Always consult JIRA as the authoritative (though extremely detailed) Road Map. This page presents higher-level goals planned for upcoming releases.
3.3
- Since 3.5 is in production, there will be no more 3.3 releases.
3.5
- 3.5 is in production and is therefore in maintenance mode, meaning only bug fixes and important improvements will be released.
- See JIRA for the most current 3.5 details
3.6
- See JIRA for the most current 3.6 details
- Goals
- Type improvements: HHH-5138, HHH-5182, HHH-5262
- Fix known limitation with "key-many-to-one" support: HHH-2277
- Drop JDK 1.4 support and begin to leverage 1.5 features where possible
- UUID support
- merge hibernate-jmx module into hibernate-core
- merge hibernate-annotations into hibernate-core module
- (???) merge hibernate-testing and hibernate-testsuite back into hibernate-core (may depend on move to gradle
- (???)
3.x
- Yet to be planned into specific releases
- Goals
- Fetch Profiles (phase 2) -- implement the remainder of the fetch profile strategies: select, subselect.
- Explicit support for different Loaders, making such operations as loading by natural-id a first-class API
- move to gradle for builds
Future Plans
- Goals
- Plan
- Hopefully the first and second make it into 3.x. I think the last 2 are just too disruptive API-wise to justify putting in a minor rev.