neo4j-driver 5.28.0

on Node.js NPM

Implements caching of home databases, saving significant round trips, primarily for usage against Aura, along with improved error handling, DateTime conversion and a new handshake protocol.

👏🏼 Improvements

• Adds background caching of home databases, saving up to 33% of round trips when the user does not specify a target database. #1235
• Implements a new handshake protocol for Bolt, allowing more granular selection of protocol versions in the future. #1243

🔧 Fixes

• Improve handling and error communication when the user supplies a circular object in a custom auth token. #1247
• Fix the conversion between driver and JavaScript DateTimes when the local timezone has rare minute offsets from UTC. #1238