diff --git a/Jenkinsfile b/Jenkinsfile
index 915e46ddb..de8ad4ec9 100644
--- a/Jenkinsfile
+++ b/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'
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 5d84d548d..c2c66e62d 100755
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -28,12 +28,9 @@
 
 	<properties>
 		<antlr>4.13.0</antlr> <!-- align with Hibernate's parser -->
-		<eclipselink>4.0.6</eclipselink>
-		<eclipselink-next>4.0.7-SNAPSHOT</eclipselink-next>
-		<hibernate>6.6.15.Final</hibernate>
-		<hibernate-62>6.2.36.Final</hibernate-62>
-		<hibernate-66-snapshots>6.6.16-SNAPSHOT</hibernate-66-snapshots>
-		<hibernate-70>7.0.0.Beta5</hibernate-70>
+		<eclipselink>4.0.4</eclipselink>
+		<eclipselink-next>4.0.5-SNAPSHOT</eclipselink-next>
+		<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>
@@ -57,44 +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</jakarta-persistence-api>
-				<antlr>4.13.2</antlr>
-			</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>
diff --git a/spring-data-jpa/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/jpa/repository/query/QueryUtilsIntegrationTests.java b/spring-data-jpa/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/jpa/repository/query/QueryUtilsIntegrationTests.java
index 1d4f917a5..8f8688204 100644
--- a/spring-data-jpa/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/jpa/repository/query/QueryUtilsIntegrationTests.java
+++ b/spring-data-jpa/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/jpa/repository/query/QueryUtilsIntegrationTests.java
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ import jakarta.persistence.criteria.CriteriaQuery;
 import jakarta.persistence.criteria.From;
 import jakarta.persistence.criteria.Join;
 import jakarta.persistence.criteria.JoinType;
+import jakarta.persistence.criteria.Nulls;
 import jakarta.persistence.criteria.Path;
 import jakarta.persistence.criteria.Root;
 import jakarta.persistence.spi.PersistenceProvider;
@@ -127,7 +128,6 @@ class QueryUtilsIntegrationTests {
 
 		assertThat(expr.getParentPath()).hasFieldOrPropertyWithValue("fetched", true);
 		assertThat(from.getFetches()).hasSize(1);
-		assertThat(from.getJoins()).hasSize(1);
 	}
 
 	@Test // DATAJPA-401, DATAJPA-1238