Hibernate 5.2.2: Sin proveedor de persistencia para EntityManager

¿Qué ha cambiado entre Hibernate 5.1.1 y 5.2.2? Si uso 5.2.2, recibiré un mensaje de error "No hay proveedor de persistencia para EntityManager llamado pu". Exactamente la misma configuración funciona con 5.1.1. ¿Cómo debo cambiar mi código para que 5.2.2 funcione?

pom.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <groupId>jpatest</groupId>
    <artifactId>jpatest</artifactId>
    <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>

    <properties>
        <hibernate.version>5.2.2.Final</hibernate.version>
    </properties>
    <dependencies>
        <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/junit/junit -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>junit</groupId>
            <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
            <version>4.12</version>
        </dependency>
        <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.postgresql/postgresql -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.postgresql</groupId>
            <artifactId>postgresql</artifactId>
            <version>9.4.1209.jre7</version>
        </dependency>
        <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.hibernate/hibernate-core -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
            <artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
            <version>${hibernate.version}</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
            <artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId>
            <version>${hibernate.version}</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
</project>

persistence.xml en src / main / resources / META-INF

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<persistence xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/persistence_2_0.xsd"
    version="2.0" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence">
    <persistence-unit name="pu" >
        <provider>org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence</provider>
        <properties>
            <property name="hibernate.archive.autodetection" value="class" />
            <property name="hibernate.dialect" value="org.hibernate.dialect.PostgreSQLDialect" />
            <property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class" value="org.postgresql.Driver" />
            <property name="hibernate.connection.url" value="jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/mydb" />
            <property name="hibernate.default_schema" value="myschema" />
            <property name="hibernate.connection.username" value="xxx" />
            <property name="hibernate.connection.password" value="zzz" />
            <!-- <property name="hibernate.show_sql" value="true"/> -->
            <property name="hibernate.flushMode" value="FLUSH_AUTO" />
            <property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto" value="validate" />
        </properties>
    </persistence-unit>
</persistence>

creando EntityManager

factory = Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory("pu");
em = factory.createEntityManager();
tx = em.getTransaction();

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