Upgrade to Hibernate 7.0 Beta1.

Closes #3671

Author: mp911de

Jenkinsfile

@@ -58,50 +58,6 @@ pipeline {
 			}
 
 			parallel {
-				stage("test: hibernate 6.2 (LTS)") {
-					agent {
-						label 'data'
-					}
-					options { timeout(time: 30, unit: 'MINUTES')}
-					environment {
-						ARTIFACTORY = credentials("${p['artifactory.credentials']}")
-						DEVELOCITY_ACCESS_KEY = credentials("${p['develocity.access-key']}")
-						TESTCONTAINERS_IMAGE_SUBSTITUTOR = 'org.springframework.data.jpa.support.ProxyImageNameSubstitutor'
-					}
-					steps {
-						script {
-							docker.withRegistry(p['docker.proxy.registry'], p['docker.proxy.credentials']) {
-								docker.image(p['docker.java.next.image']).inside(p['docker.java.inside.docker']) {
-									sh "PROFILE=all-dbs,hibernate-62 " +
-										"JENKINS_USER_NAME=${p['jenkins.user.name']} " +
-										"ci/test.sh"
-								}
-							}
-						}
-					}
-				}
-				stage("test: baseline (hibernate 6.6 snapshots)") {
-					agent {
-						label 'data'
-					}
-					options { timeout(time: 30, unit: 'MINUTES')}
-					environment {
-						ARTIFACTORY = credentials("${p['artifactory.credentials']}")
-						DEVELOCITY_ACCESS_KEY = credentials("${p['develocity.access-key']}")
-						TESTCONTAINERS_IMAGE_SUBSTITUTOR = 'org.springframework.data.jpa.support.ProxyImageNameSubstitutor'
-					}
-					steps {
-						script {
-							docker.withRegistry(p['docker.proxy.registry'], p['docker.proxy.credentials']) {
-								docker.image(p['docker.java.next.image']).inside(p['docker.java.inside.docker']) {
-									sh "PROFILE=all-dbs,hibernate-66-snapshots " +
-										"JENKINS_USER_NAME=${p['jenkins.user.name']} " +
-										"ci/test.sh"
-								}
-							}
-						}
-					}
-				}
 				stage("test: java.next (next)") {
 					agent {
 						label 'data'

pom.xml

@@ -30,10 +30,7 @@
 		<antlr>4.13.0</antlr> <!-- align with Hibernate's parser -->
 		<eclipselink>4.0.4</eclipselink>
 		<eclipselink-next>4.0.5-SNAPSHOT</eclipselink-next>
-		<hibernate>6.6.2.Final</hibernate>
-		<hibernate-62>6.2.31.Final</hibernate-62>
-		<hibernate-66-snapshots>6.6.3-SNAPSHOT</hibernate-66-snapshots>
-		<hibernate-70>7.0.0.Beta1</hibernate-70>
+		<hibernate>7.0.0.Beta1</hibernate>
 		<hibernate-70-snapshots>7.0.0-SNAPSHOT</hibernate-70-snapshots>
 		<hsqldb>2.7.4</hsqldb>
 		<h2>2.3.232</h2>
@@ -47,7 +44,6 @@
 		<hibernate.groupId>org.hibernate</hibernate.groupId>
 
 		<sonar.dynamicAnalysis>reuseReports</sonar.dynamicAnalysis>
-
 	</properties>
 
 	<modules>
@@ -58,43 +54,6 @@
 
 
 	<profiles>
-		<profile>
-			<id>hibernate-62</id>
-			<properties>
-				<hibernate>${hibernate-62}</hibernate>
-			</properties>
-		</profile>
-		<profile>
-			<id>hibernate-66-snapshots</id>
-			<properties>
-				<hibernate>${hibernate-66-snapshots}</hibernate>
-			</properties>
-			<repositories>
-				<repository>
-					<id>sonatype-oss</id>
-					<url>https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots</url>
-					<releases>
-						<enabled>false</enabled>
-					</releases>
-				</repository>
-			</repositories>
-		</profile>
-		<profile>
-			<id>hibernate-70</id>
-			<properties>
-				<hibernate>${hibernate-70}</hibernate>
-				<jakarta-persistence-api>3.2.0-M2</jakarta-persistence-api>
-			</properties>
-			<repositories>
-				<repository>
-					<id>sonatype-oss</id>
-					<url>https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots</url>
-					<releases>
-						<enabled>false</enabled>
-					</releases>
-				</repository>
-			</repositories>
-		</profile>
 		<profile>
 			<id>hibernate-70-snapshots</id>
 			<properties>