diff --git a/spring-boot-autoconfigure/src/test/java/org/springframework/boot/autoconfigure/orm/jpa/JpaPropertiesTests.java b/spring-boot-autoconfigure/src/test/java/org/springframework/boot/autoconfigure/orm/jpa/JpaPropertiesTests.java
index cbe98e2830..aa7e44f5e1 100644
--- a/spring-boot-autoconfigure/src/test/java/org/springframework/boot/autoconfigure/orm/jpa/JpaPropertiesTests.java
+++ b/spring-boot-autoconfigure/src/test/java/org/springframework/boot/autoconfigure/orm/jpa/JpaPropertiesTests.java
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ import org.junit.After;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
 import org.springframework.boot.context.properties.EnableConfigurationProperties;
+import org.springframework.boot.orm.jpa.hibernate.SpringNamingStrategy;
 import org.springframework.boot.orm.jpa.hibernate.SpringPhysicalNamingStrategy;
 import org.springframework.boot.test.util.EnvironmentTestUtils;
 import org.springframework.context.annotation.AnnotationConfigApplicationContext;
@@ -53,6 +54,18 @@ public class JpaPropertiesTests {
 		}
 	}
 
+	@Test
+	public void hibernate4NoCustomNamingStrategy() throws Exception {
+		JpaProperties properties = load(HibernateVersion.V4);
+		Map<String, String> hibernateProperties = properties
+				.getHibernateProperties(mockStandaloneDataSource());
+		assertThat(hibernateProperties).contains(entry("hibernate.ejb.naming_strategy",
+				SpringNamingStrategy.class.getName()));
+		assertThat(hibernateProperties).doesNotContainKeys(
+				"hibernate.implicit_naming_strategy",
+				"hibernate.physical_naming_strategy");
+	}
+
 	@Test
 	public void hibernate4CustomNamingStrategy() throws Exception {
 		JpaProperties properties = load(HibernateVersion.V4,
@@ -163,8 +176,7 @@ public class JpaPropertiesTests {
 		ctx.register(TestConfiguration.class);
 		ctx.refresh();
 		this.context = ctx;
-		JpaProperties properties = this.context.getBean(JpaProperties.class);
-		return properties;
+		return this.context.getBean(JpaProperties.class);
 	}
 
 	@Configuration
diff --git a/spring-boot-docs/src/main/asciidoc/howto.adoc b/spring-boot-docs/src/main/asciidoc/howto.adoc
index 03a450aaa6..ef439af961 100644
--- a/spring-boot-docs/src/main/asciidoc/howto.adoc
+++ b/spring-boot-docs/src/main/asciidoc/howto.adoc
@@ -1619,18 +1619,16 @@ configuration properties. The most common options to set are:
 
 [indent=0,subs="verbatim,quotes,attributes"]
 ----
-	spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto: create-drop
-	spring.jpa.hibernate.naming_strategy: org.hibernate.cfg.ImprovedNamingStrategy
-	spring.jpa.database: H2
-	spring.jpa.show-sql: true
+	spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto=create-drop
+	spring.jpa.hibernate.naming.physical-strategy=com.example.MyPhysicalNamingStrategy
+	spring.jpa.database=H2
+	spring.jpa.show-sql=true
 ----
 
-(Because of relaxed data binding hyphens or underscores should work equally well as
-property keys.) The `ddl-auto` setting is a special case in that it has different
-defaults depending on whether you are using an embedded database (`create-drop`) or not
-(`none`). In addition all properties in `+spring.jpa.properties.*+` are passed through as
-normal JPA properties (with the prefix stripped) when the local `EntityManagerFactory` is
-created.
+The `ddl-auto` setting is a special case in that it has different defaults depending on
+whether you are using an embedded database (`create-drop`) or not (`none`). In addition
+all properties in `+spring.jpa.properties.*+` are passed through as normal JPA properties
+(with the prefix stripped) when the local `EntityManagerFactory` is created.
 
 See {sc-spring-boot-autoconfigure}/orm/jpa/HibernateJpaAutoConfiguration.{sc-ext}[`HibernateJpaAutoConfiguration`]
 and {sc-spring-boot-autoconfigure}/orm/jpa/JpaBaseConfiguration.{sc-ext}[`JpaBaseConfiguration`]
diff --git a/spring-boot/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/orm/jpa/hibernate/SpringNamingStrategy.java b/spring-boot/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/orm/jpa/hibernate/SpringNamingStrategy.java
index 1eb7169138..8f7373bd4e 100644
--- a/spring-boot/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/orm/jpa/hibernate/SpringNamingStrategy.java
+++ b/spring-boot/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/orm/jpa/hibernate/SpringNamingStrategy.java
@@ -16,9 +16,7 @@
 
 package org.springframework.boot.orm.jpa.hibernate;
 
-import org.hibernate.Hibernate;
 import org.hibernate.cfg.ImprovedNamingStrategy;
-import org.hibernate.cfg.NamingStrategy;
 import org.hibernate.internal.util.StringHelper;
 
 import org.springframework.util.Assert;
@@ -33,10 +31,7 @@ import org.springframework.util.StringUtils;
  * @author Phillip Webb
  * @see "http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7689206/ejb3namingstrategy-vs-improvednamingstrategy-foreign-key-naming"
  * @since 1.2.0
- * @deprecated as of 1.4 since {@link NamingStrategy} is no longer used by
- * {@link Hibernate}. Consider using {@link SpringPhysicalNamingStrategy}
  */
-@Deprecated
 @SuppressWarnings("serial")
 public class SpringNamingStrategy extends ImprovedNamingStrategy {