The highlights for 3.6 include:
- 不再支持JDK 1.4,请选用jdk更高版本。
- 将hibernate-jmx 和hibernate-annotations 并入hibernate-core.即hibernate-core-3.6.0.Final.jar 已包含了annotation 和jmx 支持.
- Improved Type support (HHH-5138 and related issues)
- Change in DTD hosting (HHH-5485 )
- Slew of documentation changes, including introducing a new Getting Started Guide
- Several improvements to annotations support for discriminators, column-level read/write expressions, and timestamp versions.
- New Envers feature (ValidityAuditStrategy) as an alternative way to write history entries. See Adam's blog entries here and here for more information.