Spring Data 的 Neo4j 子模块发布了 2.1.0 的第四个 RC 版本，详细改进记录如下：
2.1.0.RC4 (2012-08-19)
- DATAGRAPH-296 Updates to stable versions of Neo4j 1.8.RC1, spatial, cypher-dsl and java-rest-binding, adopted to API changes
- DATAGRAPH-285 adding application events for save and delete
- DATAGRAPH-263, DATAGRAPH-212, DATAGRAPH-272, DATAGRAPH-147 refactored derived query creation, added support for multiple indexed fields and all query keywords
- DATAGRAPH-294 derived finder methods for numerically indexed values
- DATAGRAPH-293 find objects by graph-id
- DATAGRAPH-275 non graceful fallback on empty graph for TypeRepresentationStrategyFactory
- DATAGRAPH-246 allowing entity as parameter to derived finders
- DATAGRAPH-281 Added support for Enums and Dates as parameters to Cypher
Spring Data 项目的目的是为了简化构建基于 Spring 框架应用的数据访问计数，包括非关系数据库、Map-Reduce 框架、云数据服务等等；另外也包含对关系数据库的访问支持。
而 Spring Date Neo4j 这是 Spring Data 用来访问 Neo4j 的模块。