graph-explorer

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 #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 (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/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)

Major Changes

• Better UX around neighbor expansion
  • Expand up to 10 additional neighbors when double clicking a node (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/455, https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/465)
  • Improved reliability of node double click detection (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/453)
  • Progress and errors are reported in notifications (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/434)
  • Added ability to set a max limit for neighbor expansion per connection (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/447)
  • Improved scrolling behavior in expand sidebar (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/436)
  • Added caching and retries for failed requests (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/434)
• Better UX around node counts
  • Progress and errors are reported in notifications when any are happening (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/434)
  • Progress and errors are shown for selected node in the expand side bar (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/463)
  • Added caching and retries for failed requests (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/434)
• Added support for Gremlin Server 3.7 (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/411)

Bug Fixes and Minor Changes

• Fixed many bugs around neighbor expansion and counts for openCypher (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/449)
  • Fixed expand limit to be type based when expanding from sidebar
  • Fixed expand query to respect limit and offset properly so multiple
    expansions return unique results
  • Fixed expand query so all edges are returned between source and target nodes
• Improved performance and reliability of Gremlin neighbor expansion query (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/454)
• Remove extraneous openCypher query when expanding nodes (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/431)
• Fixed edge case where node badges are stale (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/427)
• Fixed server starting log message (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/416)
• Refactored several graph views for readability (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/419)
• Improved testing coverage by having less mocked logic (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/421)
• Fixed issue where the connection's fetch timeout input would disappear when
  string is empty (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/445)
• Fixed issue where long connection URLs had no vertical padding (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/445)
• Updated to TypeScript 5.5 (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/451)

Major Changes

• Updated to Node v20 & React v18 (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/330) (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/345) (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/352)
• Added schema updating automatically when an unknown attribute is discovered (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/356)
• Improved error handling on the client and server side (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/283) (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/288)
• Removed fetch caching options (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/280)

Bug Fixes and Minor Changes

• Fixed node and edge filter behavior (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/289)
• Fixed error on CSV export when "keep filtering and sorting" (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/297)
• Fixed uploaded SVG rendering in graph (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/296)
• Fixed search bar hover color (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/293)
• Fixed Docker image tagging in GitHub workflows (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/320)
• Fixed non-JSON response from SwissLipids (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/395)
• Improved monorepo configuration (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/305)
• Updated database query abstractions (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/366) (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/367) (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/365)
• Improved the GitHub templates for issues and pull requests (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/281) (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/332) (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/362)
• Various dependency upgrades (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/295) (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/306) (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/360)

Features

• Added support for Neptune Analytics (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/241)
• Added auto-cancellation of previous queries on new SPARQL/Gremlin search (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/259)
• Added search cancellation button (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/265)
• Added additional PNPM checks to GitHub CI (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/268)
• Improved keyword search performance (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/243)
• Updated proxy URL generation in SageMaker Lifecycle (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/279)
• Updated PropertyGraph Summary API routes in proxy server (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/250)
• Updated SageMaker documentation for Neptune Analytics (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/282)

Bug Fixes and Minor Changes

• Fixed escaping of quote characters in keyword search (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/242)
• Fixed edge retrieval for legacy schema sync on openCypher (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/245)
• Fixed default connections for Neptune Analytics (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/254)
• Fixed formatting of search UI footer (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/260)
• Fixed handling of query cancellation on unsupported databases (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/276)
• Fixed rotation of sync progress indicator (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/278)
• Additional config adjustments for ESLint and Prettier (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/255)
• Removed __all predicate filter from SPARQL search queries (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/270)
• Various formatting improvements (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/251) (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/266) (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/267)
• Various dependency upgrades (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/248) (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/246) (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/286)

Bug fixes

• Refactored API request options for non-IAM endpoints (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/230)
• Enforced JSON response format for SPARQL queries (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/230)
• Bumped vite to 4.5.2 (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/233)

New Features

• Added new Fetch Timeout option to the Connections UI (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/199)

Bug fixes

• Fixed synchronization with high number of labels with long strings (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/206)
• Fixed loading spinner rotation when synchronizing schema (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/207)
• Fixed node and edge counts not updating on connection re-synchronization (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/209)
• Fixed issue with Transition2 findDOMNode deprecation (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/211)
• Fixed highlight not persisting on selected graph element (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/187)

New Features

• Added SageMaker Notebook support (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/178)
• Added Default Connection support (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/108)
• Added query language indicators to created connections (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/164)
• Added match precision option to keyword search (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/175)
• Added toggle for limit on retrieved vertex neighbors (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/176)
• Added SageMaker Notebook hosting documentation (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/183)
• Added ECS hosting documentation (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/174)
• Updated Dockerfile base image to AL2022 (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/190)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed search UI crashing on node select/preview (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/177)
• Fixed Gremlin/openCypher matching ID property on all keyword searches (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/169)
• Fixed default connections failing on SageMaker for certain instance names (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/188)
• Resolved deprecation warnings in GitHub workflows (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/181)
• Patched vulnerable dependencies (1) (2) (3)

Bug fixes

• Fixed proxy issue with non-IAM Neptune requests (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/166)

New Features

• Support openCypher-based graph databases (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/129)
• Added ability to search by vertex ID for Gremlin (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/113)
• Improved logging visibility and user control (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/114)
• Upgraded various dependencies to resolve Docker build warnings (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/118)
• Improved synchronization interface in Connections UI (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/120)
• Added coverage tests for the UI client package (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/130)

Bug fixes

• Fix Expand Module scrollbar (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/131)
• Fixed header generation for IAM authenticated Neptune requests (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/140)
• Fixed calculation of neighbors count in Expand View sidebar (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/121)
• Fixed proxy server not respecting GRAPH_EXP_ENV_ROOT_FOLDER value in .env (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/125)

New Features

• Significantly reduced size of Docker image (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/104)
• Improved schema synchronization performance via Summary API integration (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/80)
• Improved error messaging when no/insufficient IAM role is found (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/81)
• Updated Connections UI documentation for single server changes (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/59)
• Added manual trigger for ECR updates (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/68)

Bug fixes

• Fixed incorrect display of non-string IDs for Gremlin (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/60)
• Fixed a database synchronization error caused by white spaces in labels for Gremlin requests (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/84)

New Features

• Support for blank nodes when visualizing graphs using the RDF data model (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/48)
• Enable Caching feature in the Connections UI which allows you to temporarily store data in the browser between sessions (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/48)
• Simplify the setup by consolidating the build and serving the graph-explorer through port (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/52)
• Moved self-signed SSL certificate creation to Docker entrypoint script (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/56)

Bug fixes

• Fix an issue where the Graph Explorer is stuck in a loading state indefinitely due to expired credentials by refreshing credentials and retrying requests automatically (https://github.com/aws/graph-explorer/pull/49)

This is the initial release of the Graph Explorer project, which provides a React-based web application that enables users to visualize both property graph and RDF data and explore connections between data without having to write graph queries.

Features include:

• Connections UI to connect to a graph database that implements Gremlin Server or SPARQL 1.1 endpoint (e.g., Amazon Neptune, Apache TinkerPop, Blazegraph)
• Graph View UI to search, browse, expand, customize views of your graph data
• Details View, Expand, Node Styling, Edge Styling, and Namespaces (RDF only) on the right-hand pane
• Download a screenshot and experiment with different visual layouts
• Table View UI to show a row-column display of the data in the Graph View, provide filtering from the Table to show/hide elements in the Graph View, and export the table view into a CSV or JSON file