In Relation To

Atlassian and Contegix (who together make the Hibernate JIRA possible) have found evidence that the Hibernate JIRA has been compromised through the recent JIRA exploit affecting numerous Open Source JIRA instances.

For those who were maybe not aware...

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

Yaay, we made it! :)

We are pleased to announce completion of the first phase of migrating Hibernate.org to what we feel will be a more stable, more collaborative and more friendly experience.

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.

There have been numerous questions in regards to the following statement made in a few places on the Hibernate website:

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: