JIRA release notes