Updating the Javassist dependency to 3.17.1 breaks some of our code as in some cases bridge methods are now proxied instead of non-bridge methods.
The result is that that lazy-initialisation is not triggered in some cases leading to {{NullPointerException}}s.
As far as I can tell the relevant Javassist issue is https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JASSIST-162 . I'm not sure if there anything that can be done about this on the Hibernate side.

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