[Hibernate-devel] 1.1 beta 6 announcement

[Gavin_King/Cirrus%<CI...@ci...>]

I just released version 1.1 beta 6 - a functionally complete 1.1. Unless
problems are found with this version, I don't intend to make any code
changes before 1.1 rc1 (the next release).

I intend just a few more documentation changes between now and then.

New in 1.1 beta 6:

* completely reworked fetching code
* collections now individually update, insert and delete only the rows that
changed
* added order-by attribute to <map> and <set> to specify a table column as
defining the iteration order (JDK1.4 only)
* further usage of JDBC2 batch updates
* CodeGenerator will now generate components and arrays
* JMX functionality should work for *both* of classpath setups that John
Urberg tried out in JBoss

Also please note: I renamed the property hibernate.use_jdbc2 to
hibernate.use_jdbc_batch

The changelog doesn't quite do justice to the significance of this release.
Some really central code in the persistence engine has been heavily
reworked and refactored. The codebase is now in a healthier state than ever
before.

Version 1.2 will be all about normalized table mappings - as requested by
many people :) Then I'll have sort of walked off the end of my TODO
list.....