[hibernate-dev] Hibernate ORM 4.2.0.CR2 released

[Brett Meyer]

Hibernate ORM 4.2.0.CR2 was just released. The full changelog can be viewed here:
https://hibernate.onjira.com/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10031&version=12651

This is the first release with initial support for OSGi.  Please see https://hibernate.onjira.com/browse/HHH-7527 and its subtasks for more information.  Example client bundles can be found here: [HibernateOSGi=>https://github.com/brmeyer/HibernateOSGi]

In addition to numerous bug fixes and improvements, this CR was necessary due to a critical regression:
[HHH-8025=>https://hibernate.onjira.com/browse/HHH-8025]

As usual, thank you to the community for all the support and hard work!

JBoss Nexus: https://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/groups/public/org/hibernate
Maven Central: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/hibernate/hibernate-core (should update in a couple of days)
SourceForge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/hibernate/files/hibernate4

Downloads:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/hibernate/files/hibernate4/4.2.0.CR2/hibernate-release-4.2.0.CR2.zip/download
http://sourceforge.net/projects/hibernate/files/hibernate4/4.2.0.CR2/hibernate-release-4.2.0.CR2.tgz/download

Brett Meyer
Red Hat Software Engineer, Hibernate