Hey everyone, I just wanted to let everyone know that prerelease SDK 1.4.0 is out! Get it from the Google Code project:
http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/downloads/list We're still working on the docs and will have them ready for the final release, so if there are any questions about how to use the new features, feel free to ask on this thread and I'll do my best to clarify them. The release notes are below. This is an EXCITING release: Python ------------ - The Always On feature allows applications to pay and keep 3 instances of their application always running, which can significantly reduce application latency. - Developers can now enable Warmup Requests. By specifying a handler in an app's app.yaml, App Engine will attempt to to send a Warmup Request to initialize new instances before a user interacts with it. This can reduce the latency an end-user sees for initializing your application. - The Channel API is now available for all users. - Task Queue has been officially released, and is no longer an experimental feature. The API import paths that use 'labs' have been deprecated. Task queue storage will count towards an application's overall storage quota, and will thus be charged for. - The deadline for Task Queue and Cron requests has been raised to 10 minutes. Datastore and API deadlines within those requests remain unchanged. - For the Task Queue, developers can specify task retry_parameters in their queue.yaml. - Metadata Queries on the datastore for datastore kinds, namespaces, and entity properties are available. - URLFetch allowed response size has been increased, up to 32 MB. Request size is still limited to 1 MB. - The Admin Console Blacklist page lists the top blacklist rejected visitors. - The automatic image thumbnailing service supports arbitrary crop sizes up to 1600px. - Overall average instance latency in the Admin Console is now a weighted average over QPS per instance. - The developer who uploaded an app version can download that version's code using the appcfg.py download_app command. This feature can be disabled on a per application basis in the admin console, under the 'Permissions' tab. Once disabled, code download for the application CANNOT be re-enabled. - Fixed an issue where custom Admin Console pages did not work for Google Apps for your Domain users. - Allow Django initialization to be moved to appengine_config.py to avoid Django version conflicts when mixing webapp.template with pure Django. http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1758 - Fixed an issue in the dev_appserver where get_serving_url did not work for transparent, cropped PNGs: http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3887 - Fixed an issue with the DatastoreFileStub. http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3895 Java --------- - The Always On feature allows applications to pay and keep 3 instances of their application always running, which can significantly reduce application latency. - Developers can now enable Warmup Requests. By specifying a handler in an app's appengine-web.xml, App Engine will attempt to to send a Warmup Request to initialize new instances before a user interacts with it. This can reduce the latency an end-user sees for initializing your application. - The Channel API is now available for all users. - Task Queue has been officially released, and is no longer an experimental feature. The API import paths that use 'labs' have been deprecated. Task queue storage will count towards an application's overall storage quota, and will thus be charged for. - The deadline for Task Queue and Cron requests has been raised to 10 minutes. Datastore and API deadlines within those requests remain unchanged. - For the Task Queue, developers can specify task retry-parameters in their queue.xml. - Metadata Queries on the datastore for datastore kinds, namespaces, and entity properties are available. - URL Fetch allowed response size has been increased, up to 32 MB. Request size is still limited to 1 MB. - The Admin Console Blacklist page lists the top blacklist rejected visitors. - The automatic image thumbnailing service supports arbitrary crop sizes up to 1600px. - Overall average instance latency in the Admin Console is now a weighted average over QPS per instance. - Added a low-level AysncDatastoreService for making calls to the datastore asynchronously. - Added a getBodyAsBytes() method to QueueStateInfo.TaskStateInfo, this returns the body of the task state as a pure byte-string. - The whitelist has been updated to include all classes from javax.xml.soap. - Fixed an issue sending email to multiple recipients. http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1623 As usual, we value your feedback, so don't hesitate to evaluate these SDKs and let us know. Be mindful that the server-side components have not been deployed yet, so uploaded code shouldn't work. Happy coding! -- Ikai Lan Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine Blogger: http://googleappengine.blogspot.com Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/appengine Twitter: http://twitter.com/app_engine -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
