In Relation To

4.0 changes the way event listeners get registered to leverage some added capabilities, namely services and integrators. I won't get into services too much as they are covered elsewhere. But lets start with the notion of an Integrator.

The Hibernate team is pleased to announce the release of Hibernate Core 4.0.0.Final. A lot of time and effort from many people went into this release, so thank you everyone involved!

Hibernate Core 4.0.0.CR6 has just been released. The complete list of changes can be found in the JIRA release notes.

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.

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

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

I apologize for the day delay. Ran into a small issue with one of my Gradle plugins after upgrading Gradle for the Hibernate build. Now that that is all sorted...