[hibernate-dev] Today's release

[Steve Ebersole]

Oh... and I'd *like* to get the Karaf features file figured out.  Not
blocker, but a nice to have.

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 10:20 AM, Steve Ebersole <steve at hibernate.org>
wrote:

> I had originally planned on today's release being the first CR for 5.0.  I
> am re-thinking that now.  Here is why...
>
> 1) If we were to ever start offering a typed API, a major major release
> would be the time to do that.  However, we'd still have the "load() + proxy
> interfaces" issue to decide a course of action on.
> 2) I have just introduced that Transaction changes after the first Beta.
> It is probably prudent to have one more Beta to allow people time to try
> out those changes and ask for changes.
> 3) I would still like to complete deprecating the Settings contract.  The
> last piece there is the discussion I started earlier on the dev list wrt
> its usage in SPI contracts (L2 cache, etc).  I would likely not get that
> done today.
>
> So I wanted to suggest that today's release instead be Beta2, with CR1
> slated for 4 weeks from today.  Thoughts?
>