[hibernate-dev] HHH-11147 - bytecode based "proxies"

[Steve Ebersole]

Over the last 3 weeks or so, we have put a lot of work into HHH-11147 which
essentially allows bytecode enhancement to behave like the more traditional
proxy feature (create a reference based solely on the entity id).

We are wrapping up development of that improvement, enhancement, change,
whatever-you-want-to-call-it...  One remaining question however is how to
make this change available in terms of releases.  It seems to big of a deal
to simply drop in a new bug-fix release.

Should we consider a 5.5 release?  Push it to 6?  Thoughts?