intermediateHibernate 6.x & Spring Boot 3.x — What's New, What Changed

Did the fundamental concepts of Hibernate (persistence context, dirty checking, entity lifecycle) change between version 5 and 6?

No — the underlying model this entire course covers is unchanged in spirit. What changed are specific APIs (the namespace), the internal query translation engine (a new SQL AST-based approach generating more efficient SQL for many query shapes), and newly-native features like JSON column mapping that previously needed third-party libraries.

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