hibernate-orm/release-announcement.adoc

= Hibernate 6.6.0.CR1
Steve Ebersole
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Hibernate 6.6 includes a complete implementation of the current Jakarta Data 1.0 Release Candidate. As [discussed here](https://in.relation.to/2024/04/18/jakarta-data-1/), our implementation:

- is based on compile-time code generation via an annotation processor, enabling unprecedented compile-time type safety, and
- is backed by Hibernate's `StatelessSession`, which has been enhanced especially to meet the needs of Jakarta Data.

This implementation already passes the Jakarta Data TCK, and we have a request for certification pending.

To make use of _Hibernate Data Repositories_, you'll need to depend on:

- our annotation processor, `hibernate-jpamodelgen`, and
- the Jakarta Data API, `jakarta.data-api.

For example, in Gradle:

[source,groovy]
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implementation 'jakarta.data:jakarta.data-api:1.0.0-RC1'
implementation 'org.hibernate.orm:hibernate-core:6.6.0.Alpha1'

annotationProcessor 'org.hibernate.orm:hibernate-jpamodelgen:6.6.0.Alpha1'
----

For more information, please see the brand-new documentation for [Hibernate Data Repositories](https://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/orm/6.6/repositories/html_single/Hibernate_Data_Repositories.html).