Release Date: 8 March 2017

Neo4j 3.1.2 is a maintenance release, with important improvements.

Highlights

  • Fixed location and rotation of logs on Windows
  • Setting dbms.security.allow_publisher_create_token to true will give ability to create new labels and rel-types to Publisher as well; otherwise only Architect and Admin can create new schema types
  • Introducing /db/server/core/read-only endpoint so load balancers can send reads to follower/candidate instances

Detailed Changes


For the complete list of all changes, please see the changelog.

Upgrading


When upgrading to Neo4j 3.1 for the first time, be sure to read the current upgrade instructions in the Neo4j Operations Manual, as there are additional steps and considerations.

Neo4j 3.1 supports direct upgrades from all 2.x releases (recommended to be on latest patch). Pre-2.x users need to upgrade to 2.x before upgrading to 3.1.