Dated: March 27, 2026 — hibernate-orm 6.6.8.Final Hibernate ORM's latest 6.6 maintenance release closes out a pagination bug that quietly doubled query.
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If you build a REST API that returns a list of resources without pagination, you are building a ticking time bomb.
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Well, I have to admit, that pull request last Tuesday had me seriously considering a swim in the ocean. It wasn't the logic—the business logic was.
I admit it. I was jealous of the Python ecosystem for a solid two years. While I was busy debugging generic type erasure in my enterprise Java apps, the.
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