Release Date: 4 June 2020
Neo4j 4.0.5 is a maintenance release with many important improvements and fixes.

Highlights

  • Fix the handling of transactions exceeding the 1GiB limit in clusters. This could previously lead to a situation where such a transaction was partially accepted into the system, but could not be replicated. The underlying change might also benefit performance in some situations.
  • Add page cache bytes read/written metrics
  • Fix bug in cardinality calculation where the presence of unrelated arguments could cause the planner to pick a LabelScan instead of an Argument operator.
  • Fix some cases where the server could not be shutdown while it was blocking on startup
  • Fix error with negative ids when using CALL dbms.killQuery
  • Fix show current users privileges for external user
  • Fixes a rare issue where index statistics data could temporarily be observed as being zeros

Detailed Changes and Docs

For the complete list of all changes, please see the changelog. Look for 4.0 Operations manual here.