3.0.4-RC

What's Changed

• Version change from 3.0.3-SNAPSHOT to 3.0.4-SNAPSHOT by @rfelcman in #1663
• [3.0] Minor messaging improvements by @dazey3 in #1674
• [3.0] PrintInnerJoinInWhereClause as query hint - backport from master by @rfelcman in #1682
• [3.0] Issue 1711: ClassCastException while updating foreignkeys with identity generation by @dazey3 in #1713
• [3.0] Bugfix for: Specifying QName in XmlVariableNode results namespace written twice - backport from master by @rfelcman in #1718
• [3.0] remove the noisy entries from the logs - backport from the master by @rfelcman in #1748
• [3.0] Documents conversion to Asciidoc format - backport from master by @rfelcman in #1753
• [3.0] Issue 1755: Add support for non-breaking spaces by @dazey3 in #1758
• [3.0] Class read fallback needs to reread the stream from the beginning (#1766) by @lukasj in #1767
• [3.0] Class read fallback needs to reread the stream from the beginning - build fix by @rfelcman in #1769
• [3.0] Fix ConcurrentModificationException in BatchFetchPolicy - backport from 2.7 by @rfelcman in #1708
• [3.0] Diagnostic new feature - corrupted cache (backport from master) by @rfelcman in #1785
• [3.0] GitHub Actions fix for Javadoc generation by @rfelcman in #1796
• [3.0] Issue 1779: Add DB2zOS support for UNICODE Timestamps by @dazey3 in #1782
• [3.0] Add Oracle21c support by @dazey3 in #1824
• [3.0] Issue 1827: Add java.time support for DB2 schema generation by @dazey3 in #1829
• [3.0] Persistence weaver logging (remove useless log message) - backport from master by @rfelcman in #1838
• [3.0] Issue 1540: Improve Oracle platform java time support by @dazey3 in #1836
• [3.0] Issue 1544: Derby mapping of LocalTime should map to TIME type by @dazey3 in #1833
• [3.0] Issue 1735: Improve DB2 ZOS support for LIKE ESCAPE by @dazey3 in #1788
• [3.0] ASM version switch to 9.5 to be ready for JDK 21. by @rfelcman in #1858
• [3.0] fix #1596 Major performance issue in case of many new entities (#1843) - backport from master by @rfelcman in #1863
• [3.0] Oracle DDL Parser dependency update 3.0.0 -> 3.0.1 by @rfelcman in #1868
• [3.0] SDO potential memory leak fix 2.0 - backport from master by @rfelcman in #1869
• [3.0] Bugfix for - Missing error message when calling JpaHelper.getReportQuery() with wrong argument - backport by @rfelcman in #1913
• [3.0] Remove wrong comments for locate function by @waahhh in #1945
• [3.0] ASM version upgrade to 9.6 (JDK 22 ready) - backport from master by @rfelcman in #1965
• [3.0] Eclipselink.jar - add JPMS descriptor (module-info.java) - backport from 2.7 by @rfelcman in #1972

Full Changelog: 3.0.3...3.0.4-RC1