Neo4J Php Client Laravel Package

New features

• Session::executeQuery(): runs Cypher with automatic retry on transient errors (Bolt & Basic sessions).
• Session::close(): explicit session teardown added to the public session API.
• Bolt telemetry: sends telemetry messages on Bolt 5.4; can be toggled with DriverConfiguration::withTelemetryEnabled().
• Temporal types: improved Bolt datetime encoding with UTC patch negotiation for Neo4j 4.3–5.0.

Bug fixes & reliability

• Improved transaction handling in failure states (rollback when required).
• Fixed connection-pool semaphore timing: post semaphores after connection release, not before.
• First proper Bolt message pipelining for better protocol efficiency.

Driver / TestKit / internals

• Expanded TestKit backend support (telemetry stubs, datatype decoding, executeQuery handler).
• Removed unused symfony/polyfill-php80 dependency (PHP 8.1+ already required).
• Added scheduled Aura Free integration CI workflow.

New features

• Multi-driver failover (#282): If a configured host is unreachable, the client automatically retries on alternative drivers in the pool. Useful for multi-host / HA setups.
• SummarizedResult::list() (#301): Materializes all remaining rows without rewinding the iterator (avoids duplicating rows already consumed via next()). On Bolt, uses efficient PULL n=-1 fetch-all semantics.

Bug fixes & reliability

• Aura routing & TLS (#298 / #309): Fixes Aura ROUTE handling, TLS peer name verification, and legacy Aura Free database name inference. Also optimizes connection verification.
• Disconnect & transaction timeout handling: Server disconnects and transaction timeouts are surfaced correctly instead of being swallowed. Transactions defer BEGIN until the first run/commit/rollback. Pull logic now distinguishes server errors (rethrown) from connection errors (may return partial results).

Driver / TestKit / internals

• Expanded TestKit result iteration support (ResultList, ResultPeek, ResultSingleOptional, etc.): mostly internal/TestKit-facing, but improves Neo4j driver spec compliance.
• Dependency bump: minimum stefanak-michal/bolt raised to ^7.4.0 (#308). Psalm/static-analysis fixes (including a new stubs/sysvsem.php).

Documentation

• README cleanup: removed stale HTTP/HTTPS driver examples and outdated batching/requirements sections.

Tests added

• MultiDriverFailoverTest, ClientExceptionHandlingTest, ClientSessionExceptionHandlingTest, SummarizedResultListTest, plus TypeCaster updates.

• Neo4j Vector type : Support for the Neo4j Vector type in the client (#290).
• Connection receive timeout: Implements the connection receive-timeout configuration hint; connection/timeout failures are no longer misclassified as NotALeader, and related error handling is tightened in Bolt paths and testkit (#279).
• Relationship element IDs: Correct handling of relationship start/end node elementIds (#292).
• Type casting: TypeCaster improvements: toBool fix, other optimizations, InvalidTypeCast / tryToString refactor, plus unit tests (#296).
• Testkit: CI validation of the pinned testkit commit to avoid version drift (#288).

Small hotfix where the driver halts if the server agent is not provided by the server autentication response

• Added support for forcing socket type via driver configuration (with SocketType enum)
• Implemented GetServerInfo handler with routing validation fixes
• Improved connection and session cleanup (discarding unconsumed results on close)
• Enhanced driver-level query execution and Testkit coverage
• Fixed Testkit bookmark handling and session execution edge cases

• fixed all the basic-query testkit tests
• removed broken cc link
• Improve exception taxonomy (SSLConnectionxceiptn, TimeoutException)
• Improve element ID support
• Add proper feature suport for testkit

What’s new: TestKit integration, CI/CD speed boosts, connection-pooling improvements, and the removal of legacy HTTP support.

Re-enabled Features

• Full TestKit backend for running Neo4j integration tests in CI.

Improvements CI/CD optimizations

• Enabled Docker image caching and Composer caching across workflows.
• Refactored GitHub Actions to speed up builds (docker build cache, service-restart logic, down-flags, etc.).
• Flexible logging tests to support Neo4j 4.x & 5.x.

Connection pooling

• Simplify acquiring and reusing Bolt connections for better performance and resource usage.

Bug Fixes

• Uncovered by testkit: Resolved failures in ResultSummary, authentication, bookmarks, authentication and timeout management.
• Neo4jConnectionPool: Fixed advertised address and routing logic.

⚠️ Breaking Changes

• HTTP support removed. Use Neo4j Query API instead.

📚 Miscellaneous

• Minor typo fixes
• object-model cleanup

Features

• Integrated PSR LoggerInterface for enhanced logging.
• Improved error handling in connection and connectivity verification.
• Updated to Bolt version 7.1.4.
• Addressed PHP 8.4 deprecations.

CI/Testing

• Updated test environments to PHP 8.3.

• optimised ci to use docker compose instead of github service containers
• fix critical bug #232 where a single backslash crashes the driver

What's Changed

• fix: Double results when iterating after deserialization by @exaby73 in https://github.com/neo4j-php/neo4j-php-client/pull/221
• fix: Protocol violations by @exaby73 in https://github.com/neo4j-php/neo4j-php-client/pull/219

Full Changelog: https://github.com/neo4j-php/neo4j-php-client/compare/3.1.1...3.1.2

• Added support for Bolt 5.1 and 5.2
• Fixed a bug with SSL hostname being incorrect
• Fixed a bug where the cache limit goes over the max float value in PHP

• Fix CI
• Upgraded Bolt version to v7
• Fixed bug in address name resolution
• Improved usage of Bolt messages
• Upgrade PHP to 8.1
• Improve extension requirements in composer.json

Fixed some typing issues Fixed correct passing of driver configuration in client and client builder

• Fixed bug in the connection pooling algorithm
• enforced session config propagation internally
• improved testing

• Fixed a bug when using php 8.2

• improved typing
• correct overloading of certain methods
• bugfix when running a failed query on a transaction
• bugix when using the HTTP formatted in neo4j version 5
• fixed regression in uri implementation
• fixed bolt factory for version 5
• upgraded bolt library
• moved to PHP 8.0
• simplified configuration model
• use server states from bolt library

• reworked CI
• more flexible dependencies for caching libraries
• correct timezone ID conversion

• Fixed a bug when dns_get_record returns false

• Simplified configuration
• Added functionality for binding transactions and sessions to optimise performance

• Added a hasDriver method to query the client of an existence of a driver with a given alias
• Improved CI
• Updated documentation

• updated psalm and introduced a baseline
• removed deprecated dependencies in #183

• correctly passed bookmarks when using basic formatter
• correctly fetch next results when working with fetch size

• Implemented connection resolver with PHP implementation or SysVSem
• Implemented graceful driver fallback
• Fixed bug with transaction timeout
• Implemented simple routing cache with default PSR-11 implementation
• Upgraded DNS resolver to work with HA setups

• Bookmarks are now automatically handled by the Session class
• The Bolt library has been updated to the latest version, which includes major memory performance increases
• Some basic bugfixes to make tests work more consistently between different environments

Fixed bugs when working with results in neo4j 3.5

• Added full JOLT support
• Fixed bug when trying to dump an unconsumed result
• Improved stability and connection management by maintaining neo4j server state in connection
• Improved exception handling
• Small bug fixes and code maintenance improvements

• Added HTTP Jolt protocol for OGM improvements in Neo4j
• Fixed bug in neo4j 3.5 result set

Fixed a regression when working with Neo4J 3.5 to enforce proper result consumption

New features:

• Added keyby, pluck and toArrayRecursive methods on sequences
• Added DateTimeZoneId
• Added automatic conversion Bolt Type Parameters to immediately be used in Cypher

Performance Increases:

• The driver now understands the fetch sizes based on session configuration
• The results of the driver are now all lazily evaluated
• The driver now utilizes the Sockets extension if it is installed.

Bugfixes

• Properly forwarded transaction timeout information to the server
• Basic documentation and housekeeping bugfixes
• Fixed a new authentication propagation bug in neo4j scheme

Fixed a bug in the authentication logic when working with the neo4j scheme.

Fixed read error AuraDB Free

Fixed bug when working with clusters with SSL and AuraDB