I'm also seeing test failures with my latest download (3.2.5.ga).
MYSQL: 6 failures, 14 errors
HSQLDB: 8 failures, 8 errors
Although I've not contributed to open source projects before, I'm a great fan of hibernate and have recently been a frequent poster on the users forum. These test failures have discouraged me from looking into potential patches for issues I've investigated.
Also, and this was raised on the users forum earlier today (
http://forum.hibernate.org/viewtopic.php?t=978693), the notes on the hibernate website about building the trunk (latest svn version) are very out of date.