Neo4j Aura Database January 2025 Release Update

The Neo4j Aura January release has started to roll out, commencing on AuraDB Free and progressing to higher tiers later. This is our first release using our new Calendar Version scheme.

Some highlights include:

Index Creation: Default index provider is now always used, as index providers no longer control index behavior (since version 5.0).
Protocol Update: Introduced Bolt 5.8.

Fixes

Resolved double-indexing of dense relationships, detectable during consistency checks.
Fixed issues with removing the last indexed property from dense relationships, which could fail during recovery or clustering.
Addressed transaction safety in DDL operations.
Corrected warnings related to Java Compressed Object Pointers in 32-48GB heaps.
Fixed a collect function bug that failed to preserve order in specific cases under parallel runtime.

Please refer to the Aura Release notes for more information on the changes.