Release Date: 14 December 2021
Neo4j 4.2.12 is a maintenance release with many important improvements and fixes.

Highlights

  • Update Log4j to 2.15.0 to address CVE-2021-44228
  • Upgrade to Apache Shiro 1.8.0
  • Update netty to address CVE-2021-37136 and CVE-2021-3713
  • Fixed a bug where using length() in CYPHER 3.5 mode through Fabric would result in an error.
  • Fixes a bug where queries like MATCH (a:A) RETURN count(a.prop) would return the wrong results if there is a uniqueness constraint on label A and property prop
  • Fixes a bug in consistency checker where it could miss reporting inconsistencies in an index backing a constraint when running on limited memory.
  • CSV Import: add support for array data types point[], date[], time[], datetime[], localtime[], localdatetime[], duration[]
  • Bug fix: Neo4j now also accepts datetime expressions including an offset of times immediately after switching from summer time to winter time.

Detailed Changes and Docs

For the complete list of all changes, please see the changelog. Look for 4.2 Operations manual here.