With the release of Neo4j 1.2 milestone 2, the integrated indexing API provides a more natural part of the GraphDatabaseService, offering a fluent API for creating indexes that can refer to nodes or relationships and perform compound queries. The new indexing is paired with an IndexManager, providing improved performance and faster graph operations. Additionally, this release includes fixes for shutdown problems, kernel optimizations for caching and high-availability, and an increasing suite of integration tests to ensure comprehensive testing.