Release Notes

Release notes of the SemSpect Neo4j Graph App #

WARNING: Starting from version 1.6.0 Neo4j Desktop does not allow installation of third party Graph Apps anymore. To avoid unnecessary security warnings and to receive future Graph App updates, do not update to Neo4j Desktop 1.6.x.

Version 8.0.0 #

  • Neo4j 5.23 support
  • New feature: Copy property name/value in dossier and table view (context menu)
  • New feature: Copy IDs of all nodes in a group (context menu)
  • New feature: Empty/non-empty filter in table view
  • Improved: Arrays now displayed in square brackets and in actual order
  • Improved: Better handling of line breaks by text filter
  • Improved: Better handling of special characters and html code in data
  • Various small fixes and performance enhancements
  • Renewed free license token

Version 7.0.1 #

  • Neo4j 5.20 support
  • New feature: search in exploration and field list menus
  • New feature: hide empty fields in object dossier
  • New features in table view:
    • extended text search settings (case match, whole word, regular expression)
    • easier (de-)selection of columns (incl. hide empty columns)
    • right click on header for quick menu access
    • empty values are now identifiable
  • Improved: group tooltip now contains filter information
  • Various small fixes
  • Renewed free license token

Version 6.0.1 #

  • New feature: dedicated handling for links and image urls (via dossier config file)
  • Fixed error message in Neo4j 5.X

Version 6.0.0 #

  • Neo4j 5.18 support
  • New feature: dedicated handling for links and image urls (via dossier config file)
  • New feature: “repeat expansion” menu entry for faster traversal of uniform data
  • Experimental: facets from labels (via facet config file)
  • Improved: input of numerical filters in table views
  • Various small fixes
  • Renewed free license token

Version 5.0.1 #

  • Fix missing precedessor column in table view of small groups

Version 5.0.0 #

  • Neo4j 5.14 support
  • New feature: exploration of nodes without label
  • New feature: setting to hide ignored labels
  • New feature: possibility to pin column in table view
  • New feature: table view remembers manually set column ordering and width
  • New feature: table view cypher query (only with license)
  • Beta feature: date/datetime filtering
  • Performance improvements
  • Various small fixes
  • API cleansing
  • Updated dependencies
  • Updated privacy statement
  • Renewed free license token

Version 4.0.0 #

  • Neo4j 5.7 support
  • Fixed setting ‘Hide labels without nodes’ not working for semspect labels
  • Fixed restrict left node with filters not working properly
  • Performance improvements
  • Improved info messages
  • API cleansing
  • Updated dependencies
  • Renewed free license token

Version 3.0.0 #

  • Neo4j 5.2 & 5.3 support
  • Renewed free license token
  • Updated drivers & dependencies
  • Breaking change: Neo4j 4.1 & 4.2 & 4.3 no longer supported

Version 2.0.0 #

  • Neo4j 5.0 support
  • Breaking change: Neo4j 3.5 & 4.0 no longer supported

Version 1.5.0 #

  • Renewed free license token
  • Optimized initialization process
  • Added configurable offline initialization (server feature)
  • Various bug fixes and improvements
  • Updated Neo4j driver

Version 1.4.0 #

  • Reworked login process (server mode)
  • Refined user session handling (server mode)
  • Various bug fixes and improvements

Version 1.3.0 #

  • Renewed free license token
  • Added server mode (with server licence: web browser access & user privileges configuration)
  • Fixed library conflict with APOC plugin v4.1.
  • Various minor bug fixes

Version 1.2.0 #

First official release

  • Neo4j 4.3 support
  • Multiple database support
  • Isolated contexts for concurrent users
  • User privileges handling
  • Predecessor count in node table
  • Various bug fixes

Version 1.1.0-beta #

Plugin Management Interface:

  • Start faster when plugin already installed
  • Added list of third party libraries

Exploration Interface:

  • Added bi-directional relations
  • Aligned texts with Neo4j vocabulary
  • Added floating session handling
  • Removed systematic alert at start (electron update solved focus problem)
  • Various bug fixes

Plugin:

  • Extended embedded beta license to Oct. 1st, 2021

Version 1.0.1-beta #

  • Fixed invalid signature issue
  • Fixed plugin update problems with older versions

Version 1.0.0-beta #

Relaunch of the beta of SemSpect for Neo4j.

  • New installation process
  • Automatic detection of data changes
  • Optimized initialization step
  • Various bug fixes