Hibernate ORM 7.1 was released and had some breaking changes in SPIs which required a new integration blaze-persistence-integration-hibernate-7.1 to be written. Since Hibernate ORM 7.0 is now out of support and the artifact blaze-persistence-integration-hibernate-7.0 had trouble with later versions, we dropped it in favor of the Hibernate ORM 7.1 integration.

Users are encouraged to update to Hibernate ORM 7.1 and the new integration of Blaze-Persistence 1.6.17 directly. Quarkus 3.24 and 3.25 users need to upgrade to Quarkus 3.26, which makes use of Hibernate ORM 7.1 and hence works with the new integration.

Spring Framework 7.0 and Spring Boot/Data 4.0 is around the corner and we created a new integration module blaze-persistence-integration-spring-data-4.0 to allow Blaze-Persistence users update early. Note that Spring Framework 7.0 upgrades to Hibernate ORM 7.1, so the new blaze-persistence-integration-hibernate-7.1 module is necessary.

Thanks to the sponsoring of Max Hovens from Tidal Control, lots of bug fixes were implemented in this release. Thank you for your continued support!

Take a look into the changelog for a full list of changes and improvements.

Enjoy the release and stay tuned for the next one!