[hibernate-dev] Preparing an unusual release : 5.4.27.SP1

Hi all, there's plenty of good fixes and improvements in the 5.4 branch, which we will soon be releasing as 5.4.28.Final (perhaps tomorrow already?). But also, there's a severe regression in 5.4.27.Final : HHH-14424 [1]. Since the amount of changes already present in the 5.4 branch is rather high, we'll also release a 5.4.27.SP1 which includes exclusively this severe regression; this is meant to help people who need this urgent fix but don't want to take the risk of also receiving all other improvements we have in this branch. I apologise for the unusual process; the alternative would have been to revert many good improvements from the branch, release, and then restore them; or rename branches or rewrite them; we opted for the unusual name to be least disruptive, inspired by similar naming used by RESTEasy in such cases. Hopefully this won't be needed too often; to maintain this branch I've pushed upstream a branch named "5.4.27-SP". Thanks, Sanne 1 - https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HHH-14424