Amazon Neptune Engine Version 1.1.1.0.R3 (2022-06-07) - Amazon Neptune
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Amazon Neptune Engine Version 1.1.1.0.R3 (2022-06-07)

As of 2022-06-07, engine version 1.1.1.0.R3 is being generally deployed. Please note that it takes several days for a new release to become available in every region.

Improvements in This Engine Release

  • Added support for the Graviton2-powered x2g instance types, optimized for memory-intensive workloads. These are initially available only in four Amazon Web Services Regions:

    • US East (N. Virginia) (us-east-1)

    • US East (Ohio) (us-east-2)

    • US West (Oregon) (us-west-2)

    • Europe (Ireland) (eu-west-1)

    See the Neptune pricing page for more information.

  • Improved performance of Gremlin steps where multiple edge or vertex traversals, property lookups, or label lookups are involved.

Defects Fixed in This Engine Release

  • Fixed a Gremlin bug in the processing of the otherV() step inside a child traversal.

  • Fixed a Gremlin bug in queries with union having only filter steps as children. For example:

    g.V().union(has("name"), out("knows")).out()

  • Fixed a SPARQL bug where variables used inside FILTER expressions nested into UNION clauses were getting assigned invalid scoping information.

Query-Language Versions Supported in This Release

Before upgrading a DB cluster to version 1.1.1.0.R3, make sure that your project is compatible with these query-language versions:

  • Gremlin version: 3.5.2

  • openCypher version: Neptune-9.0.20190305-1.0

  • SPARQL version: 1.1

Upgrade paths to engine release 1.1.1.0.R3

Your cluster will be upgraded to this patch release automatically during your next maintenance window if you are running engine version 1.1.1.0.

Upgrading to This Release

Important

Upgrading to this engine release from any version prior to 1.1.0.0 also triggers an operating-system upgrade on all the instances in your DB cluster. Because active write requests that occur during the operating-system upgrade will not be processed, you must pause all write workloads to the cluster being upgraded, including bulk data loads, before starting the upgrade.

At the start of the upgrade, Neptune generates a snapshot with a name composed of preupgrade followed by an autogenerated identifier based on your DB cluster information. You will not be charged for this snapshot, and you can use it to restore your DB cluster if anything goes wrong during the upgrade process.

When the engine upgrade itself has completed, the new engine version will be available briefly on the old operating system, but in less than 5 minutes all the the instances in your cluster will simultaneously begin an operating-system upgrade. Your DB cluster will be unavailable at this point for around 6 minutes. You may resume write workloads after the upgrade completes.

This process generates the following events:

  • Per-cluster event messages:

    • Upgrade in progress: Creating pre-upgrade snapshot [preupgrade-(autogenerated snapshot ID)]

    • Database cluster major version has been upgraded

  • Per-instance event messages:

    • Applying off-line patches to DB instance

    • DB instance shutdown

    • Finished applying off-line patches to DB instance

    • DB instance restarted

If a DB cluster is running an engine version from which there is an upgrade path to this release, it is eligible to be upgraded now. You can upgrade any eligible cluster using the DB cluster operations on the console or by using the SDK. The following CLI command will upgrade an eligible cluster immediately:

For Linux, OS X, or Unix:

aws neptune modify-db-cluster \
    --db-cluster-identifier (your-neptune-cluster) \
    --engine-version 1.1.1.0 \
    --apply-immediately

For Windows:

aws neptune modify-db-cluster ^
    --db-cluster-identifier (your-neptune-cluster) ^
    --engine-version 1.1.1.0 ^
    --apply-immediately

Updates are applied to all instances in a DB cluster simultaneously. An update requires a database restart on those instances, so you will experience downtime ranging from 20–30 seconds to several minutes, after which you can resume using the DB cluster.

For more information about upgrading your engine version, see Neptune engine updates. If you have any questions or concerns, the Amazon Support team is available on the community forums and through Amazon Premium Support.