JavaHibernate 7.4 New Features

Hibernate 7.4 introduced several improvements that simplify loading a page of data along with their associated child collection, historical data access, and audit logging.

The article will focus on the following features:

Limits and Fetch Joins: How Hibernate 7.4 improves working with paginated queries that include fetched associations.

History and Audit Tables: How the new capabilities support querying entity state across time and working with historical data.