changelog.txt

Hibernate 7 Changelog
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Changes in 7.4.0.CR1 (May 07, 2026)
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https://hibernate.atlassian.net/projects/HHH/versions/37741


** Bug
    * HHH-20358 PRIVILEGED_CLI is not set to "sudo" when Podman is aliased as Docker
    * HHH-20356 NPE when mapping embedded property as @MappedSuperclass
    * HHH-20355 use of static calendar in TimestampUtcAsJdbcTimestampJdbcType and friends
    * HHH-20353 unhelpful error with @ManyToAny
    * HHH-20350 Unexpected physical naming of columns for embeddables in Hibernate 7 
    * HHH-20336 JdbcResourceLocalTransactionCoordinatorImpl does not trigger afterCompletionCallback if it encounters a TransactionException
    * HHH-20326 ClassCastException when joining array within embeddable
    * HHH-20323 with `hibernate.temporal.use_server_transaction_timestamps`, session obtains a database timestamp even when not needed
    * HHH-20321 import.sql not executed when there are no @Entity classes
    * HHH-20313 Criteria query comparing double path to integer expression containing integer parameter fails
    * HHH-20308 JSON embeddable array access not working because Column reports wrong SQL type code
    * HHH-20307 Informix count distinct tuple emulation is broken
    * HHH-20305 Lock timout on Informix broken
    * HHH-20303 Power function usage for PostgreSQLTruncRoundFunction breaks CockroachDB
    * HHH-20300 OptionalTableUpdateWithUpsertOperation can fail on PostgreSQL 14
    * HHH-20297 SQM parameter use in multiple type-incompatible contexts binds with wrong JdbcMapping
    * HHH-20287 DataException ( Parameter is not set) when updating only the version of an Entity with a PartitionKey
    * HHH-20283 key-based pagination appears to be broken
    * HHH-20281 Missing temporal precision for parameter coercion leading to ClassCastException
    * HHH-20274 Avoid mutating SqmSelectClause during type validation
    * HHH-20273 Failed to set List type field in Embeddable record
    * HHH-20272 JDBC locking pre-actions are not executed before the statement
    * HHH-20271 SybaseASE reports wrong lock metadata
    * HHH-20267 Hibernate processor: infinite generation of repositories when extending PanacheRepository
    * HHH-20266 Some unnesting array functions miss ordering on index on aggregation
    * HHH-20265 StackOverflowError with multi-level generic inheritance hierarchy and attribute converters
    * HHH-20260 Session#find only logs LockTimeoutException instead of throwing it on PostgreSQL
    * HHH-20259 DdlTypeRegistry#addSqlType doesn't handle different type codes registered to same DDL type properly
    * HHH-20253 ClassCastException when using hibernate-enhance-maven-plugin plugin
    * HHH-20251 NPE: query with fetch graph and read-only hint on bytecode enhanced entities
    * HHH-20244 Sybase and MySQL connection locking problems
    * HHH-20243 float/double literals with no fractional part
    * HHH-20242 `IndexOutOfBoundsException` while trying to pretty-print `AntlrError`
    * HHH-20241 `@Query` with invalid HQL in Jakarta Data repository was able to compile
    * HHH-20238 Data types are not forwarded from HQL to SQL properly
    * HHH-20234 DatasourceConnectionProviderImpl extends DriverManagerConnectionProvider instead of DatasourceConnectionProvider
    * HHH-20233 parse issues with query validation
    * HHH-20230 [Metamodel Generator] AnnotationMetaEntity fails to compile repository methods with unbounded wildcard Sort<?>
    * HHH-20224  Exception when calling treat() twice
    * HHH-20221 Jakarta Data `@Find` method with `@OrderBy` that returns `TypedQuery` does not compile
    * HHH-20216 The documentation task 'documentation:renderUserGuideHtml' is failing
    * HHH-20209 Race Condition in JavaTypeRegistry causing SemanticException during parallel UNION queries with projection.
    * HHH-20206 @Nullable @HQL method does fail to compile
    * HHH-20199 Regression Hibernate 7: Using an AdditionalMappingContributor leads to a rescan of Entities that breaks when @Converters are present 
    * HHH-20194 attribute validation broken in HQL validation for some queries
    * HHH-20191 Docs for annotation processor are wrong and missing documented default values
    * HHH-20183 Incorrect type for fields in generated metamodel classes, when field type is the same as Jakarta class
    * HHH-20181 two minor issues with DDL constraints
    * HHH-20168 Hibernate JsonWithArrayEmbeddableTest.testUpdateMultipleAggregateMembers test fail with Oracle 19c
    * HHH-20161 Hibernate ArrayToStringWithArrayAggregateTest test fail with Oracle 19c
    * HHH-20155 StatelessSession.upsert() and discriminator column
    * HHH-20154 @NaturalId(modifiable=false) => updatable=false
    * HHH-20133 @Formula and @JoinFormula with {p.*} expansion in native queries
    * HHH-20126 NPE when querying with a lockMode/lockScope
    * HHH-20092 SqlTypes.JSON on SQL Server expects varchar(max) even with use_nationalized_character_data=true
    * HHH-20053 HQL grammar ambiguity for NOT keyword
    * HHH-20004 stop @Column(columnDefinition) leaking out of DDL generation
    * HHH-19885 Wrong mapping of legacy XML "access" attribute in HbmXmlTransformer
    * HHH-19818 NPE with stateless insert when Envers is enabled
    * HHH-19609 @PartitionKey and StatelessSession.update()
    * HHH-19607 TableReference not found comparing embedded of associated entity in where clause of a query
    * HHH-19567 EntityGraph.removeAttributeNode() should suppress EAGER fetching
    * HHH-19429 ConcurrentModificationException observed while executing JPQL update query with VERSIONED clause
    * HHH-19380 unhelpful exception when mixing nodes from different SQM trees
    * HHH-19355 bug in HQL trunc() function on Oracle
    * HHH-19056 MapsId with null embeddable fails
    * HHH-19020 NullPointerException in ClassPropertyHolder.addPropertyToMappedSuperclass()
    * HHH-18774 two bad bugs in cascade refresh
    * HHH-18742 StatelessSession.upsert() and @NaturalId fields
    * HHH-18529 two issues with AccessType defaulting
    * HHH-17786 StatelessSession#upsert fails to insert updatable=false columns
    * HHH-16523 hibernate.cache.use_minimal_puts appears to be missing from H6
    * HHH-16442 trunc() function with offset datetimes on Oracle
    * HHH-16167 generators and embeddable classes
    * HHH-12986 ConfigLoader does not close file when loading hibernate.cfg.xml
    * HHH-12590 Postgres subselect: ERROR: subquery in FROM must have an alias
    * HHH-9414 MarkerObject reference checking is wrong after deserialization

** Deprecation
    * HHH-20377 Deprecate org.hibernate.query.QueryFlushMode

** Improvement
    * HHH-20404 Processor should ignore package private entities in other packages
    * HHH-20398 a couple of minor improvements to audited stuff
    * HHH-20296 Speed up some HQL tests when only SELECT are performed
    * HHH-20290 Improve OTP job durations in CI
    * HHH-20282 @Parent annotation should not depend on existence of getter/setter
    * HHH-20261 Actionable, detailed error message when projecting a native query to an incorrectly-structured custom class/record
    * HHH-20256 Make ByteBuddy class generation build-reproducible
    * HHH-20246 Upgrade Oracle JDBC driver to version 23.26.1.0.0
    * HHH-20240 Annotation processor provides too less information to find HQL problems
    * HHH-20228 Make the sortedTypeContributors comparator static
    * HHH-20227 Avoid using reflection and parsing annotations when initializing the Hibernate and JPA annotation descriptors
    * HHH-20215 Improve token lookahead performance in SQL Template rendering
    * HHH-20214 Integrate Envers readers on top of @Temporal
    * HHH-20213 Update to GeoLatte 1.11
    * HHH-20196 Refactor to improve performance, remove redundancy and improve readability
    * HHH-20177 Update log4j to 2.25.3
    * HHH-20157 Add pre-relocation capabilities to relocated artifacts
    * HHH-20153 Treat CreationTimestamp/UpdateTimestamp generator fields as not-null
    * HHH-20148 Avoid depending on module java.desktop
    * HHH-20145 Automatically align Hibernate artifact versions for Gradle consumers
    * HHH-20130 unique key constraint for @ElementCollection Set
    * HHH-20123 Address the split package issue in hibernate-micrometer and hibernate-core

** Improvement
    * HHH-20122 Update Agroal to 3.0.1
    * HHH-20120 Remove default max_fetch_depth from MySQLDialect
    * HHH-20115 Pass a ROOT locale to loggers to avoid unnecessary class lookups
    * HHH-20090 Use ROWID for MERGE statement if possible
    * HHH-20020 A proxy associated with an @Any mapping is always considered dirty.
    * HHH-19951 introduce DetachedObjectException
    * HHH-19933 pagination and join fetch
    * HHH-19849 Add an SPI that allows attaching session-scoped "extensions" to the session/statelesssession implementors
    * HHH-19371 use a StatelessSession for temporary sessions
    * HHH-19247 Make it possible to order type contributions analogous to function contributions
    * HHH-18938 BatchBuilder, StatisticsFactory, MutationExecutorService, SchemaManagementTool as Java services
    * HHH-18908 missing logging for READ_ONLY and NONSTRICT_READ_WRITE
    * HHH-18812 MySQLSqlAstTranslator.visitCastTarget circumvents the machinery in DdlType
    * HHH-18210 Up-front validation of generator types
    * HHH-16730 joining @Any and @ManyToAny mappings
    * HHH-15492 mappedBy referencing @JoinFormula
    * HHH-15048 Allow @Nationalized at the class or package level
    * HHH-9897 @OneToMany association with @JoinFormula throws NPE
    * HHH-9662 IllegalArgumentException when composite ID has IDENTITY generated value
    * HHH-6044 Support post-insert generators with partially generated composite ids
    * HHH-5247 Support indexes and unique-keys in schema validator

** New Feature
    * HHH-20201 allow @MapsId to target an @EmbeddedId within an @IdClass
    * HHH-20104 temporal data based on global revision number
    * HHH-20077 temporal entities
    * HHH-20044 Support Spanner PostgreSQL dialect in Hibernate
    * HHH-19971 @Any and @ManyToAny needs a cascade member as replacement for deprecated Cascade annotation
    * HHH-19956 Add support for InterSystems IRIS
    * HHH-19879 Move Hibernate Tools' reveng module to Hibernate ORM and merge the relevant ant/gradle/maven plugins
    * HHH-15383 emulate FULL JOIN using UNION on some dialects
    * HHH-13284 Allow refreshing multiple entities based on query
    * HHH-12997 @OneToMany does not work with @JoinFormula

** Remove Feature
    * HHH-20284 Remove support for database versions that are unsupported by vendors 7.4 edition

** Sub-task
    * HHH-20352 enable parallel testing and test fixes for hibernate-envrers and hibernate-jache
    * HHH-20351 Re-enable UNNEST WITH ORDINALITY tests in Spanner PG
    * HHH-20338 Fix upsert and use standard on conflict clause 
    * HHH-20337 Fix newly failing tests in Spanner PG dialect
    * HHH-20325 Fix Spanner PG Locking support
    * HHH-20316 Fix hibernate-envers tests for Spanner PG dialects
    * HHH-20310 Fixes for SpannerDialect 
    * HHH-20298 Move SpannerPostgreSQLDialect to hibernate-core
    * HHH-20292 Fix container memory issue
    * HHH-20286 Fixes for SpannerDialect
    * HHH-20285 Remove support for PostgreSQL Advanced Server versions older than 14
    * HHH-20279 Remove support for PostgreSQL versions older than 14
    * HHH-20268 Fix table without primary key issue
    * HHH-20262 Fix Spanner Tests Part 3
    * HHH-20252 Spanner feature updates
    * HHH-20250 Fix Spanner Tests Part 2
    * HHH-20208 Fix SpannerDialect functions
    * HHH-20198 Refactor ToOneIdMapper.java
    * HHH-20197 Refactor CustomRunner.java
    * HHH-20175 Fix Spanner PG Tests
    * HHH-20171 Configure Exception handling in Spanner PG dialect
    * HHH-20160 Fix Literal Rendering for Spanner Dialect
    * HHH-20140 Support generating Integer PK 

** Task
    * HHH-20347 Replace google-java-format with Eclipse JDT formatter to avoid compatibility issues
    * HHH-20341 Embedded MavenCli in integration tests cannot resolve plugins on Jenkins CI
    * HHH-20335 Test against JDK 27
    * HHH-20334 Upgrade to Log4j 2.25.4
    * HHH-20311 Upgrade to hibernate-modules 1.1.1
    * HHH-20301 Upgrade ByteBuddy to 1.18.8
    * HHH-20270 Force use of org.checkerframework:checker-qual-android
    * HHH-20232 Update c3p0 to 0.12.0

Changes in 7.3.0.CR2 (February 03, 2026)
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https://hibernate.atlassian.net/projects/HHH/versions/37404


** Bug
    * HHH-20121 NPE when logging loaded values in follow-on locking post action
    * HHH-20118 Vector operator SQL templates miss parenthesis around
    * HHH-20107 SparseFloatVector and SparseDoubleVector accept invalid size <= 0
    * HHH-20103 @ElementCollection mapping should respect @JoinColumn(foreignKey)
    * HHH-20102 spec says LockTimeoutException + QueryTimeoutException should not be thrown on PostgreSQL
    * HHH-20101 Error persisting child entity of abstract generic entity
    * HHH-19715 read-only mode and collections

** Improvement
    * HHH-20127 Avoid initializing the BigDecimal class when not strictly necessary
    * HHH-19902 PostgreSQL failed statements mark tx for rollback
    * HHH-19610 Make GraphParser support treatedSubGraph from root

** New Feature
    * HHH-19045 Bytecode enhancer should add a default constructor if it's missing

** Sub-task
    * HHH-20112 Skip concurrent modification related tests
    * HHH-20111 Avoid harcoded column definition in tests
    * HHH-20110 Handle TIMESTAMP and NUMERIC column types in Spanner PG
    * HHH-20109 Handle Column types for Spanner PG
    * HHH-20108 Fix connection URL in Spanner PG
    * HHH-20100 Fix Foreign key issue
    * HHH-20099 Handle ON CONFLICT clause for Spanner
    * HHH-20098 Support FORWARD_ONLY scrollable resultset

Changes in 8.0.0.Alpha1 (February 02, 2026)
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https://hibernate.atlassian.net/projects/HHH/versions/32326


** Improvement
    * HHH-20129 Move JPA callbacks to EntityPersister
    * HHH-20074 Adapt Hibernate Query contracts to new JPA 4.0 structure

** Task
    * HHH-20028 Update to Jakarta Persistence 4.0

Changes in 7.3.0.CR1 (January 23, 2026)
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https://hibernate.atlassian.net/projects/HHH/versions/35980


** Bug
    * HHH-20095 New SchemaValidator nullability check should only consider explicitly declared nullability
    * HHH-20088 HbmXmlTransform does not consider the <set >, <map>, <list>, <bag> and <array> outer-join value to determine the fetch mode. 
    * HHH-20087 NPE with StatelessSession + Bean Validation
    * HHH-20079 HbmXmlTransform does not create <sql-join-table-restriction> for ManyToMany attributes
    * HHH-20072 Javadoc cannot be generated without Jackson 3 dependencies
    * HHH-20069 `DB2iDialect.rowId` causes an error in merge queries
    * HHH-20055 <synchronize> is ignored in orm.xml
    * HHH-20041 DB2 for z IN tuple list predicate performs badly
    * HHH-20037 MappedSuperClasses can be enhanced more than once resulting in Duplicate annotation interface org...EnhancementInfo Exception
    * HHH-20032 SubSequence.subSequence violates CharSequence contract for start == end == length()
    * HHH-20027 Fix failing parsing of PostgreSQL canonical lock_timeout formats (0, ms, s, min, h)
    * HHH-20021 Binding GregorianCalendar parameter fails with "Type registration was corrupted"
    * HHH-20015 Hibernate Maven Plugin 7.x does not include maven project dependencies in the enhancement classpath
    * HHH-20006 Outcome of getSingleResult changed since 6.0
    * HHH-20002 Ensure physical JDBC connection is released when closing LogicalConnectionManagedImpl
    * HHH-19999 Caching APIs use Comparator<?> for version comparison in Hibernate ORM 7.2.0.Final
    * HHH-19932 NullPointerException in SqmInterpretationsKey::toString
    * HHH-19929 DB2iDialect problem with supportsRowValueConstructorSyntaxInInSubQuery
    * HHH-19861 EntityNotFoundException when using @Audited(targetAuditMode = RelationTargetAuditMode.NOT_AUDITED) on FK fields
    * HHH-19390 obsolete documentation for bytecode enhancer
    * HHH-19192 Bulk delete of owner with soft-delete element-collection physically deletes the collection rows
    * HHH-18835 AssertionError when executing insert-select
    * HHH-18040 MySQL update/delete statement issue with subqueries
    * HHH-12678 PersistentClass.checkColumnDuplication fails for columns with same name from distinct tables
    * HHH-12100 Misleading exception message in JTASessionContext
    * HHH-9035 Globally quoted identifiers and id class not working properly with quoted join columns error Unable to find logical column name from physical name JobPositon+id in table JOB+Position
    * HHH-7287 Problem in caching proper natural-id-values when obtaining result by naturalIdQuery

** Deprecation
    * HHH-20073 deprecate ByteArrayJavaType and CharacterArrayJavaType

** Improvement
    * HHH-20076 @Version columns should be NOT NULL
    * HHH-20059 TiDB: don't propagate readonly to server
    * HHH-20058 TiDB: Enable shared lock promotion
    * HHH-20054 Optimize BasicTypeImpl allocation
    * HHH-20030 FilterImpl: cache validate() results and harden deserialization restore
    * HHH-20026 Stop hibernate-maven-plugin execution on errors
    * HHH-20025 Align Generator with UserType
    * HHH-20017 Refactor AnnotationBasedGenerator to align with AnnotationBasedUserType
    * HHH-20013 remove dependency to Classmate
    * HHH-20012 Update the TiDBDialect
    * HHH-20011 Upgrade minmum version supported for cockroach and upgrade db testing to 25
    * HHH-20009 docker_db.sh fails to start PostgreSQL 17 and 18 on Apple Silicon (ARM64)
    * HHH-19997 Update TiDB testing environment
    * HHH-19992 auto-generate check constraint on @OrderColumn
    * HHH-19950 Alternative to pre-set parameters offered for deprecated DynamicParameterizedType
    * HHH-19919 Indexed collection initializers should resolveInstance instead of resolveKey
    * HHH-19897 Hibernate Envers audited associations mapped-by non-audited ones
    * HHH-19890 Support a FormatMapper for Jackson3
    * HHH-19867 Add support for Oracle 26ai in OTP
    * HHH-19804 Documentation should recommend `annotationProcessorPathsUseDepMgmt` in maven-compiler-plugin when using hibernate-processor
    * HHH-18984 Remove deprecated Gradle API usage in Hibernate Gradle Plugin
    * HHH-18461 Improve dialects to generate sql contains offset clause if first result of native query is explicit 0
    * HHH-14584 Allow PhysicalNamingStrategy implementations to detect when a name is implicit or explicit
    * HHH-7202 Early detection of bad targetEntity
    * HHH-6882 Expose CollectionPersister from AbstractCollectionEvent
    * HHH-6598 Immutable entities should not have up-to-date checks performed on a flush

** New Feature
    * HHH-20060 TenantCredentialsMapper
    * HHH-20029 hibernate.connection.login_timeout
    * HHH-19993 Introduce UserTypeCreationContext and AnnotationBasedUserType
    * HHH-19989 RemovalsMode.EXCLUDE
    * HHH-19978 Support type variable members also in abstract entities
    * HHH-19880 Move Hibernate Tools' `hibernate-assistant` module to Hibernate ORM
    * HHH-19826 Add array_reverse and array_sort functions
    * HHH-19541 "exists" queries
    * HHH-18998 Supply UserType and UserCollectionType with type-safe config via annotation
    * HHH-17657 Support named enum types on h2
    * HHH-16383 NaturalIdClass

** Sub-task
    * HHH-20091 Fix CTE Rendering Syntax for Spanner
    * HHH-20086 Handle no escape character in Spanner PG dialect
    * HHH-20066 Support only JSON Aggregation for Spanner PG Dialect
    * HHH-20050 Create Spanner PostgreSQL dialect
    * HHH-20045 Add support to create unique index when unique column is not supported
    * HHH-20038 Fixes for SpannerDialect-3
    * HHH-20034 Fixes for SpannerDialect-2
    * HHH-20033 Introduce Dialect#getSetOperatorSqlString to support Spanner's explicit DISTINCT requirement
    * HHH-20003 Spanner temporary table exporter
    * HHH-19991 Fixes for SpannerDialect 
    * HHH-19983 Config for running tests on Spanner emualtor 

Changes in 7.2.0.CR4 (December 10, 2025)
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https://hibernate.atlassian.net/projects/HHH/versions/36476


** Bug
    * HHH-19980 In JTA after-completion callbacks may get ignored
    * HHH-19979 processor should handle @NamedEntityGraph with defaulted name
    * HHH-19975 Calling entityManager.find(clazz, id) with null id throws NullPointerException
    * HHH-19972 OptionalTableUpdateOperation can fail on PostgreSQL < 15 and CockroachDB
    * HHH-19963 Wrong references in entity fields with circular associations
    * HHH-19958 `<generated>` tag in orm.xml is not implemented
    * HHH-19955 Thread-safety issue in EntityEntryContext resulting in NullPointerException for Session.contains() calls.
    * HHH-19843 Bean Validation may fail on operations with stateless session
    * HHH-18871 Nested NativeQuery mappings causing 'Could not locate TableGroup' exception after migration
    * HHH-18217 StatelessSession.upsert() for entity with all-null non-id fields, or no non-id field

** Improvement
    * HHH-19943 Comparison of generic nested EmbeddedId's fails for JPQL and Criteria API
    * HHH-19215 Extends Dialect#addQueryHints to support straight_join syntax

Changes in 7.2.0.CR3 (November 25, 2025)
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https://hibernate.atlassian.net/projects/HHH/versions/36014


** Bug
    * HHH-19939 broken caching for MERGE and REFRESH load plans
    * HHH-19937 duplicate version check after refresh
    * HHH-19936 Parameter casts for by-id lookups don't take column definition into account
    * HHH-19932 NullPointerException in SqmInterpretationsKey::toString
    * HHH-19926 NullPointerException when executing JPQL IN clause with null parameter on entity association
    * HHH-19925 Locking root(s) should be based on select-clause, not from-clause
    * HHH-19924 Session#find with LockMode.UPGRADE_NOWAIT casues AssetionError when no entity with the provided id exists in the database
    * HHH-19922 org.hibernate.orm:hibernate-platform:pom:7.1.7.Final is missing
    * HHH-19918 Avoid reflection when instantiating known FormatMapper
    * HHH-19910 EntityInitializer#resolveInstance wrongly initializes existing detached instance
    * HHH-19906 JsonGeneratingVisitor#visit doesn't handle plural types correctly
    * HHH-19905 Implicit join re-use with nested inner and left joins causes ParsingException
    * HHH-19895 hibernate-core 6.6.30.Final breaks compatibility on entities with composite keys for multiple variants of DB2
    * HHH-19758 HQL parse failure with SLL can lead to wrong parse
    * HHH-19749 [Oracle] Merge with @SecondaryTable may generate invalid NUMERIC type casts
    * HHH-19739 Exceptions during load of entity with different persistent fields with same name
    * HHH-19240 Significant increase in heap allocation for queries after migrating Hibernate ORM 6.5 to 6.6
    * HHH-19038 Hibernate.get does not work on detached entities
    * HHH-18860 Updates on SecondaryTable cause incorrect cast for BigDecimal
    * HHH-16991 EnhancedUserType cannot be used when defining relations
    * HHH-14032 Locales with scripts are not round-tripped properly

** Deprecation
    * HHH-19941 deprecate Session.contains(String, Object)

** Improvement
    * HHH-19953 Relax scopes of methods in EntityInitializerImpl (for Hibernate Reactive)
    * HHH-19827 Apply the unified Hibernate Documentation theme

** New Feature
    * HHH-19931 SchemaManager.truncateTable()

** Task
    * HHH-19944 Upgrade MS SQL JDBC driver to remediate CVE-2025-59250
    * HHH-19940 Include maven plugin in the release staging directory
    * HHH-19921 Drop last JUnit 4 usages in Hibernate Envers 
    * HHH-19916 More drop JUnit 4 usage work

Note: Please refer to JIRA to learn more about each issue.

Changes in 7.2.0.CR2 (November 10, 2025)
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https://hibernate.atlassian.net/projects/HHH/versions/35584

** Bug
    * [HHH-19914] - JPA_COMPLIANCE setting ignored in @Jpa
    * [HHH-19896] - Criteria select case expressions: NPE when second query contains an otherwise case expression but not the first query
    * [HHH-19888] - FetchPlusOffsetParameterBinder fails to apply static offset for root pagination
    * [HHH-19887] - Wrong ClassLoader used for Jackson Module discovery
    * [HHH-19883] - JOIN TREAT ignores predicates
    * [HHH-19874] - NullPointerException in org.hibernate.sql.ast.tree.from.TableGroup.resolveTableReference
    * [HHH-19872] - CriteriaUpdate error updating generic field in @MappedSuperclass
    * [HHH-19868] - RowTransformerConstructorImpl throws NullPointerException when TupleMetadata is null
    * [HHH-19865] - In JTA after-completion callbacks may get ignored
    * [HHH-19862] - Can't update converted column throught CriteriaUpdate#set( SingularAttribute<? super T, Y> attribute, X value);
    * [HHH-19857] - When one of the lazy attributes is `null` the other ones may not get initialized correctly
    * [HHH-19851] - Session#findMultiple(EntityGraph...) fails for dynamic entities
    * [HHH-19848] - NPE when using MySQLLegacyDialect
    * [HHH-19840] - JDBC batching is not working with @CreationTimestamp and @UpdateTimestamp from Hibernate 7
    * [HHH-19824] - DB2zDialect does not use correct querySequenceString on a DB2 on zOs
    * [HHH-18691] - Envers cannot read revisions with records

** Improvement
    * [HHH-19899] - Proxy generation fails with @ConcreteProxy and sealed abstract entities
    * [HHH-19892] - signature of Session.merge() accepting EntityGraph
    * [HHH-19884] - Hibernate testing class-template lifecycle listeners
    * [HHH-19852] - Better detection of Oracle extended maximum string size
    * [HHH-19830] - Use of markdown for Javadoc
    * [HHH-18286] - Add option to fail bootstrapping on failure to access JDBC DatabaseMetadata

** Sub-task
    * [HHH-19871] - Drop JUnit 4 usage in Hibernate Envers

** Task
    * [HHH-19894] - Use Java 25 for building
    * [HHH-19889] - Mention third-party dialects throughout the documentation
    * [HHH-19873] - Upgrade build to Gradle 9.1
    * [HHH-19869] - Regroup all dialect information under a single guide
    * [HHH-19846] - Drop JUnit 4 usage


Changes in 7.2.0.CR1 (October 08, 2025)
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https://hibernate.atlassian.net/projects/HHH/versions/34530

** Bug
    * [HHH-19831] - LeakingStatementCachingTest hangs
    * [HHH-19813] - Incorrect default values for 'enableDirtyTracking' and 'enableLazyInitialization' in hibernate-maven-plugin
    * [HHH-19795] - SqmFunctionRegistry does not provide a way to escape ? in registerPattern
    * [HHH-19790] - Fix Gradle Worker ID gaps for parallel testing
    * [HHH-19781] - Subsequent uses of Criteria SelectionSpecification lead to duplicated specifications
    * [HHH-19780] - OracleDatabaseCleaner must not fail when not finding an object to drop
    * [HHH-19775] - type(:entity) in JPQL
    * [HHH-19771] - transaction context sharing between stateful and stateless sessions 
    * [HHH-19759] - joining a map key of basic type
    * [HHH-19740] - Collection table deletion for table per class subclass entity fails with UnknownTableReferenceException
    * [HHH-19738] - JDBC password logged when specified via jakarta.persistence.jdbc.password
    * [HHH-19723] - Hibernate-testing depends on outdated Jakarta libraries, leading to compilation issues for Jakarta Data repositories
    * [HHH-19721] - Jakarta Data is missing from hibernate-platform (BOM)
    * [HHH-19718] - SQL @Formula with function call nested inside cast()
    * [HHH-19716] - Collection event listeners may be missing collection owners  in the persistent collection (PersistentCollection#getOwner==null)
    * [HHH-19706] - Composite @Id with a generic part in @MappedSuperclass
    * [HHH-19671] - Wrong warning aboute illegal use of @Embeddable with callback on entities with @IdClass
    * [HHH-19659] - (Kotlin / Panache) Entity with @IdClass and @PrePersist/@PreUpdate misinterpreted as @Embeddable
    * [HHH-19630] - Hibernate Processor may fail if the return type is a single entity and annotated with multiple annotations
    * [HHH-19629] - Hibernate Processor may fail when repository method parameter has more than one annotation (e.g. multiple constraints)
    * [HHH-19627] - MetaModel fields not generated for java.sql.Clob fields
    * [HHH-19276] - Native query with enum list param leads to OutOfMemory
    * [HHH-18993] - [Docs] Possible outdated documentation and update suggestions in the user guide
    * [HHH-14082] - Hibernate cannot determine it's core version in modular configuration
    * [HHH-19085] - NPE when using null value in CriteriaUpdate
    * [HHH-19393] - Hibernate Envers can not handle ID class if it is implemented as Java record


** Deprecation
    * [HHH-19751] - Deprecate AzureSQLServerDialect for removal

** Improvement
    * [HHH-19832] - Upgrade to JUnit 6.0
    * [HHH-19829] - Deprecate MultiIdentifierLoadAccess and byMultipleIds
    * [HHH-19810] - Remove Joda-Time and use LocalDate of jdk in testing
    * [HHH-19808] - Automatic closing for child session with shared connection/tx
    * [HHH-19801] - SchemaTruncator should reset sequences
    * [HHH-19791] - Avoid dropping/creating database objects when data is only read (SELECT)
    * [HHH-19782] - Oracle support for locking across joins
    * [HHH-19776] - Migrate all logging to the newer style "subsystem" logging
    * [HHH-19774] - Automatic flushing for child session with shared connection/tx
    * [HHH-19772] - change to semantics of interceptor reuse with shared session builders
    * [HHH-19762] - Enable Parallel Testing for OTP
    * [HHH-19757] - many registry operations have unbound type parameter in return type
    * [HHH-19755] - Improve AntlrPlugin
    * [HHH-19754] - Migrate XjcPlugin to using direct Java calls
    * [HHH-19752] - Allow setting MariaDB/MySQL storage engine not only using System properties but also configuration properties
    * [HHH-19744] - Clarify and document the wildfly-transaction-client integration
    * [HHH-19743] - Deprecate JBossStandAloneJtaPlatform in favor of a new, clearly Narayana-specific implementation
    * [HHH-19737] - Support Envers with StatelessSession
    * [HHH-19733] - Extract constants often reused in ByteBubby processing
    * [HHH-19730] - Avoid bulk-delete collection cleanup when delete cascaded
    * [HHH-19717] - CockroachDB supports insert and update returning clause
    * [HHH-19711] - Improve mapped-by + join-column exception message with the full property path
    * [HHH-19702] - ConnectionProviders don't need "Impl" in name
    * [HHH-19694] - Enhanced support for older Informix
    * [HHH-19690] - Migrate Atlas to OTP
    * [HHH-19679] - Support binary, float16 and sparse vector types
    * [HHH-19602] - Adjust JdbcOperation to allow more-than-one statement
    * [HHH-19556] - improvements to SQM equality
    * [HHH-19554] - Support for lock timeout as Connection setting
    * [HHH-19514] - Follow-on locking locks more than it should
    * [HHH-19513] - Follow-on locking does not lock element-collection tables
    * [HHH-19388] - Process <database-object> in mapping.xml
    * [HHH-18546] - Clean up any hanging BulkOperationCleanupAction after-txn callbacks on Session close
    * [HHH-14892] - Parallel test with GRADLE
    * [HHH-13843] - Performance schema migration
    * [HHH-9636] - Have JPA PessimisticLockScope.EXTENDED propagate the same LockModeType
    * [HHH-19767] - Include license file in the META-INF of published artifacts
    * [HHH-19827] - Apply the unified Hibernate Documentation theme

** New Feature
    * [HHH-19794] - SchemaManager.resynchronizeGenerators()
    * [HHH-19735] - Add vector support for SQL Server
    * [HHH-19710] - Add vector support for SAP HANA Cloud
    * [HHH-19708] - support for read/write replicas
    * [HHH-19705] - Add vector support for DB2
    * [HHH-19257] - Introduce @EmbeddedTable
    * [HHH-18973] - Add Vector support type for MySQL
    * [HHH-3404] - Regular expression matching in HQL
    * [HHH-19676] - validate content of JPA @OrderBy in Processor

** Sub-task
    * [HHH-19820] - Make sure that the enhancer is not doing anything if all the enablement parameters are false
    * [HHH-19817] - Add the JavaDoc Style documentation appropriate for Maven Plugins
    * [HHH-19816] - Add Integration Tests for the Maven Enhance Plugin without using Maven Invoker
    * [HHH-19815] - Review and Complete the documentation of the Enhance Plugin in the User's Guide
    * [HHH-19814] - Document the Enhance Plugin changes in the Migration Guide
    * [HHH-19336] - Proper implementation for JPA PessimisticLockScope

** Task
    * [HHH-19812] - Improvements on the Maven Enhance Plugin
    * [HHH-19811] - Upgrade H2 to 2.4.240
    * [HHH-19728] - Update SQL Server CI testing to 2025
    * [HHH-19726] - Update MariaDB CI testing to 12.0
    * [HHH-19009] - Correction of the inheritance syntax used with GraphParser in EntityGraphsTest tests
    * [HHH-19793] - Temporary disconnect ATP-S from OTP
    * [HHH-19806] - Make LoggingReportTask more resilient to missing annotation values


Changes in 7.1.0.Final (August 08, 2025)
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https://hibernate.atlassian.net/projects/HHH/versions/34726

** Improvement
    * [HHH-19693] - Upgrade Oracle JDBC driver to version 23.9.0.25.07

** New Feature
    * [HHH-19682] - Add Support for GaussDB Lock Timeout (lockwait_timeout)


Changes in 7.1.0.CR2 (August 06, 2025)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

https://hibernate.atlassian.net/projects/HHH/versions/34594

** Bug
    * [HHH-19673] - hibernate-gradle-plugin 7.0.0.CR1 wrongly requires Java 21+
    * [HHH-19669] - hql insert fails for entity with join inheritance on Oracle

** Improvement
    * [HHH-19686] - Add implementation dependency to agroal-pool from hibernate-agroal
    * [HHH-19685] - Rework multi-table handling code to allow caching and help Hibernate Reactive
    * [HHH-19672] - Add overloads of #find accepting entity-name

** Task
    * [HHH-19683] - Add method in AbstractEntityPersister to check if field name is not lazy
    * [HHH-19670] - Upgrade MySQL testing to 9.4


Changes in 7.1.0.CR1 (July 30, 2025)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

https://hibernate.atlassian.net/projects/HHH/versions/32362

** Bug
    * [HHH-19649] - QualifiedNameParser inconsistent between parsing and formatting
    * [HHH-19645] - Some database specific tests are missing RequiresDialect annotation
    * [HHH-19640] - @UpdateTimestamp behavior change between Hibernate 5.6 and 6.6
    * [HHH-19631] - NPE in AbstractPersistentCollection because "persister" is null, when accessing unfetched lazy collection in event
    * [HHH-19626] - Hibernate processor may fail to process entities with generics
    * [HHH-19616] - @ManyToOne(optional=false) results in a not null constraint for SINGLE_TABLE subclass
    * [HHH-19604] - Session.isDirty always return true when @Immutable entity is loaded
    * [HHH-19585] - Object relationship mapping issues | java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "java.lang.Comparable.compareTo(Object)" because "one" is null
    * [HHH-19583] - JsonJavaType is missing parameterized info on the type arguments
    * [HHH-19579] - Criteria update join - Column 'code' in SET is ambiguous
    * [HHH-19578] - @Delete queries for reactive repositories
    * [HHH-19574] - metamodel population for inner classes
    * [HHH-19572] - NullPointerException when using where(List<Predicate> restrictions) method
    * [HHH-19571] - CloningPropertyCall causes non-deterministic bytecode for AccessOptimizer
    * [HHH-19570] - HQL with jpamodelgen fails compilation when querying by natural id named `id`
    * [HHH-19549] - Hibernate Processor: When embeddable is annotated by @Access enclosing element must not change access type
    * [HHH-19547] - Misleading exception message at DefaultFlushEntityEventListener - mangled ID - misplaced Entity and EntityEntry ID
    * [HHH-19533] - Implement equals() and hashCode() for NativeQueryConstructorTransformer
    * [HHH-19531] - Jakarta Data implementation casts StatlessSession to *Implementor interfaces
    * [HHH-19529] - Check bytecode generated classes with stable names class loaders
    * [HHH-19528] - Version xml mapping is ignored
    * [HHH-19523] - NPE when using stateless session and having a PreCollectionRecreateEventListener registered
    * [HHH-19522] - upserts fail silently instead of throwing StaleObjectStateException
    * [HHH-19495] - [Hibernate 7] - Extra update when mixing entity annotation with XML when a collection is dirty
    * [HHH-19457] - Inheritance with type JOINED not working in a related entity
    * [HHH-19396] - Cannot select the same column twice (with different aliases) while using CTE
    * [HHH-19391] - Query plan caching for criteria queries fails with entity parameters
    * [HHH-19368] - Group by and single-table inheritance sub-select query error
    * [HHH-19261] - OracleDialect getQueryHintString incorrectly joins supplied hints
    * [HHH-19168] - Disallow re-enhancement of entities with different configuration
    * [HHH-19031] - Loading an Entity a second time when it contains an embedded object causes IllegalArgumentException
    * [HHH-18936] - remove parent with @OnDelete(CASCADE) leads to TransientObjectException
    * [HHH-18909] - NPE for cached entity with array
    * [HHH-18837] - Oracle epoch extraction doesn't work with dates
    * [HHH-18820] - QueryInterpretationCache and criteria SQM trees
    * [HHH-18818] - CteInsertHandler doesn't update PooledOptimizer after batch inserting
    * [HHH-18473] - Default target column qualifier support error
    * [HHH-18311] - No longer able to configure which SqmMultiTableInsertStrategy/SqmMultiTableMutationStrategy to use
    * [HHH-11866] - CustomEntityDirtinessStrategy#resetDirty is not called after entity initialization
    * [HHH-9812] - @Formula with SQL cast function
    * [HHH-8535] - Generating an ID with org.hibernate.id.enhanced.TableGenerator can hang the application if HIBERNATE_SEQUENCES has NULL value

** Deprecation
    * [HHH-19661] - Deprecate enhancement support for "extended" enhancement
    * [HHH-19660] - Deprecate enhancement support for automatic association management 
    * [HHH-19500] - layer-breakers in UserType
    * [HHH-19483] - deprecate EntityEntryFactory
    * [HHH-19015] - Deprecate Session#byId in favor of FindOptions

** Improvement
    * [HHH-19668] - Reduce size of collections held in ParameterInterpretationImpl before storing them in the cache
    * [HHH-19667] - Support H2 2.2.220 for update clause enhancements
    * [HHH-19663] - Add arrayToString/collectionToString variant that accepts default element
    * [HHH-19662] - Define granularity of EnhancementContext options matching reality
    * [HHH-19654] - Upgrade hibernate-models to 1.0.1
    * [HHH-19653] - Log JDBC fetch size
    * [HHH-19646] - Improve validation of configuration settings for the Query Plan Cache
    * [HHH-19644] - Enforce usage of SharedDriverManagerConnectionProviderImpl connection pool for hibernate-envers tests
    * [HHH-19643] - Redirect some hibernate-envers tests to H2 as they use an H2 configured hibernate configuration file
    * [HHH-19641] - Upgrade to JUnit 5.13.4
    * [HHH-19638] - Document the Ant enhancement task in User Guide tooling section
    * [HHH-19632] - Give access to optional parameter info in SqlAstTranslator
    * [HHH-19623] - Support GaussDB column check function
    * [HHH-19622] - Include hibernate-vector in the platform pom 
    * [HHH-19619] - Add TeradataDialect
    * [HHH-19617] - Remove EXECUTE ANY TYPE privilege for Oracle
    * [HHH-19612] - fetchgraph and loadgraph hints should accept the name of a named EntityGraph
    * [HHH-19611] - logging cleanup
    * [HHH-19608] - automatically include the @PartitionKey in the primary key constraint
    * [HHH-19598] - Support GaussDB procedure
    * [HHH-19595] - Implement upsert support for HSQLDB and EDB (v >= 15)
    * [HHH-19593] - ResourceRegistryStandardImpl triggers identity hashcode on Statements and ResultSets
    * [HHH-19591] - Refactor verifyMeterNotFoundException to use assertThrows
    * [HHH-19553] - Remove CREATE ANY INDEX privilege for Oracle
    * [HHH-19544] - Allow to plug-in a third party cache implementation for internal caches
    * [HHH-19537] - Simplify amount of computations performed during LazyAttributeLoadingInterceptor ctor
    * [HHH-19536] - Reduce computations during EnhancementAsProxyLazinessInterceptor constructor
    * [HHH-19532] - Add unwrap() method to StatelessSession/SharedSessionContract
    * [HHH-19526] - Avoid generating a QueryInterpretationCache.Key when the query cache is disabled
    * [HHH-19508] - order collection updates to put deletes first
    * [HHH-19506] - General Firebird dialect improvements (main)
    * [HHH-19503] - Track a Dialect's level of support for locking joined tables
    * [HHH-19501] - Session#lock w/ pessimistic locks for scopes
    * [HHH-19494] - MERGE on DB2
    * [HHH-19487] - AbstractEntityPersister should not be directly involved in dirty checking
    * [HHH-19484] - simpler customization of ImplicitNamingStrategyJpaCompliantImpl
    * [HHH-19466] - exposure of SPI types via JpaMetamodel
    * [HHH-19362] - Improve JsonHelper to handle more org.hibernate.metamodel.mapping types for serialization
    * [HHH-19297] - Register json functions in SingleStore community dialect
    * [HHH-19283] - Hibernate Gradle Plugin configuration cache support
    * [HHH-18613] - @View optional column names
    * [HHH-17751] - Support force-increment locking with database-generated version timestamp 
    * [HHH-17404] - Support reading/writing from/to special source/target in FormatMapper 
    * [HHH-16548] - allow directory/archive scanning via Configuration API
    * [HHH-16283] - Integrate ParameterMarkerStrategy into NativeQuery

** New Feature
    * [HHH-19652] - GaussDB locking support
    * [HHH-19614] - check constraint to enforce correct nullability in single table mappings
    * [HHH-19587] - Easier access to LobHelper
    * [HHH-19580] - allow SchemaManager to target a specified schema/catalog
    * [HHH-19559] - built-in implementation of schema-based multitenancy, using Connection.setSchema()
    * [HHH-19535] - Interceptor and merge()
    * [HHH-19493] - criteria support for id() and version() functions
    * [HHH-19459] - Locking scope and follow-on
    * [HHH-19365] - Add GaussDB dialect support 
    * [HHH-18708] - HQL string() function

** Remove Feature
    * [HHH-17889] - Remove support for database versions that are unsupported by vendors 7.1 edition

** Sub-task
    * [HHH-19226] - Remove support for SQL Server versions older than 2014
    * [HHH-19225] - Remove support for MariaDB versions older than 10.6
    * [HHH-18641] - Remove support for DB2i versions older than 7.2
    * [HHH-18639] - Remove support for DB2 versions older than 11.1
    * [HHH-18366] - Informix concat pipe operator error

** Task
    * [HHH-19639] - Add getter for EmbeddableFetchImpl#nullIndicatorResult
    * [HHH-19603] - Update the links to Configurations.adoc in the reference guide
    * [HHH-19548] - Upgrade to ByteBuddy 1.17.5
    * [HHH-19518] - Make hibernate-maven-plugin configuration parameters non-readonly
    * [HHH-19504] - Javadoc error SecondaryRow#owned
    * [HHH-19496] - Use Javadoc styles from hibernate-asciidoctor-theme
    * [HHH-19309] - Switch to Central Publishing Portal API for publishing to Maven Central


Changes in 7.0.0.Final (May 19, 2025)
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https://hibernate.atlassian.net/projects/HHH/versions/33439

** Task
    * [HHH-19474] - Release 7.0


Changes in 7.0.0.CR2 (May 14, 2025)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

https://hibernate.atlassian.net/projects/HHH/versions/33340

** Bug
    * [HHH-19425] - incorrect class literals in Processor-generated code
    * [HHH-19389] - use of @Struct on databases without UDTs
    * [HHH-19386] - MutationSepectification#getResultType should return null

** Deprecation
    * [HHH-19440] - Deprecate exposing of LockOptions

** Improvement
    * [HHH-19460] - mis-named <embedded-id/> leads to NPE
    * [HHH-19456] - Upgrade to hibernate-models 1.0.0.CR3
    * [HHH-19449] - how does client obtain a BindableType
    * [HHH-19448] - API/SPI split for BindableType/BindingContext
    * [HHH-19447] - org.hibernate.query.procedure
    * [HHH-19445] - methods of ProcedureCall accept BasicTypeReference
    * [HHH-19444] - [SQLiteDialect] Fix ViolatedConstraintNameExtractor
    * [HHH-19442] - ProcedureCall should not extend NameableQuery
    * [HHH-19438] - move OutputableType
    * [HHH-19428] - Support @ListIndexBase in mapping.xml
    * [HHH-19422] - Introduce @CollectionIdJavaClass
    * [HHH-19420] - Support batch-size for collections in mapping.xml
    * [HHH-19399] - setting to enable logging of SQLExceptions
    * [HHH-19397] - LIMIT clause does not work without ORDER BY clause
    * [HHH-19324] - Switch tests using hbm.xml to use mapping.xml
    * [HHH-19310] - Simplified declaration of type for basic mappings in XML
    * [HHH-19299] - <element-collection/> with LIST classification interpreted as BAG
    * [HHH-19209] - Verify and fix ID class generation for inner classes

** New Feature
    * [HHH-19450] - Have processor generate EnabledFetchProfile for all discovered profiles


Changes in 7.0.0.CR1 (April 24, 2025)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

https://hibernate.atlassian.net/projects/HHH/versions/33078

** Bug
    * [HHH-19375] - fix check for presence of Quarkus in reactive case
    * [HHH-19374] - repositories should always be @Dependent
    * [HHH-19345] - EntityManager#remove checks for entity state are too strict
    * [HHH-19334] - CCE arising from tuple passed to HQL position() function
    * [HHH-19330] - Error in lockstring generation in PostgreSQL 
    * [HHH-19320] - Assigned id value is not passed into BeforeExecutionGenerator#generate() method when allowAssignedIdentifiers() is true and id has been assigned
    * [HHH-19318] - follow-on locking and StatelessSession
    * [HHH-19314] - StackOverflowException when using onConflict with createCriteriaInsertValues and createCriteriaInsertSelect
    * [HHH-19306] - Composite generator may not respect the event types of generators it consits of
    * [HHH-19301] - Must import FQCN when generating metamodel class for inner Jakarta Data repository interface
    * [HHH-19291] - Expressions.nullExpresion() in querydsl result in NPE in SqmExpressible with named parameters
    * [HHH-19280] - ResourceRegistryStandardImpl#close(java.sql.Statement) is called on already closed statements
    * [HHH-19279] - @Basic not implicit optional
    * [HHH-19248] - Return of deleted entities doesn't work with naturalid multiloading
    * [HHH-19208] - Javadoc of org.hibernate.cfg.QuerySettings.QUERY_PLAN_CACHE_ENABLED mentions that the query plan cache is disabled by default, but it is enabled by default
    * [HHH-19207] - JPA OrderBy annotated relation not ordered when using entity graph with criteria api
    * [HHH-19059] - Bytecode enhancement fails when inherited fields are mapped using property access in subclass
    * [HHH-18991] - Restrictions should use JDBC parameters
    * [HHH-18920] - Enum parameters in Jakarta Data repository method return type constructor are not properly matched
    * [HHH-18745] - Unnecessary joins when use TREAT operator 
    * [HHH-14694] - Use stable proxy names to avoid managing proxy state and memory leaks
    * [HHH-9127] - L2 cache stores stale data when an entity is locked with OPTIMISTIC_FORCE_INCREMENT lock type

** Deprecation
    * [HHH-19357] - deprecate hibernate.discard_pc_on_close

** Improvement
    * [HHH-19378] - find by multiple ids with EntityGraph
    * [HHH-19364] - Introduce QuerySpecification
    * [HHH-19358] - Add a "What's New" document for series
    * [HHH-19352] - move legacy LimitHandlers to community dialects module
    * [HHH-19350] - SessionBuilder exposes SPI types
    * [HHH-19349] - rework ImmutableEntityUpdateQueryHandlingMode and immutable_entity_update_query_handling_mode
    * [HHH-19340] - Make TypedParameterValue a record
    * [HHH-19325] - Upgrade to Jandex 3.3.0
    * [HHH-19317] - Mark org.hibernate.boot.models as incubating
    * [HHH-19300] - more ConstraintKinds
    * [HHH-19286] - Ignoring auto-applied conversions on special mappings
    * [HHH-19284] - Extract Duplicated Vector Function Registration Logic
    * [HHH-19278] - fixes to logic in MultiIdEntityLoaders
    * [HHH-19096] - Adjust `SelectionQuery#setEntityGraph(..)` to accept entity graphs of supertypes
    * [HHH-19001] - Map ConstraintType to UNIQUE on ConstraintViolationException
    * [HHH-18896] - Use binary_float/binary_double on Oracle for Java float/double
    * [HHH-18008] - Ability to clear persistence context for a specific type
    * [HHH-17002] - Query plan caching for CriteriaQuery based on query structure
    * [HHH-16972] - Reorganize parts of org.hibernate.query.sqm

** New Feature
    * [HHH-19327] - overload SF.addNamedQuery() to take TypedQuery and return TypedQueryReference
    * [HHH-19319] - StatelessSession.findMultiple() accepting a LockMode
    * [HHH-19303] - validate @Id fields against @IdClass in Processor
    * [HHH-19298] - add convenience overloads of StatelessSession.get() which default GraphSemantic.LOAD
    * [HHH-19296] - overload createSelectionQuery() to accept an EntityGraph instead of a result class
    * [HHH-19115] - Implement support for ordered loading by multiple natural-id values
    * [HHH-18563] - Add foreign key target tables to affected tables (update query set-clause)
    * [HHH-16643] - @NamedFetchGraph annotation


Changes in 7.0.0.Beta5 (March 21, 2025)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

https://hibernate.atlassian.net/projects/HHH/versions/32581

** Bug
    * [HHH-19266] - inconsistencies in ScrollableResults
    * [HHH-19259] - Static metamodel for id/timestamp not set (and triggers warnings) for DefaultRevisionEntity and similar
    * [HHH-19258] - Remove @Entity annotation from default revision entities contributed internally by Envers
    * [HHH-19254] - The return value of st_envelope() is not recognised as a geometry type on MariaDB 
    * [HHH-19246] - Fetch join makes partially covered EntityGraph ineffective
    * [HHH-19232] - BeanValidationEventListener not called if only associated collection is updated via getter
    * [HHH-19227] - errors in class OracleSDOFunctionDescriptors
    * [HHH-19220] - ClassCastException: class org.hibernate.bytecode.enhance.spi.LazyPropertyInitializer$1 cannot be cast to class java.lang.String
    * [HHH-19206] - Bytecode-enhanced dirty checking ineffective if entity's embedded ID set manually (to same value)
    * [HHH-19195] - Embeddable inheritance: discriminator values are not hierarchically ordered
    * [HHH-19173] - PostgreSQLLegacySqlAstTranslator does not implement visitInArrayPredicates
    * [HHH-19143] - javadoc for 7 links to JPA 3.1 javadoc instead of 3.2
    * [HHH-19140] - Enhanced entities with AccessType.PROPERTY does not work well with inheritance
    * [HHH-19134] - Hibernate processor - find by id fails for entity with composite identifier with @IdClass
    * [HHH-19126] - Plural valued paths should be collection-typed instead of element typed
    * [HHH-19118] - The columnDefinition field of joinColumn does not take effect 
    * [HHH-19116] - Error when using fk() function on left joined many-to-one association and is null predicate
    * [HHH-19110] - Flush operation fails with "UnsupportedOperationException: compare() not implemented for EntityType"
    * [HHH-19109] - Hibernate Data Repositories are @RequestScoped
    * [HHH-19097] - CoercionException for empty CHAR(1) from MySQL when used with MySQLLegacyDialect
    * [HHH-19091] - Nested entity classes not properly handled by jpamodelgen
    * [HHH-19005] - High memory usage for JSON string literals in BasicFormatterImpl
    * [HHH-18946] - Startup issues with HANA in failover situations
    * [HHH-18780] - Performance regression on Postgres with polymorphic query due to incorrect casts of null columns
    * [HHH-17151] - NPE when binding null parameter in native query with explicit TemporalType
    * [HHH-11801] - AbstractPersistentCollection.SetProxy does not implement equals()

** Deprecation
    * [HHH-19274] - Deprecate MetadataBuilder#applyIndexView and friends
    * [HHH-19265] - deprecate hibernate.jdbc.use_scrollable_resultset
    * [HHH-19253] - deprecate use of lifecycle callbacks on embeddables
    * [HHH-19063] - Drop forms of SchemaNameResolver performing reflection

** Improvement
    * [HHH-19271] - support HINT_FETCH_PROFILE in SelectionQuery
    * [HHH-19260] - Move feature supports methods from the SqlAstTranslator base impl to Dialect
    * [HHH-19252] - overriding @Id generation declared by @MappedSuperclass
    * [HHH-19223] - Upgrade JBoss Logging Tools (processor) to 3.0.4.Final
    * [HHH-19219] - Informix Catalog and schema support
    * [HHH-19210] - Propagate exceptions from building a ValidatorFactory
    * [HHH-19205] - Do not recreate the validator on each BeanValidationEventListener#validate call
    * [HHH-19196] - Upgrade to JUnit 5.12.0
    * [HHH-19145] - Relicense Hibernate ORM under ASL
    * [HHH-19142] - StatelessSession.findMultiple() and second-level cache
    * [HHH-19089] - Lower collection pre-sizing limit to avoid excessive memory usage
    * [HHH-18724] - Support Hibernate Validator @ConstraintComposition(OR) for 'not null' DDL generation
    * [HHH-18723] - Support @SQLRestriction in class marked as @MappedSuperclass
    * [HHH-18482] - Provide access to a mutable ClassDetailsRegistry from the Integrator
    * [HHH-17325] - @SoftDelete with timestamp
    * [HHH-15271] - Don't initialize lazy associations via merge
    * [HHH-4396] - Ability to patternize embedded column names

** New Feature
    * [HHH-19237] - Expand graph language to optionally specify entity
    * [HHH-19217] - Expose GraphParser#parse on SessionFactory
    * [HHH-19216] - NamedEntityGraph annotation supporting Hibernate parseable format


Changes in 7.0.0.Beta4 (February 12, 2025)
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https://hibernate.atlassian.net/projects/HHH/versions/32482

** Bug
    * [HHH-19107] - Entities with @EmbeddedId not supported with CrudRepository
    * [HHH-19106] - @Transaction(TxType) not working with Hibernate Data Repositories
    * [HHH-19104] - Envers is keeping references to classes and thus classloaders
    * [HHH-19079] - ComponentType.replace can cause ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException when used with embeddable inheritance
    * [HHH-19072] - The hibernate.session_factory_name configuration property no longer works in Hibernate 7.0.0
    * [HHH-19069] - Performance regression for wide inheritance models
    * [HHH-19034] - Wrong reuse of a Join 
    * [HHH-19033] - Move of Derby to community dialects is incomplete
    * [HHH-19017] - Class Cast Exception for PersistentAttributeInterceptable
    * [HHH-19011] - @ElementCollection comment overrides class level comment on an Entity
    * [HHH-19004] - TenantId regression on @EmbeddedId 6.6.0 -> 6.6.1
    * [HHH-18992] - Locking does not work with multiLoad
    * [HHH-18988] - Embeddable inheritance + default_schema results in NPE at startup
    * [HHH-18974] - UuidVersion6Strategy/UuidVersion7Strategy use random seed in static init + constructor
    * [HHH-18968] - MySQLDialect wrongly uses Timestamp as type for localtime function
    * [HHH-18961] - JtaIsolationDelegate, obtaining connection : NPE when SQLExceptionConversionDelegate#convert returns null
    * [HHH-18949] - Hibernate Processor should not insert underscores within uppercase names
    * [HHH-18945] - Hibernate Processor - fails if entity extends mapped superclass with same simple class name
    * [HHH-18933] - the ordering of the class declaration in persistence.xml seems to affect the metamodel
    * [HHH-18932] - Wrongly using FK column instead of PK when using joined alias
    * [HHH-18912] - ORM release process
    * [HHH-18904] - Bytecode Enhancement fails with UnsupportedEnhancementStrategy.FAIL for pre-persist method
    * [HHH-18903] - Bytecode enhancement fails for entities that contain a method named get
    * [HHH-18901] - AnnotationFormatError: Duplicate annotation for class: interface org.hibernate.bytecode.enhance.spi.EnhancementInfo
    * [HHH-18894] - Hibernate 6.6 enum literal is considered field literal instead
    * [HHH-18893] - DialectOverrides.SQLRestrictions
    * [HHH-18883] - When initializing version attribute to a negative value then a TransientObjectException is thrown when loading an entity
    * [HHH-18869] - Schema validation fails with MariaDB when entity field is of type BigDecimal[]
    * [HHH-18868] - Wrong behaviour of getAttribute method in impl. of ManagedType when scattered id attributes are used in MappedSuperclass
    * [HHH-18867] - beginTransaction() when a tx is already active
    * [HHH-18858] - array fields and static metamodel
    * [HHH-18819] - Error resolving persistent property of @MapperSuperclass if subtype @Embeddable used as @IdClass
    * [HHH-18771] - ListInitializer should consistently consider @ListIndexBase
    * [HHH-18750] - @OneToMany with @Any mapped in secondary table KO (ClassCastException)
    * [HHH-18693] - Hibernate Processor does not handle inner @Embeddable types
    * [HHH-18384] - @JoinColumnsOrFormulas broken
    * [HHH-17652] - Cannot invoke "org.hibernate.envers.internal.entities.EntityConfiguration.getRelationDescription(String)" because "entCfg" is null
    * [HHH-16883] - EntityGraph.addSubclassSubgraph() throws UnsupportedOperationException
    * [HHH-16516] - Adding quoteOnNonIdentifierChar flag to org.hibernate.boot.model.naming.Identifier breaks backwards compatibility
    * [HHH-16216] - SybaseASEDialect creates additional not null checks
    * [HHH-15848] - session.isDirty() shouldn't throw exception for transient many-to-one object in a session
    * [HHH-14725] - Using a InputStream with BlobProxy and Envers results in  java.sql.SQLException: could not reset reader
    * [HHH-14519] - Misleading error message when unable to resolve table name
    * [HHH-13969] - Fix handling of large varbinary for SAP/Sybase ASE
    * [HHH-13915] - Shared state in ByteBuddy basic proxies leads to intermittently broken persistence
    * [HHH-13815] - TransientObjectException after merging a bidirectional one-to-many with orphan deletion
    * [HHH-13790] - Temporary session not being closed
    * [HHH-13612] - Quoted table name in FROM clause and Column in @Formula gets wrongly qualified with generated alias
    * [HHH-13377] - Lazy loaded properties of bytecode enhanced entity are left stale after refresh of entity
    * [HHH-13243] - Setting @ManyToAny.fetch to FetchType.EAGER doesn't work


Changes in 7.0.0.Beta3 (December 05, 2024)
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https://hibernate.atlassian.net/projects/HHH/versions/32364

** Bug
    * [HHH-18912] - Fix ORM release process
    * [HHH-18881] - In MySQL, array of dates are not converted correctly
    * [HHH-18872] - ConcreteProxy type not restored from 2LC when loading a ManyToOne
    * [HHH-18862] - Group by error due to subselect using foreign key reference instead of primary key in HQL query
    * [HHH-18859] - slice operator and @ElementCollection
    * [HHH-18851] - ArrayContainsArgumentTypeResolver wrongly infers array type for needle argument
    * [HHH-18850] - createCountQuery with Hibernate 6.6.2
    * [HHH-18848] - JAR for org.hibernate.orm:hibernate-scan-jandex:7.0.0.Beta2 at Maven Central
    * [HHH-18842] - Regression: CollectionType.replace() breaks if target is PersistentCollection, but not instance of Collection (e.g. PersistentMap)
    * [HHH-18832] - Bytecode enhancement skipped for entities with "compute-only" @Transient properties
    * [HHH-18830] - extraneous SQL UPDATE statements for unowned collection with @OrderColumn
    * [HHH-18826] - mappedBy validation in Processor
    * [HHH-18765] - Error in the booleanarray_to_string auxiliary function 
    * [HHH-18709] - CriteriaUpdate involving JSON field containing Map<String, Object> results in SemanticException
    * [HHH-18705] - Hibernate processor creates bad TypedReferenceQuery when @Entity have name attribute
    * [HHH-18692] - Hibernate attempts to close batched statements multiple times 
    * [HHH-18629] - Inconsistent column alias generated while result class is used for placeholder
    * [HHH-18610] - "SQLGrammarException: Unable to find column position by name:" when using Single Table Inheritance with a strict JDBC driver such as PostgreSQL
    * [HHH-18583] - Joined + discriminator inheritance treat in where clause not restricting to subtype
    * [HHH-18274] - Problems with generics in queries; proposed partial solution
    * [HHH-18069] - NullPointerException when unioning partition results
    * [HHH-17838] - @OneToOne relationship + @Embeddable keys + FetchType.LAZY fail in most recent version
    * [HHH-16054] - JPA / Hibernate, duplicate pkey error when updating entity that is a subclass of a base class that uses IdClass for composite primary key
    * [HHH-14119] - IN clause parameter padding not working for criteria query in conjunction with LiteralHandlingMode.BIND

** Improvement
    * [HHH-18875] - Stop using `Array.newInstance` in `org.hibernate.internal.util.collections.StandardStack`
    * [HHH-18861] - Improve GitHub release announcement body for automated releases
    * [HHH-18847] - Organize the org.hibernate.query.results package
    * [HHH-18844] - Run preVerifyRelease task as part of h2 CI job
    * [HHH-18841] - Make `_identifierMapper` property added for a IdClass synthetic
    * [HHH-18840] - detect and report incorrect usage of @OrderColumn, @MapKeyColumn, and @MapKey
    * [HHH-18683] - The method Metamodel#entity(String) should throw IllegalArgumentException for non-entities
    * [HHH-18534] - Remove the org.hibernate.boot.models.categorize package
    * [HHH-17246] - Guard against Sybase being configured for truncating trailing zeros.
    * [HHH-16160] - XML aggregate support for more databases
    * [HHH-14020] - Allow Hibernate Types to have access to ServiceRegistry during initialization
    * [HHH-7913] - Catalog and schema replacement in <subselect> / @Subselect

** New Feature
    * [HHH-18644] - New and improved hibernate-maven-plugin

** Remove Feature
    * [HHH-18843] - remove deprecated @OrderBy annotation

** Sub-task
    * [HHH-18804] - Add XML aggregate support for HANA
    * [HHH-18803] - Add XML aggregate support for DB2
    * [HHH-18802] - Add XML aggregate support for SQL Server
    * [HHH-18801] - Add XML aggregate support for Sybase ASE
    * [HHH-18800] - Add XML aggregate support for PostgreSQL
    * [HHH-18799] - Add XML aggregate support for Oracle

** Task
    * [HHH-18906] - Allow specifying UnsupportedEnhancementStrategy for Hibernate testing
    * [HHH-18866] - Fix more failing tests on CockroachDB
    * [HHH-18854] - Changes for Hibernate Reactive 3.0 integration
    * [HHH-18678] - Use specific tasks for CI builds


Changes in 7.0.0.Beta2 (November 13, 2024)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

https://hibernate.atlassian.net/projects/HHH/versions/32358

** Bug
    * [HHH-18816] - Error when rendering the fk-side of an association in an exists subquery
    * [HHH-18808] - HqlParser.g4 outputs wrong token for `nakedIdentifier` and `identifier` when keyword is used
    * [HHH-18807] - a bug in HqlLexer.g4
    * [HHH-18806] - handling of nationalized strings on Sybase / jTDS
    * [HHH-18773] - Multiple selections of same alias triggers possible non-threadsafe access to the session
    * [HHH-18770] - NPE when using the JFR integration with JFR disabled
    * [HHH-18764] - Class cast exception when using non basic type as identifier and in an embedded field using a natural ID
    * [HHH-18761] - named query method generation for @NamedQuery on entity
    * [HHH-18739] - Do not support join queries when using Mysql
    * [HHH-18738] - Schema of database sequence is not configured if xml mapping is used
    * [HHH-18730] - Multi-column association in aggregate component doesn't work
    * [HHH-18720] - Type check on select columns in union all gives SemanticException when there is a null column
    * [HHH-18719] - Previous row state reuse can provide detached entities to the consumer
    * [HHH-18712] - Warning about attempts to update an immutable entity for normal (not immutable) entity
    * [HHH-18703] - JoinedSubclassEntityPersister#getTableNameForColumn KO
    * [HHH-18702] - Exception using @EmbeddedId with @OneToMany that refers to an alternate key column
    * [HHH-18699] - Correctly handle @Id and @Version fields in query validation in Hibernate Processor
    * [HHH-18697] - JPA 3.2 spec compliance for uppercasing of names in Hibernate Processor
    * [HHH-18696] - @Find method for single @NaturalId field
    * [HHH-18692] - Hibernate attempts to close batched statements multiple times 
    * [HHH-18689] - 'FULL' query cache sometimes incomplete
    * [HHH-18681] - InterpretationException executing subquery in case-when : o.h.query.sqm.tree.select.SqmSelection.getExpressible() is null
    * [HHH-18675] - Self-referencing many-to-many relation on generic entity gives NullPointerException in mapping
    * [HHH-18671] - Fix setting name (spelling)
    * [HHH-18669] - NullPointerException in the AgroalConnectionProvider
    * [HHH-18667] - Annotation processor leaks - OOME when used in Eclipse IDE
    * [HHH-18662] - Attribute not mentioned in orm.xml ends up not being mapped in Hibernate ORM 7
    * [HHH-18658] - Inner join prevents finding an entity instance referencing an empty map
    * [HHH-18647] - SemanticException when using createCriteriaInsertValues to insert into foreign key column
    * [HHH-18645] - AssertionError in AbstractBatchEntitySelectFetchInitializer#registerToBatchFetchQueue
    * [HHH-18642] - DB2: select from new table with identity column not working when missing read permission
    * [HHH-18635] - Avoid using `bigdatetime` column type on Sybase jconn when not necessary
    * [HHH-18632] - Concurrency issue with AbstractEntityPersister#nonLazyPropertyLoadPlansByName
    * [HHH-18631] - AssertionError when loading an entity after removing another, associated entity
    * [HHH-18628] - Regression: Unable to determine TableReference
    * [HHH-18626] - @Id annotation in @Embeddable class results in AssertionFailure
    * [HHH-18617] - Fetching unowned side of bidirectional OneToOne mappings including tenant identifier triggers EntityFilteredException
    * [HHH-18608] - NPE in EntityInitializerImpl.resolveInstanceSubInitializers
    * [HHH-18596] - ValueHandlingMode hack in query pagination
    * [HHH-18585] - exposure of internal types via Dialect
    * [HHH-18582] - Mapping array of arrays with @JdbcTypeCode(SqlTypes.ARRAY) causes NPE
    * [HHH-18581] - Performance degradation from Hibernate 5 to 6 on NativeQuery
    * [HHH-18575] - IN predicate with numeric/decimal parameter types leads to Binding is multi-valued; illegal call to #getBindValue
    * [HHH-18571] - Entities and collections with batch size 1 are treated as batchable
    * [HHH-18570] - Invalid SQL when filter contains identifier named date
    * [HHH-18565] - Bytecode enhancement, assertion error on reloading *toOne entities
    * [HHH-18564] - Literal expressions using AttributeConverters stopped working in hibernate 6
    * [HHH-18561] - Informix primary key constraint syntax error
    * [HHH-18560] - DB2iDialect executes incompatible query in combination with @AuditJoinTable mapping
    * [HHH-18558] - Informix UUID type support


Changes in 7.0.0.Beta1 (August 01, 2024)
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https://hibernate.atlassian.net/projects/HHH/versions/32319

** Bug
    * [HHH-18314] - dialect for Db2 claims to be NationalizationSupport.EXPLICIT but never generates DDL with NCHAR/NVARCHAR

** Improvement
    * [HHH-18453] - Fix Java code block highlighting in User Guide
    * [HHH-18448] - Add cast and notEqualTo methods to JpaExpression and SqmExpression
    * [HHH-18441] - Create extension to PersistenceConfiguration
    * [HHH-18440] - Rewrite the Bootstrapping chapter in the User Guide
    * [HHH-18412] - Upgrade JBoss Logging Tools (processor) to 3.0.1.Final
    * [HHH-18393] - Upgrade JBoss Logging Tools (processor) to 3.0.0.Final
    * [HHH-18316] - use utf8mb4 instead of utf8 a.k.a utf8mb3 on MySQL
    * [HHH-18097] - Replace `java.io.Closeable` with `java.lang.AutoCloseable`
    * [HHH-18009] - Consolidate JdbcObserver and ConnectionObserver into JdbcEventHandler
    * [HHH-17720] - Add common JAXB contracts for named queries

** New Feature
    * [HHH-18304] - Transform hbm.xml key-many-to-one references
    * [HHH-18281] - Transform <filter-def/> and <filter/>
    * [HHH-18266] - HbmXmlTransformer hbm inverse
    * [HHH-18265] - HbmXmlTransformer transform hbm <key column=""/> 
    * [HHH-18264] - HbmXmlTransformer collection classification
    * [HHH-18060] - HbmXmlTransformer work
    * [HHH-17979] - Add @PropertyRef

** Remove Feature
    * [HHH-18452] - Remove deprecated org.hibernate.Interceptor methods
    * [HHH-18449] - Remove deprecated Integrator#integrate form
    * [HHH-18444] - Remove deprecate Session#refresh methods
    * [HHH-18443] - Drop SessionFactoryBuilder#enableJpaListCompliance
    * [HHH-18442] - Drop DynamicInsert#value and DynamicUpdate#value
    * [HHH-18437] - Remove deprecations from JdbcSessionContext
    * [HHH-18428] - Remove Session#delete
    * [HHH-18199] - Remove @Where and @WhereJoinTable
    * [HHH-18196] - Remove Session#save / Session#update / Session#saveOrUpdate
    * [HHH-18195] - Remove @SelectBeforeUpdate
    * [HHH-18194] - Remove @Proxy
    * [HHH-18193] - Remove @Polymorphism
    * [HHH-18191] - Remove @LazyToOne
    * [HHH-18190] - Remove @LazyCollection
    * [HHH-18189] - Remove @IndexColumn
    * [HHH-18188] - Remove GenerationTime and its uses
    * [HHH-18186] - Remove @GeneratorType
    * [HHH-18184] - Remove CacheModeType and its uses
    * [HHH-17697] - Remove deprecated annotations

** Sub-task
    * [HHH-18197] - Remove @Table
    * [HHH-18192] - Remove @Loader
    * [HHH-18187] - Remove @Index
    * [HHH-18185] - Remove @ForeignKey
    * [HHH-18075] - Transform property-ref
    * [HHH-17888] - Remove support for MariaDB versions older than 10.5

** Task
    * [HHH-18397] - Transform "foreign" generators
    * [HHH-18396] - Transform property-ref pointing to a to-one attribute
    * [HHH-18394] - Fix transformation of nested subclass mappings
    * [HHH-18037] - Move DerbyDialect to hibernate-community-dialects
    * [HHH-18010] - Investigate ConnectionObserver and friends
    * [HHH-17583] - Cleanup for 7.0
    * [HHH-17448] - Add newly standard column annotation attributes to Hibernate column annotations


Changes in 7.0.0.Alpha3 (June 14, 2024)
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https://hibernate.atlassian.net/projects/HHH/versions/32304

** Bug
    * [HHH-18135] - GenerationTypeStrategy implementations always throw UnsupportedOperationException
    * [HHH-18081] - XML  <secondary-table/> element is not added to JdkClassDetails
    * [HHH-11937] - Remove warnings about "empty composites" being experimental when feature is stabilized
    * [HHH-11936] - Stabilize "empty composites" feature

** New Feature
    * [HHH-18231] - SPI for persistence XML parsing
    * [HHH-18057] - Support for JPA 3.2 column options
    * [HHH-18056] - Support for JPA 32 table options
    * [HHH-18055] - Support for JPA 3.2 table comment
    * [HHH-18054] - Support for JPA 3.2 @CheckConstraint
    * [HHH-16153] - Support JPA 3.2 `@EnumeratedValue`

** Remove Feature
    * [HHH-18222] - remove hibernate.create_empty_composites.enabled in Hibernate 7
    * [HHH-18207] - remove deprecated Dialects
    * [HHH-18139] - remove IdentifierGeneratorFactory and related code

** Sub-task
    * [HHH-18095] - Transform hbm.xml column read/write fragments
    * [HHH-18072] - Transform hbm.xml not-found

** Task
    * [HHH-18127] - Leverage hibernate-models Annotation-as-Class
    * [HHH-18096] - Support for JPA 3.2 database generator options


Changes in 7.0.0.Alpha2 (May 03, 2024)
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https://hibernate.atlassian.net/projects/HHH/versions/32280

** Bug
    * [HHH-18053] - duration arithmetic with fractional seconds
    * [HHH-18049] - Handle <exclude-default-listeners/> and <exclude-superclass-listeners/>
    * [HHH-18042] - ConstructorResults defined in XML are not applied
    * [HHH-18041] - With SharedCacheMode.DISABLE_SELECTIVE entities with cacheable false should not be cached
    * [HHH-18039] - EntityListeners defined in XML should replace those from annotations, not add to
    * [HHH-18038] - Fall back to persistence-unit name as SessionFactory name
    * [HHH-18036] - Retrieving java.sql.Date from Oracle contains unwanted milliseconds
    * [HHH-18028] - TCK test failure with attribute converter and Embeddable
    * [HHH-18018] - Derby implementation for 'right' function wrongly passes parameter to 'length'

** Improvement
    * [HHH-18048] - Split notions of SessionFactory name and SessionFactory JNDI name
    * [HHH-18005] - Remove AnnotationDescriptor#createUsage method calls that rely on lambdas for configuration
    * [HHH-18003] - Create a PersistenceUnitDescriptor wrapper around JPA 3.2 PersistenceConfiguration
    * [HHH-18000] - Remove XmlProcessingHelper methods for creating AnnotationUsage instances

** New Feature
    * [HHH-18025] - RefreshOptions & LockOptions for Hibernate 7
    * [HHH-18001] - FindOptions for Hibernate 7

** Task
    * [HHH-18043] - Change SQL Server default timestamp precision to 7
    * [HHH-18035] - Change Oracle default timestamp precision to 9
    * [HHH-17982] - Setup JPA 3.2 TCK testing automation for ORM 7


Changes in 7.0.0.Alpha1 (April 16, 2024)
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https://hibernate.atlassian.net/projects/HHH/versions/32214

** Deprecation
    * [HHH-17441] - Deprecate @Comment

** New Feature
    * [HHH-17460] - Ongoing JPA 3.2 work
    * [HHH-17459] - Allow resolution callbacks on select o.h.mapping objects

** Remove Feature
    * [HHH-17961] - Drop support for hibernate.mapping.precedence
    * [HHH-17894] - Remove AdditionalJaxbMappingProducer
    * [HHH-17893] - Remove MetadataContributor
    * [HHH-17892] - Remove @Persister

** Task
    * [HHH-17444] - Ongoing JPA 32 work