ElasticSearch version 0.12 is out today along with some nice new features.

However, the thing I'm most excited about is that ElasticSearch.pm v 0.26 is also out and has support for bulk indexing and pluggable backends, both of which add a significant performance boost.

Pluggable backends

I've factored out the parts which actually talk to the ElasticSearch server into the ElasticSearch::Transpo…