Kernel

• Overwriting property with same value no longer generates write command #9056
• More scalable index logging #9063
• Allow skip bad entries logging during import #9103

Cypher

• Improved cypher execution speed on variable length queries where only the distinct pairs of start and end node are of interest. One query to benefit would be MATCH (a)-[*4..5]->(b) RETURN DISTINCT a, b. #9062
• Allow more granular configuration of literals extraction #9093
• It is no longer possible to CREATE or DROP composite uniqueness constraints. To enforce composite uniqueness, we refer to the new NODE KEY constraint. #9135
• Use getDegree instead of expansion #9139
• Correct query type for procedures #9143
• Handle Ands with single value #9149
• Predicates on shortest path and optional match #9156

Packaging

• Removed neo4j-shared.sh. Functionality is now included in all wrapper scripts directly #9083

Security

• Added new role Editor that is allowed to read and write data but not allowed to create new tokens. #9081

Causal Clustering

• Improve transaction streaming #9070

Tools

• Added --version argument to neo4j-admin and neo4j commands #9102
• Renamed neo4j-admin version to neo4j-admin store-info #9126

Misc

• Show allocated memory and page hits/faults in dbms.listQueries #9037

• Neo4j now exits with code 0 for SIGINT and SIGTERM #9108

  • systemd will no longer report neo4j as failed after you do systemctl stop neo4j.
  • Hitting Ctrl-C when running neo4j console will no longer exit with error if shutdown was performed gracefully.