Hibernate

Release Notes

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Abstract

This document provides the release notes for Hibernate .


1.  Overview

These release notes contain important information regarding Hibernate release. This document lists the necessary software that must be installed before using Hibernate. Users of previous versions of Hibernate may refer to Section 4, “Issues” to find the latest JIRA issue fixes. In addition, the latest Section 5, “Documentation”, product support and license links are also provided.

1.1. Background

Hibernate is a powerful object/relational mapping tool and a query service for building Java applications. Hibernate offers a sophisticated object-oriented HQL (Hibernate query language) allowing the programmer to make use of polymorphic queries. Queries can be expressed in native SQL or using Java-based Criteria and Example queries. However, please read these release notes for more information on software that are compatible with this version of Hibernate release.