Hibernate ORM 7.3 Final was released a few weeks ago and today 7.3.1 will be released.



Details about the release, as well as links to important resources, can be found at https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-orm/releases/tag/7.3.0.



Some of the new features include -

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Hibernate ORM 7.3 Final has been released, with 7.3.1 following shortly after. Key new features include a KeyType enum enabling find() and findMultiple() to load entities by natural id, a new @NaturalIdClass annotation for modeling non-aggregated composite natural ids (similar to @IdClass for identifiers), and support for Jackson 3 JSON and XML FormatMapper implementations.

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