The Apache OpenJPA community is proud to release OpenJPA 2.0.0 Beta. This distribution is based on the final JSR 317 Java Persistence API, Version 2.0 specification and passes the JPA 2.0 TCK. This release includes many new features, enhancements and fixes; giving developers access to a JPA 2.0 compliant implementation, while maintaining backwards compatibility for existing JPA 1.0 applications. Some of the new JPA 2.0 enhancements worth noting, include:

• Access Types, Embeddables, Enhanced Map Collections, Derived Identities, Typed and type-safe Query and Query Results APIs, enhanced Locking, JPQL updates, L2 Cache, Bean Validation, Metamodel and Criteria APIs for programmatic construction of type-safe queries, new properties and query hints, and many more....

Please visit the OpenJPA 2.0.0 Beta page to download the release and obtain more details on the new JPA 2.0 features or visit the JPA 2.0 Roadmap page for the latest status on the upcoming 2.0.0 release.

OpenJPA 1.2.2 is now available from http://openjpa.apache.org/downloads.html and from the central maven repository. Version 1.2.2 is a bugfix release which includes 24 notatble bug fixes and 9 improvements.

The complete list of issues resolved can be found in the release notes at http://openjpa.apache.org/builds/1.2.2/apache-openjpa-1.2.2/RELEASE-NOTES.html.

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

EHCache recently released version 0.2 of their L2 cache plugin for OpenJPA.  This version brings OpenJPA more into line with the Hibernate plugin and more fully implements the OpenJPA API.  More information can be found on their News web site and their openjpa-module site.

With the completion of iteration 12, OpenJPA includes several additional JPA 2.0 features
and bug fixes. Here is a summary of the new features provided by OpenJPA:

• Support for extended lock scope via the javax.persistence.lock.scope property.
• Support for the GA version of the JSR-303 Bean Validation API.
• Many documentation updates, notably for Criteria API and Metamodel tooling.
• Continued improvement of test coverage for additional database platforms. The current test matrix is available here.

Milestone 3 of OpenJPA 2.0.0 is now available for download. This release is based on the 20090922 Proposed Final Draft 2 of the JSR-317 JPA 2.0 specification. Included are many enhancements, fixes, and new functionality; giving developers early access to many key features of JPA 2.0. Visit the OpenJPA 2.0.0 Milestone 3 page for additional details.

Note: This is an implementation of an early-draft specification developed under the Java Community Process (JCP). The code is untested and presumed not to be a compatible implementation of the JSR-317 Java Persistence API, Version 2.0 specification. We encourage you to migrate to an implementation of the JSR-317 Java Persistence API, Version 2.0 specification that has been tested and verified to be compatible as soon as such an implementation is available, and we encourage you to retain this notice in any implementation of JSR-317 Java Persistence API, Version 2.0 specification that you distribute.