Hibernate 3.2.0.cr5 has just been released and is available from the SourceForge download site at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=40712&package_id=1 27784&release_id=452973 We decided another CR was needed mainly for two fixes: 1) A fix for the JPA "persist on flush" event; 2) performance improvement in regards to flush processing. The full change log can be viewed on JIRA (http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/secure/ReleaseNote.j spa?version=10630&styleName=Text&projectId=10031&Create=Create) or in the download bundle.