During November 2025, Bastien Jansen enhanced the hibernate/hibernate-orm repository by implementing a custom <generated> tag within orm.xml, enabling developers to define generation strategies for entity attributes directly in XML configuration. This addition streamlined the automation of generated values, reducing manual setup and improving data integrity across mapped entities. Bastien’s approach leveraged Java for ORM development and JUnit Testing to ensure correctness, focusing on repository maintainability and mapping accuracy. While no bugs were fixed during this period, the work demonstrated depth in XML configuration and ORM patterns, laying groundwork for expanded generation strategy support in future development cycles.