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Kernel
- A new
dbms.checkpoint
procedure has been added. This is useful for when you change the log pruning configuration, and you want the changes to take effect quickly. Note that calling this procedure can have a negative effect on transaction throughput because it temporarily disables thedbms.checkpoint.iops.limit
setting. - Fixes a problem where the recovery that happened after an incremental catchup in a Causal Cluster, would put the write the wrong starting transaction to the
debug.log
. The starting transaction was cached from the first recovery, and wasn't cleared for subsequent recoveries. This only influenced the logging output -- the recovery process itself always picked the correct starting transaction to recovery from. - Full-text schema index queries can now start with a leading '*' wildcard, such that, for instance, the token 'abcdef' in a property value, can be matched by the query '*def'.
- Print process priority as part of neo4j admin report instead of start time.
- Better handling of OutOfMemoryErrors during log flushing
Cypher
- Solve bug with the error message
This expression should not be added to a logical plan
that would only occur in test environments. - Fix bug in slot allocation of aliased variable names
- Fix bug with node reference leaking to bolt server
- Fix bug where adding nodes to the graph would not cause a query replan
- Fix rounding error in DurationValue approximate
- Fix memory hogging query collector
- Fixes bug with the message 'Tried to map bad logical plan. LHS and RHS must never be the same'.
Causal Clustering
- Partially order routers in accordance with filtering policies
Browser
- Block background queries until the prev is finished
- Updates to dark theme
- Fix retain credentials info on connect frame
- Escape auto-completed labels, types and property keys in editor.
- Upgrade to neo4j-driver version 1.7.4
Misc
- Backup no longer logs in running server debug.log
- Reset last message timer monitor on leader stepping down.
- Failure message is not flushed when no free work thread is available
3.5.5
Kernel
- Performance of making changes to nodes and relationships are no longer affected by the presence of indexes and/or constraints that are not related to the actual changes. Before these changes a large number of indexes and/or constraints could affect performance of write transactions negatively, even if the actual changes were unrelated to the changes made.
- Fix a number of cases where unhelpful exceptions were thrown, when a committed write transaction that perform deletes or removals cause conflicts in an overlapping read transaction. We now throw
IllegalStateException
from the embedded API, andTransientException
(which tells clients to retry their transactions) from the driver (Bolt) API. - Failed index sampling doesn't prevent index drop. Previously if index sampling failed for some reason, this could prevent index from being dropped because sampler didn't clean up after itself.
- The
neo4j-admin dump
now uses a new archive format. This makes thedump
andload
commands significantly faster, while also making the archives slightly smaller. Additionally, thedump
andload
commands now also prints their progress to the console. - Fix delay calculation in IO limiter
- Always close reader from RecordingConflictDetector
Cypher
- fix runtime=slotted any() on rhs of NodeHashJoin
- fix
scala.MatchError
crash onDELETE last(col)
- Fix bug in planner where queries with many OR:ed exact predicates would plan slowly or never complete, if they where solvable with a uniqueness constraint (or Node Key) index.
- Fix missing register-owning-pipe on expression in some pipes
Cypher Shell
- Don't send parameter lambdas to server
- Upgrade to java 11
- Stream results of autocommit queries
3.5.4
Kernel
- Makes consistency checker relationship cache algo actually work
- Three improvements around uniqueness constraint creation: (1) Indexes of type UNIQUE without a constraint can be dropped using
DROP INDEX ON :Label(key)
. (2) Uniqueness constraint creation will not be subject to thedbms.transaction.timeout
timeout. (3) Uniqueness constraint creation transaction will notice termination, e.g. termination usingkillQuery
/killTransaction
procedures will actually terminate it. - Internal annotation processors are now in a separate module so they can run from a cleaner annotation path, rather than the classpath. This makes it easier to convince build tools to not complain about them, when building applications that embed Neo4j.
neo4j-admin memrec
now makes better suggestions for systems that have memory capacities in the 512 MiB to 1 GiB range.- Deprecate for removal dbms.active_database and unsupported.dbms.directories.database.
- The Causal Cluster Raft Replicator will no longer print (potentially enormous) textual transaction log segments to the
debug.log
. - Index population backed by 'block based index populator' could report false negatives for duplicate property values. This happened if, while scanning the store to provide updates for the populating index, property values changed such that the scan would see the same value twice even though no duplication existed in any point in time. This is mitigated by verifying suspected duplicates after population is finished.
Cypher
- Fix rare bug in slotted runtime which would manifest as an exception with the message
Tried to copy more data into less
in Cypher queries with execution plans containing anApply
with aOptional
and aDistinct
on its right hand side. - Fixes problem in procedure
dbms.setTXMetaData()
wherenull
value in the given map could lead to a null pointer exception - Fixed distance queries that used
<
and ranged over the dateline and would miss points exactly on the dateline
Causal Clustering
- Routing procedures now run with mode DBMS
- ClusterBinding Shutdown
- Improve logging of result of causal cluster handshakes
- Raft membership manager can no longer consider itself superfluous
Browser
- Fix
[object Object]
for integers in viz for PathSegments - Use less resource intensive background requests
- Fix user management UI in Community Edition
- Add tx metadata to queries that's generated by user actions
- Show query termination message when closing frame that has an active query
- Fix subgraphs not displaying correctly under certain circumstances
Misc
- Updated Jetty version to 9.2.26.v20180806
3.5.3
Kernel
- Fixes an issue where a large amount of bad data items encountered during an import could use an excessive amount of heap and slow down the import as a whole. The report queue is now bounded and applies back-pressure.
- Improvements to total mapped size calculations
- Programatic invocations of online backup now respects the page cache tuning parameters that they are given.
- Programatic invocations of online backup now respects the page cache tuning parameters that they are given.
- Adds IndexReader#distinctValues() able to access all distinct values in an index with number of indexed entries for each value. Values are materialized if user requests it and the index supports materialization of actual values.
- Backport: Removes accidental limitation of number of reltypes to 64K for high_limit format
Cypher
- Updating after undirected match with predicate
- Fix issue with PROFILE and EXPLAIN of queries with unusual variable names
- Fix bug in slotted NodeRightOuterHashJoin, which would lead to wrong results.
Causal Clustering
- Delete spammy log line.
3.5.2
Kernel
- A new
db.index.fulltext.awaitIndex
procedure has been added, which can await indexes specified by name, instead of the label/property pattern it supported so far by thedb.awaitIndex
procedure. Specifically, this means that you can now wait for specific named fulltext indexes to come online. Previously it was only possible to wait for fulltext indexes to come online, by calling thedb.awaitIndexes
procedure, which waits for all schema indexes. The behaviour of the existingdb.awaitIndex
procedure has not been changed, in order to preserve compatibility. - When a native memory allocation fails, Neo4j will now include helpful debugging information in all such cases, instead of just some of them.
- Fix node set property to not lock unrelated constraints
- Fix a problem where if a fulltext schema index and a normal schema has the same schema (e.g. the same label and property combination) then the fulltext schema index could not be dropped. It is now possible to drop fulltext schema indexes, even when the schema of the fulltext index matches that of a normal schema index.
- Fixes a race updating the label index, where e.g. a node CREATE followed by DELETE could be reordered into DELETE followed by CREATE, and vice versa.
- The result of the
db.index.fulltext.listAvailableAnalyzers
procedure now includes a description of each analyzer. Thesimple
,classic
, andstop
analyzers from the standard Lucene analyzer suite have also been added. - Properly prints FAILED on import failure
- Close all index readers opened during lockingNodeUniqueIndexSeek
- Restore possibility to use BranchedStoreBean.
- Prevent fulltext indexes from being created via db.createIndex procedure.
Cypher
Obsfucate LDAP system password in debug log
When ordering both by aliased (
var01
) and unaliased (p.name
)columns, we would possibly swap them. This is now fixed.
Packaging
- Pass command line arguments to powershell scripts using proper parameter passing rather than injection into a script block.
Causal Clustering
- Netty 4.1.32.Final
- Remove ID-files if instance was unbound
Browser
Support Neo4j Kerberos auth when in a Neo4j Desktop environment
Keep bolt connections alive in web workers
Fix hidden error on re-run when going from success -> error result
Fix
:help keys
in dark modefixes: https://github.com/neo4j/neo4j-browser/issues/889
Add link
:server user list
to admin section of db sidebar
Misc
- Deprecate JMX beans in favour of metrics that can be exposed over multiple providers (including JMX) or procedures.
3.5.1
Kernel
- Introduce procedures that able to kill transactions.
- Neo4j will now log warnings if there are duplicate settings in the
neo4j.conf
file. - Update reported metrics types to correctly represent nature of reported event.
- Removes explicit neo4j-admin import db existence check
- Improves the error message when a kernel extension cannot be loaded for various reasons, such as version mismatches between extensions like APOC, and Neo4j itself.
- Fix public api: revive legacy iterators
- Fix VM pause monitor logging
Cypher
Fix issue with compiled runtime and
count()
, where transient entity inconsistencies would make some aggregating queries (e.g.MATCH (n:Artist) WHERE n.name = 'Madonna' RETURN count(n)
) return fewer rows than expected.Fixes an issue with having a DISTINCT (that is on the node instead of the property) between an index read and the usage of the property.
E.g
MATCH (n:Label) WHERE n.prop = 42 WITH DISTINCT n RETURN n.prop
Fix an error that made the timestamp function case sensitive, https://github.com/neo4j/neo4j/issues/12097
Solve a bug where a variable reused after a WITH ORDER BY (e.g.
MATCH (n) WITH n.prop1 AS prop ORDER BY n.prop2 MATCH (n) ...
), meant the variable use in the ORDER BY was not picked up in semantic checking.
Browser
- New format for tx metadata for logs
- Fix application crash when killing a query from
:queries
frame - Fix (extremely) slow data parsing in certain cases
- Collapse manually expanded nodes in the viz
- Replace and add more viz styling colors
- Upgrade neo4j-driver to 1.7.2
- Support deep links via Neo4j Desktop
Misc
- Fixed an issue where discovery document construction did not consider request URI for
bolt
entries and always pointed tolocalhost
when noadvertised_address
is not configured for the connector.
3.5.0
Cypher
- Fix issue where queries with many disjunctive index seeks (
... n.age = 3 OR n.name = 'George' ...
) would plan forever.
3.5.0-rc01
Kernel
- Adds IndexReader#distinctValues
- Add original cause of failure to failed index stack trace. Partly addresses https://github.com/neo4j/neo4j/issues/12038
- The
continuous
checkpoint policy (thedbms.checkpoint
setting) has been made less aggressive. It will now only requests checkpoints if any write transactions has committed since last check, and it now only checks at most once every 100 milliseconds, instead of in a busy loop. This reduces the CPU overhead of the policy on systems that don't do many writes. - Throttle StoreSizeMBean calls to prevent excessive resources consumption
Cypher
- Fixes 12051 so that more complex IN predicates (containing AND/OR together with NOT) are rewritten correctly.
- Fixes bug with cypher.lenient_create_relationship. It would not work under some circumstances with MERGE in interpreted.
Browser
- Update icons
- Introduce experimental features section in Settings
- Enable fullscreen ability for
:queries
frame - Fix auto-completed relationships not showing in viz legend on first render
- Fix nested :params bug
- Update neo4j-driver to 1.7 and send transaction metadata with Cypher queries
- Let the configuration initCmd be empty
- Fix stream rendering issues in IE 11
- Add
Order
to plan output if it exists - Update links to documentation in the docs sidebar
- Show message if neo4j-browser is opened without an active graph in a Neo4j Desktop environment
- Add support for GraSS selectors (node labels and rel types) containing a
.
- Remote guides - resovle config ’*’ to default whitelist
Misc
- Fix queue size update race in Bolt read limiter
- 'Connection reset by peer' errors will be logged on warning level without stack traces to avoid log pollution.
3.5.0-beta03
Kernel
- Index providers lucene-1.0, lucene+native-1.0 and lucene+native-2.0 are deprecated and will eventually be removed. The recommended index provider to use is native-btree-1.0. The only reason to use any of the deprecated providers should be the limitations described in detail in the operations manual. For those limitations there are currently no replacement and deprecated providers will not be removed until there is.
- In some cases, label would be left out when printing index description in logs. This is now fixed. Partly addresses https://github.com/neo4j/neo4j/issues/12038
- In the case where an index ends up in a failed state, it is now possible to get the cause of the failure from procedure
db.indexes
. Partly addresses https://github.com/neo4j/neo4j/issues/12038 - Avoids legacy index removed-entity-repair if no write allowed
Cypher
- Fix issue where missing headers caused a
NullPointerException
to occur. - Fix ORDER BY + LIMIT 0 in slotted runtime
- Added new property schema procedures
db.schema.nodeTypeProperties
anddb.schema.relTypeProperties
- Fixes issue where spatial and temporal properties wasn't handled correctly when using
'resultDataContents': ['rest']
in REST API. - Fix PeRiOdiC COmmIT being case sensitive
- Fixed a bug with alphabetical ordering of indexes from db.indexes
Causal Clustering
- Incremental online backup now leaves the resulting backed up store in a fully recovered state. This fixes problems with seeding a Causal Cluster with a store from an incremental online backup.
3.5.0-beta02
Kernel
- Consistency-checker PropertyReader detects circular property chains
- Fixes an issue in IndexHits#getSingle() where it would miss an item when called after a previous call to IndexHits#hasNext().
- Remove property key tokens limit from BatchInserterImpl.
- Server plugins are now deprecated for removal in the next major release. We recommend that unmanaged extensions are used instead.
- The
neo4j-shell
command, and the shell server, have been removed. We recommend usingcypher-shell
instead.
Cypher
Fixes issue with index planning around predicates with dependencies. In particular, spatial bounding box queries can now be index backed even if the min and/or max expressions include variables.
Fix planner regression in which HashJoin + AllNodeScan was preferred
over OptionalExpand in certain cases.
Fix ORDER BY + LIMIT 0 in slotted runtime
Packaging
- Garbage collector log location is changed to be logs directory instead of neo4j home.
Security
- Properly handle multiple authorization providers. Fixes an issue where if one provider failed (e.g. connection to ldap failed) the user would end up un-authorized even though another provider had succeeded.
- Fixes an authentication bug when using startTLS and System Account
Causal Clustering
- Read replicas now copy the store from a single other member of the cluster.
Browser
![Result Result](https://i1.wp.com/blog.knoldus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/screenshot-from-2016-09-09-141141.png?fit=810%2C561&ssl=1)
- Fix issue where editor buttons would overflow the viewport
- Fetch fresh version of remote guides on every request
- Fix neo4j-browser not working properly when db auth is disabled
- Future proof Neo4j Desktop integration by using the
url
field in connection info. - Fix rare neo4j-browser crash when clicking on yellow Cypher warning triangle
- Fix crashing
:queries
frame in clustered environments when all members couldn't be reached
Misc
- Rotate transaction logs during incremental backup.
3.5.0-beta01
Kernel
Remove cursor pooling on a page cache level.
Uses order from index seeks in Cypher instead of planning Sort operators, where possible. This will work only for a very limited set of queries and only for ascending order. Example
MATCH (n:B) WHERE n.prop STARTS WITH 'foo' RETURN n.prop ORDER BY n.prop
. In order to trigger index-backed ordering, it is currently always necessary to provide a Range predicate (n.prop STARTS WITH 'foo'
orn.prop > 0
or ...).This also adds a new column to the ASCII art plan description: Order. The column describes the order of the outgoing rows of that operator.
Cypher
Augment Cypher to support index-backed order on
CONTAINS
andENDS WITH
predicates. This is possible because all current indexes that support ordering solve these queries by a scan and filter, and therefore provide results in order.Enable Index-backed order by in descending order from Cypher.
This changes the planner to use index provided properties (instead of going to the property store) in the following two cases:
MATCH (n:L) WHERE n.prop <= 42 AND n.prop % 2 = 0
(usage in another predicate)MATCH (n:L) WHERE n.prop = 42 WITH n as m MATCH (m)-[r]-(o) RETURN m.prop
(usage after a WITH)Ensure renamed timezones are always returned the same way.
Will now return the same object with timezone set to
Canada/Saskatchewan
, whichCanada/East-Saskatchewan
has been renamed to. Previously only the value read from store would beCanada/Saskatchewan
Fix bug in queries containing
RETURN
orWITH
clauses including both a star and a pattern comprehesion (e.g.... RETURN *, [ (a)-[:HAS_BUREAU]->(bureau:Bureau) | bureau.CREDIT_ACTIVE = 'Active'] AS bureauStatus
), which would previously fail withWITH/RETURN should note its Scope in the SemanticState
.Fix bug which would cause
FunctionInvocation(...) has to type from semantic analysis
errors for some complexWITH
-clauses in a write query.
Causal Clustering
- Check recovery status of store when bootstrapping cluster
Config
- User log can written directly to neo4j.log. neo4j.log can be configured to use log rotation.
Browser
- Fix username not updating in sidebar when disconnecting
- Improve Cypher result rendering performance
- Prepare for Neo4j Desktop distribution
Misc
- Allow disabling HTTP in Neo4j server and harness. Embedded Jetty server is not started when both HTTP and HTTPS are disabled. REST endpoints will not be available and server plugins / extensions will never be loaded or executed.
3.5.0-alpha09
Kernel
- Upgrade the Bouncy Castle dependency to version 1.60.
- Deprecate High Availability Edition.
Cypher
- Fix $12011 by providing the wanted functionality under a feature toggle.
- Remove browser warnings when using temporal and spatial property accessors e.g.
.year
,.x
. - Fix 12029 where combining multiple
a IN
with AND and OR could lead to the wrong result.
Causal Clustering
- Cluster instances display additional information on availability endpoints to help in rolling upgrades
- Unbind from cluster successful if already unbound
Tools
- Revert mistakenly enabling NEO4J_DEBUG by default for neo4j-admin
Browser
- Add
:history clear
command - Add pagecache hits and misses to plan output
- Add complete support for bolt+routing://
- Add Neo4j Community Forum link to sidebar
- Enable users with non reader roles to connect
- Fix
:server switch
bug in Neo4j Desktop environment
3.5.0-alpha08
Kernel
- Fix bug causing property values that where too large for an index to slip through during population. This will later cause readers to fail upon reading from index with
org.neo4j.io.pagecache.CursorException: Read unreliable key
. For further information on how to handle this issue, please see release notes. - Reuse threads between cleanup jobs during recovery. This fixes an issue where user would see
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: unable to create new native thread
caused by Neo violating the number of allowed tasks per process, set by system. - Remove objenesis from the dependencies and from libraries included into distribution.
- Fixes a native index issue where inserting large values, although within size limit, could result in attempt to write out of bounds on page. Any transaction experiencing this would be allowed to commit, but run into this issue when applying the changes to the index.
- Remove com.google.code.findbugs:jsr305 from distribution libraries.
Cypher
Fixed a bug where spatial range queries with inequalities would return points on the axes defined by the search points
Made error messages for functions applied to incompatible types more consistent
If the index can provide exact property values, they will be used starting of now. Indexes can always provide the values for equality predicates and all native indexes except the spatial index can also return the property values for other predicates. Lucene and spatial indexes cannot provide the values.
An example of what improves:
MATCH (n:N) WHERE n.prop > 10 RETURN n.prop
used to planned with a Projection. Now, the property values are obtained directly from the NodeIndexSeek. This will avoid additional lookups in the PropertyStore.Fixes https://github.com/neo4j/neo4j/issues/12017 so when solving an OR predicate, other predicates are only considered solved if they were solved in both underlying operators.
Fix broken ON MATCH SET in PERIODIC COMMIT. This bug would show up as a problem to read properties in all the PERIODIC COMMIT commits except the first.
3.5.0-alpha07
Kernel
- Add an eventually consistent update mode for the fulltext indexes.
- All APIs, surfaces and features related to explicit/auto/manual/legacy indexes are now deprecated for removal in the next major release. People are encouraged to switch to schema indexes, and the new full-text indexes, instead.
- Avoid ConcurrentModificationException in the SchemaCacheState copy-constructor.
- Allow disabling the FileWatcher
Cypher
- Fixed issues with WRITE procedures interacting badly with their enclosing Cypher read queries by allowing authors to add an
eager
attribute to the@Procedure
annotation.
Causal Clustering
- Akka discovery
- Bounded queue and batching for Raft content
- Fix hostname regression
Misc
- Removing the stracktrace of login errors in user log (neo4j.log)
3.5.0-alpha06
Kernel
- Constraint index violation won't fail BatchInserter#shutdown()
- Fix issue https://github.com/neo4j/neo4j/issues/11993
Cypher
Port okapi.schema() procedure to 3.4
date(null)
used to falsely return the current date. Now it returnsnull
instead. The same is true for all other temporal functions.Give sensible error message for merge on null node.
Reverts the restriction on passing unknown keys to the point function. Behaviour is now as it was before, allowing complex maps. Users need to take note of the fact that this means a map like
{x:1,y:2,z:3}
will create a 2D point in Neo4j 3.1-3.3, but a 3D point in Neo4j 3.4 and later.Pattern comprehensions in other expressions were not planned correctly. Example:
size([ (a)-->(b:B) WHERE (b)-->(:C) b.foo ]). This is now fixed.
Packaging
- Add support for Powershell ConstrainedLanguage mode
Causal Clustering
- ICE hostname verification
Misc
- Procedures to list and kill network connections
- Fix connection stop from failing because of rejected execution errors
3.5.0-alpha05
Kernel
- Index provider for the fulltext index
- Add support for attaching to running neo4j instance on Windows servers
Cypher
- Take Query Parameters over default arguments. If you don't provide actual arguments, but query parameters instead (like in
CALL org.neo4j.aNodeWithLabel
params =Map('label' -> 'Cat')
) this will from now on use the provided parameters and override any default arguments. It was preferring default arguments before, if they existed. - Improve error message on non-node input in LockNodesPipe
- Compiled
ExpandInto
respects relationship type
Causal Clustering
- Fix log warning of replication retry attempts
Browser
- Add toggle for multi statement cypher editor
- Fix editor to handle string literals that contain new lines
Misc
- Make authentication rate limits configurable
3.5.0-alpha04
Kernel
- Parallel flushing and forcing of pages
- Disable prometheus during backup to fix port conflict issues
- Fix a bug whereby once a spatial index exists, all future spatial indexes of the same CRS will inherit the same settings, regardless of what the neo4j.conf settings say.
Cypher
Fix a bug where predicates inside pattern comprehensions could end up not being correctly planned which could lead to incorrect results
Fix bug in duration.between() that would calculate wrong time difference for date times if the total difference was less than a whole day.
Don't use exact division in selectivity estimation
We were using
BigDecimal#divide
without rounding mode when computingthe selectivity. It uses exact division and does thus not handle numbers withnon-terminating decimal expansions, e.g.1/3
and1/6
.
Causal Clustering
Nicer store copy logging.
Avoid logging stack trace on:
- connection refused
- topology lookup exception
Browser
- Add support for multi-statement execution
- Switch to React 16.4
- Fix meta query to be more performant
- Handle changelog url building in disconnected state
- Fix crashing favorites sidebar when using non latin1 characters
3.5.0-alpha02
Kernel
- Restore ability to handle directories on database restore
- Fix incorrect index validity check for lucene indexes (Backport of PR #11150)
- Update logging messages around indexes and constraints population.
- Fix issue where the diagnostic reporter did not support paths with spaces in the destination file.
- Add db-setting:
dbms.import.csv.buffer_size
allowing for increasing the internal buffer in order to handle csv-files with huge fields. - Update CSV file rotation threshold in metrics to be 10m instead of 100m by default
- Disable tracking of CPU time and memory allocation by default
- Add missing hits and unpins metrics to page cache statistics JMX bean.
Cypher
Such hints in spatial indexes when querying by distance are now allowed:
Plan consecutive CREATE clauses as one Create operator instead of multiple CreateNode and CreateRelationship. This improves performance of big create queries, and avoid stack overflow problems for extreme cases.
Core API users used to be allowed to pass in arbitrary objects as parameters. If these were not used by Cypher, we would silently ignore them. In
3.4.0
this was changed to always fail the query if any parameter was not convertible to a cypher type. This commits reverts to the previous lenient behavior, as this change caused problems for some users.Fixes bug that caused the Unknown value type: STRUCT error with queries that use PERIODIC COMMIT over bolt and return whole nodes or relationships
Aggregation (SUM, AVG) for Durations
Fixes problems where variables were displayed as
ReferenceFromSlot
in plan descriptions.VarExpand: Detect dependencies on path in inner predicates
Fix locking seeks with NO_VALUE
Clean up of QueryGraph
Add support for using compiled expressions.
Causal Clustering
- Streamed replicated content
- Abort replication on missing leader or leader switch
Browser
- Add auto refresh to sysinfo frame
- Fix [object Object] output when returning paths with new types
- Fix missing inspector items when spread over more than one line
- Word break long values in db info drawer
- Don’t add type hinting quotes on strings in CSV export
- In guides allow one dynamic field to update multiple elements
- Fix :style / GraSS regressions
- Show the total number of nodes and relationships in db meta sidebar
- Fix issue where neo4j-browser kept allocating more and more disk space
Misc
- Upgrade to jetty 9.4.11.v20180605
3.5.0-alpha01
Kernel
Increase swapper id limit, allowing more files (like indexes) to be opened by the page cache, and fix a MemoryManager bug around alignment handling.
Adds the configuration option
db.temporal.timezone
to configure a default time zone affecting the creation of all temporal values.Remove the traversal endpoints.
When writing WHERE n.str CONTAINS 'x'
Cypher will issue a warning, if n.str is backed by a native String indexwhich is suboptimal for these index scans.
Cypher
Fix bug in un-directed ProjectEndPoints when both end points are in scope
Add missing accessors to duration
Return null when trying to access a non-existing property from
a string instead of throwing error.
fixes #11663, Using percentileDisc with empty data should return null
High Availability
- Failure to switch to master is no longer terminal
Causal Clustering
- Cache local topology information and various minor cleanup
Browser
- Update JS driver to 1.0.0
- Update Neo4j JS Driver to 1.0.2
- Update neo4j js driver to 1.0.3
- Get Bolt address from server discovery service
- Query parameter support added
- Persist visualization auto-complete of relationships and add it to Settings Drawer.
- Cypher frame now only loads ascii table results when required
- Enable Bolt setting by default
- List and kill running queries with the new command
:qs
- See Core-Edge cluster in
:sysinfo
and connect to individual members - Update neo4j-driver to 1.1.0
- Bolt query execution time is now timed on the server side.
- Update links to docs on pre-releases to 'beta'
- Rename command :qs -> :queries
- Include the server version in the beta docs url
- Show 'beta' welcome frame for pre-releases to promote new features and how users can send us feedback.
- Enable :queries command only when procedure is available
- Sort user roles alphabetically in user admin frame
- Add support for the
bolt+routing
protocol when in a Causal Cluster - Give users feedback when setting :param
- Reuse connections for heartbeat to not flood the security log with login items
- Pre-release of rewritten version of Neo4j Browser.
- Try to fetch guide remotely if not found locally
- Fix slow loading of user and system info in database drawer
- Read and act on server config retain_connection_credentials
- Define URL to connect to with URL param 'connectURL'
- Style table view and just show relevant information
- Fix editor error when writing Cypher LOAD CSV or referencing non existing indexes
- Fix failure to parse server config browser.remote_content_hostname_whitelist
- Fix missing scrollbars in left drawer in some web browsers
- Make the Browser commands case insensitive
- Fix for collected graph items now showing up in viz
- Bring back
:server status
command. - Present total db hits and time stats in PROFILE View
- Backtick meta items in auto generated queries from drawer
- Fix login for restricted users
- Fix broken elapsed time in :queries frame
- Add slider to text view statusbar
- Listen for config maxFrames and enforce that limit in stream
- Fix indicator being at start of line in error messages
- Fix for sensitive dropdown menu closing too easy
- Update document title with connected username and host
- Add support for handling multiple commands from browser.post_connect_cmd
- Escape backticks in meta item queries
- Limit number of meta items shown in db drawer
- Introduce fetching client configuration from a remote JSON file
- Fix :help input with space
- Fix unstable guide pagination
- Fix missing auth headers on local
:GET
,:POST
etc command requests - Fix cursor sometimes resetting to start position
- Parse server config duration strings correctly
- Add cluster role, db filename and total store size to sidebar
- Add dark theme
- Only display truthy connection data in the browser title
- Use separate thread for running cypher queries
- Save/Edit favorite in editor
- Add support for setting browser
:config
with objects - Fix sluggish experience when having hundreds of thousands meta items
- Fix app break when no events in UDC state
- Fixes mapping issue when using :sysinfo with HA
- Honor url whitelist when fetching remote grass files
- Bring back
:style
command - Fix display of zero length paths
- Don't add repeated executed commands to history
- Fix expand/collapse of plan results in all levels
- Fix cypher result exports
- Fix display of Neo4j integers in Cypher result frames
- Add ability to download a query plan as png
- Fix x overflow in frames with %-width in IE 11
- Sort keys when inspecting nodes
- Fix null not rendering in table view results
- Fix generated query for sidebar meta items named ‘*’
- Update neo4j-driver to 1.4.0
- Autologin to Browser Sync and obey server config
browser.allow_outgoing_connections
- Fix various bugs in editor Cypher parsing
- Fix Browser not being able to run cypher queries when using TLS and self signed certs
- Fix setting initial password over TLS when encryption is required
- In query plan: show signature of the procedure that got called
- In query plan: show the label that has been scanned
- Fix viz bug where boolean captions didn't show up on graph elements
- Add 3rd party LICENSES.txt and NOTICE.txt
- Remove escaping of characters in tables views
- Add visual feedback when adding new favourite, and enter 'edit favourite' mode.
- Integrate with desktop API
- Show Browser Sync banner when not accepted terms yet
- Enable thread to execute cypher on (web worker)
- Fix issue where mapping cypher result to vis would break the app
- Sync styling with Browser sync
- Disable editor highlighting with config option
- Add more detailed error messages for known Browser/OS issues
- Fix issue of some queries getting stuck because of the shape of the result
- Use latest released neo4j-driver
- Add page cache hit ratio to :sysinfo frame
- Update :sysinfo to display 'Store sizes' jmx values
- Fix for clearing local data when not signed in to browser sync
- Fix memory leak in background job
- Make every type of Bolt transactions use web workers
- Display driver result summary in code view
- Support new Neo4j types (Neo4j 3.4)
- Fix Cypher warning position in Warnings View
- Display more store sizes if they exist (Neo4j > 3.2)
- Add new param syntax to evaluate against the server
- Upgrade neo4j-driver to 1.6.0
- Render new types correctly in visualization
- Show more information on operators in plan output
- Fix docs links in sidebar to point to the connected version
- Upgrade neo4j-driver to 1.6.1
Cypher Shell
Added modes: verbose/plain. Verbose displays more information and is intended for interactive use. Plain displays only the data from queries, intended for scripting
Added multiline statement support
Added option (
--encryption
) to choose between encrypted and unencrypted communication with the serverAdded option
--debug
to get additional information in case of errorsMade semicolons optional for shell commands
Added version of connected Neo4j to welcome message
Fixed lack of interactive detection on Windows
- Now always uses interactive mode on Windows by default
- If non-interactive mode is desired (for scripting) then a new flag
--non-interactive
has been added
Insist that username is not empty
Fallback to plain
bolt://
when url scheme isbolt+routing://
Fixed incorrect handling of bangs [!] in usernames/passwords
empty password gives a more descriptive error message
Fixed handling of pipes on Windows
updated to neo4j java driver 1.2
cypher-shell now available in standalone Debian and RPM packages
Added tabular output format
automatically select output format when terminal is interactive or not
Fix periodic commit statements
Fixed startup crash on Alpine Linux
Updated Bolt driver to 1.4.3
upgrading to latest version of driver
Assigning cypher expressions to parameters
update params display to show new params setting
Upgrade to 1.6.0-beta01
adding support for spatial and temporal datatype
update to 1.6 driver
upgrading to driver 1.6.1
Misc
![Neo4j Allow Null In Result Neo4j Allow Null In Result](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/neo4j-contrib/neo4j-apoc-procedures/3.4/docs/images/apoc.uuid.result.png)
- Configurable CORS header
- Couple security-related improvements for server
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In this chapter, we will learn about Match Clause and all the functions that can be performed using this clause.
Get All Nodes Using Match
Using the MATCH clause of Neo4j you can retrieve all nodes in the Neo4j database.
Example
Before proceeding with the example, create 3 nodes and 2 relationships as shown below.
Following is the query which returns all the nodes in Neo4j database.
To execute the above query, carry out the following steps −
Step 1 − Open the Neo4j desktop App and start the Neo4j Server. Open the built-in browser app of Neo4j using the URL http://localhost:7474/ as shown in the following screenshot.
Step 2 − Copy and paste the desired query in the dollar prompt and press the play button (to execute the query) highlighted in the following screenshot.
Result
On executing, you will get the following result.
Getting All Nodes Under a Specific Label
Using match clause, you can get all the nodes under a specific label.
Syntax
Following is the syntax to get all the nodes under a specific label.
Example
Following is a sample Cypher Query, which returns all the nodes in the database under the label player.
To execute the above query, carry out the following steps −
Step 1 − Open the Neo4j desktop App and start the Neo4j Server. Open the built-in browser app of Neo4j using the URL http://localhost:7474/ as shown in the following screenshot.
Step 2 − Copy and paste the desired query in the dollar prompt and press the play button (to execute the query) highlighted in the following screenshot.
Result
On executing, you will get the following result.
Match by Relationship
You can retrieve nodes based on relationship using the MATCH clause.
Syntax
Following is the syntax of retrieving nodes based on the relationship using the MATCH clause.
Example
Following is a sample Cypher Query to retrieve nodes based on relationship using the MATCH clause.
To execute the above query, carry out the following steps −
Step 1 − Open the Neo4j desktop App and start the Neo4j Server. Open the built-in browser app of Neo4j using the URL http://localhost:7474/ as shown in the following screenshot.
Step 2 − Copy and paste the desired query in the dollar prompt and press the play button (to execute the query) highlighted in the following screenshot.
Result
On executing, you will get the following result.
Delete All Nodes
You can delete all the nodes using the MATCH clause.
Query
Following is the query to delete all the nodes in Neo4j.
To execute the above query, carry out the following steps −
Step 1 − Open the Neo4j desktop App and start the Neo4j Server. Open the built-in browser app of Neo4j using the URL http://localhost:7474/ as shown in the following screenshot.
Step 2 − Copy and paste the desired query in the dollar prompt and press the play button (to execute the query) highlighted in the following screenshot.
Result
On executing, you will get the following result.