Released Neo4j 1.6 GA “Jörn Kniv”!
From the Neo4j blog:
Three milestones later and we’re proud and happy to announce the release of Neo4j 1.6 GA.
We are excited about a host of great new features, all ready to be used. Let’s get to it.
Highlights
What features have been included in this release?
- Cloud – Public beta on Heroku of the Neo4j Add-on
- Cypher – Supports older Cypher versions, better pattern matching, better performance, improved api
- Web admin – Full Neo4j Shell commands, including versioned Cypher syntax.
- Kernel – Improvements, for instance the ability to ensure that key-value pairs for entities are unique.
- Lucene upgrade – Now version 3.5.
Also, there have been many improvements behind-the-scenes:
Infrastructure – Our library repositories have moved to Amazon, providing significantly faster download times.
Quality – High availability features better logging and operational support.
Process – Better handling of breaking changes in our api and how we handle deprecated features.If you want more info on all of this – sure you do – please keep reading. Here is a run down of the major new features in Neo4j 1.6.