This is an awesome release. Thanks. On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Ikai Lan (Google) <ikai.l+gro...@google.com<ikai.l%2bgro...@google.com> > wrote:
> 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<google-appengine%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > -- *Jeff Schwartz* -- 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. 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