Hibernation Version Features:

Ø  Hibernate Core.

Ø  Hibernate Envers(Easy Entity Relationship).

Ø  Hibernate Entity-managers.

Ø  Hibernate Annotations.

Ø  Hibernate Search engine (Apache Lucien Support).

Ø  JSR 317 (JPA2) support.

Ø  Integration of hibernate-annotations, hibernate-entitymanager and hibernate-envers into the core project. See http://in.relation.to/14172.lace for details

Ø  Added Infinispan as a standard second-level cache. See http://infinispan.blogspot.com/2009/10/infinispan-based-hibernate-cache.html for details

Ø  Improvements to the new second-level caching SPI introduced in 3.3 based on feedback from implementers including Ehcache, Inifinispan and JBoss Cache.

Ø  Far better read only / immutable support.

Ø  Support for JDBC 4 such that Hibernate can be used in JDK 1.6 JVMs and make use of JDBC4-compliant drivers.'

Ø  Support for column-level read/write fragments (HBM only for now)

Ø  Initial support for fetch profiles