why is Seam dependent on an old Hibernate (3.2.4sp1)?

[jeanluc]

The declared dependency in its Maven descriptor is 3.2.4sp1 instead of 3.3.1GA - was there any particular reason?

[gonorrhea]

IIRC the Seam 2.0.2-FP version is distributed with CR version libraries.  It's their style.  FP is part of EAP which is their QA'd JBoss stack.  So why are there non GA libraries in it?

The answer to your question is most likely: dependencies on other libraries that requires the older Hibernate version...