Yes, seems like Redhat's in a hurry, real hurry. So much that all
hibernate development  resources are sucked into developing  the Seam
framework. Its been 5 months since the last hibernate release, and
guess what, the last 3-4 releases were just serious bug fixes (surely
they've done it because of their paying clients). The latest hibernate
release with some new features dates back to 9 months ago, and read
the svn activity log to see how dead hibernate is :
http://fisheye.jboss.com/changelog/Hibernate/core