Release 5.3.8

Changelog

🚀 Features

• d015d25 add retries for reader queries (#738)

🛠 Build

• f61748a release version 5.3.8
• 6b59f87 bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-clean-plugin from 3.4.1 to 3.5.0 (#744)
• 9e3a410 bump io.netty:netty-bom from 4.1.121.Final to 4.1.122.Final (#745)
• 6dd382a bump org.testcontainers:testcontainers-bom from 1.21.0 to 1.21.1 (#740)
• d792902 bump com.diffplug.spotless:spotless-maven-plugin from 2.44.4 to 2.44.5 (#739)
• 642138c bump spark.version from 3.5.5 to 3.5.6 (#741)
• 7185636 update version to 5.3.8-SNAPSHOT

Contributors

We'd like to thank the following people for their contributions:
Ali Ince, Dhru Devalia

Release 5.3.7

Changelog

🐛 Fixes

• 2f0a459 do not overflow when computing partition size (#724)

🛠 Build

• 6b18e08 release version 5.3.7
• 8a7bd6e bump io.netty:netty-bom from 4.1.119.Final to 4.1.121.Final (#734)
• de003dd default to Scala 2.12 (#726)
• 868b235 do not use an URL shortener for downloading JReleaser (#730)
• 1a8c3fc bump org.testcontainers:testcontainers-bom
• dae82b5 bump to latest Scala 2.12
• 18b16d4 bump caniuse.version from 1.2.0 to 1.3.0
• 0e1d545 bump caniuse.version from 1.1.0 to 1.2.0
• 6f57182 bump com.diffplug.spotless:spotless-maven-plugin
• 4965658 bump net.alchim31.maven:scala-maven-plugin from 4.9.2 to 4.9.5 (#716)
• b8c5550 bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin from 3.5.2 to 3.5.3 (#717)
• 5ce7ca6 bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-failsafe-plugin from 3.5.2 to 3.5.3 (#718)

Contributors

We'd like to thank the following people for their contributions:
Ali Ince, Florent Biville, Michael Simons, Neo Technology Build Agent

5.3.6

What's Changed

• build(deps): bump io.netty:netty-bom from 4.1.118.Final to 4.1.119.Final by @dependabot in #705
• build(deps): bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-deploy-plugin from 3.1.3 to 3.1.4 by @dependabot in #704
• build(deps): bump slf4j-api.version from 2.0.16 to 2.0.17 by @dependabot in #703
• build(deps): bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-install-plugin from 3.1.3 to 3.1.4 by @dependabot in #706
• build(deps): bump org.neo4j.driver:neo4j-java-driver-slim from 4.4.19 to 4.4.20 by @dependabot in #707
• build(deps): bump org.testcontainers:testcontainers-bom from 1.20.5 to 1.20.6 by @dependabot in #709
• feat: add support for neo4j driver transaction timeout by @dhrudevalia in #708
• ci: add new Neo4j release by @fbiville in #711
• build: set release version by @dhrudevalia in #714

New Contributors

• @dhrudevalia made their first contribution in #708

Full Changelog: 5.3.5...5.3.6

5.3.5

What's Changed

This new version paves the road for explicit Cypher version selection in internal queries.
It is also guaranteed to work with Neo4j's new calendar-based versions.

• ci: add calver versions by @fbiville in #697
• feat: prepend Cypher version when supported by @fbiville in #698
• build(deps): bump org.testcontainers:testcontainers-bom from 1.20.4 to 1.20.5 by @dependabot in #700
• build(deps): bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-clean-plugin from 3.4.0 to 3.4.1 by @dependabot in #699
• build(deps): bump com.diffplug.spotless:spotless-maven-plugin from 2.44.2 to 2.44.3 by @dependabot in #701
• build(deps): bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin from 3.13.0 to 3.14.0 by @dependabot in #702

Full Changelog: 5.3.4...5.3.5

5.3.4

What's Changed

This is a maintenance release with important dependency upgrades.

Full Changelog: 5.3.3...5.3.4

5.3.3

What's Changed

• fix: use verifyConnectivity to check connectivity by @fbiville in #670
• feat: do not count extra partition for custom queries with limits by @fbiville in #669
• fix: remove effectively unused variable by @fbiville in #691
• feat: support version 2025 by @venikkin in #692

Full Changelog: 5.3.2...5.3.3

5.3.2

What's Changed

• fix: perform retries in a way that is compatible with driver retry logic by @ali-ince in #662
• feat: support checkpointing on structured streams by @ali-ince in #660

Full Changelog: 5.3.1...5.3.2

Neo4j Connector for Apache Spark 5.3.1

Hello Community!
We're happy to announce a new release of the Neo4j Spark Connector!

What's Changed

• build: add package for spark-packages by @venikkin in #614
• fix: add a fix for a spark package base dir and the upload script by @venikkin in #616
• Exclude node properties from relationship's by @fbiville in #622
• Fix how resolvers are handled during driver construction by @ali-ince in #626
• fix: validate schema options before initializing schema by @fbiville in #630

New Contributors

• @venikkin made their first contribution in #610

Full Changelog: 5.3.0...5.3.1

Neo4j Connector for Apache Spark 5.3.0

What's Changed

⭐ Release Highlights

• Inferred schema type constraints + improved constraints management by @conker84 in #581

This introduces support for type/existence constraints based on the DataFrame definition and improves the handling of existing constraints.

Check out the documentation to learn more!

📜 Change Log

• [Snyk] Security upgrade org.testcontainers:testcontainers from 1.19.0 to 1.19.1 by @fbiville in #554
• Skip POM backups when setting new versions by @fbiville in #552
• Bump com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-annotations from 2.15.2 to 2.15.3 by @dependabot in #557
• Bump com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-annotations from 2.15.3 to 2.16.0 by @dependabot in #562
• Bump testcontainers.version from 1.19.1 to 1.19.2 by @dependabot in #561
• Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin from 3.1.2 to 3.2.1 by @dependabot in #559
• Bump org.neo4j:neo4j-cypher-dsl from 2022.9.0 to 2022.9.1 by @dependabot in #558
• Bump testcontainers.version from 1.19.2 to 1.19.3 by @dependabot in #565
• Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin from 3.2.1 to 3.2.2 by @dependabot in #564
• Bump org.codehaus.mojo:versions-maven-plugin from 2.16.1 to 2.16.2 by @dependabot in #563
• Remove outdated version checks and rename tests by @fbiville in #567
• Bump actions/setup-java from 3 to 4 by @dependabot in #568
• Bump actions/setup-python from 4 to 5 by @dependabot in #570
• Fix README formatting by @fbiville in #569
• feat: add metrics support to the sink path by @ali-ince in #566
• Remove unneeded action by @fbiville in #571
• Remove unneeded workflow by @fbiville in #574
• Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin from 3.2.2 to 3.2.3 by @dependabot in #578
• Bump org.neo4j.driver:neo4j-java-driver from 4.4.12 to 4.4.13 by @dependabot in #585
• Add owners by @fbiville in #580
• Bump com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-annotations from 2.16.0 to 2.16.1 by @dependabot in #586
• Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin from 3.11.0 to 3.12.1 by @dependabot in #587
• Improved user-agent management by @conker84 in #583
• Restrict reviews of CI-related changes by @fbiville in #588
• Improved query error management by @conker84 in #584
• Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin from 3.2.3 to 3.2.5 by @dependabot in #589
• Followup user agent by @conker84 in #590
• Remove unused bookmarks parameter by @fbiville in #591
• Bump actions/cache from 3 to 4 by @dependabot in #592
• Bump testcontainers.version from 1.19.3 to 1.19.4 by @dependabot in #593
• updated spark version and made it configurable by @conker84 in #595
• Bump testcontainers.version from 1.19.4 to 1.19.5 by @dependabot in #596

Full Changelog: 5.2.0...5.3.0

Neo4j Connector for Apache Spark 5.2.0

Hello Community!
We're happy to announce a new release of the Neo4j Spark Connector!

Spark baseline version

This new release bumps the required Spark version to 3.4, in order to support the new push down Top N optimization.

What's Changed

• Implement Top N pushdown by @fbiville in #526
• Update Maven wrapper by @fbiville in #551
• Fix typo of close utility method name by @fbiville
• Upgrade scala versions by @fbiville in #542
• Bump actions/checkout from 3 to 4 by @dependabot
• Extract documentation away from repository by @ali-ince
  The documentation sources now live in https://github.com/neo4j/docs-spark/
• fixes #527: Add example notebooks by @conker84 in #528
  Interact with the notebooks here: https://neo4j.com/docs/spark/current/playground/

Full Changelog: 5.1.0...5.2.0