HHH-7797 Deprecating mistakenly removed Dialect methods
HHH-6643 Overrode getNotExpression in DB2Dialect
HHH-7911 NPE in TwoPhaseLoad#initializeEntity
HHH-7870 - Fix and test
(cherry picked from commit 0713cea18098e6fdec50dfffb09b324bbc900571)
HHH-7918 - Fix and test
HHH-7918 - Completely recalculate entity state on merge
HHH-2721 PostgreSQLDialect: function md5() always returns a string value
HHH-7923 Revert to Javassist 3.15
HHH-7781 - Fix and test
(cherry picked from commit 03520b928f1c69dbf128d083f31b13dc03f7d314)
HHH-5869 - Add suport for nationalized character mappings
(cherry picked from commit e7b188c924d08654be9fb53a46439692af664f6c)

Conflicts:

	hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/cfg/AvailableSettings.java

Plus, added all nationalized variants of the character-based SqlTypeDescriptors
HHH-1917 Bulk Delete on the owning side of a ManyToMany relation needs
to delete corresponding rows from the JoinTable

Conflicts:
	hibernate-core/src/test/java/org/hibernate/test/hql/BulkManipulationTest.java
HHH-1917 updated comment
HHH-2951 Restrictions.eq when passed null, should create a NullRestriction
HHH-2951 test case
HHH-7304 new testcase entity class
HHH-7304 testcase
HHH-7304 bugfix proposal
HHH-7304 Minor cleanup
HHH-7520 - now the implementation and the javadoc should be the same
HHH-7520 BlobProxy.invoke Javadoc is incorrect