Apache Cayenne team is glad to announce a long awaited final (general availability) release of Cayenne 4.0. It is a really important milestone for the entire Cayenne community. Here are some facts about this long journey:
* Development started: May 29, 2012 (back then it was called Cayenne 3.2) * Intermediate development releases: 8 * Changes and new features: 218 * Issues fixed: 179 * Commits made: 2421 * Authors: 29 Many people have already been using various milestones, betas and RCs of 4.0, so the GA release is a simple and straightforward upgrade for them. For those who were waiting for the official "final" version before upgrading, this day is now. Among those ~ 400 tasks there are a lot of cool features making everyday life of a Java developer easier: * fluent query API, simple parameter bindings, aggregating and scalar queries; * better runtime assembly and extension mechanism; * fresh CayenneModeler; * working "Database-First" ORM flow; * JCache integration; * database cryptography extensions; * Gradle ORM workflow plugins and much more In the coming weeks expect blog posts that explain what this all means. Follow us on Twitter @ApacheCayenne to not miss the announcements, and feel free to start a conversation on the user@ mailing list. Thanks to everyone who made 4.0 possible! Cayenne can be downloaded from https://cayenne.apache.org/download/ . Thanks, Andrus Adamchik
