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The fifth iteration of OpenJPA 2.0 is complete! Content of this iteration is based upon the 03/13/2009 draft of the JPA 2.0 specification. This iteration contains these new features:

• Updated spec APIs and schemas based upon most current specification draft. New, unimplemented methods will throw an UnsupportedOperationException.

• Support new JPA LockModeType in find, lock and refresh methods in the EntityManager interface....

OpenJPA 1.2.1 is now available from http://openjpa.apache.org/downloads.html and from the ibiblio maven repository. Version 1.2.1 is a bugfix release which includes 30 notatble bug fixes and 10 improvements.

The complete list of issues resolved can be found in the release notes at http://openjpa.apache.org/builds/1.2.0/apache-openjpa-1.2.0/RELEASE-NOTES.html.

Thanks again to everyone who contributed to making this release a success!

The third iteration of OpenJPA 2.0 is complete! Content is based on the 10/31/2008 draft of the JPA 2.0 specification. In addition to several bug fixes, this iteration contains these new features:

• Support for collection-valued parameters in JPQL using the IN expression. A collection-valued parameter (List, Set, etc.) may now be used in conjunction with the IN expression within the where clause of a JPQL statement.

• JPA specification level is available as an OpenJPA property....

The second iteration of OpenJPA 2.0 is complete! Iteration 2 content is based on the 10/31/2008 draft of the JPA 2.0 specification. Here is a summary of the new features provided in this iteration:

• Support for the JPA 2.0 level 2 cache interface. Operations on the OpenJPA data cache are now available from the entity manager factory through a standard JPA interface.
• Support for use of order column through a JPA annotations or orm mapping file elements....

The first iteration of OpenJPA 2.0 is complete! Iteration 1 content is based on the 10/31/2008 draft of the JPA 2.0 specification. Here is a summary of the new features provided in iteration 1:

• The current level of JPA 2.0 API. You can compile against and use implemented methods of the new API. Unimplemented methods will throw an UnsupportedOperationException.
• Validation using the current JPA 2.0 orm and persistence schemas. Version 2....

Latest nightly build supports a preview of new Criteria API defined in current JPA 2.0 public draft version.
The usage of this new API is documented here.

Links to "nightly" (latest) builds are back on the Documentation and Downloads pages. These builds will be updated nightly if there have been changes made to trunk in SVN.

-mike

OpenJPA 1.2.0 is now available at http://openjpa.apache.org/downloads.html and via the ibiblio maven repository. Version 1.2.0 includes a number of new features and bugfixes, including:

• Support for MEMBER OF queries
• Improved handling of non transactional work
• Updated UUID generation to use Java 5
• The statement batching implementation is now more extensible

Read the release notes for more details.

OpenJPA 1.0.3 released!

OpenJPA 1.0.3, a maintenance release on the 1.0 stream, is now available on the downloads page. It is recommended for all OpenJPA 1.0.x users.

Read the release notes for more details.

OpenJPA 1.1.0 is now available at http://openjpa.apache.org/downloads.html and via Maven. Version 1.1.0 includes a number of new features and bugfixes, including:

• Improvements in SQL generation for DB2, Oracle and MySQL
• Support for memory-friendly streaming of BLOB and CLOB data
• Support for interface-only domain models
• Collections and Maps can now contain primitives, enums and @Embeddables,...

OpenJPA 1.0.2, a maintenance release on the 1.0 stream, is now available. It is recommended for all OpenJPA 1.0.0 and 1.0.1 users.

Read the release notes for more details, and get your copy from a nearby mirror.

We are please to announce OpenJPA 1.0.1, a maintenance revision of the successful OpenJPA 1.0.0 release, is available for public consumption.

The release note, binaries, sources and documentation of this release can be obtained from Downloads and Documentation.

We are pleased to announce the release of OpenJPA 1.0.0, the first official release since OpenJPA graduated from Apache incubation into a top-level project! Please see the release notes for a list of changes in this release. The release can be obtained from the downloads page, and the documentation page has links to the complete online documentation.

As of svn 560016 / OPENJPA-293, you no longer need to run the OpenJPA enhancer in order to use OpenJPA.