3.1beta6 (20-01-2006)
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** Bug
    * [EJB-93] - @PrePersist callback not called on cascade
    * [EJB-110] - misnamed method in PersistenceUnitInfo
    * [EJB-111] - close() throws IllegalStateException( "transaction in progress")

** New Feature
    * [EJB-50] - Entity callbacks should handle subclassing
    * [EJB-83] - PersistentUnitInfo and new persistence.xml schema as per the pfd
    * [EJB-85] - Support CUD operations out of transactions
    * [EJB-86] - EntityManager.getFlushMode()
    * [EJB-87] - EntityManager.lock( , LockModeType.READ)
    * [EJB-88] - EntityManager.clear()
    * [EJB-89] - Replace EntityNotFoundException to NoResultException for query.getSingleResult()
    * [EJB-91] - persistence.xml structure changes as per the PFD
    * [EJB-92] - Implements transactional-type
    * [EJB-104] - Flag for class file transformation
    * [EJB-108] - Support EJB3 overriding properties (provider, jta / non-jta datasource, transactionType) over persistence.xml


** Improvement
    * [EJB-100] - Multiple lifecycle per event
    * [EJB-102] - EJB3 no longer requires to rollback the ids


** Deprecation
    * [EJB-105] - Implicit positional parameters for EJBQL queries is no longer supported

3.1beta5 (13-12-2005)
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** Bug
    * [EJB-52] - PERSIST cascade loads unilitialized elements at flush time
    * [EJB-68] - hibernate.ejb.interceptor property in persistence.xml is ignored
    * [EJB-73] - Id is not set in @PostPersist
    * [EJB-76] - JarVisitor unqualify algorithm fails when the name ends with 'ar' and is less than 4 chars
    * [EJB-78] - default value for hibernate.transaction.flush_before_completion

** New Feature
    * [EJB-58] - Support @MyAnnotation annotated with an @EntityListener
    * [EJB-71] - Support custom event listeners


** Improvement
    * [EJB-35] - Support custom NamingStrategy as property.
    * [EJB-72] - Make setDataSource() more out of container friendly
    * [EJB-75] - Fall back to <property name="blah">blah</property> when the value attribute is empty
    * [EJB-79] - Package.getPackage() returns null on some classloaders


3.1beta4 (06-10-2005)
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 * EJB-67 Lazy access to the stream in JarVisitor leading to a non access when filters are empty (ie no filters)
 * EJB-65 handle eclipse bundleresource url protocol during metadata search
 * EJB-66 Support all url protocols that returns zip streams for jars like http
 * EJB-62 Error during stateful session bean passivation
 * EJB-61 implicit parameter ? no longer supported
 * EJB-63 Positional parameters should start from index 1 to say sort of consistent with the spec

3.1beta3 (14-09-2005)
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 * EJB-6 Support ?1, ?2 style positional parameters
 * EJB-60 Support byte code instrumentation via a ClassFileTransformer
 * EJB-55 Problems using a .par file with Tomcat
 * EJB-56 Support exploded jar files *not* ending with .xar
 * EJB-51 Support persistence.xml declaration and hibernate.cfg.xml
 * EJB-53 DELETE_ORPHAN not executed at flush time
 * EJB-52 Persist cascade loads uninitialized elements at flush time
 * EJB-43 Autodetection magic leads to duplicate imports
 * EJB-24 ByteArrayBlobType incompatible with Oracle
 * EJB-28 create an EMF through PersistenceInfo
 * EJB-44 Support Hibernate Interceptors in EJB3 imlementation as an extension
 * EJB-40 Entity callbacks should cast away access modifiers
 * EJB-48 Plug Validator framework into HEM
 * EJB-47 Validator and Jacc event listeners clashes

3.1beta2 (04-08-2005)
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 * Support package names in <class></class>
 * EJB-42 Autodetection magic ignores hibernate.cfg.xml
 * EJB-45 Allow to disable autodetection in .par through a property
 * EJB-41 Short-circuit dirty checking when no callback are actually called
 * EJB-38 Standalone EM should search for package-info files
 * EJB-31 Out-of-container should search for .hbm.xml files
 * EJB-29 Lifecycle callbacks and dirty checking clash
 * EJB-36 proxied instances raise an exception in em.contains()
 * EJB-28 support injected DataSource
 * EJB-34 EMF.isOpen() is wrong
 * EJB-27 Support transaction-less operations with getEntityManager()
 * EJB-23 No lifecycle interceptor used when getCurrentSession() is called
 * EJB-20 Sync Hibernate *state* and entity on lifecycle @Callbacks
 * EJB-21 NPE in TransactionImpl.isActive() when tx is not initialized (Shane Bryzak)
 * EJB-19 <jar-file></jar-file> analysed, but the resource path is mandatory and not only the jar name
 * EJB-18 get mapped classes from .par files both exploded and regular zip

3.1beta1 Preview (24-06-2005)
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Initial release

Missing features for spec compliance
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* XML deployment descriptor
* Support scalar results in native queries