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Accelerate graph adoption & GenAI application development with the latest offerings and features including:
- A new Aura console with GenAI copilotis now available as a toggle, providing a unifying hub to easily administer, manage, ingest, model, and visualize data efficiently. The new, opt-in co-pilot enables you to query your data and improve Cypher queries using a natural language interface. Give the new console a try today by clicking your user profile to get access.
- Support is now available forNeoDash, the no/low-code interactive dashboard builder
- Neo4j AuraDB can now process 15X more real-time datawithin each cluster without compromising latency or performance, enabling uninterrupted processing of data-intensive analytics workloads even as your data volumes increase.
- Advanced enterprise control, audit, and compliance capabilitieswith Customer Managed Encryption Keys that the customer owns, controls, and uses to encrypt and protect their data; and Security Log Forwarding enabling customers to stream and audit security logs in real-time.
- A new self-serve offering, Neo4j AuraDB Business Critical, at a 20%+ lower price pointthan our traditional AuraDB Enterprise offering. Designed for highly available workloads requiring advanced security, the new tier follows on the heels of Neo4j’s explosive cloud growth and growing demand for an easy-to-access enterprise offering. Customers requiring dedicated environments can continue to use AuraDB Enterprise, now renamed AuraDB Virtual Dedicated Cloud.
- Neo4j AuraDB Professional tier free trialis now available in select regions for use cases in production.
Check out the blog to learn more about these announcements.
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Browser 5.24.0 released
This is a maintenance release, fixing an issue where node expansion was run against the incorrect database.
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Aura Professional Trial
We're pleased to announce that Aura Professional is now available as a time limited trial at no cost.
Trial overview:
- Time period: 7 days with 7 day extension
- No credit card required for initial trial period
- One trial per organisation
- Limited to GCP at present
- Available via the Neo4j Aura Console
- Available in selected global markets
Go past the limitations of a free instance and showcase a proof-of-concept application to your internal stakeholders with features such as Advanced metrics and Query log analyser (EAP).
To access the trial
- Click 'New instance' in the Neo4j Aura Console
- Select 'Aura Professional'. Please note that if '7 day free trial' is not indicated on the instance creation screen, then the trial is not available in your market.
- Select GCP as the cloud provider
- Click 'Show trials' and select either a 2GB or 4GB instance
- Enter information to set up your account
- Access the new Professional Trial instance
We're excited to see what you build!
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Neo4j Aura Database feature update!
The following core Neo4j Database features are now available for users in Aura:
Vector Index settings and parameters:
- Expanded the allowed index settings for vector-2.0vector index provider. Newly created vector indexes can explicitly enable or disable quantization of the vectors within the index usingvector.quantization.enable, new indexes will have quantization enabled by default. Previously created vector indexes will continue to work as if quantization is disabled. Please see the vector index documentation for details.
- Added the ability to control the advanced customisation of HNSW hyperparameters vector.hnsw.mandvector.hnsw.ef_construction. Please consult the vector index advanced configuration documentation for their meaning and their defaults.
- Previously vector.dimensionsandvector.similarity_functionwere required to be set; however, withvector-2.0indexes, this requirement has been relaxed.vector.similarity_functionwill default to'COSINE' if not specified, and the existence ofvector.dimensionswill ensure additional checks. This allows theOPTIONSmap in Cypher to become optional, though it is recommended to specify the dimensionality and the similarity function. Please see the vector index documentation for details.
Cypher Fixes
- Fixed an issue where the planner would look to use the text index to search for strings that are not yet initialized.
Please refer to the changelog for full details!
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Aura Console SSO Admin Configuration now live! 🔐
We're pleased to announce the release of Single Sign-on (SSO) configuration for Enterprise Organisation Admin users in the Aura Console.
Security focused organizations need to show that they have control over their application boundaries and the services that underpin them. This self-serve approach to configuring SSO now provides Aura customers with direct control over how the services are configured.
Customers no longer have to submit support requests and wait for the required changes to be applied, saving time and tightening security boundaries when defining SSO configurations.
Please refer to our Aura Docs for more information on Console SSO configuration.
We hope you enjoy the new feature!
Team Aura 💛
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Upcoming Changes to Bloom
What's changing?
On September 23, 2024 we’ll be updating Bloom on Aura to the latest version. Note that this new version of Bloom is built on a new framework that handles connections to the database, including Single Sign-on (SSO) authentication.
Should I take any action?
While every effort has been made to confirm compatibility with our Enterprise customers’ SSO configurations, we recommend verifying that your current SSO configuration will work with Bloom after the update.
You can try the latest version now at https://explore.neo4j.io !
Note that it may be necessary to configure your SSO Identity Provider (IdP) to authenticate https://explore.neo4j.io before testing.We also highly recommend creating a backup of any Bloom Perspectives
in use prior to trying the new version. To do so, you can activate ‘Experimental features’ in Bloom’s Settings (available via the settings icon on the bottom left at http://bloom.neo4j.io) and then select ‘Export All Perspectives’ from the Experimental Settings icon that will appear as a beaker in the left menu bar. You can alternatively export individual Perspectives using the three-dot menu at the top right of each Perspective in Bloom’s Perspective Gallery.What if I encounter issues?
We certainly hope that won't happen, but should you encounter any issues with the latest version of Bloom after the update, you can continue using the old version by adding /2.11.0/ between https://bloom.neo4j.io/ and the rest of the connection URL (e.g. https://bloom.neo4j.io/2.11.0/index.html?connectURL=[dburl]). Similar to testing on https://explore.neo4j.io, it may be necessary to configure SSO IdPs to accept the https://bloom.neo4j.io/2.11.0/index.html URL which includes /2.11.0/ in the event that you experience issues with the new version and need to revert to Bloom 2.11.0.
Note that Bloom’s current version will continue to also be available at http://bloom.neo4j.io/current/ and the previous version is available at http://bloom.neo4j.io/previous/ . It is also recommended to include these URLs as part of your SSO configuration to make it easier to revert, if needed.
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AuraDB Enterprise releases 512GB instance sizes for GCP!
We're pleased to let you know that 512GB Neo4j Aura database instances are now available to AuraDB Enterprise GCP cloud customers running Neo4j v5.
Deployable with 512GB RAM | 96 vCPU | 1024GB Storage 'out of the box', this new configuration option is ideal for Enterprises running large workloads, and available in all Aura GCP availability regions supporting 3 or more availability zones.
Please get in touch with your Account Manager for more details!
Thanks
Aura Product Team
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Customer Managed Keys 🔑 now available on GCP!
We are pleased to announce the general availability of Customer Managed Keys for Aura Enterprise users on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)! Follow our documentation to protect your data in Aura using your own managed keys on GCP Cloud Key Management.
With that, all customers can now use Customer Managed Keys to encrypt Aura Enterprise instances, regardless of your chosen cloud provider.
To learn more about the benefits of using Customer Managed Keys on Neo4j Aura, check out this Neo4j blog.
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Neo4j Aura Database Feature Update!
The following core Neo4j Database features are now available for users in Aura:
- The default store format for new databases in Aura is now Block format. Block format supersedes all previous formats and provides superior performance.. You can read about store formats in the Store Formats documentation.
Cypher Fixes
- Backup metadata scripts and SHOW PRIVILEGES AS COMMANDS will now correctly escape special characters in procedure, function and settings globs.
- Fixes an issue with planning complex boolean expressions – see https://github.com/neo4j/neo4j/issues/13466 and https://github.com/neo4j/neo4j/issues/13473.
Please refer to the changelog for full details of all the changes.
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Read-Only Secondaries Early Access Program open!
The Neo4j product team is excited to announce the Early Access Program (EAP) for Read-Only Secondaries is now open for all AuraDB Enterprise customers running Neo4j v5.
This feature sees the ability for customers to add Read-Only Secondaries to their Aura database instances for the first time. The main use case we are serving at EAP is for customers with a need for high Read throughput, to distribute those read queries.
Scope of the EAP
- Up to 15 static Read-Only Secondaries can be added per AuraDB Enterprise database instance.
- Single region only. Read-Only secondaries available in same region as their Primary database.
- The following routing policy will apply when at least one secondary is available: Route READ to secondaries + non-leader primaries. This policy extends the READ payload to the primaries that are not currently serving in an elected leader role. It allows to further balance the READ and improve scalability
- Available for all clouds (AWS, Azure & GCP)
- During EAP each Secondary is will consume credits at ⅓ (‘a third’) of the normal running rate of an AuraDB Enterprise database. We reserve the right to adjust this once the feature is made generally available.
We will not support use cases for isolated workloads (customer routing) or multi region replication at this time, but will be gathering feedback on those use cases during EAP.
If you would like to register interest in our Early Access program, please complete the sign-up form here and we'll be in touch to discuss!
For more information, please reach our to your Account Team.
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Neo4j Aura Product Team
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