The release has been delayed until Wednesday, so that gives us some time to get this fixed on the appropriate branches. Is it enough time?

I was under the impression that when an issue was Closed, that no more work would be commited for that issue. If any more work is required (including in a different branch), then it would be done in using a new Jira issue. I thought that was what we had agreed on. If not, this should be brought up on hibernate-dev mailing list.

I don't see a problem with using a new Jira issue if something ends up getting backported later to an earlier branch. As long as the Jira issues are linked, it's not difficult to follow.