With the completion of iteration 11, OpenJPA includes several additional JPA 2.0 features and bug fixes. Here is a summary of the new features provided by OpenJPA:

• OpenJPA is based upon Proposed Final Draft 2 of JSR-317.
• Support for cascading detach using cascade-detach as specified in the orm.xml.
• Assertion that relationships in MappedSuperclass are unidirectional.
• OpenJPA was updated to the CR5 level of the bean validation specification.
• A new code sample which showcases the use of embeddables.
• Corrected an XML encoding issue which occurred when using XML data with SQL Server.
• Many documentation updates.
• Improved test coverage for many database platforms. The current test matrix is available here.