Release Date: 3 June 2025
Release Note for Neo4j 2025.05.0 (3 June 2025)
Neo4j Server
Configuration settings
- New cluster configuration setting server.backup.advertised_address that sets the advertised address for the backup server. Default is the default advertised address combined with the port configured in the backup listen address. Documentation available here.
Kernel
- dbms.components() procedure will now also include the supported cypher versions.
- New metric vm.threads.virtual that reports total number of JVM virtual threads. This complements the existing metric vm.threads. Documentation available here.
Fixes
- Server
- Fixes bug that caused debug logging for block format to be written to user log (neo4j.log). Logging is now written to the debug.log as intended.
- Cypher
- Fixes a bug in pipelined runtime, where in certain scenarios cached properties in an OPTIONAL MATCH were not properly cleared between rows, which could lead to incorrect results.
Deprecations
- For all server changes and deprecations, see Operations Manual -> Changes, deprecations, and removals in Neo4j 2025.x
- For all Cypher language changes, deprecations, and compatibility, see Cypher Manual -> Deprecations, additions, and compatibility.
Bundled products
The following products have been included in the distribution – available in /products directory unless stated otherwise – and are fully compatible with this release.- APOC Core 2025.05.0 – The most popular community library developed for the database, is fully supported (included in Labs directory).
- Bloom 6.x-2.21.0 – A beautiful and expressive data visualization tool to quickly explore and interact with Neo4j’s graph data platform – no coding required. Please refer to the release notes for details. (Requires a License)
- Browser 2025.05.0 – Neo4j Browser is a tool for developers to interact with the graph. It is the default interface for both Enterprise and Community Editions (included in the /libs directory) of the Neo4j database.
- Neo4j GenAI Plugin 2025.05.0 -The GenAI plugin delivers integrations 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.
- Neo4j Graph Data Science 2.18.0 is a compatible version of the connected data analytics and machine learning platform that helps you understand the connections in big data to answer critical questions and improve predictions. Please refer to the release notes for further details. (GDS Enterprise requires a License. )
- Neo4j Ops Manager 1.13.0 is a UI-based tool that enables Administrators to operate and observe all of their Neo4j Database Management Servers. Now includes support for Neo4j’s any-to-any upgrade. Please refer to the release notes for details. (Included in Enterprise).