changelog.txt

Hibernate 7 Changelog
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Changes in 7.1.20.Final (March 22, 2026)
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https://hibernate.atlassian.net/projects/HHH/versions/38219


** Bug
    * HHH-20266 Some unnesting array functions miss ordering on index on aggregation
    * HHH-20231 Errors when querying 2L-cached native queries with same SQL but different result type
    * HHH-19818 NPE with stateless insert when Envers is enabled

** Task
    * HHH-20232 Update c3p0 to 0.12.0

Changes in 7.1.19.Final (March 15, 2026)
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https://hibernate.atlassian.net/projects/HHH/versions/38117


** Bug
    * HHH-20253 ClassCastException when using hibernate-enhance-maven-plugin plugin
    * HHH-20229 logFlushResults ko with a @AnyKeyJavaClass(String.class)
    * HHH-20224  Exception when calling treat() twice
    * HHH-20212 Jakarta Data Repository implementation with custom session getter does not compile
    * HHH-20200 Select query returns soft deleted entries with Inheritance.TABLE_PER_CLASS
    * HHH-20199 Regression Hibernate 7: Using an AdditionalMappingContributor leads to a rescan of Entities that breaks when @Converters are present 
    * HHH-9499 MappingException when JOINED Inheritance and bidirectional references

Changes in 7.1.18.Final (March 01, 2026)
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https://hibernate.atlassian.net/projects/HHH/versions/37979


** Bug
    * HHH-20176 Native Query cache causing ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException with extra columns
    * HHH-19917 Bytecode-enhanced dirty tracking fails for mixed access properties

Changes in 7.1.17.Final (February 22, 2026)
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https://hibernate.atlassian.net/projects/HHH/versions/37808


** Bug
    * HHH-20187 NPE in BeanValidationEventListener with StatelessSession
    * HHH-20162 MySQL timeout based on innodb_lock_timeout has incorrect units

Changes in 7.1.16.Final (February 08, 2026)
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https://hibernate.atlassian.net/projects/HHH/versions/37570


** Bug
    * HHH-20119 Values return by Enum Converter are not escaped in CREATE TABLE query
    * HHH-20065 Subsequent StatelessSession#insertMultiple calls lead to pending batches

Changes in 7.1.15.Final (February 01, 2026)
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https://hibernate.atlassian.net/projects/HHH/versions/37107


** Bug
    * HHH-20118 Vector operator SQL templates miss parenthesis around
    * HHH-20113 Round function broken in PostgreSQL for parameter expressions
    * HHH-20069 `DB2iDialect.rowId` causes an error in merge queries
    * HHH-20048 ByteArrayJavaType#isInstance wrongly considers byte[] instead of Byte[] to be an instance
    * HHH-20041 DB2 for z IN tuple list predicate performs badly
    * HHH-20032 SubSequence.subSequence violates CharSequence contract for start == end == length()
    * HHH-20015 Hibernate Maven Plugin 7.x does not include maven project dependencies in the enhancement classpath
    * HHH-19929 DB2iDialect problem with supportsRowValueConstructorSyntaxInInSubQuery
    * HHH-19192 Bulk delete of owner with soft-delete element-collection physically deletes the collection rows
    * HHH-19075 SqmFunction.appendHqlString(…) fails with IndexOutOfBoundsException for trim rendering
    * HHH-18835 AssertionError when executing insert-select

** Improvement
    * HHH-19977 Relax scopes of methods to allow HIbernate Reactive to execute a flush during query preparation

** Task
    * HHH-20071 Exclude Guava from the Hibernate maven plugin dependencies

Changes in 7.1.14.Final (January 04, 2026)
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https://hibernate.atlassian.net/projects/HHH/versions/37039


** Bug
    * HHH-20027 Fix failing parsing of PostgreSQL canonical lock_timeout formats (0, ms, s, min, h)

Changes in 7.1.13.Final (December 21, 2025)
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https://hibernate.atlassian.net/projects/HHH/versions/36906


** Bug
    * HHH-20008 Bad performance of MEMBER OF translation
    * HHH-19985 Subquery embedded value selection uses wrong nested attribute type for extraction
    * HHH-19962 Wrong Values used with Subquery and same name Attributes
    * HHH-19935 UuidVersion7Strategy can generate cosecutive UUIDs that are equal

Changes in 7.1.12.Final (December 14, 2025)
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https://hibernate.atlassian.net/projects/HHH/versions/36674


** Bug
    * HHH-19972 OptionalTableUpdateOperation can fail on PostgreSQL < 15 and CockroachDB
    * HHH-19963 Wrong references in entity fields with circular associations
    * HHH-19746 JPA parameters might be incorrectly handled resulting in exceptions or queries returning incorrect results
    * 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

Changes in 7.1.11.Final (December 01, 2025)
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https://hibernate.atlassian.net/projects/HHH/versions/36344


** Bug
    * 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-14082 Hibernate cannot determine it's core version in modular configuration

** Improvement
    * HHH-19953 Relax scopes of methods in EntityInitializerImpl (for Hibernate Reactive)

Changes in 7.1.10.Final (November 23, 2025)
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https://hibernate.atlassian.net/projects/HHH/versions/36278


** Bug
    * HHH-19038 Hibernate.get does not work on detached entities
    * HHH-16991 EnhancedUserType cannot be used when defining relations

Changes in 7.1.9.Final (November 20, 2025)
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https://hibernate.atlassian.net/projects/HHH/versions/36079


** Bug
    * HHH-19936 Parameter casts for by-id lookups don't take column definition into account
    * HHH-19926 NullPointerException when executing JPQL IN clause with null parameter on entity association
    * HHH-19922 org.hibernate.orm:hibernate-platform:pom:7.1.7.Final is missing
    * HHH-19910 EntityInitializer#resolveInstance wrongly initializes existing detached instance
    * HHH-19908 'this' implicit alias should be case-insensitive
    * HHH-19905 Implicit join re-use with nested inner and left joins causes ParsingException
    * HHH-19857 When one of the lazy attributes is `null` the other ones may not get initialized correctly
    * HHH-19805 PersistentCollection may get uninitialized entity injected

** Task
    * HHH-19940 Include maven plugin in the release staging directory

Changes in 7.1.8.Final (November 16, 2025)
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https://hibernate.atlassian.net/projects/HHH/versions/35981


** Bug
    * HHH-19932 NullPointerException in SqmInterpretationsKey::toString
    * HHH-19918 Avoid reflection when instantiating known FormatMapper
    * HHH-19914 JPA_COMPLIANCE setting ignored in @Jpa
    * HHH-19906 JsonGeneratingVisitor#visit doesn't handle plural types correctly
    * 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-18860 Updates on SecondaryTable cause incorrect cast for BigDecimal

7.1.7.Final (November 06, 2025)
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https://hibernate.atlassian.net/projects/HHH/versions/35881


** Bug
    * HHH-19887 Wrong ClassLoader used for Jackson Module discovery
    * HHH-19868 RowTransformerConstructorImpl throws NullPointerException when TupleMetadata is null
    * HHH-18691 Envers cannot read revisions with records

** Improvement
    * HHH-19913 Update the order of release steps and simplify the ORM build script

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

Changes in 7.1.6.Final (November 02, 2025)
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https://hibernate.atlassian.net/projects/HHH/versions/35783

** Bug
    * [HHH-19883] - JOIN TREAT ignores predicates


Changes in 7.1.5.Final (October 27, 2025)
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https://hibernate.atlassian.net/projects/HHH/versions/35716

** Bug
    * [HHH-19888] - FetchPlusOffsetParameterBinder fails to apply static offset for root pagination
    * [HHH-19872] - CriteriaUpdate error updating generic field in @MappedSuperclass
    * [HHH-19862] - Can't update converted column throught CriteriaUpdate#set( SingularAttribute<? super T, Y> attribute, X value);
    * [HHH-19813] - Incorrect default values for 'enableDirtyTracking' and 'enableLazyInitialization' in hibernate-maven-plugin

** 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

** Task
    * [HHH-19889] - Mention third-party dialects throughout the documentation
    * [HHH-19869] - Regroup all dialect information under a single guide


Changes in 7.1.4.Final (October 12, 2025)
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https://hibernate.atlassian.net/projects/HHH/versions/35519

** Bug
    * [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-19759] - joining a map key of basic type
    * [HHH-19723] - Hibernate-testing depends on outdated Jakarta libraries, leading to compilation issues for Jakarta Data repositories
    * [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-19393] - Hibernate Envers can not handle ID class if it is implemented as Java record
    * [HHH-19085] - NPE when using null value in CriteriaUpdate

** Improvement
    * [HHH-19767] - Include license file in the META-INF of published artifacts


Changes in 7.1.3.Final (October 05, 2025)
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https://hibernate.atlassian.net/projects/HHH/versions/35421

** Improvement
    * [HHH-19825] - Add methods and change method access for Hibernate Reactive
    * [HHH-19717] - CockroachDB supports insert and update returning clause

** Task
    * [HHH-19800] - Migrate to release scripts for documentation publishing

** Bug
    * [HHH-18885] - ClassCastException with queued persist in an extra lazy Map
    * [HHH-19781] - Subsequent uses of Criteria SelectionSpecification lead to duplicated specifications


Changes in 7.1.2.Final (September 29, 2025)
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https://hibernate.atlassian.net/projects/HHH/versions/35322

** Bug
    * [HHH-19792] - Wrong query generated when an EmbeddedId is used in a WHERE clause using the IN operator and NativeParameterMarkerStrategy
    * [HHH-19784] - Bytecode enhancement generates wrong field access method for classes in different JARs but with same package name deployed in the same EAR
    * [HHH-19768] - Wrong supportsRowValueConstructorSyntaxInInSubQuery leads to bad performing queries
    * [HHH-19713] - Hibernate creates invalid SQLServer query when using pagination with Jakarta Data
    * [HHH-19681] - AssertionError on extract results from  array containing jsonb values


Changes in 7.1.1.Final (September 14, 2025)
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https://hibernate.atlassian.net/projects/HHH/versions/34792

** Bug
    * [HHH-19756] - Invalid SQL generated when using treat() with joined = discriminator inheritance and same attribute names
    * [HHH-19753] - SelfRenderingSqmFunction equals/hashCode implementation not consistent with literals
    * [HHH-19750] - org.hibernate.sql.exec.ExecutionException when running CriteriaUpdate with specific attribute/parameter configuration
    * [HHH-19747] - Hibernate Envers can not handle @EnumeratedValue annotation
    * [HHH-19745] - Equals implementation for SqmPath affects previous identity sensitive checks
    * [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-19734] - Cache hit of bytecode enhanced proxy with shallow query cache layout fails
    * [HHH-19732] - @OnDelete on owning collection reset when mapping bidirectional
    * [HHH-19729] - Column check constraint not correctly hoisted to table level
    * [HHH-19721] - Jakarta Data is missing from hibernate-platform (BOM)
    * [HHH-19719] - org.hibernate.query.sqm.function.SelfRenderingSqmWindowFunction#appendHqlString throws IndexOutOfBoundsException  when has no arguments
    * [HHH-19716] - Collection event listeners may be missing collection owners  in the persistent collection (PersistentCollection#getOwner==null)
    * [HHH-19712] - Column deduplication leads to wrong alias calculation for native query alias expansion
    * [HHH-19707] - Include value column name in TableStructure InitCommand  
    * [HHH-19703] - NativeQueryImpl#addScalar(String, Class) fails when no JavaType is registered
    * [HHH-19699] - String JSON document writer code only runs with assertions
    * [HHH-19695] - Invalid SQL generated for FETCH FIRST/NEXT clause
    * [HHH-19688] - @IdClass is ignored for classes that have a single id field
    * [HHH-19687] - Criteria query with lazy @OneToOne and @EmbeddedId throws exception
    * [HHH-19648] - Recursive @Embeddable mapping leads to stack overflow
    * [HHH-19605] - Session.isDirty might return true when batch fetching entity with CacheConcurrencyStrategy.READ_WRITE
    * [HHH-19589] - @Converter does not take precedence over @TypeRegistration
    * [HHH-19453] - sequence support not working on db2 As400 7.3
    * [HHH-19326] - Jakarta Data CrudRepository is generated without Types in UpdateAll, InsertAll and SaveAll Methods
    * [HHH-19201] - BlobProxy with InputStream reads whole stream into a byte array
    * [HHH-18686] - org.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl.SchemaExport does not call orderColumns
    * [HHH-17522] - Support correlation of CTEs

** Improvement
    * [HHH-19701] - MariaDB: "drop sequence" should add "if exists"
    * [HHH-19697] - Use case-insensitive Dialect query pattern matching
    * [HHH-19696] - Do not iterate over validated path in the TraversableResolver unless necessary 

** Task
    * [HHH-19692] - Drop org.hibernate.boot.jaxb.spi.XmlSource


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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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