Release Date: 18 October 2023

Patch (1.8.3)

Highlights

• Visual brand update (NDL 2)
• Add upgrade support for Neo4j 5.13.0 

Fixes

• Stop logging about instance having UNKNOWN role on 5.x
• Avoid agent disconnect when server is unable to store metrics in persistence
• Security fixes:
  • Update GRPC dependency for agents
  • Update tomcat-embed-core dependency for server
  • Update netty-codec-http2  dependency for server
  • Update snakeyml dependency for server
  • Remove SSC generation utility and replace it with better documentation

Internal

• Spring boot 3.1.4 upgrade

Release (1.8.1)

Overview

This is a minor release with a selection of bug fixes and improvements.

Highlights

• UX improvements across all pages, to improve consistency both within Neo4j Ops Manager and with other Neo4j products. 
• Add more metrics for Databases: 
  • Checkpoint metrics
  • Count store metrics
  • Store Size data
• Handle empty values in Query Logs
• Reduce size of Ops Manager Server bundles
• Support Neo4j 4.4.25 and 5.12.0 releases in Upgrade Manager

Fixes

• Fix format of Teams notification WebHook
• Fix link from Help -> Community
• Fix issue with metric threshold alerts where the same threshold would be set for al metrics in the same group (e.g setting a threshold for Disk Used (/Data) would set the same threshold for all Disk Used metrics) 
• Fix bug when granting access using Security Manager
• Display appropriate message for unaccepted license in 5.9
• Improve layout of ‘Message’ column in Alerts table
• Fix issue with fetching an upgrade plan to upgrade to a Neo4j 4.4.x version
• Show GDS license issues in About page 
• Fix issue with showing Status page for an ungraded DBMS where one or more components are no longer being reported by the agent
• Fix issue with email notification format.  Ensure the SMTP configs username is an email address as some SMTP servers refuse to send emails otherwise
• Fix issue with apparent discrepancies in disk usage shown in NOM and user observed values. Now NOM reports df -h equivalent disk usage metrics as disk.used for which alerting can be setup. Storage details on the instance status page still match the du -h and ls -al file sizes.