Issues

Replacing eager initialization of LockingStrategy within AbstractEntityPersister

Upgrade to JBoss Loging 3.4.1.Final

Upgrade to Agroal 1.9

Upgrade to Byte Buddy 1.10.17

Update to Hibernate Validator 6.1.6.Final

Upgrade to Hibernate Commons Annotations 5.1.2.Final

Evolve HCANNHelper to maintain compatibility with 5.1.0 while benefitting from 5.1.1 features

Clear JPAMetadataProvider and ReflectionManager caches after SessionFactory initialization

Avoid defensive copy for keywords set in NormalizingIdentifierHelperImpl

Upgrade to Hibernate Commons Annotations 5.1.1.Final

Detection of JDBC support for RefCursors was returning false even for Oracle JDBC drivers supporting it

Update Oracle JDBC driver configuration to test with version 19.8.0.0

Review tuning of JVM parameters for the build

StandardRefCursorSupport can rely on having JDK8 as baseline today

No longer use the AssertionFailure and StringHelper implementations from HCANN

Broken link to Infinispan User Guide in Hibernate 5.3 User Guide

Confusing method names unableToObjectConnectionMetadata and unableToObjectConnectionToQueryMetadata

Include stacktrace at WARN level in case of an error occurs when getting the connection metadata

Dead links in user guide

HHH-13980 is not merged into 5.4

MultiLineImport fails when script contains blank spaces or tabs at the end of the last sql statement

improve ActionQueue in minor way to improve its maintainability

Automatic release scripts, wrong Jira release url

Jakarta EE 8 Persistence test failure for com.sun.ts.tests.jpa.core.criteriaapi.CriteriaBuilder.Client.sizeCollectionTest(Client.java:7436)

Insert statements are not ordered with entities that use inheritance and reference a subclass

Add parsing of persistence.xml/orm.xml documents in the EE 9 namespace

Upgrade the PostgreSQL JDBC driver used for testing to v. 42.2.16

We should try to reduce the static field usage only when this is absolutely necessary