• Patch releases back to being detached from Elastic stack releases.
• Tested compatibility with Elasticsearch v7.17 APIs.
• Tested versions of Ruby for 7.17.8: Ruby (MRI) 2.7, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, JRuby 9.3, JRuby 9.4.
• Bugfix in elasticsearch-transport: Fixes enforcing UTF-8 in Response body, causing an error when the string is frozen, particularly when using webmock: issue #63.