

February 2026 (OpenLiberty/open-liberty) delivered targeted data-access and query improvements with clear business value and improved developer experience. Key outcomes include Hibernate integration enhancements with composite-key query handling, Jakarta Data support for constructing records from multiple selections, advanced sorting and improved cursor pagination UX, upsert lifecycle events and pagination data structures, and targeted code quality/documentation improvements. Notable bug work includes addressing the composite-key handling issue (bug #29073) and enabling a broader test suite around Hibernate-driven paths. Overall impact: stronger alignment with Jakarta Persistence specs, more predictable and performant query results, richer pagination data structures, and clearer guidance for developers interacting with complex sort and cursor scenarios.
February 2026 (OpenLiberty/open-liberty) delivered targeted data-access and query improvements with clear business value and improved developer experience. Key outcomes include Hibernate integration enhancements with composite-key query handling, Jakarta Data support for constructing records from multiple selections, advanced sorting and improved cursor pagination UX, upsert lifecycle events and pagination data structures, and targeted code quality/documentation improvements. Notable bug work includes addressing the composite-key handling issue (bug #29073) and enabling a broader test suite around Hibernate-driven paths. Overall impact: stronger alignment with Jakarta Persistence specs, more predictable and performant query results, richer pagination data structures, and clearer guidance for developers interacting with complex sort and cursor scenarios.
January 2026 performance summary for OpenLiberty/open-liberty. Focused on stabilizing cross-database behavior, expanding test coverage, and strengthening the persistence layer to deliver reliable data access across PostgreSQL and SQL Server. Key outcomes include enabling TCK compatibility after a targeted workaround, expanding test coverage for totals, literals, and annotations, and implementing compatibility and maintenance improvements that reduce risk and accelerate future work. Overall, the work improved cross-database reliability, testing confidence, and maintainability of the persistence stack, with early visibility into issues and clearer ownership of data-related features.
January 2026 performance summary for OpenLiberty/open-liberty. Focused on stabilizing cross-database behavior, expanding test coverage, and strengthening the persistence layer to deliver reliable data access across PostgreSQL and SQL Server. Key outcomes include enabling TCK compatibility after a targeted workaround, expanding test coverage for totals, literals, and annotations, and implementing compatibility and maintenance improvements that reduce risk and accelerate future work. Overall, the work improved cross-database reliability, testing confidence, and maintainability of the persistence stack, with early visibility into issues and clearer ownership of data-related features.
December 2025 (OpenLiberty/open-liberty): Delivered a robust ads domain model, hardened persistence semantics, and a strengthened test framework. Focused on delivering business-ready features, improving data integrity across providers, and increasing test reliability to accelerate safe deployments.
December 2025 (OpenLiberty/open-liberty): Delivered a robust ads domain model, hardened persistence semantics, and a strengthened test framework. Focused on delivering business-ready features, improving data integrity across providers, and increasing test reliability to accelerate safe deployments.
Month: 2025-11 — OpenLiberty/open-liberty: Delivered data access and stability improvements that drive performance, data integrity, and developer productivity. Implemented an opt-in Eager Fetching option to reduce query counts via EntityManagerBuilder, improving data retrieval efficiency. Improved Hibernate/JPA detachment/state management with comprehensive tests validating detached state behavior and merge semantics in stateless repositories. Refined query generation to ensure correct SELECT placement and API consistency, supported by targeted tests. Added a Hibernate-specific Business Queries Repository to broaden data retrieval capabilities. Fixed Product Price Update Versioning to ensure version increments on updates, removing prior workarounds. These changes collectively enhance runtime efficiency, data correctness, and maintainability, delivering clear business value through faster reads, reliable persistence semantics, and stronger test coverage.
Month: 2025-11 — OpenLiberty/open-liberty: Delivered data access and stability improvements that drive performance, data integrity, and developer productivity. Implemented an opt-in Eager Fetching option to reduce query counts via EntityManagerBuilder, improving data retrieval efficiency. Improved Hibernate/JPA detachment/state management with comprehensive tests validating detached state behavior and merge semantics in stateless repositories. Refined query generation to ensure correct SELECT placement and API consistency, supported by targeted tests. Added a Hibernate-specific Business Queries Repository to broaden data retrieval capabilities. Fixed Product Price Update Versioning to ensure version increments on updates, removing prior workarounds. These changes collectively enhance runtime efficiency, data correctness, and maintainability, delivering clear business value through faster reads, reliable persistence semantics, and stronger test coverage.
October 2025 (2025-10) monthly summary for OpenLiberty/open-liberty focusing on delivering business value through robust pagination, safer data access, and test stability. The team advanced core data handling, reduced exposure of internal components, and implemented safeguards around cursor-based pagination to ensure correctness and reliability in complex queries. Substantial refactoring and testing groundwork were laid to enable maintainable growth and faster iteration on data-centric features.
October 2025 (2025-10) monthly summary for OpenLiberty/open-liberty focusing on delivering business value through robust pagination, safer data access, and test stability. The team advanced core data handling, reduced exposure of internal components, and implemented safeguards around cursor-based pagination to ensure correctness and reliability in complex queries. Substantial refactoring and testing groundwork were laid to enable maintainable growth and faster iteration on data-centric features.
September 2025 focused on delivering a strong data model foundation, expanding query capabilities, stabilizing test infrastructure, and enabling modular, event‑driven features. Key work spanned data modeling, static metamodel, enhanced query construction, and targeted configuration fixes that improve safety and reliability in diverse Java environments. Business value was realized through safer configuration handling, more expressive queries, and a robust test suite enabling faster, more confident releases.
September 2025 focused on delivering a strong data model foundation, expanding query capabilities, stabilizing test infrastructure, and enabling modular, event‑driven features. Key work spanned data modeling, static metamodel, enhanced query construction, and targeted configuration fixes that improve safety and reliability in diverse Java environments. Business value was realized through safer configuration handling, more expressive queries, and a robust test suite enabling faster, more confident releases.
OpenLiberty/open-liberty monthly delivery overview for 2025-08: strengthened data access reliability with DataSource wiring and EJB integration, advanced repository concurrency features, expanded test coverage and infrastructure, and platform readiness enhancements for beta releases. Focused on business value through robust error handling, scalable concurrency, and maintainable codebase.
OpenLiberty/open-liberty monthly delivery overview for 2025-08: strengthened data access reliability with DataSource wiring and EJB integration, advanced repository concurrency features, expanded test coverage and infrastructure, and platform readiness enhancements for beta releases. Focused on business value through robust error handling, scalable concurrency, and maintainable codebase.
July 2025 monthly summary focused on stabilizing data access and improving test coverage for OpenLiberty. Key fixes targeted correctness in JPA-like behavior, while maintenance efforts modernized dependencies and tests to align with latest APIs. Key deliverables and fixes: - Fixed duplicate processing when multiple EJBs are in a module, preventing redundant work and avoiding data inconsistencies (commit 36c6282a5124e2d716dd033b9a07f23a448be71c). - Corrected MEMBER OF behavior on ElementCollection of Embeddable, restoring expected query semantics (commit 2b72161527f0c060b2ec6efb52442ebb5e52b9b5). - Removed experimental Or annotation and updated tests to reflect Jakarta data changes, improving test reliability (commits 4d9deb3bcf475a49f83ad5a73fa182cf9294997b; 0b6221a38bb1cfd5da87172124c859f907842385). - Enhanced test coverage and data paths: updated test application data path under DataTestApp, added persistence-3.2 as a tested feature, and refreshed test buckets (commits a80f5ed92f45c47d2b92590b82a680a75c50e407; 600220ff88e1bdf7f9a3cba7260738a42fcbeb50; a3a36d202a3ac9c5e0378db8dd16035813b7e918). - Dependency and API modernization: refreshed to latest versions for constraint package, repository interfaces, and restrict package to align with latest APIs and fixes (commits 4104381323b4cbda5a6201aafc1d5db0902b2390; 0047ddc1678d81f3c16bf15693f2e645f42d4f43; bbced778c88400f5414ce1e5298e8bd408a2784b). Overall impact: - Improved correctness and stability of core data access paths, reduced risk of data duplication and misresolution, and strengthened test reliability with updated data structures and APIs. - Business value realized through fewer defects in persistence layers, clearer guidance on EclipseLink behavior, and a smoother upgrade path to latest Jakarta EE / EclipseLink features. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Java/JPA-like data access, EJB/module interactions, EclipseLink query handling, and Jakarta Data alignments. - Test data management, test matrix expansion, and test automation maintenance. - Dependency management and multi-package refresh across page, metamodel, literals, constraint, and repository interfaces.
July 2025 monthly summary focused on stabilizing data access and improving test coverage for OpenLiberty. Key fixes targeted correctness in JPA-like behavior, while maintenance efforts modernized dependencies and tests to align with latest APIs. Key deliverables and fixes: - Fixed duplicate processing when multiple EJBs are in a module, preventing redundant work and avoiding data inconsistencies (commit 36c6282a5124e2d716dd033b9a07f23a448be71c). - Corrected MEMBER OF behavior on ElementCollection of Embeddable, restoring expected query semantics (commit 2b72161527f0c060b2ec6efb52442ebb5e52b9b5). - Removed experimental Or annotation and updated tests to reflect Jakarta data changes, improving test reliability (commits 4d9deb3bcf475a49f83ad5a73fa182cf9294997b; 0b6221a38bb1cfd5da87172124c859f907842385). - Enhanced test coverage and data paths: updated test application data path under DataTestApp, added persistence-3.2 as a tested feature, and refreshed test buckets (commits a80f5ed92f45c47d2b92590b82a680a75c50e407; 600220ff88e1bdf7f9a3cba7260738a42fcbeb50; a3a36d202a3ac9c5e0378db8dd16035813b7e918). - Dependency and API modernization: refreshed to latest versions for constraint package, repository interfaces, and restrict package to align with latest APIs and fixes (commits 4104381323b4cbda5a6201aafc1d5db0902b2390; 0047ddc1678d81f3c16bf15693f2e645f42d4f43; bbced778c88400f5414ce1e5298e8bd408a2784b). Overall impact: - Improved correctness and stability of core data access paths, reduced risk of data duplication and misresolution, and strengthened test reliability with updated data structures and APIs. - Business value realized through fewer defects in persistence layers, clearer guidance on EclipseLink behavior, and a smoother upgrade path to latest Jakarta EE / EclipseLink features. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Java/JPA-like data access, EJB/module interactions, EclipseLink query handling, and Jakarta Data alignments. - Test data management, test matrix expansion, and test automation maintenance. - Dependency management and multi-package refresh across page, metamodel, literals, constraint, and repository interfaces.
June 2025 — The OpenLiberty/open-liberty project delivered focused feature work, strengthened test coverage, and notable stability improvements across persistence, SQL, and lifecycle concerns. Key features include expanded test coverage for issues #30789 and #24926 with progress on #29073; new entity attribute types CharSequence, MonthDay, YearMonth; EXTRACT support in SELECT with corresponding tests; and RepositoryProducer exposure with stateful/stateless detection. In addition, updates from code and message reviews were integrated to improve CDI persistence integration and overall code quality. Major bug fixes addressed intermittent RTC 304918 reproduction, thread-safe access to ConnectionEventListeners, stop retrying when server or application is stopping, ensuring Order updates aren’t forgotten, and several persistence/parameter handling improvements. Impact: higher test confidence, more robust data handling and SQL capabilities, improved lifecycle and persistence semantics, translating to reduced defect risk and faster release cycles. Technologies demonstrated: Java, CDI, persistence utilities, concurrency controls, SQL feature work, and test automation.
June 2025 — The OpenLiberty/open-liberty project delivered focused feature work, strengthened test coverage, and notable stability improvements across persistence, SQL, and lifecycle concerns. Key features include expanded test coverage for issues #30789 and #24926 with progress on #29073; new entity attribute types CharSequence, MonthDay, YearMonth; EXTRACT support in SELECT with corresponding tests; and RepositoryProducer exposure with stateful/stateless detection. In addition, updates from code and message reviews were integrated to improve CDI persistence integration and overall code quality. Major bug fixes addressed intermittent RTC 304918 reproduction, thread-safe access to ConnectionEventListeners, stop retrying when server or application is stopping, ensuring Order updates aren’t forgotten, and several persistence/parameter handling improvements. Impact: higher test confidence, more robust data handling and SQL capabilities, improved lifecycle and persistence semantics, translating to reduced defect risk and faster release cycles. Technologies demonstrated: Java, CDI, persistence utilities, concurrency controls, SQL feature work, and test automation.
OpenLiberty/open-liberty – May 2025 monthly summary: Delivered key features and stability improvements across startup lifecycles (Servlet, REST, EJB), enhanced date-time handling, and broader packaging compatibility. Business value includes improved data access at startup, expanded feature support, and more robust test coverage, contributing to faster delivery, reduced risk, and easier maintenance.
OpenLiberty/open-liberty – May 2025 monthly summary: Delivered key features and stability improvements across startup lifecycles (Servlet, REST, EJB), enhanced date-time handling, and broader packaging compatibility. Business value includes improved data access at startup, expanded feature support, and more robust test coverage, contributing to faster delivery, reduced risk, and easier maintenance.
April 2025 monthly summary for OpenLiberty/open-liberty. Focused on delivering business value through reliability upgrades, expanded data capability, and developer experience improvements. Key outcomes include: - Key features delivered: - API cleanup removing experimental keywords from API surface to simplify usage and reduce confusion. - Added database and repository support, enabling new data persistence capabilities. - Temporal types DayOfWeek and MonthDay added to the model layer for better time-based data modeling. - CDI persistence updates to improve development-time persistence configuration. - Major bugs fixed: - Timeout handling improvements for EntityManagerBuilder initialization with proper TimeoutException chaining and improved error messaging. - Validation and misuse of Jakarta Persistence annotations to detect invalid usage and enforce restrictions, including disallowing combination of java:global with qualifiers. - Repository methods now raise DataException or subtypes rather than CompletionException. - Tests for path and folder configuration including folder names in error reporting; fix for translation message when keyword incompatible with collection attributes. - Overall impact and accomplishments: - Improved reliability and developer experience, reduced MTTR due to clearer errors, and expanded data-layer capabilities enabling new business scenarios. Strengthened API surface reduces confusion and supports cleaner migration path. - Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Java, Jakarta Persistence, CDI, repository/data access patterns, error handling and exception design, test-driven development, documentation (Javadoc).
April 2025 monthly summary for OpenLiberty/open-liberty. Focused on delivering business value through reliability upgrades, expanded data capability, and developer experience improvements. Key outcomes include: - Key features delivered: - API cleanup removing experimental keywords from API surface to simplify usage and reduce confusion. - Added database and repository support, enabling new data persistence capabilities. - Temporal types DayOfWeek and MonthDay added to the model layer for better time-based data modeling. - CDI persistence updates to improve development-time persistence configuration. - Major bugs fixed: - Timeout handling improvements for EntityManagerBuilder initialization with proper TimeoutException chaining and improved error messaging. - Validation and misuse of Jakarta Persistence annotations to detect invalid usage and enforce restrictions, including disallowing combination of java:global with qualifiers. - Repository methods now raise DataException or subtypes rather than CompletionException. - Tests for path and folder configuration including folder names in error reporting; fix for translation message when keyword incompatible with collection attributes. - Overall impact and accomplishments: - Improved reliability and developer experience, reduced MTTR due to clearer errors, and expanded data-layer capabilities enabling new business scenarios. Strengthened API surface reduces confusion and supports cleaner migration path. - Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Java, Jakarta Persistence, CDI, repository/data access patterns, error handling and exception design, test-driven development, documentation (Javadoc).
March 2025 monthly summary for OpenLiberty/open-liberty focusing on feature delivery, bug resolution, and measurable business impact. Highlights include standardizing data-model naming with record components, advancing Jakarta Data integration and spec-detection, expanding Convert support across key attribute types, enabling ServletContextListener scenarios, and strengthening test infrastructure and concurrency capabilities. The work improves developer productivity, reliability of data mapping, and readiness for今 future spec versions.
March 2025 monthly summary for OpenLiberty/open-liberty focusing on feature delivery, bug resolution, and measurable business impact. Highlights include standardizing data-model naming with record components, advancing Jakarta Data integration and spec-detection, expanding Convert support across key attribute types, enabling ServletContextListener scenarios, and strengthening test infrastructure and concurrency capabilities. The work improves developer productivity, reliability of data mapping, and readiness for今 future spec versions.
February 2025 monthly summary for OpenLiberty/open-liberty focused on delivering enhancements to persistence introspection, expanding asynchronous capabilities, CDI extension support, and strengthening test coverage and build reliability. Emphasized business value through clearer introspection diagnostics, robust async processing, and more spec-aligned behavior across platforms, reducing risk for enterprise deployments.
February 2025 monthly summary for OpenLiberty/open-liberty focused on delivering enhancements to persistence introspection, expanding asynchronous capabilities, CDI extension support, and strengthening test coverage and build reliability. Emphasized business value through clearer introspection diagnostics, robust async processing, and more spec-aligned behavior across platforms, reducing risk for enterprise deployments.
January 2025 monthly performance summary for OpenLiberty/open-liberty. Delivered a key feature for entity attribute subsets via records with precedence, stabilized NLS handling and terminology alignment with the spec, and advanced Jakarta Data introspector support with tests. Implemented startup-time resource optimization, added PostConstruct scenario reproduction, and reinforced code hygiene. Resolved high-impact bugs affecting runtime correctness, error messaging, and data handling, improving reliability and developer experience.
January 2025 monthly performance summary for OpenLiberty/open-liberty. Delivered a key feature for entity attribute subsets via records with precedence, stabilized NLS handling and terminology alignment with the spec, and advanced Jakarta Data introspector support with tests. Implemented startup-time resource optimization, added PostConstruct scenario reproduction, and reinforced code hygiene. Resolved high-impact bugs affecting runtime correctness, error messaging, and data handling, improving reliability and developer experience.
December 2024 – OpenLiberty/open-liberty: Substantial progress on query stability, correctness, and Jakarta Query readiness. Delivered major feature work and targeted bug fixes across find/delete/OrderBy/paging, improved cursor support, and strengthened test infrastructure, driving more reliable data access and easier maintenance for adopters. Key features delivered: - Query language and result-type improvements for Issue #28595: resolved keyword conflicts and positioning, added boolean and exists return type checks, expanded support to wildcard/object return types, and implemented corrections from ID review. - Enabled id(this) in ORDER BY clause (Issue #30093). - Cursor with IdClass now works with named parameters in queries. - CursoredPage stability and validation: ensured proper behavior when sort criteria are missing and rejected CursoredPage for non-entity results. - Cleanup/refactor: removed two of four workarounds and reallocated remaining issues for easier maintenance; messaging updated to prepare for Jakarta Query. - Test infrastructure and resource updates: enabled tests for #28368 and #28545; updated persistence test resources to reflect changes. Major bugs fixed: - Issue #28595: consolidated fixes across find, delete, OrderBy, paging, and parameter handling, including edge-case scenarios and invalid parameter paths. - Issue #30093: id(this) now allowed in ORDER BY. - Cursor/IdClass and named parameter handling in queries. - CursoredPage edge-case handling and validation. Overall impact and accomplishments: - Increased reliability and correctness of data queries, especially around paging, ordering, and cursor semantics. - Reduced edge-case regressions and improved maintainability through cleanup and refactoring. - Accelerated Jakarta Query readiness with messaging changes and broader return-type support. - Strengthened test coverage and resources, enabling faster validation of future changes. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Java persistence layer and query language engineering, edge-case handling, and parameter management. - Refactoring and maintainability practices, including removal of workarounds and codebase simplification. - Test automation and resource management to improve coverage and reliability.
December 2024 – OpenLiberty/open-liberty: Substantial progress on query stability, correctness, and Jakarta Query readiness. Delivered major feature work and targeted bug fixes across find/delete/OrderBy/paging, improved cursor support, and strengthened test infrastructure, driving more reliable data access and easier maintenance for adopters. Key features delivered: - Query language and result-type improvements for Issue #28595: resolved keyword conflicts and positioning, added boolean and exists return type checks, expanded support to wildcard/object return types, and implemented corrections from ID review. - Enabled id(this) in ORDER BY clause (Issue #30093). - Cursor with IdClass now works with named parameters in queries. - CursoredPage stability and validation: ensured proper behavior when sort criteria are missing and rejected CursoredPage for non-entity results. - Cleanup/refactor: removed two of four workarounds and reallocated remaining issues for easier maintenance; messaging updated to prepare for Jakarta Query. - Test infrastructure and resource updates: enabled tests for #28368 and #28545; updated persistence test resources to reflect changes. Major bugs fixed: - Issue #28595: consolidated fixes across find, delete, OrderBy, paging, and parameter handling, including edge-case scenarios and invalid parameter paths. - Issue #30093: id(this) now allowed in ORDER BY. - Cursor/IdClass and named parameter handling in queries. - CursoredPage edge-case handling and validation. Overall impact and accomplishments: - Increased reliability and correctness of data queries, especially around paging, ordering, and cursor semantics. - Reduced edge-case regressions and improved maintainability through cleanup and refactoring. - Accelerated Jakarta Query readiness with messaging changes and broader return-type support. - Strengthened test coverage and resources, enabling faster validation of future changes. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Java persistence layer and query language engineering, edge-case handling, and parameter management. - Refactoring and maintainability practices, including removal of workarounds and codebase simplification. - Test automation and resource management to improve coverage and reliability.
November 2024 monthly performance for OpenLiberty/open-liberty focused on stabilizing tests, expanding coverage, and strengthening data/persistence and localization. Delivered core feature improvements, fixed critical bugs, and enabled previously disabled code paths to improve reliability and maintainability. Key shifts included enhanced test coverage for invalid entities and fat error paths, targeted NPE fixes, internal persistence updates, and broadened i18n support across Jakarta Concurrency/Data and getAttributeName.
November 2024 monthly performance for OpenLiberty/open-liberty focused on stabilizing tests, expanding coverage, and strengthening data/persistence and localization. Delivered core feature improvements, fixed critical bugs, and enabled previously disabled code paths to improve reliability and maintainability. Key shifts included enhanced test coverage for invalid entities and fat error paths, targeted NPE fixes, internal persistence updates, and broadened i18n support across Jakarta Concurrency/Data and getAttributeName.
October 2024 monthly summary for OpenLiberty/open-liberty: Delivered Data Persistence Pagination, Sorting, and Error Handling Enhancement. Consolidated changes to improve default sorting behavior for paginated queries, enabled robust handling of dynamic sort parameters, and added clearer, translatable error messages in the data persistence layer. Implemented end-to-end tests for pagination and OrderBy conflicts. Reflects work on Issue #28595 and NLS review feedback; improved reliability and internationalization in data access paths.
October 2024 monthly summary for OpenLiberty/open-liberty: Delivered Data Persistence Pagination, Sorting, and Error Handling Enhancement. Consolidated changes to improve default sorting behavior for paginated queries, enabled robust handling of dynamic sort parameters, and added clearer, translatable error messages in the data persistence layer. Implemented end-to-end tests for pagination and OrderBy conflicts. Reflects work on Issue #28595 and NLS review feedback; improved reliability and internationalization in data access paths.
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