Changelog
Follow up on the latest improvements and updates.
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🚀 NEW: Customer Managed Keys 🔑 now available for Aura Enterprise (AWS)!
We are pleased to announce the general availability of Customer Managed Keys for Aura Enterprise customers on AWS. You can now protect your data in Aura using your own managed keys created using AWS Key Management Service (KMS).
To start using Customer Managed Keys, head to the Aura Console and choose Customer Managed Key in the left hand navigation. You can then create a new Customer Managed Key here. Remember to copy the Key ARN from AWS and match the AWS region where the key is located.
Once the Customer Managed Key have been created and validated with AWS, you can start using it to encrypt a new v5 instance. Head back to Instances of the selected product (AuraDB or AuraDS) and click New Instance. You can then choose to use your Customer Managed Key under Encryption Settings.
To learn more about Customer Managed Keys, head over to the Aura documentation. Happy graphing!
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Latest Neo4j version 5.19 on Aura!
All Aura v5 databases are now running the latest Neo4j version 5.19.
Highlights include:
Surface for Developers and Data Scientists
GenAI plugin:
- Support for Vertex AI taskType and title embedding parameters
- Support for Vertex AI vector encoding models textembedding-gecko@002, textembedding-gecko@003, and textembedding-gecko-multilingual@001.
Language and Graph Model
- An optional keyword DISTINCT can now be used after UNION as the explicit form of a UNION with duplicate removal. Users now have the options of UNION ALL, UNION DISTINCT or UNION (the existing behavior, which behaves as UNION DISTINCT). Documentation is available here.
- For LIST and STRING concatenation, || can now be used as a synonym of + Documentation is available here and here.
Scale and Availability
- A new and improved eagerness analysis algorithm reduces the number of eager operators and improves explainability and performance, and reduces memory utilization.
Operability & Observability
- Plan descriptions produced by EXPLAIN and PROFILE now provide additional information about planned eager operators in the 'Detail' column, improving explainability.
Platform & Supportability
- In line with OpenID Connect Core 1.0 updates to errata set 2, remove checks on the azp claim in OIDC tokens when there are multiple values in the aud claim.
- Update Apache Shiro to 2.0.0
Security
- Set permissions on /var/lib/neo4j/bin to 755
Fixes
Kernel Fixes
- A fix that avoids database issues following a leader switch in clustered setups on 5.18. We now perform an extra lease check to ensure a token's replicated state is current before checking its existence in the database. This prevents attempts to create duplicate tokens post-switch, which can cause database panics.
- Fixed transaction logs metrics that weren't incremented in a cluster setup.
- Fixes a rare issue in clustered setups where frequent leader switches could cause some internal record IDs to be reused.
- Fixes a problem when the verbose flag was set while using neo4j-admin to output a dump file. This would cause both outputs to be written to standard out, resulting in garbage. When running neo4j-admin database dump --to-stdout neo4j any logging output is now directed to standard err, and the database dump will be directed to standard out.
Cypher Fixes
- Bug fixes and security updates on IMMUTABLE privileges
- Fix bug in pipelined runtime where a fused pipeline following a CALL IN TRANSACTION subquery without RETURN could have generated incorrect code for reading from input rows, which could lead to an IndexOutOfBoundsException.
Please refer to the changelog for full details of the changes.
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Advanced Metrics now available for Aura Professional!
We are pleased to announce the general availability of Advanced Metrics for Aura Professional customers in the Aura console. It is accessed from the current metrics tab of an instance card in the Aura console, by clicking on the Advanced Metrics button next to the time range selector, and will open in a new tab.
Advanced Metrics offers an expanded set of metrics divided into three categories:
- Resources- Information about the resource utilization of your database instances and their underlying hardware.
- Instance- In-depth information about how your Neo4j instance is running.
- Database- This section contains information specific to your Aura database.
Interactive charts
Advanced Metrics features interactive charts that let you adjust the view to your needs.
- Zoom- All charts can be zoomed in by selecting and dragging. The zoom level applies to all charts on the page, letting you easily surface correlated events across multiple metrics. Reset the view using the context menu or double-clicking anywhere within the chart.
- Relative or absolute values- Certain charts can be toggled to show either relative or absolute values.
- Enable and disable lines- In charts containing more than one data series, lines can be toggled simply by clicking in the chart legend.
NOTE: Professional users will see only a single data series on the charts. Multiple series is an Enterprise feature
Expanded view
Use the Expand option in the context menu of any chart to maximize the chart on the screen. All chart interactions are still available in expanded mode. If you adjust the zoom level in an expanded chart the zoom level is seamlessly applied to all charts in the background.
Next steps
Happy charting!
Aura and Ops Manager product teams.
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AuraDB Enterprise
AuraDS Enterprise
Advanced Metrics now available for Aura Enterprise!
We are pleased to announce the general availability of Advanced Metrics for Aura Enterprise customers in the Aura console. It is accessed from the current metrics tab of an instance card in the Aura console, by clicking on the Advanced Metrics button next to the time range selector, and will open in a new tab.
Advanced Metrics offers an expanded set of metrics divided into three categories:
- Resources- Information about the resource utilization of your database instances and their underlying hardware.
- Instance- In-depth information about how your Neo4j instance is running.
- Database- This section contains information specific to your Aura database.
Aggregations
As Aura Enterprise instances run with high availability, the charts in Advanced Metrics can provide some aggregate views of the servers providing the high availability. For example, CPU usage can show the maximum, average (mean) and minimum usage of the servers supporting the database.
Interactive charts
Advanced Metrics features interactive charts that let you adjust the view to your needs.
- Zoom- All charts can be zoomed in by selecting and dragging. The zoom level applies to all charts on the page, letting you easily surface correlated events across multiple metrics. Reset the view using the context menu or double-clicking anywhere within the chart.
- Relative or absolute values- Certain charts can be toggled to show either relative or absolute values.
- Enable and disable lines- In charts containing more than one data series, lines can be toggled simply by clicking in the chart legend.
Expanded view
Use the Expand option in the context menu of any chart to maximize the chart on the screen. All chart interactions are still available in expanded mode. If you adjust the zoom level in an expanded chart the zoom level is seamlessly applied to all charts in the background.
Next steps
Advanced Metrics are being made available for Aura Enterprise instances initially. It will also be made available to Aura Professional instances soon.
Happy charting!
Aura and Ops Manager product teams.
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Latest Neo4j version 5.18 on Aura!
All Aura v5 databases are now running the latest Neo4j version 5.18.
Highlights
Surface for Developers and Data Scientists
- The GenAI Plugin introduces and defaults to a new vector search index provider, vector-2.0, which brings: Support for up to 4096 dimensional vectors and integral element vectors, An improved cosine similarity implementation & Relationship vector indexes.
- Added support in the GenAI Plugin for the OpenAI text-embedding-3-large and text-embedding-3-small models. These new models have the optional dimensions::INTEGER configuration option, as they support shortening on both OpenAI and Azure OpenAI.
- Added support for using Azure OpenAI as the embedding provider in the GenAI Plugin. (Documentation of the GenAI Plugin is here.)
Language and Graph Model
- Extended the Simple CASE expression to allow predicate expressions (e.g. WHEN IS NOT NULL THEN 1) and comparison operators (e.g. WHEN <1 THEN 'small', and also to allow comma-separated WHEN operands (e.g. WHEN 'red', 'blue', 'green' THEN 'colourful'). (Documentation is here.)
- INSERT can now be used as a synonym of CREATE when creating graph elements (documentation is available here).
Vector index updates:
- Added pairwise vector similarity functions vector.similarity.euclidean and vector.similarity.cosine (documentation is available here).
- CREATE VECTOR INDEX for relationship vector indexes (requires 'vector-2.0' index provider)
- Support for indexes and queries with LIST<INTEGER|FLOAT> to help accommodate some implicit conversions that can occur with Cypher.
- Documentation for vector indexes is here; see also documentation for syntax and procedures.
Please refer to the changelog for full details of the changes.
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Ops Manager
Neo4j Ops Manager 1.9.1 patch available
The latest patch for Neo4j Ops Manager is now available to download from the download centre and other usual repositories.
This is a patch release with a selection of bug fixes, and
- Support for Neo4j 5.17 and 4.4.30 versions in upgrade manager
- Support for dark mode to match the system preference
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GraphQL API - Early Access Program!
In the GraphQL team at Neo4j, we’ve been working on extending  Aura to natively offer GraphQL Connectivity.
We’re now at the stage where people can start to try it and gives us some early feedback. If you’re interested in using GraphQL with Aura or just want to know more, then you can register your interest here
The Early Access will run between 1st April and 31st May and can be used with any Aura instance that is running inÂ
GCP
 - other cloud platforms will be available later this year in a later Early Access.new
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Latest Neo4j version 5.17 on Aura!
All Aura V5 databases are now running the latest Neo4j version 5.17.
Highlights
Neo4j GenAI Integrations
Compatibility with various generative AI services, including support for transforming text data into vector embeddings using VertexAI, OpenAI, or Amazon Bedrock. The resulting vector embeddings can be used together with Neo4j’s vector search indexes. Documentation is available here.
Language and Graph Model
- A string normalization function (NORMALIZE) and predicate expression (IS [NOT] NORMALIZED), making it possible to generate a canonical form of a Unicode string and determine if two Unicode strings are equivalent to each other. Documentation is available here and here.
- On attempting to create an index or constraint (CREATE INDEX|CONSTRAINT... IF NOT EXISTS), we now return a notification if the index/constraint to be created already exists. Similarly, on attempting to drop an index or constraint (DROP INDEX|CONSTRAINT... IF EXISTS), we now return a notification if the index/constraint to be dropped does not exist. Documentation is available here and here.
- Cache queries with obfuscated literals #24046 & Speed-up obfuscation #24019.
Fixes
- Fix a bug where a query using a conjunction such as CREATE (:A&B) would create a node without labels.
- Fix a bug that would return a ‘WGS84 invalid coordinate error’ in a POINT INDEX distance calculation. This bug would occur for large search distances (> 11,936,226 m) where the search region perimeter crosses both poles (90,0 and -90,0).
- Fix issue with EXPLAIN and nested temporal types leading to a failed to pretty print RuntimeConstant error.
- Fix bugs in query obfuscation #23124.
Please refer to the changelog for full details of the changes.
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Query log export update
Query log exports for AuraDB Professional instances will now only contain queries which complete in over 50ms.
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Data Importer
Import
Data Importer - Preview and Files panel updates
This release of Data Importer brings a number of small changes that make using Data Importer that little bit easier :
Preview graph visualisation
The Import preview is now the last part of Workspace to migrate from the old visualisation to the new one used in Explore and Query. As well as being more visually consistent, it's now more responsive and easier to navigate.
We'll be exploring upping the limits on the number of preview nodes, do leave us feedback if you think that'd be useful.
Files panel
- Files are now sorted alphabetically, making files easier to locate in longer lists.
- Files can now be globally expanded and collapsed making it easier to work with longer lists.
That's all for now. We're working on some big new capabilities in import, more on that to follow in the coming months 😀. As always keep your feedback coming on feedback.neo4j.com.
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