Hibernate 7.2.0 was released. Immediately sunsetting support for the 7.1-series. (https://hibernate.org/orm/releases/)

Hibernate 7.2.0 would also match Spring Boots recommended Java Versions 17, 21 and 25 - where Hibernate 7.1-series officially only supports up to 23.

Please consider upgrading the default used Hibernate Version to 7.2+ in a patch release circle of Boot 4.0.x

Related to #38523 (where a similar minor upgrade was done)