I will take a look at the identified issues and PRs and try to help them move along so we can try to stay on the schedule.
James On 2026-10-03 15:04 UTC James Daugherty wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > We set a tentative deadline to call a vote for the 8.0.0 release on > Monday. To help prepare for that vote, I upgraded a large, internal > application to the latest 8 snapshot. I've found numerous issues that I > would consider blocking - data binding inheritance / uploads / composite > keys / proxy issues / and more. PRs are open for all of the issues found - > 8 of them remain. Mattias had an LLM do a review of Hibernate 5 vs 7 after > my PRs revealed these issues. He's also found several issues as a result > of that. > > How do we want to proceed with the 8.0.0 vote? We don't currently have > people reviewing PRs to meet our deadline of Monday. How do we want to > handle the 8.0.0 release? Do we want to try to get these reviewed? Merge > them and review as part of the vote? Should we delay the 8.0.0 release for > more bug fixes? > > If we merge the open PRs, my application's tests show no more issues & I > think we would be in a releasable state. This comment only applies to > Hibernate 5 though, as I think Hibernate 7 may have more issues from > Mattias' research. I suggest we mark Hibernate 7 as experimental to > signify it may undergo major changes during the 8.x lifecycle - this would > allow us to make breaking changes outside of a major release. What are > people's thoughts on our timeline & changing our policy for Hibernate 7 > during the 8.0.x releases? > > -James >
