The Hibernate team is pleased to announce the synchronized release of: - Hibernate Annotations 3.4.0 CR1 - Hibernate EntityManager 3.4.0 CR1 - Hibernate Validator 3.1.0 CR1 - Hibernate Commons Annotations 3.1.0 CR1 These release primarily ensure compatibility with the new Hibernate Core 3.3 Aside from the compatibility, noticeable work are: - Maven POM distributed and deployed at http://repository.jboss.org/maven2 - the logging facade is now SLF4J (aligned with Hibernate Core) - the build system no longer rely on relative directory structures (especially we no longer need the hibernate-3.2 directory): all dependencies are downloaded from http://repository.jboss.org/maven2 Hibernate Search 3.1.x will also target Hibernate Core 3.3 There will probably be a CR2 fixing a couple of bugs, cleaning up backward compatible code and updating the documentation. Downloads available http://www.hibernate.org/30.html Please report any defect in JIRA http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/secure/Dashboard.jspa Community support in our forums http://forum.hibernate.org/