Re: [hibernate-dev] Why Hibernate 4.2.x should receive more updates

2014-04-09 Thread Steve Ebersole
Yes, I agree it is a shame. BTW, did you see we just released yet another 4.2? ;) On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Marc Schipperheyn wrote: > Fair enough. It's a shame though. Like it or not, there are tons of people > using Spring and I'm guessing the vast majority will not be on 4.0 any time

Re: [hibernate-dev] Why Hibernate 4.2.x should receive more updates

2014-04-07 Thread Marc Schipperheyn
Fair enough. It's a shame though. Like it or not, there are tons of people using Spring and I'm guessing the vast majority will not be on 4.0 any time soon, even though they might want to. So, this will certainly impact the uptake of Hibernate latest version (including the amount of bug reports aga

Re: [hibernate-dev] Why Hibernate 4.2.x should receive more updates

2014-04-07 Thread Steve Ebersole
I simply do not consider Spring a valid reason to keep older Hibernate release families active. So to say its "not on the Spring team" and imply it is all Hibernate's problem is a bit misleading. Early in Spring/Hibernate integration they used to work with us to flesh out integration points. Of

[hibernate-dev] Why Hibernate 4.2.x should receive more updates

2014-04-05 Thread Marc Schipperheyn
Just wanted to outline some reasons for keeping the Hibernate 4.2.x release train alive. I would love to update today to 4.3.x. But I'm on Spring 3.x and the Hibernate 4.3.x line only made it into Spring 4.x. So everybody using Spring 3.x will be stuck on 4.2.x. I would say that's prob just about