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The TinkerPop Community has long maintained compatibility with neo4j, but recent releases of neo4j haven't been made easily compatible for ongoing maintenance of that support. As a result, support for neo4j has been pinned to a really old version at 3.x. Recent discussions within the TinkerPop community are generally in favor of dropping support for neo4j for TinkerPop 4.x which was an easier decision now that TinkerGraph supports basic transactions giving us a way to test that functionality.
As for your question about why we keep neo4j news in the #graph-news channel, I suppose i'm mostly responsible for that. As someone who has been working on TinkerPop since its earliest days, we've long thought of TinkerPop as a place to talk about graphs, not just TinkerPop enabled graph, but all graphs. Traditionally, it's been that way, but in more recent times that general conversation seems to have drifted to other places. You're the second person to question the inclusion of neo4j here in graph-news so perhaps there are more folks who find it confusing as to why it is present. it's also fairly noisy as they post with great consistency and if you follow graphs generally, you're probably getting that information other places already. i've been thinking about removing it. i'd be happy to hear if you or others agree with that happening.
Just my view - I like seeing the news from the broader graph community. Many of the activities are relevant more broadly such as all of the work going on with respect to Generative AI
Thank you guys, I'm just curious about it, not meant to propose anything with this post.