Release Date: 29 April 2025
The Neo4j Aura April release has started to roll out, commencing on AuraDB Free and progressing to higher tiers later. 

Release Note for AuraDB 2025.04 (29 April 2025)

Neo4j Server

Neo4j-admin 
  • Database upload http requests have changed to ensure compatibility with the new Aura console.

Surface for Developers and Data Scientists

  • Introduce –error-format argument to Cypher Shell to control how errors are displayed. See Operations Manual.
  • Transient error is not thrown when returning startNode and endNode on a deleted relationship.
  • The AggregationSkippedNull warning is not sent going forward as this is the expected behaviour 

Fixes

  • Cypher
    • Fixes a bug that could cause incorrect ‘Mixing label expression symbols (‘|’, ‘&’, ‘!’, and ‘%’) with colon (‘:’) between labels is not allowed..’ errors. 
    • Fixes a bug where EXPLAIN would sometimes report slightly modified return columns if these variables were reused in the query.
    • Fixes an issue in Legacy runtime where relationships created in a FOREACH block would all be created with a rightward direction ie FOREACH (… | CREATE (a)<-[:R]-(b)) would create (a)-[:R]->(b) relationship 
Please refer to the changelog for full details of the changes.

Deprecations

For all Cypher language changes, deprecations, and compatibility, see Cypher Manual -> Deprecations, additions, and compatibility.