diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 60e1690b2ab4f3b9689dc2c7b3ee8159b84471d8..e532c4afd8c008a0c6f51e86342d78705c35f807 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 Upcoming version:
 -----------------
+  - updating neo4j to latest version (Nikolaus Krismer)
   - fixed open task (downloading without error checking for spatialite DB (Nikolaus Krismer)
   - fixed invalid file name (Nikolaus Krismer)
   - fixing problem where mineT functionswere not added to DB (Nikolaus Krismer)
diff --git a/bootstrap/prepareEnvironment.sh b/bootstrap/prepareEnvironment.sh
index a84dca17af037215cbc09450a7285af9a4d0c0e1..0be6159575a86a1c3d6c2a413f6fe1019bd0cab0 100755
--- a/bootstrap/prepareEnvironment.sh
+++ b/bootstrap/prepareEnvironment.sh
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ MAVEN_VERSION="3.3.9"
 MAVEN_FILE="apache-maven-$MAVEN_VERSION-bin.zip"
 MAVEN_DOWNLOAD_URL="http://www.eu.apache.org/dist/maven/maven-3/$MAVEN_VERSION/binaries/$MAVEN_FILE"
 NEO4J_DB_USER="neo4j"
-NEO4J_VERSION="3.0.3"
+NEO4J_VERSION="3.0.4"
 NEO4J_FILE="neo4j-community-$NEO4J_VERSION-unix.tar.gz"
 NEO4J_DOWNLOAD_URL="http://neo4j.com/artifact.php?name=$NEO4J_FILE"
 NEO4J_SERVICE_NAME="neo4j"