Hibernate Envers - Doesn't write audit records for createQuery(...).executeUpdate(), only .persist() and .merge()

I have 3 ways things get written to the DB

public void create(T object) {
    entityManager.persist(object);
}

public void update(T object) {
    object = entityManager.merge(object);
}

public int updateStatus(String id, String status) {

    final int changes =
                entityManager.createQuery("update item set state = :newState," +
                        " last_modified = current_timestamp" +
                        " where id = : id ")
                    .setParameter("newState", status)
                    .setParameter("id", id)
                    .executeUpdate();

            return changes;
}

The problem I have, is in order to get the Hibernate Envers to actually write the audit records to the corrsponsing x_aud and revinfo DB tables. It only works successfully for '.persist()' or '.merge()'. I cannot get it to work for 'createQuery(...).executeUpdate()'

Am I missing something or does it just not work for this. The problem is, a lot of my code has been written using .executeUpdate and not merge, so really I need this to work with the existing code.

Can anyone help please?

It looks like Avinash T. is right - if you want to create native SQL query, use createNativeQuery(String sqlString) method of EntityManager. Using createQuery(String ejbqlString) is only possible if you're using EJB QL. Hope it would help.