[hibernate-dev] Why Hibernate 4.2.x should receive more updates

[Steve Ebersole]

Yes, I agree it is a shame.

BTW, did you see we just released yet another 4.2? ;)


On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Marc Schipperheyn <m.schipperheyn at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Fair enough. It's a shame though. Like it or not, there are tons of people
> using Spring and I'm guessing the vast majority will not be on 4.0 any time
> soon, even though they might want to. So, this will certainly impact the
> uptake of Hibernate latest version (including the amount of bug reports
> against the newer version you will receive which will indirectly impact
> quality etc). I was suggesting that it might make "business sense" to keep
> the support but I totally understand the need to optimize the use of
> resources.
>