Release 1.9.0

[kmcginnes]

This release includes many fixes and enhancements that make using Graph Explorer a more pleasant experience, especially for users with larger databases.

Major Changes

• Improved error experience in search and Data Explorer UI that includes a retry button (#477)
• Improved empty state experience in Data Explorer UI (#477)
• Improved search using openCypher which will now execute a single request when searching across all labels (#493, #532)
• Improved error messages for node expansion (#502)
• Improved Gremlin schema sync performance on larger databases, thanks to @dsaban-lightricks for his great suggestion in issue [Bug] Gremlin Connector Timeout when Fetching Vertex Schema upon Database Synchronizing #225 (#498)
• Reduced chance of throttling issues when a large amount of requests are executed in parallel by batching requests in groups of 10 (#489)
• Reduced unnecessary search queries when no search term is provided by ignoring attribute and exact match changes (#473)
• Improved diagnostic logging in Neptune Notebooks by adding CloudWatch logs (#517)
  • Check out the example lifecycle script and IAM policies for Neptune and Neptune Analytics

Bug Fixes and Minor Changes

• Fixed issue with default connections when Neptune Notebook instance is restarted (#508)
• Fixed expanding a node on old versions of Gremlin (#503)
• Fixed default selection of expand type to be the first available type for expansion (#501)
• Fixed some SPARQL endpoints by using application/sparql-results+json accept header for SPARQL requests (#499)
• Fixed CORS issue for some SPARQL and Gremlin endpoints due to queryId in the request headers (#529) (#499)
• Fixed text wrapping for labels in edge styling sidebar (#499)
• Fixed potential error when the request body is very large by increasing the body size limit for proxy server (#488)
• Fixed issue when selecting an item in search results that resulted in errors in the browser console (#474)
• Added type checking and linting to server code (Server linting #522)
• Added environment values to override HTTP and HTTPS ports for proxy server (#500)
  • PROXY_SERVER_HTTP_PORT default is 80
  • PROXY_SERVER_HTTPS_PORT default is 443
• Updated development scripts updated to be more consistent with the industry (#487, #525)
  • Run the dev environment pnpm dev
  • Build & run the production environment pnpm build && pnpm start
  • Clean build artifacts with pnpm clean
• Fixed running in production mode locally with Node (#500)
• Updated multiple dependencies (#475, #486, #490, #492, #491, #522, #523)

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