Release 5.0 and beyond

[mariusconjeaud]

Dear neomodel community,

As you might have seen in the past weeks, activity has resumed for neomodel.

Latest updates

The first step has been to update the existing version (4.x) to support all of Neo4j 4.x versions (up to the LTS 4.4).

The second step has been migrating the packaging and deployment to more recent solutions (pyproject.toml, GitHub Actions,...) along with some code cleanup (prettifying, linting, ...)

Finally, the latest PRs merged upped the support to Neo4j 5.x and Python 3.11
Please note that for now, the master branch is the very latest, meaning it supports Neo4j 5.x and 4.4 ; whereas the latest release in PyPI is still 4.0 which stops at Neo4j version 4.4 To avoid this confusion in the future, we will be creating PRs to "release candidate" branches, so that the master branch always matches the latest PyPI release.

Future updates

Since we are moving again with neomodel, which had been standing quite still for a couple years, we would like your opinion in what you would like to see coming in the next releases ; and how you would like to contribute.

For this, please post in the "Ideas" section of the Discussions. You can also pick topics from the TODO Wiki that you would especially like. Note, this hasn't been updated since 2019, but most of the ideas there have probably not been implemented since

Thanks a lot and I hope to hear from you in the coming months !

[mariusconjeaud]

Neomodel version 5.0.0 is out now !

Things to note

This release does not introduce breaking changes, except in the versions of Neo4j (and Python in certain cases) that it supports :

• All, and only, officially supported versions of Neo4j are now supported by neomodel : this means 4.4 (LTS) and 5.x are supported, but not 4.3 and before
• This is also true for Python : versions 3.7 through 3.11 are supported. Python 3.6 support was dropped in neomodel version 4.0.10 released in February 2023
• Relationship indexes were added

Full changelog

• Confirmed support of Neo4j versions 5.x and 4.4 (LTS)
• Dropped support of EOL Neo4j versions (4.3 and below)
• Confirmed support of Python 3.11
• Migrated RelationshipTo/RelationshipFrom from a method to a class for consistency.
• Add support for relationship indexes
• Auto-generated indexes now have a deterministic name
• Code cleanup

Next steps

Now that neomodel supports a version of Neo4j that will be supported for some years still, we have some breathing space to implement bigger features that can bring a lot of value to neomodel. We already have some candidates for this, but we also intend to go through the Issues panel, and clean it up as much as possible by finding out which ones can bring value to neomodel. As per my previous message, please post in the "Ideas" section of the Discussions. You can also pick topics from the TODO Wiki that you would especially like.

Enjoy, and hope to hear from you !