So much to love in just one update! It's an embarrassment of riches! What's the usual delay between "pre" and "release"? A couple weeks?
On Oct 3, 2011, at 3:40 PM, Ikai Lan (Google) wrote: > Hey everyone, > > Prerelease SDK 1.5.5 is now available for download! You can get it here: > > Python: > http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/downloads/detail?name=google_appengine_prerelease-1.5.5.zip > > Java: > http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/downloads/detail?name=appengine-java-sdk-prerelease-1.5.5.zip > > We provide prerelease SDKs as previews for things to come. New features > should not work in production yet, and documentation is typically still a > work in progress. Release notes are below as well as in the prerelease > packages: > > Python > =============================== > - Python 2.7 is now available as an experimental runtime for all applications > using the High Replication Datastore. To upload your app to the Python 2.7 > runtime, change the runtime argument in your app.yaml to python27. > - We have released an experimental utility, available in the Admin Console, to > assist in migrating your application to the High Replication datastore. This > utility allows you to copy the bulk of your data in the background, while > the > source application is still serving. You then need a brief read-only period > to > migrate your application data while you copy the data that has changed from > the time the original copy started. > - We have increased the number of files you can upload with your application > from 3,000 to 10,000. > - We have increased the size limit for a single file uploaded to App Engine > from > 10MB to 32MB. > - We have increased the Frontend request deadline from 30 seconds to 60 > seconds. > - We have increased the URLFetch maximum deadline from 10 seconds to 60 > seconds. > - We have increased the URLFetch Post payload from 1MB to 5MB. > - App Engine now supports Cross Group (XG) transactions with the High > Replication Datastore, which allow you to perform transactions across > multiple entity groups. > - We have released an experimental API that can write to Google Storage for > Developers directly from App Engine. > - We have added a graph to the admin console that displays the number of > instances for which you will be billed. > - In the XMPP API, get_presence() is deprecated in favor of using the inbound > presence handlers documented in > > http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/xmpp/overview.html#Handling_User_Presence. > - The Task Queue API 'target' parameter now accepts a new value, > taskqueue.DEFAULT_APP_VERSION, which will send the task to the default > frontend version, rather than the version or backend where the 'add' method > is > being called. > - In the URLFetch API, make_fetch_call() now returns an RPC object. > - Fixed an issue in the Admin Console where the "Run Now" button did not work > for tasks with a '-' in the name. > - Fixed an issue where the SDK did not decode Base64 encoded blobs. > - Fixed an issue to provide a better error message when using the Mail API to > send email to an invalid user address. > - Fixed an issue in the SDK where a skip_files entry caused an ImportError > when > the library was located elsewhere in the PYTHONPATH. > - Fixed an issue in the SDK index viewer where the arrows indicating whether a > query was ascending or descending were not properly rendered. > - Fixed an issue where httplib did not support the deadline argument for > URLFetch calls. > http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2216 > - Fixed an issue where you could not schedule a cron job to run every 100 > minutes. > http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5243 > - Fixed an issue in the SDK where failed tasks retried immediately instead of > waiting for 30 seconds. > http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5587 > - Fixed an issue making it possible to modify request headers using the > deferred > library. > http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5861 > > Java > ============= > - We have released an experimental utility, available in the Admin Console, to > assist in migrating your application to the High Replication datastore. This > utility allows you to copy the bulk of your data in the background, while > the > source application is still serving. You then need to take a short downtime > to > migrate your application data while you copy the data that has changed from > the time the original copy started. > - We have increased the number of files you can upload with your application > to > from 3,000 to 10,000. > - We have increased the size limit for a single file uploaded to App Engine > from > 10MB to 32MB. > - We have increased the Frontend request deadline from 30 seconds to 60 > seconds. > - We have increased the URLFetch maximum deadline from 10 seconds to 60 > seconds. > - We have increased the URLFetch Post payload from 1MB to 5MB. > - App Engine now supports Cross Group (XG) transactions with the High > Replication Datastore, which allow you to perform transactions across > multiple > entity groups. > - We have released an experimental API that can write to Google Storage for > Developers directly from App Engine. > - We have added a graph to the admin console that displays the number of > instances for which you will be billed. > - In the XMPP API, getPresence() is deprecated in favor of using the inbound > presence handlers documented in > > http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/xmpp/overview.html#Handling_User_Presence. > - Fixed an issue in the Admin Console where the "Run Now" button did not work > for tasks with a '-' in the name. > - Fixed an issue to provide a better error message when a user tries to parse > an > HttpRequest's input stream more than once in a request. > - Fixed an issue to provide a better error message when using the Mail API to > send email to an invalid user address. > - Fixed an issue in the SDK where HttpServletRequest.getInputStream().read() > always returned -1. > http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5396 > - Fixed an issue where you could not schedule a cron job to run every 100 > minutes. > http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5861 > > > > -- > Ikai Lan > Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine > plus.ikailan.com | twitter.com/ikai > > > -- > 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-appengine@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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. 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