I was blocked on this so I created the following workaround.

I created a new custom type that is a subclass of the internal LongType class with a single override for the next method which just returns the existing version value. I then make the VERSION field use this custom type.

I will continue to watch this ticket in the hope that I can remove this hack at some point!

My annotation was :

@Version
@Generated(GenerationTime.ALWAYS)
@Column(name = "sequence")
private Long sequence;

And I changed it to :

@Version
@Generated(GenerationTime.ALWAYS)
@Type(type = "com.suberjus.hibernate.LongVersionType")
@Column(name = "sequence")
private Long sequence;

And added the following class :

package com.suberjus.hibernate;

import org.hibernate.engine.spi.SessionImplementor;
import org.hibernate.type.LongType;

public class LongVersionType extends LongType {
@Override
public Long next(Long current, SessionImplementor session) { return current; }
}