With the completion of iteration 8, OpenJPA includes several additional JPA 2.0 features and bug fixes. Here is a summary of the new features provided by OpenJPA:

• Sub-project for JSR-303 (Bean Validation) testing with configurable bean validation providers.
• Automatic detection of bean validation providers.
• Support for bean validation groups, configurable through standard persistence.xml properties.
• Bug fixes for attribute-overrides and embeddable processing.
• Performance enhancements to class reflection utility. Provides 17% performance gain in some benchmarks.