Update: We had to roll back the admin console updates. It'll go live later.
-- 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 On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Ikai Lan (Google) <ikai.l+gro...@google.com<ikai.l%2bgro...@google.com> > wrote: > Hey everyone, > > Version 1.4.0 is officially released! Documentation will go live shortly. > In the meantime, check out our blog post: > > > http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2010/12/happy-holidays-from-app-engine-team-140.html > > Release notes are below: > > 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 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. > - Apps that have enabled billing are allowed up to 100 queues with the Task > Queue API. > - 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 request and response sizes for the Images API have been increased to > 32 MB. > - The total size of Memcache batch operations is increased to 32 MB. The 1 > MB > limit on individual Memcache objects still applies. > - The attachment size for outgoing emails has been increased from 1 MB to > 10 MB. > The size limit for incoming emails is still 10 MB. > - Size and quantity limits on datastore batch get/put/delete operations > have > been removed. Individual entities are still limited to 1 MB, but your app > may > batch as many entities together for get/put/delete calls as the overall > datastore deadline will allow for. > - When iterating over query results, the datastore will now asynchronously > prefetch results, reducing latency in many cases by 10-15%. > - 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. > - In the Python runtime, an instance is killed and restarted when a request > handler hits DeadlineExceededError. This should fix an issue related to > intermittent SystemErrors using Django. > http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=772 > - 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 with OpenId over SSL. > http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3393 > - Fixed an issue on the dev_appserver where login/logout code didn't work > using > Python 2.6. > http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3566 > - 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 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. > - Apps that have enabled billing are allowed up to 100 queues with the Task > Queue API. > - 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 request and response sizes for the Images API have been increased to > 32 MB. > - The total size of Memcache batch operations is increased to 32 MB. The 1 > MB > limit on individual Memcache objects still applies. > - The attachment size for outgoing emails has been increased from 1 MB to > 10 MB. > The size limit for incoming emails is still 10 MB. > - Size and quantity limits on datastore batch get/put/delete operations > have > been removed. Individual entities are still limited to 1 MB, but your app > may > batch as many entities together for get/put/delete calls as the overall > datastore deadline will allow for. > - When iterating over query results, the datastore will now asynchronously > prefetch results, reducing latency in many cases by 10-15%. > - 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 > - Revert the default logging level during GWT hosted mode back to INFO. > http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4011 > - Fixed an issue with OpenId over SSL. > http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3393 > > I'll update this thread again when documentation is live. Auto-updaters > will also go live shortly. > > -- > 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 google-appeng...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.