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the untyped overload remains deprecated.\n\nFix status: documented_behavior\n\nOther error fragments:\n- Query has no 'select' clause, and multiple root entities, but no result type was given\n-  (pass an explicit result type to 'createQuery()')\n\nEvidence (public sources, summarized; not reproduced by this contributor):\n- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hibernate/hibernate-orm/e1f9fc665890067291278b67d3356b1e6754e554/hibernate-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/query/hql/internal/SemanticQueryBuilder.java (official_docs, 2026-09, documented_behavior): Throws SemanticException for no-select queries with joins or multiple roots and no result type.\n- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hibernate/hibernate-orm/7.0/migration-guide.adoc (official_docs, 2025, official_recommended_action): 7.0 migration guide: potentially ambiguous implicit-select queries no longer accepted; migrate by explicit select, X.class/Object[].class, or alias `this`.\n\nSearch phrasings: Query has no 'select' clause, and joins, but no result type was given; 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