Hibernate3.6  final Version Features:

Ø  Hibernate Core.

Ø  Hibernate Envers(Easy Entity Relationship).

Ø  Hibernate Entity-managers.

Ø  Hibernate Annotations.

Ø  Hibernate-caches

ü  hibernate-c3p0

ü  hibernate-proxool

ü  hibernate-ehcache

ü  hibernate-infinispan

ü  hibernate-jbosscache

ü  hibernate-oscache

ü  hibernate-swarmcache

Ø   Dropping support for JDK 1.4

Ø  Merging of hibernate-jmx and hibernate-annotations modules into hibernate-core. For those of you using Maven, that means hibernate-core-3.6.0.Final.jar contains annotation and jmx support.

Ø  Improved Type support (HHH-5138 and related issues)

Ø  Change in DTD hosting (HHH-5485)

Ø  Slew of documentation changes, including introducing a new Getting Started Guide

Ø  Several improvements to annotations support for discriminators, column-level read/write expressions, and timestamp versions.

New Envers feature (ValidityAuditStrategy) as an alternative way to write history entries.