Shortly after releasing 4.2.7.Final, a regression was found (caused in 4.2.6.Final) that may affect some usages of Date, Calendar-as-a-Date, and JDBC Dates. See https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HHH-8617 for more information. So, we decided to release 4.2.7.SP1 to correct it. Apologies for the fast rate of releases today ;) http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/HibernateORM427SP1Released Brett Meyer Software Engineer Red Hat, Hibernate ORM ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brett Meyer" <brmeyer(a)redhat.com&gt; To: "Hibernate" <hibernate-dev(a)lists.jboss.org&gt;, hibernate-announce(a)lists.jboss.org Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2013 11:40:04 AM Subject: Hibernate ORM 4.2.7.Final Released http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/HibernateORM427FinalReleased Brett Meyer Software Engineer Red Hat, Hibernate ORM