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⚠️ marks breaking changes or pending breaking changes (deprecations)

6.0.0a1

This release contains all fixes up until version 5.28.1 plus:

⭐️ New Features

  • Introduce Bolt 6.0 support with vector types (#1214).
  • Chain failure causes on routing table fetching failure (#1219).
    When a routing driver (neo4j[+s[sc]] URL scheme), fails to fetch a routing table, instead of swallowing all errors from the connection and RT fetching attempts that lead up to the failure, the errors are not attached as __cause__ of the raised error.
  • Introduce helper method GqlError.find_by_gql_status (#1216).

🔧️ Fixes

  • Fix driver stuck on RecursionError on COMMIT SUCCESS (#1192).
  • Fix re-authentication interfering with connectivity checks (#1144).
  • ⚠️ make unsupported comparisons return NotImplemented instead of False or raising (#1199). This means that when comparing a driver type with another type is doesn't support, the other type gets the chance to handle the comparison.
    Affected types:
    • neo4j.Record
    • neo4j.graph.Node, neo4j.graph.Relationship, neo4j.graph.Path
    • neo4j.time.Date, neo4j.time.Time, neo4j.time.DateTime
    • neo4j.spatial.Point (and subclasses)

👏️ Improvements

  • ⚠️ Align connection_acquisition_timeout configuration option with other drivers (#1215).
    The timeout now spans anything required to acquire a working connection from the pool. This includes potential fetching of routing tables which in itself requires acquiring a connection. Previously, the timeout would be restarted for auxiliary connection acquisitions like those for fetching a routing table.
  • ⚠️ Make DNS error retryable (#1211).
    Configuring the driver with a URL that cannot be DNS resolved will raise a (retryable) ServiceUnavailable error instead of a ValueError.
  • Introduce new sub-logger neo4j.session (#1206).
    This separates log entries that are session-related (including transaction retries) form sub-logger neo4j.pool.
  • ⚠️ No longer implicitly closing drivers and sessions in __del__() (finalizer/destructor) (#1183).
    Make sure to call .close() on them explicitly or use them in a with statement.
  • ⚠️ Disallow using a closed driver (#1182).
    • Raise DriverError on using the closed driver.
    • Calling driver.close() again is now a no-op.
  • ⚠️ Slightly change Neo4jError and ClientError (#1179).
    • Properties message and code are always a str (instead of str | None).
    • Remove possibility to override/set message and code properties.
    • Remove undocumented, internal methods Neo4jError.hydrate, Neo4jError.invalidates_all_connections, and Neo4jError.is_fatal_during_discovery.
    • Remove deprecated method Neo4jError.is_retriable.
      Use Neo4jError.is_retryable instead.
    • Change string representation of Neo4jError to include GQL error information.
  • ⚠️ Raise ConfigurationError instead of ignoring the routing context (URI query parameters) when creating a direct driver ("bolt[+s[sc]]://" scheme) (#1178).
  • ⚠️ Raise new ConnectionAcquisitionTimeoutError (subclass of DriverError) instead of ClientError (subclass of Neo4jError) the connection_acquisition_timeout is exceeded (#1169).
    • This improves the differentiation between DriverError for client-side errors and Neo4jError for server-side errors.
  • ⚠️ Raise TypeError instead of ValueError when passing a Query object to Transaction.run (#1171).
  • ⚠️ Raise TransactionError (subclass of DriverError) instead of ClientError (subclass of Neo4jError) when calling session.run() while an explicit transaction is active on that session (#1170).
    • This improves the differentiation between DriverError for client-side errors and Neo4jError for server-side errors.
    • It is now the same error raised as when trying to start an explicit transaction while another explicit transaction is already active.
  • ⚠️ Improve validation of connection_acquisition_timeout configuration option (#1168).
    • Raise ValueError on invalid values (instead of ClientError).
    • Consistently restrict the value to be strictly positive.
  • ⚠️ Raise neo4j.exceptions.UnsupportedServerProduct if no common bolt protocol version could be negotiated with the server (instead of internal neo4j._exceptions.BoltHandshakeError) (#1164, #1224).
    UnsupportedServerProduct is now a subclass of ConfigurationError (instead of Exception directly).
  • ⚠️ Improve validation of access_mode configuration option (#1166).
    • ValueError on invalid value (instead of ClientError).
    • Consistently check the value (also for non-routing drivers).
  • ⚠️ Raise ConfigurationError if the passed auth parameters is not valid (instead of AuthError) (#1162).
    • This improves the differentiation between DriverError for client-side errors and Neo4jError for server-side errors.

📚️ Docs

  • Document that is_retryable is not applicable to auto-commit transactions (#1217).
  • Fix formatting, wording, and minor updates for 6.0 (#1200).
  • Minor fixes: add more links and versions changed/added remarks (#1146).

🌳️ Maturing

  • Stabilize GQL status objects (use these instead of notifications) (#1209).
    Affected APIs:
    • ResultSummary.gql_status_objects
    • neo4j.GqlStatusObject
    • (neo4j.exceptions.GqlError, neo4j.exceptions.GqlErrorClassification)
  • Stabilize driver debug mode (#1205).
    • warn_notification_severity config option
    • concurrency checker

🧹️ Clean-up

  • ⚠️ Bump minimum supported Python version to 3.10 (#1153).
    • Drop support for Python 3.7 (end of life 2023-06-27)
    • Drop support for Python 3.8 (end of life 2024-10-07)
    • Drop support for Python 3.9 (end of life scheduled for 2025-10).
  • ⚠️ Remove deprecated Bookmark in favor or Bookmarks (#1175, #1196).
    • Remove deprecated class neo4j.Bookmark in favor of neo4j.Bookmarks.
    • Remove deprecated method session.last_bookmark() in favor of last_bookmarks().
    • Deprecate passing raw sting bookmarks as initial_bookmarks to GraphDatabase.bookmark_manager().
      Use a neo4j.Bookmarks object instead.
    • Driver.session() no longer accepts raw string bookmarks as bookmarks argument.
      Use a neo4j.Bookmarks object instead.
  • ⚠️ Remove deprecated ServerInfo.connection_id (#1193).
    There is no replacement as this is considered internal information.
  • ⚠️ Make undocumented internal constants, helper functions, and other items private.
    • neo4j.api (#1176, #1186).
      • DRIVER_BOLT
      • DRIVER_NEO4J
      • SECURITY_TYPE_NOT_SECURE
      • SECURITY_TYPE_SECURE
      • SECURITY_TYPE_SELF_SIGNED_CERTIFICATE
      • check_access_mode
      • parse_neo4j_uri
      • parse_routing_context
    • neo4j.exceptions (#1176, #1195).
      • CLASSIFICATION_CLIENT
      • CLASSIFICATION_DATABASE
      • CLASSIFICATION_TRANSIENT
      • ERROR_REWRITE_MAP
      • client_errors
      • transient_errors
      • all other indirectly exposed items from imports (e.g. typing as neo4j.exceptions.t)
    • neo4j.time (#1191).
      • DATE_ISO_PATTERN
      • TIME_ISO_PATTERN
      • DURATION_ISO_PATTERN
      • NANO_SECONDS
      • AVERAGE_SECONDS_IN_MONTH
      • AVERAGE_SECONDS_IN_DAY
      • FORMAT_F_REPLACE
      • IS_LEAP_YEAR
      • DAYS_IN_YEAR
      • DAYS_IN_MONTH
      • round_half_to_even
      • symmetric_divmod
      • DateTimeType
      • DateType
      • TimeType
      • all other indirectly exposed items from imports (e.g. re as neo4j.time.re)
    • neo4j.spatial (#1188).
      • hydrate_point
      • dehydrate_point
      • point_type
    • neo4j.GraphDatabase (#1181).
      • .bolt_driver
      • .neo4j_driver
    • neo4j.BoltDriver and neo4j.Neo4jDriver (#1181).
      • .open
      • .parse_target
      • .default_host
      • .default_port
      • .default_target
    • neo4j.graph, neo4j.addressing, neo4j.api (#1195).
      • indirectly exposed items from imports (e.g. collections.abc.Mapping as neo4j.graph.Mapping).
    • BoltDriver and Neo4jDriver ().
      • .open
      • .parse_target
      • .default_host
      • .default_port
      • .default_target
    • neo4j.debug (#1194).
      • ColourFormatter
      • TaskIdFilter
      • all other indirectly exposed items from imports (e.g. asyncio as neo4j.debug.asyncio)
  • ⚠️ Remove deprecated option to index EntitySetView by int id (#1187).
    Graph type sets (neo4j.graph.EntitySetView) can no longer by indexed by legacy id (int, e.g., graph.nodes[0]). Use the element_id instead (str, e.g., graph.nodes["..."]).
  • ⚠️ Make Summary.summary_notifications a tuple instead of a list and type it with Sequence to signify that it should be treated as immutable (#1185).
  • ⚠️ Remove deprecated session.read_transaction and session.write_transaction (#1184).
    Instead, use session.execute_read and session.execute_write respectively.
  • ⚠️ Deprecate notifications (use GQL status objects instead) (#1209).
    Deprecated APIs:
    • ResultSummary.notifications
    • ResultSummary.summary_notifications
    • neo4j.SummaryNotification
    • neo4j.NotificationCategory
    • neo4j.NotificationDisabledCategory
  • ⚠️ Remove deprecated driver configuration option trust (#1177).
    Use trusted_certificates instead.
    • Remove the associated constants neo4j.TRUST_ALL_CERTIFICATES and neo4j.TRUST_SYSTEM_CA_SIGNED_CERTIFICATES.
  • ⚠️ Rework PreviewWarning (#1173).
    • Remove ExperimentalWarning and turn the few left instances of it into PreviewWarning.
    • Deprecate importing PreviewWarning from neo4j.
      Import it from neo4j.warnings instead.
  • ⚠️ Make undocumented classes ResolvedAddress, ResolvedIPv4Address, and ResolvedIPv6Address private (#1174).
  • ⚠️ Remove deprecated Record.__getslice__. This magic method has been removed in Python 3.0 (#1172).
    If you were calling it directly, please use Record.__getitem__(slice(...)) or simply record[...] instead.
  • ⚠️ ServerInfo.protocol_version now is a tuple[int, int] insteadof a api.Version (#1164).
    • This should be drop-in replacement is most cases:
      • Version was a sup-type of tuple[int, int].
      • ServerInfo.protocol_version was already documented and typed as tuple[int, int].
      • Version's additional methods were undocumented and shouldn't have been used.
    • api.Version has been removed as it's unused now.
  • ⚠️ Remove deprecated exports from neo4j (#1160).
    • log, Config, PoolConfig, SessionConfig, WorkspaceConfig (internal - no replacement).
    • SummaryNotificationPosition (use SummaryInputPosition instead).
  • ⚠️ Remove deprecated modules (#1159):
    • neo4j.conf
    • neo4j.data
    • neo4j.meta
    • neo4j.packstream
    • neo4j.routing
    • neo4j.time.arithmetic
    • neo4j.time.clock_implementation
    • neo4j.time.hydration
    • neo4j.time.metaclasses
    • neo4j.work
    • neo4j.work.query
    • neo4j.work.summary
  • ⚠️ Deprecate ClockTime and its accessors (#1191).
    • For each neo4j.time.Date, neo4j.time.DateTime, neo4j.time.Time
      • from_clock_time and to_clock_time methods
    • neo4j.time.ClockTime itself.
  • Lift server agent string restrictions (#1208).

📦️ Packaging

  • ⚠️ Remove deprecated package alias neo4j-driver (#1161).
    Use pip install neo4j instead.
  • ⚠️ Remove setup.py.
    Please use a recent enough packaging/build tool that supports pyproject.toml (#1161).
  • PEP 639 style licensing metadata (#1207).

🧑️‍💻️ Development

  • Bump pre-commit hooks and fix new lints (#1204).
  • Use dependency-groups in pyproject.toml for dev dependencies (#1201).
  • Fix ParamSpec type annotation of internal method (#1157).
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