I am running neo4j desktop version 1.6.1 on a mac (sequoia 15.3). I am unable to create a local 2025.x database in a project. When I click the "add" button and select "Local DBMS" the highest version number is 5.26.3 which is marked as the "latest version". I have tried reinstalling Neo4j Desktop. I have also installed version 2025.02 using homebrew and that works fine. Upgrading an existing database does not work either, it also has the latest version at 5.26.3. It seems to be some sort of syncronization error inside desktop, where the 2025.x versions are simply not listed.
Ofcouse, I can connect to my locally installed neo4j as a remote connection, but I'd like this to work inside Desktop.
@nielsjansen
i see the exact same when on Windows as well. Let me report to engineering and I will let you know the outcome
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We do not intend to support database instance control and updating to calendar-version databases (2025.01 etc) in the currently available Neo4j Desktop versions - 1.6.x or earlier.
Neo4j Desktop version 1.6.x only supports semantic database versions 4.1.0 to 5.26.x.
Neo4j Desktop version 2.0 will support calendar version databases, and cannot support these earlier versions.
We expect Neo4j Desktop version 2.0 to be available in late Spring/Summer 2025.
Alternative ways to try out the latest database versions:
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Docker
(https://hub.docker.com/_/neo4j/)
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brew install neo4j
(MacOS)
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Neo4j Cloud - AuraDB
(http://console.neo4j.io/)
Thanks for your feedback and let me know if you have any other questions.
Nissanka
Product Manager (Neo4j Desktop)
If that is the roadmap, please make sure that we can run multiple versions of neo4j desktop at the same time. I'd like to experiment with calendar version of neo4j to see if it will work with my application, but our production database will remain on an older version of neo4j until I am sure that the calendar versions will work. So I will need the old Neo4j desktop to connect to out production database for exploration of data and bug fixes and the new Neo4j Desktop to experiment with the calendar version. If they can both be installed, it will be fine, but if one replaces the other, I am going to have a problem and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
Hi Niels - we will still have Desktop 1.6.x available for download when 2.0 is released and for the foreseeable future after that.
Yes, but will it run on the same machine as the 2.0 version? The 2.0. version could be a new app which would solve my problem. I don't just need to be able to download the old version, I need to be able to run the old and new at the same time, since some databases I need to interact with requires the old version, and some requires the new version. I totally get that there are reasons that the new version is not backward compatible, but then it needs to be a new application, not a replacement for the old one.
Yes, 2.0 is a completely new application and you can run both apps at the same time. Obviously, the underlying DBMS servers each need to run on different ports (if you want to run them at the same time on the same machine), both versions of Desktop make it easy to stop/start individual DBMS servers.