Ah OK . I saw you using @ManyToMany whereas the original case was about @OneToMany and I thought you were working on another case.

So, IIUC, the issue described here is fixed but you have another more specific one related to @ManyToMany and @JoinTable.

Could you check if the issue described in https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HHH-7404 is also fixed? AFAICS, the main difference with the one of this issue is that they use a CascadeType.ALL. It might be fixed too.

If so, I think I would close these two and open a new one specific to your case as it seems to be different.

WDYT?