Release Date: 13 November 2020
Neo4j 4.0.9 is a maintenance release with many important improvements and fixes.

Highlights

  • Update dependencies due to security issues Jetty 9.4.17 -> 9.4.34 – https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-27216 Jersey 2.29 -> 2.32 – SRCCLR-SID-3606 Jackson 2.10.0 -> 2.10.5 – For version compatibility
  • Do not store connection passwords in local storage before receiving neo4j config
  • Special handling of unrelated SSL policies in the backup command
  • Fixes an issue where an unexpected concurrent closing of a page cursor which was in the middle of doing page faulting might leave a latch unreleased, trapping all future cursors that wanted to look at that page.
  • Fixed bug where clusters could get stuck bootstrapping in the event of network issues or instance restarts.

Detailed Changes and Docs

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