diff --git a/gradle.properties b/gradle.properties
index 718ac835ed..69cac70729 100644
--- a/gradle.properties
+++ b/gradle.properties
@@ -29,18 +29,18 @@ org.gradle.java.installations.auto-download=false
 #db = MSSQL
 
 # Enable the SonatypeOS maven repository (mainly for Vert.x snapshots) when present (value ignored)
-enableSonatypeOpenSourceSnapshotsRep = true
+#enableSonatypeOpenSourceSnapshotsRep = true
 
 # Enable the maven local repository (for local development when needed) when present (value ignored)
-#enableMavenLocalRepo = true
+enableMavenLocalRepo = true
 
 # Override default Hibernate ORM version
-hibernateOrmVersion = [6.5,6.6)
+hibernateOrmVersion = 6.5.3-SNAPSHOT
 
 # Override default Hibernate ORM Gradle plugin version
 # Using the stable version because I don't know how to configure the build to download the snapshot version from
 # a remote repository
-#hibernateOrmGradlePluginVersion = 6.5.2.Final
+hibernateOrmGradlePluginVersion = 6.5.2.Final
 
 # If set to true, skip Hibernate ORM version parsing (default is true, if set to null)
 # this is required when using intervals or weird versions or the build will fail
diff --git a/hibernate-reactive-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/reactive/metamodel/mapping/internal/ReactiveToOneAttributeMapping.java b/hibernate-reactive-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/reactive/metamodel/mapping/internal/ReactiveToOneAttributeMapping.java
index 3acdff04ca..09acc9bb98 100644
--- a/hibernate-reactive-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/reactive/metamodel/mapping/internal/ReactiveToOneAttributeMapping.java
+++ b/hibernate-reactive-core/src/main/java/org/hibernate/reactive/metamodel/mapping/internal/ReactiveToOneAttributeMapping.java
@@ -97,4 +97,9 @@ public ReactiveToOneAttributeMapping copy(
 			TableGroupProducer declaringTableGroupProducer) {
 		return new ReactiveToOneAttributeMapping( super.copy( declaringType, declaringTableGroupProducer ) );
 	}
+
+	@Override
+	protected Object lazyInitialize(Object domainValue) {
+		return domainValue;
+	}
 }