4.0.0-M4 Release

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Jakarta Persistence 4.0 Milestone 4

Specification draft: jakarta-persistence-spec-4.0-M4.pdf

Maven central: https://central.sonatype.com/artifact/jakarta.persistence/jakarta.persistence-api/4.0.0-M4

Changelog

Changes to API

• Added jakarta.annotation nullability annotations to APIs
• Added support for Criteria-based manipulation of static queries, to support Jakarta Data implementations
• Replaced proposed @NamedEntityGraph.AttributeNode and @NamedEntityGraph.Subgraph annotations with a simpler and more useful @Fetch annotation
• Reworked the semantics of EntityExistsException to allow greater usefulness and implementability
• Clarified semantics of AttributeNode addition and removal in EntityGraphs
• Removed CriteraBuilder.keys(), CriteraBuilder.values()
• Added before() and after() to TemporalExpression

Changes to the specification

Nothing significant.

Changes to TCK

Bugfixes and improved coverage of JPA 4.