diff --git a/build/parents/build/pom.xml b/build/parents/build/pom.xml
index 9d2f5c728a9..d848ab1f42e 100644
--- a/build/parents/build/pom.xml
+++ b/build/parents/build/pom.xml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
         <version.org.jboss.logging.jboss-logging>3.6.1.Final</version.org.jboss.logging.jboss-logging>
         <!--Once the tools version is upgraded see if org.codehaus.plexus can be upgraded as well and update the dependabot config accordingly. -->
         <version.org.jboss.logging.jboss-logging-tools>3.0.4.Final</version.org.jboss.logging.jboss-logging-tools>
-        <javadoc.org.hibernate.search.url>https://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/search/${parsed-version.org.hibernate.search.majorVersion}.${parsed-version.org.hibernate.search.minorVersion}/api/</javadoc.org.hibernate.search.url>
+        <javadoc.org.hibernate.search.url>https://docs.hibernate.org/search/${parsed-version.org.hibernate.search.majorVersion}.${parsed-version.org.hibernate.search.minorVersion}/api/</javadoc.org.hibernate.search.url>
 
         <!-- >>> Engine -->
         <!-- Nothing beyond common dependencies -->
@@ -105,8 +105,8 @@
          -->
         <version.org.hibernate.orm>7.2.0.CR2</version.org.hibernate.orm>
 
-        <javadoc.org.hibernate.orm.url>https://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/orm/${parsed-version.org.hibernate.orm.majorVersion}.${parsed-version.org.hibernate.orm.minorVersion}/javadocs/</javadoc.org.hibernate.orm.url>
-        <documentation.org.hibernate.orm.url>https://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/orm/${parsed-version.org.hibernate.orm.majorVersion}.${parsed-version.org.hibernate.orm.minorVersion}/userguide/html_single/Hibernate_User_Guide.html</documentation.org.hibernate.orm.url>
+        <javadoc.org.hibernate.orm.url>https://docs.hibernate.org/orm/${parsed-version.org.hibernate.orm.majorVersion}.${parsed-version.org.hibernate.orm.minorVersion}/javadocs/</javadoc.org.hibernate.orm.url>
+        <documentation.org.hibernate.orm.url>https://docs.hibernate.org/orm/${parsed-version.org.hibernate.orm.majorVersion}.${parsed-version.org.hibernate.orm.minorVersion}/userguide/html_single/Hibernate_User_Guide.html</documentation.org.hibernate.orm.url>
         <!-- These version must be kept in sync with the version of the dependency in Hibernate ORM 7.
              DO NOT USE DEPENDENCY MANAGEMENT FOR THESE DEPENDENCIES!
              Thanks to not using dependency management for these dependencies, we get a build failure
diff --git a/ci/release/Jenkinsfile b/ci/release/Jenkinsfile
index f2ac2ccae83..063b424bf63 100644
--- a/ci/release/Jenkinsfile
+++ b/ci/release/Jenkinsfile
@@ -85,8 +85,10 @@ pipeline {
 									dir('.release/scripts') {
 										sh 'git clone https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-release-scripts.git .'
 									}
+									def ghReleaseNote = sh(script: 'realpath -e github_release_notes.md 2>/dev/null', returnStdout: true).trim()
 									sh """
 										bash -xe .release/scripts/release.sh -j ${params.RELEASE_DRY_RUN ? '-d' : ''} \
+												${ghReleaseNote != '' ? '--notes=' + ghReleaseNote : ''} \
 												search ${releaseVersion.toString()} ${developmentVersion.toString()}
 									"""
 								}
diff --git a/documentation/pom.xml b/documentation/pom.xml
index eb88781db83..924e083e5fd 100644
--- a/documentation/pom.xml
+++ b/documentation/pom.xml
@@ -438,8 +438,8 @@
                         <hibernateSearchVersionShort>${parsed-version.org.hibernate.search.majorVersion}.${parsed-version.org.hibernate.search.minorVersion}</hibernateSearchVersionShort>
                         <hibernateSearchPreviousStableVersionShort>${parsed-version.org.hibernate.search.previous-stable.majorVersion}.${parsed-version.org.hibernate.search.previous-stable.minorVersion}</hibernateSearchPreviousStableVersionShort>
                         <hibernateSearchJavadocUrl>${javadoc.org.hibernate.search.url}</hibernateSearchJavadocUrl>
-                        <hibernateSearchDocUrl>https://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/search/${parsed-version.org.hibernate.search.majorVersion}.${parsed-version.org.hibernate.search.minorVersion}/reference/en-US/html_single/</hibernateSearchDocUrl>
-                        <hibernateSearchPreviousStableDocUrl>https://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/search/${parsed-version.org.hibernate.search.previous-stable.majorVersion}.${parsed-version.org.hibernate.search.previous-stable.minorVersion}/reference/en-US/html_single/</hibernateSearchPreviousStableDocUrl>
+                        <hibernateSearchDocUrl>https://docs.hibernate.org/search/${parsed-version.org.hibernate.search.majorVersion}.${parsed-version.org.hibernate.search.minorVersion}/reference/en-US/html_single/</hibernateSearchDocUrl>
+                        <hibernateSearchPreviousStableDocUrl>https://docs.hibernate.org/search/${parsed-version.org.hibernate.search.previous-stable.majorVersion}.${parsed-version.org.hibernate.search.previous-stable.minorVersion}/reference/en-US/html_single/</hibernateSearchPreviousStableDocUrl>
                         <hibernateSearchJiraUrl>https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse</hibernateSearchJiraUrl>
                         <hibernateSearchMigrationGuidesIndexUrl>https://hibernate.org/search/documentation/migrate/</hibernateSearchMigrationGuidesIndexUrl>
                         <hibernateCommunityUrl>https://hibernate.org/community</hibernateCommunityUrl>
diff --git a/documentation/src/main/asciidoc/internals/index.adoc b/documentation/src/main/asciidoc/internals/index.adoc
index 6fb96f2e647..637f5d9544c 100644
--- a/documentation/src/main/asciidoc/internals/index.adoc
+++ b/documentation/src/main/asciidoc/internals/index.adoc
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 :title-logo-image: image:hibernate_logo_a.png[align=left,pdfwidth=33%]
 :html-meta-description: Hibernate Search, full text search for your entities - Internals of Hibernate Search
 :html-meta-keywords: hibernate, search, hibernate search, full text, lucene, elasticsearch, opensearch
-:html-meta-canonical-link: https://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/stable/search/internals/html_single/
+:html-meta-canonical-link: https://docs.hibernate.org/stable/search/internals/html_single/
 :html-meta-version-family: {hibernateSearchVersionShort}
 
 This section is intended for new Hibernate Search contributors looking for an introduction
diff --git a/documentation/src/main/asciidoc/migration/index.adoc b/documentation/src/main/asciidoc/migration/index.adoc
index 0da686a3d4a..acc5741d21e 100644
--- a/documentation/src/main/asciidoc/migration/index.adoc
+++ b/documentation/src/main/asciidoc/migration/index.adoc
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 :title-logo-image: image:hibernate_logo_a.png[align=left,pdfwidth=33%]
 :html-meta-description: Hibernate Search, full text search for your entities - Migration Guide
 :html-meta-keywords: hibernate, search, hibernate search, full text, lucene, elasticsearch, opensearch
-:html-meta-canonical-link: https://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/search/{hibernateSearchVersionShort}/migration/html_single/
+:html-meta-canonical-link: https://docs.hibernate.org/search/{hibernateSearchVersionShort}/migration/html_single/
 :html-meta-version-family: {hibernateSearchVersionShort}
 
 [[introduction]]
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ others because of more fundamental changes
 (like moving away from using Lucene types in Hibernate Search APIs).
 
 When migrating from Hibernate Search 5, you are encouraged to migrate first to Hibernate Search 6.0
-using the https://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/search/6.0/migration/html_single/[6.0 migration guide],
+using the https://docs.hibernate.org/search/6.0/migration/html_single/[6.0 migration guide],
 and only then to later versions (which will be significantly easier).
 ====
 
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ older indexes can be read from and written to without reindexing.
 === Outbox polling database tables
 
 The event and agent database tables used for
-link:https://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/search/{hibernateSearchVersionShort}/reference/en-US/html_single/#coordination-database-polling[outbox-polling]
+link:https://docs.hibernate.org/search/{hibernateSearchVersionShort}/reference/en-US/html_single/#coordination-database-polling[outbox-polling]
 in Hibernate Search {hibernateSearchVersion}
 are backward-compatible with Hibernate Search {hibernateSearchPreviousStableVersionShort}:
 no database schema update is necessary for these tables.
diff --git a/documentation/src/main/asciidoc/public/getting-started/index.adoc b/documentation/src/main/asciidoc/public/getting-started/index.adoc
index ca754d725f2..76463e3dfca 100644
--- a/documentation/src/main/asciidoc/public/getting-started/index.adoc
+++ b/documentation/src/main/asciidoc/public/getting-started/index.adoc
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 :title-logo-image: image:hibernate_logo_a.png[align=left,pdfwidth=33%]
 :html-meta-description: Hibernate Search, full text search for your entities - Getting Started Guides
 :html-meta-keywords: hibernate, search, hibernate search, full text, lucene, elasticsearch, opensearch
-:html-meta-canonical-link: https://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/stable/search/getting-started/en-US/html_single/
+:html-meta-canonical-link: https://docs.hibernate.org/stable/search/getting-started/en-US/html_single/
 :html-meta-version-family: {hibernateSearchVersionShort}
 
 :relfileprefix: ../../
diff --git a/documentation/src/main/asciidoc/public/getting-started/orm/index.adoc b/documentation/src/main/asciidoc/public/getting-started/orm/index.adoc
index d84130fcbc0..1cd7525673d 100644
--- a/documentation/src/main/asciidoc/public/getting-started/orm/index.adoc
+++ b/documentation/src/main/asciidoc/public/getting-started/orm/index.adoc
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 :title-logo-image: image:hibernate_logo_a.png[align=left,pdfwidth=33%]
 :html-meta-description: Hibernate Search, full text search for your entities - Getting started with Hibernate Search in Hibernate ORM
 :html-meta-keywords: hibernate, search, hibernate search, full text, lucene, elasticsearch, opensearch
-:html-meta-canonical-link: https://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/stable/search/getting-started/orm/en-US/html_single/
+:html-meta-canonical-link: https://docs.hibernate.org/stable/search/getting-started/orm/en-US/html_single/
 :html-meta-version-family: {hibernateSearchVersionShort}
 
 :relfileprefix: ../../
diff --git a/documentation/src/main/asciidoc/public/getting-started/standalone/index.adoc b/documentation/src/main/asciidoc/public/getting-started/standalone/index.adoc
index 18746e32dd6..79c895e93a8 100644
--- a/documentation/src/main/asciidoc/public/getting-started/standalone/index.adoc
+++ b/documentation/src/main/asciidoc/public/getting-started/standalone/index.adoc
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 :title-logo-image: image:hibernate_logo_a.png[align=left,pdfwidth=33%]
 :html-meta-description: Hibernate Search, full text search for your entities - Getting started with Hibernate Search’s Standalone POJO Mapper
 :html-meta-keywords: hibernate, search, hibernate search, full text, lucene, elasticsearch, opensearch
-:html-meta-canonical-link: https://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/stable/search/getting-started/standalone/en-US/html_single/
+:html-meta-canonical-link: https://docs.hibernate.org/stable/search/getting-started/standalone/en-US/html_single/
 :html-meta-version-family: {hibernateSearchVersionShort}
 
 :relfileprefix: ../../
diff --git a/documentation/src/main/asciidoc/public/reference/_migrating.adoc b/documentation/src/main/asciidoc/public/reference/_migrating.adoc
index 6772f1788a0..c204e07af21 100644
--- a/documentation/src/main/asciidoc/public/reference/_migrating.adoc
+++ b/documentation/src/main/asciidoc/public/reference/_migrating.adoc
@@ -22,6 +22,6 @@ Additionally, be aware that a lot of APIs have changed, some only because of a p
 others because of more fundamental changes
 (like moving away from using Lucene types in Hibernate Search APIs).
 For that reason, you are encouraged to migrate first to Hibernate Search 6.0
-using the https://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/search/6.0/migration/html_single/[6.0 migration guide],
+using the https://docs.hibernate.org/search/6.0/migration/html_single/[6.0 migration guide],
 and only then to later versions (which will be significantly easier).
 ====
diff --git a/documentation/src/main/asciidoc/public/reference/index.adoc b/documentation/src/main/asciidoc/public/reference/index.adoc
index ab38d034ebf..c0c6f2509c5 100644
--- a/documentation/src/main/asciidoc/public/reference/index.adoc
+++ b/documentation/src/main/asciidoc/public/reference/index.adoc
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 :docinfo: shared,private
 :html-meta-description: Hibernate Search, full text search for your entities - Reference Documentation
 :html-meta-keywords: hibernate, search, hibernate search, full text, lucene, elasticsearch, opensearch
-:html-meta-canonical-link: https://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/stable/search/reference/en-US/html_single/
+:html-meta-canonical-link: https://docs.hibernate.org/stable/search/reference/en-US/html_single/
 :title-logo-image: image:hibernate_logo_a.png[align=left,pdfwidth=33%]
 :html-meta-version-family: {hibernateSearchVersionShort}
 :version-selector-enabled: true
diff --git a/documentation/src/main/asciidoc/public/whats-new/index.adoc b/documentation/src/main/asciidoc/public/whats-new/index.adoc
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..06174bade83
--- /dev/null
+++ b/documentation/src/main/asciidoc/public/whats-new/index.adoc
@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+// Copyright Red Hat Inc. and Hibernate Authors
+= What's New in {hibernateSearchVersion}
+:doctype: book
+:revdate: {docdate}
+:sectanchors:
+:anchor:
+:toc: left
+:toclevels: 4
+:docinfodir: {docinfodir}
+:docinfo: shared,private
+:html-meta-description: Hibernate Search, full text search for your entities - Reference Documentation
+:html-meta-keywords: hibernate, search, hibernate search, full text, lucene, elasticsearch, opensearch
+:html-meta-canonical-link: https://docs.hibernate.org/stable/search/reference/en-US/html_single/
+:title-logo-image: image:hibernate_logo_a.png[align=left,pdfwidth=33%]
+:html-meta-version-family: {hibernateSearchVersionShort}
+:version-selector-enabled: true
+:stem: latexmath
+
+== Dependency upgrades
+
+[[orm-version]]
+Hibernate ORM::
+Hibernate Search targets the Hibernate ORM 7.2 series.
+[[lucene-version]]
+Lucene::
+The Lucene backend now uses Lucene 9.12.2, while the `lucene-next` backend relies on Lucene 10.2.2
+[[elasticsearch-version]]
+Elasticsearch::
+The Elasticsearch backend works with Elasticsearch 9.2, as well as other already compatible versions.
+[[opensearch-version]]
+OpenSearch::
+The Elasticsearch backend works with OpenSearch 3.2 and 3.3, as well as other already compatible versions.
+
+[[pluggable-clients]]
+=== Pluggable Elasticsearch backend REST clients
+
+This version of Hibernate Search introduces pluggable REST clients for the Elasticsearch backend.
+Historically, the Elasticsearch backend relied on the Elasticsearch low-level REST client,
+which is based on Apache HTTP Client 4. With the new pluggable client architecture,
+it is possible to switch to a different REST client as needed.
+This may be useful when you are running Hibernate Search in an environment relying on a different HTTP client type (e.g. Vert.x).
+or when you need to use some distribution specific client features and need to switch to the OpenSearch REST client.
+
+Hibernate Search provides the following REST client options out of the box:
+
+[[backend-elasticsearch-configuration-client-elasticsearch-client-rest4]]
+==== Elasticsearch low level REST client (Apache HTTP Client 4)
+
+Coordinates::
+GroupID::: `org.hibernate.search`
+ArtifactID::: `hibernate-search-backend-elasticsearch-client-rest4`
+Underlying HTTP Client::: Apache HTTP Client 4
+
+This Elasticsearch backend REST client is based on the Elasticsearch low level client (`org.elasticsearch.client:elasticsearch-rest-client`).
+Currently, the default REST client used by the Elasticsearch backend.
+
+[[backend-elasticsearch-configuration-client-elasticsearch-client-rest5]]
+==== Elasticsearch low level REST client (Apache HTTP Client 5)
+
+Coordinates::
+GroupID::: `org.hibernate.search`
+ArtifactID::: `hibernate-search-backend-elasticsearch-client-rest5`
+Underlying HTTP Client::: Apache HTTP Client 5
+
+This Elasticsearch backend REST client is based on the newer Elasticsearch low level client (`co.elastic.clients:elasticsearch-rest5-client`),
+which is also used in the `co.elastic.clients:elasticsearch-java`.
+
+[[backend-elasticsearch-configuration-client-elasticsearch-client-opensearch]]
+==== OpenSearch low level REST client (Apache HTTP Client 5)
+
+Coordinates::
+GroupID::: `org.hibernate.search`
+ArtifactID::: `hibernate-search-backend-elasticsearch-client-opensearch-rest`
+Underlying HTTP Client::: Apache HTTP Client 5
+
+This Elasticsearch backend REST client is based on the OpenSearch low level client (`org.opensearch.client:opensearch-rest-client`).
+
+NOTE: It is recommended to explicitly add a client that you prefer as a dependency, since in the future version
+of Hibernate Search we will remove the implicit dependency on `hibernate-search-backend-elasticsearch-client-rest4`
+from the Elasticsearch backend.
diff --git a/github_release_notes.md b/github_release_notes.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0ad38949e78
--- /dev/null
+++ b/github_release_notes.md
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+
+* See the [website](https://hibernate.org/search/releases/{{releaseVersionFamily}}) for requirements and compatibilities.
+* See the [What's New](https://docs.hibernate.org/search/{{releaseVersionFamily}}/whats-new/en-US/html_single/) guide for details about new features and capabilities.
diff --git a/integrationtest/mapper/orm/src/test/resources/DynamicMapBaseIT/toone.hbm.xml b/integrationtest/mapper/orm/src/test/resources/DynamicMapBaseIT/toone.hbm.xml
index 40cd953a9ea..02b7b8deae9 100644
--- a/integrationtest/mapper/orm/src/test/resources/DynamicMapBaseIT/toone.hbm.xml
+++ b/integrationtest/mapper/orm/src/test/resources/DynamicMapBaseIT/toone.hbm.xml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 		<id name="id" type="integer"/>
 		<property name="author" type="string"/>
 		<property name="content" type="string"/>
-		<!-- https://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/orm/4.3/manual/en-US/html_single/#assoc-bidirectional-121 -->
+		<!-- https://docs.hibernate.org/orm/4.3/manual/en-US/html_single/#assoc-bidirectional-121 -->
 		<many-to-one name="book" entity-name="Book" unique="true" />
 	</class>
 </hibernate-mapping>