1 Copyright 2013 Google Inc.
4 App Engine Java SDK - Release Notes
8 - Fixed an issue with Endpoints JSON-RPC calls failing in the Java
10 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=11414
14 - Fixed an issue with Datastore stats not displaying entity counts.
15 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9328
19 - The URL Fetch service will always issue a GET request when it receives
20 and responds to a 302 response; previously it would preserve the original
21 HTTP method. This new behavior is in line with modern conventions (see
22 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-6.4). You can
23 use the final_url field of the Response object (or a similar object in other
24 APIs, see https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/java/urlfetch/) to
25 determine if your fetches are being redirected. If this change affects your
26 application, please contact our support team - even if you do not have a
28 https://support.google.com/cloud/answer/3420056?hl=en&ref_topic=3473162.
32 - No changes for 1.9.13
36 - No changes for 1.9.12
40 - Fixed an issue with the Search API in the SDK where listing indexes throws
41 NoSuchElementException when there are no indexes past the start key.
42 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=11185
46 - The deprecated methods in the LogQuery class will no longer work for
47 deployed apps. For a full list of methods that have been deleted,
48 please see the LogQuery deprecation announcement in the 1.8.7 version of the
53 - The deprecated methods in the LogQuery class have been deleted in the SDK.
54 For a full list of methods that have been deleted, please see the LogQuery
55 deprecation announcement in the 1.8.7 version of the SDK. Please note that
56 these methods will no longer work for deployed apps starting on the next
58 - Fixed an issue with the SDK where having Lucene Core on the classpath
59 causes unit tests in the Search API to fail when assertions are enabled.
60 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8451
61 - Fixed an issue with the SDK where adding appengine-local-runtime.jar to
62 the classpath of the junit ant task causes an output warning each time it is
64 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9885
65 - Fixed an issue with the Datastore Admin failing to load due to a
66 DeadlineExceededError when retrieving kinds.
67 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=11145
71 - Fixed an issue with Datastore Admin not properly restoring backups if writes
73 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=11090
77 - Added memcache historical hit ratio to Admin Console dashboard.
78 - Fixed an issue with sockets connections timing out after 2 minutes.
79 - Fixed an issue that could cause a StackOverflowError in apps when loading
80 the code of a class as a resource using ClassLoader.getResource.
81 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10413
82 - Fixed an issue with the dev_appserver caller-class check in Runtime.invoke()
83 which was looking too far up the stack and therefore refusing Method.invoke()
84 calls from another class in the same package.
85 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10539
89 - Fixed an issue with the dev_appserver Search API for atom fields that contain
90 whitespace or punctuation characters in their values (e.g., email addresses).
91 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7962
92 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10251
93 - Fixed an issue with PermGen running out of space when using DeferredTasks
95 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8377
96 - Fixed an issue with date-valued HTTP headers such as If-Modified-Since
97 getting a ClassCastException.
98 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8415
99 - Fixed an issue with Datastore cursors in dev_appserver getting the wrong
100 cursor value for keys only queries.
101 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10943
105 - Fixed an issue with the Search API where searching for geo points whose
106 distance from a fixed point is greater than some value returns documents that
107 do not include that field.
108 - Fixed an issue with appstats generating a ClassCastException in the
110 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6071
111 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7052
112 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10661
113 - Fixed an issue with the dev_appserver Search API not finding atoms with
115 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7962
116 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10251
117 - Fixed an issue with the Search API where querying for a field that does not
118 exist returns an error instead of returning zero matches on that field.
119 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10407
123 - Speed up memcache API deserialization by using Class.forName instead of
124 ClassLoader.loadClass.
125 - Added client side deployment logging to Java appcfg, which will improve
126 deployment performance of Java Applications.
127 - Fixed an issue with Datastore Queries containing nonexisting fields returning
128 no results instead of an error.
129 - Fixed an issue with Datastore String properties so they are now <=500
130 characters, not <500 characters.
131 - Fixed an issue with the Search API where it does not correctly parse
132 expressions that use the subtraction operator without surrounding
134 - Fixed an issue with 4-byte UTF-8 character web requests not forming correctly
136 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8603
140 - Various internal bug fixes. No new features for Java SDK 1.9.3.
144 - We are pleased to announce the availability of Dedicated Memcache service
145 to our customers in the EU.
149 - The Performance Settings section of the Application settings page in the
150 Admin Console, Backends API and all backends related management tools are now
151 deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Users of Backends are
152 recommended to migrate to the App Engine Modules API, which provides a more
153 flexible implementation of the same functionality. These settings are now all
154 configurable via Modules configuration files.
155 See the Modules documentation for more information:
156 https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/java/modules/#Java_Configuration
160 - Java 6 applications cannot be deployed to Google App Engine from any version
161 of the SDK. Existing Java 6 applications will continue to run. If you are
162 still relying on a Java 6 application in Google App Engine, we strongly
163 encourage you to start testing and deploying your app using Java 7. Java 7
164 has been certified by Oracle to be fully backwards compatible with Java 6,
165 as well as providing a number of benefits to developers. Java 7 applications
166 will be fully supported in future releases of the App Engine SDK.
167 If you absolutely need to continue to deploy Java 6 applications for
168 compatibility reasons, you can request that your application be whitelisted
169 for Java 6 deployment from http://goo.gl/ycffXq. As we review each whitelist
170 application by hand, please allow 10 working days for review, and note that
171 only billed applications that show a proven incompatibility will be
172 considered for exemption.
173 - Newly created App Engine applications now have a Google Cloud Storage bucket
174 created automatically as part of the same Google Cloud Project. For more
175 information please see:
176 https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/java/googlecloudstorageclient/
177 activate#Using_the_default_Gcs_bucket
178 - Modules Service API and application management features are now GA.
179 - Removed deprecated ModulesService methods and exceptions:
182 getDefaultVersionAsync()
183 getNumInstancesAsync()
184 getVersionHostnameAsync()
185 getInstanceHostnameAsync()
186 startModule() (replaced by startVersion)
187 startModuleAsync() (replaced by startVersionAsync)
188 stopModule() (replaced by stopVersion)
189 stopModuleAsync() (replaced by stopVersionAsync)
190 getModuleHostname() (replaced by getVersionHostname and getInstanceHostname)
191 getModuleHostnameAsync()
192 InvalidInstanceException
193 InvalidModuloeException
194 InvalidVersionException
195 - Moved ModulesService from package com.google.appengine.api.labs.modules to
196 package com.google.appengine.api.modules and from appengine-api-labs.jar to
198 - The following deprecated methods in com.google.appengine.api.log.LogQuery
199 will be removed in an upcoming release.
200 Builder.withModuleVersions(List<Pair<String, String>> moduleVersionIds)
201 Builder.withServerVersions(List<Pair<String, String>> serverVersionIds)
202 moduleVersions(List<Pair<String, String>> moduleVersions)
203 serverVersions(List<Pair<String, String>> serverVersions)
206 To avoid breakage when these are removed please update your code as per the
207 javadocs and upload the updated version.
208 - MapReduce is now a Preview feature. Documentation and getting started guides
210 https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/java/dataprocessing/.
211 - The size limit on the Search API is now computed and enforced on a per-index
212 basis, rather than for the app as a whole. The per-index limit is now 10GB.
213 There is no fixed limit on the number of indexes, or on the total amount of
214 Search API storage an application may use.
215 - Users now have the ability to embed images in emails via the Content-Id
217 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=965
218 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10503
219 - New App Engine Application Identifiers must now start with a letter,
220 in addition to the existing requirements that the identifier be 6-30
221 characters which are letters, numbers, and hyphens, and not start or end with
226 - Renamed appcfg start to appcfg start_module_version and stop to
228 - The following methods are deprecated in the Modules API and will be removed
229 in an upcoming release:
232 getDefaultVersionAsync
234 getVersionHostnameAsync
235 getInstanceHostnameAsync
236 startModule (replaced by startVersion)
237 startModuleAsync (replaced by startVersionAsync)
238 stopModule (replaced by stopVersion)
239 stopModuleAsync (replaced by stopVersionAsync)
240 getModuleHostname (replaced by getVersionHostname and getInstanceHostname)
241 getModuleHostnameAsync
242 - The following exceptions have been deprecated in the Modules API and will be
243 removed in a following release:
244 InvalidInstanceException
245 InvalidModuloeException
246 InvalidVersionException
247 - The following exceptions have been removed in the Modules API:
248 ModuleAlreadyStartedException
249 ModuleAlreadyStoppedException
250 - Modules are now supported in the dev_appserver Development Console.
251 - Fixed an issue with ID allocation collisions in the Datastore.
252 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10134
256 - Dedicated Memcache is now a GA feature. Our deprecation policy applies and
257 customers are encouraged to use this feature in production.
258 - Memcache API calls are tracked by a new metric that estimates resource usage,
259 Memcache Compute Units (MCU's). There is a new quota bucket and
260 dashboard graph corresponding to the metric, as well as an option in the
261 memcache viewer to display top keys by MCU's.
262 - Fixed an issue with cloning apps not creating proper service account names.
263 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10235
264 - Fixed an issue with users receiving errors when uploading large files to GCS.
265 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10101
269 - Cloud Endpoints is now a GA feature.
270 - Memcache configuration changes and mutations (flush, set, etc.) made from the
271 Admin Console are now recorded in the admin console logs.
272 - The max_concurrent_requests setting is now configurable per version/module.
273 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7927
274 - LogService API functions related to the modules feature will be changing.
275 The following functions will be deprecated and new versions will be provided:
276 LogQuery.getModuleVersions(), LogQuery.moduleVersions() and
277 LogQuery.Builder.withModuleVersions().
278 The following functions will be removed in a future release:
279 LogQuery.getModuleVersions(), LogQuery.moduleVersions(),
280 LogQuery.Builder.withModuleVersions(), LogQuery.getServerVersions(),
281 LogQuery.serverVersions() and LogQuery.Builder.withServerVersions().
282 Serialized LogQuery objects with values set using any of the above removed
283 methods will not be supported in a future release.
284 - Fixed an issue with Datastore not correctly validating namespaces with
285 greater than 500 characters.
286 - Fixed and issue with vacuum_indexes not working in the SDK.
287 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10168
291 - GetAccessToken in the OAuth package is now a GA feature.
292 - The LogsService API functions related to the Modules feature will be
294 The following functions will be deprecated and new versions will be
295 provided: LogQuery.getModuleVersions(), LogQuery.moduleVersions() and
296 LogQuery.Builder.withModuleVersions().
297 The following functions will be removed in an upcoming release:
298 LogQuery.getModuleVersions(), LogQuery.moduleVersions() and
299 LogQuery.Builder.withModuleVersions(), LogQuery.getServerVersions(),
300 LogQuery.serverVersions() and LogQuery.Builder.withServerVersions().
301 Serialized LogQuery objects with values set using any of the above removed
302 methods will not be supported in an upcoming release.
303 - A memcache size chart has been added to admin console's dashboard. Access it
304 via the drop-down above the graph. The chart graphs memcache size over time
305 enabling customers to determine when cache flush events occurred. This is a
307 - The Cloud Endpoints API @ApiSerializer has been renamed to @ApiTransformer
308 and the Serializer interface has been renamed to Transformer.
309 @ApiSerializationProperty has also been renamed to @ApiResourceProperty.
310 - If a customer passes invalid data to a memcache put() call, they now see a
311 more useful error message.
312 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8671
313 - Fixed an issue with the SDK that allows an invalid Datastore query combination
314 of group by and filter properties.
315 - Fixed an issue affecting validation of the size of Datastore property names.
316 - Fixed an issue with Datastore query validation for strings with exactly 500
318 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10019
322 - The Search API is now a GA feature.
323 - The Conversion API, a decommissioned feature, has been removed from the
324 runtime. Applications in production that import the API should be fixed as
326 - Fixed an issue with the Admin Console Datastore Viewer throwing errors when
327 fetching UTF-8 kinds.
328 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7570
329 - Fixed an issue where files that contain an '@' could not be deployed.
330 - Fixed an issue with the Datastore Admin not being able to backup to another
332 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9808
336 - A Datastore Admin fix in this release improves security by ensuring that
337 scheduled backups can now only be started by a cron or task queue task.
338 Administrators can still start a backup by going to the Datastore Admin
339 in the Admin Console.
340 - The Java SDK local datastore now defaults to an HRD-like consistency policy,
341 including eventually consistent global queries. For more information see
342 developers.google.com/appengine/docs/java/tools/devserver#Using_the_Datastore
343 - The Conversion API, a decommissioned feature, has been removed from the SDK.
344 In the next release, the API will be removed from the runtime and any
345 attempt to import the API will raise an exception. Applications in
346 production that import the API should be fixed as soon as possible.
347 - Fixed the implementation of the Cloud SQL JDBC driver for App Engine which
348 restricted the connection lifetime to the lifetime of the HTTP request.
349 This will unblock users who want to use long running connections (e.g. in
351 - Fixed bulkloader issue for Java caused by improper updates of the Java
352 Remote API handlers in a previous version of the runtimes.
353 - Fixed Eclipse plugin on the development server to eliminate complaints
354 about missing indexes when using equality filters.
355 - Fixed the issue with SASL provider registration that was impacting
356 developers' ability to connect to GMail via IMAP.
360 - Published a major rewrite of the Search API documentation. Please see:
361 https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/java/search
362 - Interfacing into the Task Queue REST API no longer requires including "s~"
363 at the beginning of the project name.
364 - Fixed an issue with the Mail API, email addresses that contain encoded
365 newlines as specified in rfc2047 are now parsed correctly.
366 - Fixed an issue with ChannelService.sendMessage() failing when a client id has
368 - Fixed an issue with the Channel API send_message function not working in the
370 - Fixed an issue with the Local Channel service failing to properly validate
372 - Fixed an issue with enabling cloud integration for existing apps.
373 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9602
374 - Fixed an issue with the Datastore Admin UI failing to load due to the app
375 having too many kinds.
376 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9749
380 - Dedicated memcache is now available to all developers. With
381 dedicated memcache you can purchase in-memory data caching capacity
382 exclusively for your application, cache more data and drive up cache hit
383 rates. This is a Preview feature. For more information please see:
384 https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/adminconsole/memcache
385 - App Engine Modules is now available to all developers. App Engine Modules
386 allow developers to segment their applications into logical subcomponents.
387 This is a Preview feature. More information on this feature can be found
389 https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/java/modules/
390 - Fixed an issue with the Channel API's Javascript library; a memory leak
391 occurred when closing channels.
392 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9283
393 - Fixed an issue with App Engine receiving erroneous XMPP presence from
395 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9498
399 - This SDK will be the last release that can deploy Java 6 apps. In 1.8.2,
400 the SDK will only be compiled with the Java 7 compiler and the only target
401 runtime will be Java 7.
402 - The Task Queue async API is now a GA feature. The asynchronous methods
403 improve utilization by allowing your app to add, lease and delete multiple
405 - Cloud Console projects are now created by default whenever a new App Engine
406 app is created. This is a Preview feature.
407 - In an upcoming release the Experimental Google Cloud Storage API Functions
408 will be decommissioned. This API and its Experimental status is documented at
410 https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/java/googlestorage/overview
411 - The Google Cloud Storage library will replace Google Cloud Storage API and is
412 now available as a Preview feature. More information can be found at
413 https://code.google.com/p/appengine-gcs-client/
414 - Bandwidth between App Engine and Google Cloud Storage is currently free of
415 charge (this may change in the future for certain levels of service).
416 - The Search API has graduated from Experimental to Preview. Apps that have
417 billing enabled can exceed the free quota levels and will be charged for
418 usage above these levels.
419 - Estimated number of search results will only be accurate if it is less than
420 or equal to the number of results requested. By default this can be
421 overridden by setting number_found_accuracy QueryOption in the Search API.
422 - Dates, atoms, and number fields can now be found by searching without a field
423 restriction in the Search API.
424 - A quoted empty string now returns atom fields with empty values for the
426 - Snippet and count functions are no longer allowed in sort expressions for the
428 - The Search API now has improved error messages for user errors and internal
430 - The Datastore now assigns scattered auto ids by default. Legacy auto ids
431 are still available via the 'auto_id_policy' option in appengine-web.xml.
432 - The Sockets API now allows client code to call get/set options against
433 sockets. Previously, calls raised "Not Implemented" exceptions. When
434 java.net.Socket.get<option>() is called, a mock value is returned, calls to
435 set<option>() will be silently ignored.
436 - Fixed an issue with the namespace not being displayed when a user attempts
437 to select a namespace in the Admin Console.
438 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8164
439 - Fixed an issue in the Admin Console Logs page to correctly display 'Until'
440 instead of 'Since' for logs search criteria.
441 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8659
445 - The Mail API now allows attachments with .zip and .gzip extensions as long as
446 the archives do not contain entries with blacklisted extensions.
447 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5933
448 - New Billing Enabled apps will no longer default to an email quota of 20,000
449 per day. Instead, apps will need to file a request through the admin console
450 to get email quotas increased.
451 - Admin console dashboard charts and reports for all users have been fully
452 migrated to the new, more reliable backend announced in 1.7.6.
453 - The maximum size of POST requests made through URLfetch has been increased
455 - Fixed an interaction issue between the Java MapReduce library and the Files
456 API which causes loss of data. If you are using the experimental Java
457 MapReduce library, we strongly encourage you to update to the latest version
458 of the library in the public svn:
459 https://code.google.com/p/appengine-mapreduce/source/checkout
460 - Fixed an issue with the Mail API to prevent sending mail from a Google Apps
461 mail account that has been suspended.
462 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6181
463 - Fixed an issue that caused Full-Text Search to fail in the Java dev_appserver.
464 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9088
465 - Fixed an issue with Java dev_appserver which caused the AdWords API to not
467 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9213
468 - Fixed an issue with the Java SDK jar file being too large for Windows 64.
469 - Fixed a JAXBPermission.setDatatypeConverter permission issue in Java7 runtime.
473 - The Sockets API, which allows applications to make outgoing TCP connections
474 and send/receive UDP packets to the Internet using both IPv4 and IPv6, is now
475 available as an experimental feature.
476 - The Java runtime now defaults to Java7. If you still need to use the Java6
477 runtime, please use the --use_java6 flag when deploying your app. We encourage
478 you to move to Java7 as soon as possible.
479 - Billing enabled apps will no longer be subject to a $2.10 minimum weekly
480 spend. Instead, apps will only be charged for their actual usage.
481 - Fixed an issue where Datastore auto ids assigned by the scattered id
482 policy were too large to be represented as floating point numbers in the SDK.
483 - Fixed an issue with sort by doc_id not translating correctly causing
484 InvalidRequest errors in the Search API
485 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8958
489 - Improvements to the App Engine billing system will be rolled out gradually to
491 - The application summary no longer displays the default version of a running
492 application, instead it lists the application as 'RUNNING'. In an upcoming
493 release applications will have multiple logical sub components, each of which
494 will have a default version. This UI update is meant to align with this
496 - Projection queries are now a fully supported GA feature.
497 - The XMPP API now has multi-JID getPresence(). This provides the ability to get
498 the availability of multiple users.
499 - The Java dev_appserver now allocates automatic ids using the 'scattered' id
500 allocation policy by default. For more information, please see "Specifying the
501 Automatic ID Allocation Policy":
502 https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/java/tools/devserver#Using_the_
504 - Admin console dashboard charts and current load/errors reports will be moving
505 to a new, more reliable backend. The change will be gradually rolling to users
506 of admin console over the next few weeks.
507 - New Search API quotas are now displayed in the Admin Console. These quotas are
508 not currently enforced, but will be part of the pricing model for the Search
509 API in a future release.
510 - The experimental Search API's ability to explicitly sort search results by
511 SortExpression.RANK_FIELD_NAME (i.e. _order_id) field in ascending order has
513 - Globally consistent indexes in the experimental Search API are now deprecated
514 and will be removed in the next release.
515 - Task Queue tasks may now be added and deleted asynchronously. This allows
516 applications to perform common task queue operations without blocking. This is
517 an experimental feature.
518 - Fixed an issue which caused an incorrect server error message when setting the
519 default version on the admin console, though the version was set correctly.
520 - Fixed an issue that caused java.security.AccessControlException when creating
522 - Fixed an issue that caused NullPointerException in ListIndexesResponse
523 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8359
524 - Fixed an issue that caused an incorrect log message when launching the Java
526 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8851
530 - New instance classes F4_1G and B4_1G are now available. These instances have
531 compute capacity equal to F4/B4 but with a maximum of 1G RAM instead
533 - The DataNucleus plugin has been upgraded to 2.1.2.
534 - The deprecated classes AddException, AddResponse, ListException,
535 ListIndexesException, ListIndexesRequest, ListIndexesResponse, ListRequest,
536 ListResponse, and RemoveException were removed from the Search API in the
537 SDK. If your app references any of these classes, you must deploy a new
538 version without these references before the next release of App Engine.
539 If you do not do this, your app may stop working in production.
540 - The Conversion API, which was decommissioned last release, has been removed
541 from the SDK. In a future release, the API will be removed from the
542 runtime and applications that attempt to use it may stop working.
543 Applications in production that import the library should be fixed as soon as
545 - We are making Java 7 available as an experimental feature. We strongly
546 encourage local and production testing for all existing applications. For
547 more information, please visit:
548 http://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/java/java7
549 - The Channel API now has the ability to send channel messages from any app
550 version or backend regardless of where the channel was created.
551 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5123
552 - The URL Fetch service now supports PATCH method requests.
553 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6316
554 - The Mail API can now send mail bounce notifications to the app. The
555 notification will be delivered to /_ah/bounce if mail_bounce inbound
556 services are enabled.
557 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7451
558 - The Blobstore service now returns the created filename instead of the blobKey
559 when using Cloud Storage
560 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8337
561 - Fixed an issue with Datastore callback annotations not working when running
563 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7208
567 - Traffic Splitting is now a GA feature.
568 - Task Queue Statistics is now a GA feature.
569 - Logs API now has the ability to fetch requests based on a list of
570 request_ids. Currently, this only works in production and is not supported
572 - The SDK now includes an IDE-friendly zip with the source for the App Engine
573 APIs. The zip resides in <SDK_ROOT>/src/user.
574 - Additional support for Maven now exists through both Maven archetypes and a
575 Maven plugin. Documentation for the new Maven support can be found at
576 https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/java/tools/maven
577 - DISTINCT for Datastore queries is now available as an experimental feature.
578 - The decommissioned Conversion API has been removed.
579 - Various JSP improvements
580 JSPs are now compiled together as opposed to one by one. This improves the
581 compilation process time.
582 JSP compiled classes are packaged in JAR files.
583 You can now avoid the upload of JSP source, which is typically not needed
584 at runtime. This can be done via the new --delete_jsps option in the
585 appcfg tool. By default, this option is not set.
586 You can now package all the WEB-INF/classes/* classes into jar files. This
587 can be done via the new --enable_jar_classes option in the appcfg tools. By
588 default, this option is not set.
589 - Users can now set how many columns can be viewed in the Datastore Viewer via
590 a drop-down menu which customizes the number of columns displayed.
591 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8158
592 - Fixed an issue with BackendService.getCurrentInstance() returning thread ID
593 instead of integer instance ID in production.
594 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8338
595 - Fixed an issue with Datastore Backup failing when a schema has a very large
596 number of properties.
597 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8363
598 - Fixed an issue with users being unable to change Authentication Type after
599 app creation in the Admin Console.
600 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8394
604 - We encourage you to try and test your application using Java 7 and the App
605 Engine SDK. Note that Java 7 is *not* a supported runtime.
606 - Java 7 Features that we encourage you to try in dev appserver:
608 Binary integral literals and underscores in number literals
609 Multi-catch and more precise rethrow
610 Improved type inference for generic instance creation (diamond)
611 try-with-resources statement
612 Simplified varargs method invocation
613 - Java 7 features that are NOT supported:
614 All new Java 7 classes (the Google App Engine whitelist has not been
617 Invoke Dynamic bytecode
618 - InetAddress name resolution now displays UnknownHostException instead of a
619 runtime exception error when the host is unknown.
620 - Datastore Index stats now report type instead of representation-type.
621 - Class Loading Priority can now be granted to specific JAR files by adding
622 class-loader-config element in appengine-web.xml file. This is an
623 experimental feature.
624 - Queries with transactions are now fully checked for consistency in Remote
626 - Global Consistent Indexes are now deprecated in the Search API.
627 - ListResponse<Document> listDocuments(ListRequest) has been deprecated and
628 replaced with GetResponse<Document> getRange(GetRequest) in the Search API.
629 - ListIndexesReponse listIndexes(ListIndexesRequest) has been deprecated and
630 replaced with GetResponse<Index> getIndexes(GetIndexesRequest) in the Search
632 - getField(String) has been deprecated and aliased to getFields(String) in the
634 - AddResponse Index.add() has been deprecated and renamed to PutResponse
635 Index.put() in the Search API.
636 - RemoveResponse Index.remove() has been deprecated and renamed to
637 DeleteReponse Index.delete() in the Search API.
638 - Users can now change authentication options after app creation
639 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=483
640 - Fixed an issue with Channel API breaking when using urlfetch service. This
641 issue was limited to the SDK.
642 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8166
643 - Fixed an issue with ResponseRewriterFilter not being threadsafe when using
645 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8167
649 - Paid applications can now upload Static files and Code > 1GB. Additional
650 storage will be billed at $0.13/GB per month. Free applications will
651 continue to be provided 1GB of storage at no charge. Free quota will apply
653 - Thread support via com.google.appengine.api.ThreadManager is now a
655 - The Conversion API will be decommissioned soon. Developers using this API
656 will receive a warning message. Please find an alternative document
657 conversion/OCR service.
658 - You can now fetch Task Queue Statistics. This allows you to fetch
659 statistics and information about your task queue from within your
660 application. Statistics include information such as the number of tasks
661 in a queue, how many tasks were executed in the last minute and enforced
662 rate. This is an experimental feature.
663 - Added Timezone selection widget in Admin Console Admin Logs.
664 - Added a warning message about caching when modifying or deleting entities
665 in the local Datastore.
666 - Added a flush cache button to the SDK dev console and Admin Console.
667 - Attempting to update multiple entity groups in a single transaction
668 in Datastore now throws an error suggesting to use XG transactions.
669 - Search API now has a string maximum length limit of 2000 characters.
670 - Added millisecond variants for setting start/end time on LogQuery class in
672 - The local Datastore now enforces the 500 character maximum key length.
673 - Added SDK response header rewrite framework functionality to help with
674 response headers returned by users.
675 - We now allow a user with multiple google accounts the ability to create an
676 app if they are an SMS verified user.
677 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1419
678 - A more useful error message now displays when a deployment fails
679 due to local date/time settings being improperly set.
680 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2033
681 - Granted java.io.SerializablePermission for enableSubclassImplementation
682 and enableSubstitution.
683 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2500
684 - Cron Descriptions may now include non-ASCII characters.
685 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2641
686 - App Config Service Delete App Version Call Count quota raised to
688 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2808
689 - There are now more descriptive error messages for Datastore Admin
690 deadline exceeded errors in stack traces.
691 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5413
692 - Replaced error code “Administrators cannot be removed right now”
693 with a more descriptive message.
694 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7080
695 - Fixed an issue with namespace dropdown in Admin Console appearing blank
696 even though the URL specified namespace is correct.
697 - Fixed an issue with public-root not working with static content
698 in appengine-web.xml.
699 - Fixed an issue with SDK Datastore viewer not showing unindexed properties.
700 - Fixed an issue with ApiProxy.getCurrentEnvironment() not having
701 com.google.appengine.runtime.default_version_hostname
702 - Fixed an issue with mail service sendToAdmins() failing when using
703 multi-arg message constructor.
704 - Fixed an issue with Expires header in SDK to match production behavior.
705 - Fixed an issue with com.google.appengine.api.log.RequestLogs.getCombined()
706 not populating correctly in SDK.
707 - Fixed an issue with runtime failing to use scope with OAuth under certain
709 - Fixed an issue with support for entities with large numbers of properties
710 in Admin Console Dataviewer where previously the page would fail to render.
711 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=937
712 - Fixed an issue with multi-line string property not editing correctly
714 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1725
715 - Fixed an issue with BigDecimal losing precision after Datastore
717 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1748
718 - Fixed an issue where the local Memcache service leaked memory.
719 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2428
720 - Fixed an issue with HttpServlet.doOptions throwing SecurityException from
721 HttpServlet.getAllDeclaredMethods
722 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2658
723 - Fixed an issue with Paging link in Datastore viewer not working with # or &
724 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3591
725 - Fixed an issue with rounding errors when cropping with the local images
727 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3647
728 - Fixed an issue with Dataviewer GQL stripping new lines after initial run
729 when a user paginates results.
730 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4246
731 - Fixed an issue where keeping a file open prevented the deletion in the local
732 Blostore service. This is a Windows only issue.
733 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4744
734 - Fixed an issue with LocalServiceTestHelper throwing Multiple Triggers
735 error when used in task queue.
736 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4893
737 - Fixed an issue with Admin Console stack trace error reporting in appcfg.
738 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4920
739 - Fixed an issue with Datastore viewer showing incorrect result range text
741 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4975
742 - Fixed an issue with custom admin page display when logged into multiple
744 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5117
745 - Fixed an issue with the inability to carry dynamic proxy objects
747 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5299
748 - Fixed an issue with DeferredTaskServlet failing with custom context
750 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5451
751 - Fixed an issue with Admin Console Logs < 30 minutes not being
753 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5494
754 - Fixed an issue with apps that are using Mail API throwing
755 “No Provider for address type rfc822” error.
756 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5769
757 - Fixed an issue with AppStats failing when enabled with Backend in SDK.
758 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6071
759 - Fixed an issue with the SDK viewer not being able to view 1000+ entities.
760 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6138
761 - Fixed an issue with Viewers being able to prohibit code downloads.
762 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6255
763 - Fixed an issue with billing applications that are disabled.
764 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6344
765 - Fixed an issue with deploying to an existing version when an app
767 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6803
768 - Fixed an issue with Cron schedule failing on the 1st day of month.
769 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7286
770 - Fixed issue with gzip compression for application/plist content type.
771 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7641
772 - A note about an upcoming change: starting with the 1.7.3 release
773 of App Engine, data statistics will report statistics on property type
774 usage by indexes using the documented property type names ("Integer",
776 https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/datastore/stats)
777 rather than the current property representation names ("INT64",
778 "REFERENCE", etc, see http://goo.gl/db5dT). This will affect the
779 __Stat_PropertyType__, __Stat_PropertyType_Kind__,
780 __Stat_PropertyType_PropertyName_Kind__ and their per-namespace equivalents.
781 This will also affect the displayed "Breakdown by Property Type" under the
782 "Datastore Statistics" in your application's console.
786 - The URLFetch API now supports multiple cookie headers.
787 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3379
788 - You can download 90 days worth of Usage Reports for your application from the
789 Billing History page of the Admin Console.
790 - Task Queue requests now include an X-AppEngine-TaskExecutionCount that counts
791 the number of times a task was run by an instance.
792 - Added support for delete() to the Files API.
793 - Added support for multiple files to be deleted using the Files API.
794 - Added support to delete files from Google Cloud Storage using the Files API.
795 - Added a REQUEST_LOG_ID to be written in the logs and as an
796 ApiProxy.Environment attribute. This can be used to later identifying that
797 request in the application logs.
798 - The Memcache Viewer now supports namespaces.
799 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7245
800 - The Mail API now supports the following headers for outgoing mail: List-Id,
801 List-Unsubscribe, On-Behalf-Of, Resent-Date, Resent-From, Resent-To.
802 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2559
803 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7672
804 - Version 2 of the DataNucleus plugin has been upgraded and is now fully
805 supported. For a full list of improvements please see
806 http://code.google.com/p/datanucleus-appengine/source/browse/branches/2_1_0/dist/RELEASE_NOTES.ORM
807 - The Search API now supports default values for dates in SortExpressions.
808 - The .project and .classpath files are now included in the App Engine demos
809 so that they may be imported by Eclipse.
810 - Fixed an issue with the App Engine satisfaction survey in the Admin Console
811 which was released in 1.6.6, which will be re-enabled in this release.
812 - Fixed an issue where ListIndexes failed when trying to return a schema that
813 contained Geo fields.
814 - Fixed an issue with Search API websafe cursors not being returned as a
816 - Fixed an issue where Java's AsyncMemcacheServiceImpl was incorrectly throwing
817 MemcacheServiceException.
818 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6236
819 - Fixed a Memcache error when getting HttpSession.
820 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6463
821 - Fixed a search issue where snippets failed to highlight when a capital
822 letter is used in a search term.
823 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7665
824 - Fixed an issue where JDO and JPA keys-only queries were being executed as
825 full entity queries in the datastore.
826 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7712
827 - Fixed an issue where traffic splitting by cookie was not working.
828 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7813
832 - You can now configure your custom domain to serve HTTPS requests with App
833 Engine. You can choose either an SNI, VIP, or SNI and VIP configuration. SNI
834 costs $9/month for 5 certificates. A VIP costs $99/month.
835 https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/ssl
836 - Premier customers now have the option to create applications to be served from
837 datacenters located in the European Union.
838 - Developers can configure their HRD app to use Google's PageSpeed Service,
839 which automatically speeds up serving of content for your application. The
840 PageSpeed Service costs $0.39/gigabyte in addition to the normal App Engine
842 https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/adminconsole/performancesettings#pagespeed
843 - The Search API now contains support for storing and searching on GeoPoints.
844 - The total size of all application versions is now limited to 1 GB. In the
845 future, you'll be able to purchase additional storage for your application
847 - Logs API calls are now $.12/gigabyte for all data read from the Logs API over
849 - You can now specify a time frame of up to 1 year for the retention of your
850 application logs. All storage above 1 GB is billed based on the prices for
852 - You can now specify HTTP headers on static content for your application.
853 - The HRD Blob Migration tool is now generally available.
854 - After using the datastore backup utility, you can now restore that backup
856 - It will not be possible to create new authorizations for M/S applications to
857 access Cloud SQL instances.
858 - You can now delete a Google Cloud Storage object using delete() in the
859 Blobstore Service API.
860 - You can now fetch a Google Cloud Storage object using fetch() in the
861 Blobstore Service API.
862 - You can now store keys for a Google Cloud Storage object in the datastore.
863 - The BlobstoreService.createUploadUrl() call now works for Google Cloud Storage
865 - You can now use ImageService.getServingUrl() and
866 ImageService.deleteServingUrl() for Google Cloud Storage objects.
867 - You can now specify your own Security Provider in Java.
868 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1612
869 - The Java Datastore API now supports Or queries.
870 - We've increased various Search API limits. New limits are a maximum of 1000
871 documents returned from search() or listDocuments(), a maximum of 1000
872 indexes returned from listIndexes(), and a maximum offset of 1000 for search()
874 - Fixed a javascript syntax error in the Admin Console.
875 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7566
876 - Fixed an issue in the Search API tab of the Admin Console where it threw an
877 error displaying non-ascii characters.
878 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7601
882 - On May 8, 2012 we released an experimental Search API.
883 http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2012/05/looking-for-search-find-it-on-google.html
884 - The Admin Console now displays the quotas for Search API Calls and Search
886 - The Search API has deprecated the ListDocumentsException class. When using
887 this class you will see a compile-time warning.
888 - The Search API has deprecated the orderId attribute on the Document class. It
889 has been superseded by the rank attribute.
890 - The Search API has replaced AddDocumentResponse with AddResponse. This will
891 require fixing and redeploying applications that use Index.add().
892 - App creation for apps using the Master/Slave datastore is now restricted to
893 only those users who already own a Master/Slave app.
894 - Apps with billing enabled are now able to configure up to 100 cron jobs.
895 - Admin Console can no longer be included in an <iframe>. To prevent
896 clickjacking attacks on the Admin Console, we are now setting
897 X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN. To read more about clickjacking, please read:
898 https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Clickjacking.
899 - The datastore now supports embedding entities as properties of other entities.
900 - The Admin Console will now periodically prompt administrators to take an
901 optional App Engine satisfaction survey.
902 - Appstats now contains information about the cost of the RPCs made during the
904 - Fixed an issue where large datastore backups were unable to be deleted.
905 - Fixed an issue where datastore backups fail due to an ascii decoding issue.
906 - Fixed an issue where running a projection query on a multi-valued property
907 with an equality filter did not return any results.
908 - Fixed an issue where XG transactions did not work with the Remote API.
909 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7238
913 - You can now perform datastore queries that return a subset of your entity
914 properties with the same performance and cost of a keys-only query. This
915 feature is experimental.
916 - In the High Replication Datastore, there is a new metadata kind,
917 __entity_group__, that has a numeric __version__ property. This property is
918 guaranteed to increase on every change to the entity group.
919 - The Images API now supports manipulating objects hosted on Google Cloud
921 - In the Images API, the getServingUrl() call now optionally allows you to
922 specify if the URL you are generating should be served over https.
923 - In the Task Queue REST API, you can now specify a tag when you insert a task
925 - In the Task Queue API, you can specify a deadline for the leaseTasks() call.
926 The default deadline has been increased from 5 seconds to 10 seconds.
927 - You can now use cron to schedule Datastore backups.
928 - The Datastore Admin now has a page that displays information on the status of
929 your Datastore backups and restores.
930 - You can now abort your Datastore backup or restore from the Datastore Admin.
931 - You can now restore a single Datastore Kind from the Datastore Admin from a
933 - In the Admin Console, you can report production issues with your application
934 directly to Google from the application's pages. Simply click the "Report
935 Production Issues" link, fill out the requested information, and submit.
936 - All user requests have X-AppEngine-Region, X-AppEngine-City, and
937 X-AppEngine-CityLatLong headers which contain location information based on
938 the IP address of the client request. For a full description of these headers,
940 https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/java/runtime#Request_Headers
941 - As announced in 1.6.4, omitting the <threadsafe> directive from
942 appengine-web.xml results in an error.
946 - Billed applications that have specified additional logs retention over 1 GB
947 are now being charged for that storage at $0.24/GB/month (the first gigabyte
948 of logs storage is free). All logs beyond an application's specified storage
949 limit will be deleted. Please examine your Application Settings page to verify
950 you are retaining the desired amount of logs.
951 - Datastore statistics now show the amount of storage used by application
953 - We have released an experimental utility for migrating your application's
954 blobs at the same time you migrate your datastore data. You can opt-in to
955 blob migration in the Admin Console when you start your migration.
956 - We have updated the experimental Backup/Restore functionality to include
957 the option to backup and restore to Google Storage for Developers.
958 - Version 2.0 of the App Engine DataNucleus plugin is now available as an
959 experimental release. This plugin contains support for JDO 3 and JPA 2 and
960 over 40 bug fixes. For a full list see:
961 http://code.google.com/p/datanucleus-appengine/source/browse/branches/2_0_0/dist/RELEASE_NOTES.ORM
962 - Threads are available as an experimental feature via
963 com.google.appengine.api.ThreadManager.
964 - The Admin Console now provides a Memcache viewer that lists Memcache stats and
965 can display Memcache content based on key.
966 - Using the blobstoreService.serve method, your application can serve objects
967 hosted on Google Cloud Storage.
968 - The method ApiProxy.getRemainingMillis() returns the amount of milliseconds
969 remaining before a request hits the request deadline.
970 - New datastore query related callbacks - PreGet(), PreQuery(), and PostLoad()
972 - Omitting the <threadsafe> directive from appengine-web.xml now results in
973 a warning. Starting with the 1.6.5 release, omitting this directive will
975 - You can set an RPC deadline for the Task Queue API's leaseTasks() method.
976 - The Datastore Admin tab in the Admin Console now shows entities from every
978 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3962
979 - GQL queries in the Admin Console no longer throw an error when a trailing
980 semi-colon is included.
981 - Fixed an issue where setting ApiProxy delegate caused ClassCastException in
983 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4442
984 - Fixed an issue where <async-session-persistence> did not work.
985 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5774
986 - The Datastore Admin now shows entities from every namespace.
987 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3962
988 - Fixed an issue in the Java Development Server where Task Queue retry
989 parameters were ignored.
990 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5200
991 - Fixed an issue in the Java Pipeline API
992 (http://code.google.com/p/appengine-pipeline/) that would lead to "No object
993 found in pool with id=barrier(...)" errors when used in HRD applications.
998 - In the Admin Console, you can use the new Traffic Splitting feature to send a
999 certain percentage of traffic to a non-default application version. The
1000 traffic is split by either cookie or IP address.
1001 - Emails that are sent from Google Apps domains email addresses where the domain
1002 has been set up to use DKIM will be signed: when an email was from a request
1003 that originated on that app's domain or any time the email was sent from
1004 an app adminstrator, including when that email is sent from a cron job or task
1006 - In the Admin Console, you can now choose how much and how long you'd like to
1007 store logs. All apps get 1G for free and eventually will be able to pay for
1008 more, while the amount can be increased this release we won't start charging
1009 for the additional capacity until the next release at the earliest.
1010 - The instances screen in the Admin Console now has a button to shut down
1011 a specific instance.
1012 - Each application log has a link to the instance that served the request. If
1013 the instance is no longer serving requests, a message will be displayed.
1014 - The TaskQueue API now supports the ability to tag a Pull Queue task. You may
1015 then lease tasks by tag. This feature is experimental.
1016 - Using Google Apps wildcard domain mappings, you can access alternate
1017 versions of your app via a custom domain.
1018 - Push and Pull Queues are now listed separately in the SDK development console.
1019 - The PermGen size for backend and frontend instances classes has been
1020 increased. The values are as follows: F1/B1 - 44MB, F2/B2 - 108MB,
1021 F4/B4 - 236MB, B8 - 492.
1022 - The DataNucleus Enhancer command line tool
1023 (com.google.appengine.tools.enhancer.Enhance) now supports the
1024 -enhancerVersion flag, which allow you to specify the version of DataNucleus
1025 with which to enhance your JDO/JPA classes.
1026 - The dev appserver command line now supports the --generated_dir flag, which
1027 allows you to specify a directory in which to write files generated by the
1029 - Fixed a StackOverflowError when using the Remote API.
1030 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6349
1034 - The Admin Console Datastore Admin has added experimental backup and restore
1035 functionality. The job occurs within your application and counts against your
1036 application quota, including Instance Hours, Datastore Ops and Datastore
1038 - Developers can now specify how long a channel token will last until it
1039 expires, with the default remaining two hours. Channel API quota is now
1040 measured both in calls to create a channel and the number of hours of channel
1041 time requested. The maximum hours of quota is the maximum number of channel
1042 creation calls * 2, so free apps get 200 hours of requested channel token
1044 - Task Queue API requests now include a X-Appengine-TaskETA header, that can be
1045 used to measure task delivery latency.
1046 - We have removed the deprecated labs version of the TaskQueue API.
1047 - The default API deadlines for Blobstore API calls have been raised to 15s for
1048 online and 30s for offline requests, up from 5s.
1049 - The Images API now allows you to stretch an image without maintaining the
1051 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2220
1052 - Mail Quota for App Engine apps that have signed up for billing will only be
1053 increased after the first payment for the app is processed.
1054 - Fixed an issue where the SDK did not resize images down to 512 pixels by
1055 default, as it does in production.
1056 - Fixed an issue with the Images API where valid images were returning a
1058 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5545
1062 - You can now configure Frontend Instance Classes from your Admin Console's
1063 application settings page. Three classes are available, with increasing
1064 memory, CPU limits, and associated cost. By default, all applications use the
1065 basic frontend instance setting of 128MB memory and 600MHz CPU.
1066 - We've added new functionality to the Log API that will allow you to read your
1067 application's logs programmatically.
1068 - We are releasing an experimental Conversion API that will allow you to convert
1069 between document types including .doc, .html, .pdf, images using OCR, and
1071 - The High Replication Datastore migration utility is now available as a GA
1072 feature, and is no longer experimental.
1073 - The dev appserver now emits a warning when loading any classes that fall under
1074 com.google.appengine.repackaged.*.
1075 - Version 2.0.0 of the DataNucleus App Engine plugin is available as an
1076 experimental download from http://goo.gl/kyQiO. This release
1077 adds support for JPA2 and JDO3. Installation instructions are available at
1078 http://goo.gl/ELBL4.
1079 - The Blobstore API now supports the multiple="true" attribute to the HTML input
1081 - TaskOptions.Param now implements Serializable.
1082 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3712
1083 - Fixed an issue in the SDK where logging "null" caused a 500 error.
1084 - Fixed an issue with backends where SessionManager might try to save a session
1085 forever under certain circumstances.
1086 - Fixed an issue where cached static files served to IPs on the DoS blacklist
1087 consumed bandwidth quota.
1088 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4607
1092 - On November 7th, App Engine will be out of Preview. The new Terms of Service
1093 and previously announced pricing changes will be in effect. Additionally, all
1094 paid apps are now covered by our SLA.
1095 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/billing.html
1096 - Paid apps can now specify the maximum pending latency for instances and the
1097 minimum number of idle instances for your application in the Admin Console.
1098 - Task Queue storage has been separated in to its own line item. Previously,
1099 this was included in Datastore storage.
1100 - We have released an experimental utility, available in the Admin Console, to
1101 assist in migrating your application to the High Replication datastore. This
1102 utility allows you to copy the bulk of your data in the background, while the
1103 source application is still serving. You then need a brief read-only period to
1104 migrate your application data while you copy the data that has changed from
1105 the time the original copy started.
1106 - Blobstore, which was previously limited to apps with billing enabled, is now
1107 available for all apps.
1108 - We have published a new article on Datastore Index Selection and Advanced
1109 Search which explains our recent improvements to the query planner that make
1110 exploding indexes unnecessary.
1111 http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/indexselection.html
1112 - Applications can now receive xmpp error stanzas at /_ah/xmpp/error.
1113 - In the Admin Console data viewer, you can now filter by namespace from a drop
1114 down menu, if applicable.
1115 - In the Admin Console's Datastore Statistics, we now offer namespace suggest
1116 for filtering stats.
1117 - Added API functionality for making calls to the Memcache API asynchronously.
1118 - In the Memcache API, getIdentifiable() and putIfUntouched() now support
1120 - We've added a page, /_ah/admin/capabilitiesstatus, to the dev console that
1121 allows you to configure the capability state of the local API implementations
1122 when running locally.
1123 - We've added LocalCapabilitiesServiceTestConfig to the testing API, which
1124 allows you to configure the capability state of the local API implementations
1126 - The Datastore API now supports callbacks that can execute before or after
1127 put() and delete() calls.
1128 - The queue-name argument is now optional for async-session-persistence in
1130 - Fixed a ClassNotFound error when using async-session-persistence.
1131 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5774
1132 - Fixed an issue with memcache serialization when using a entity key with a name
1133 that points to the same reference as the key's parent.
1134 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2088
1135 - Fixed an issue where DoS stats in the Admin Console didn't work for High
1137 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5237
1138 - WARNING: Starting with 1.6.1 (our next release, NOT this release), URLFetch
1139 requests will honor the Accept-Encoding header. If your code sets this header
1140 then it must be prepared to receive content of the specified type. For more
1141 information please see
1142 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4978
1146 - We have increased the number of files you can upload with your application to
1147 from 3,000 to 10,000.
1148 - We have increased the size limit for a single file uploaded to App Engine from
1150 - We have increased the Frontend request deadline from 30 seconds to 60 seconds.
1151 - We have increased the online URLFetch maximum deadline from 10 seconds to 60
1152 seconds. The default deadline remains at 10 seconds. The offline maximum deadline
1153 for URLFetch remains at 10 minutes.
1154 - We have increased the URLFetch Post payload from 1MB to 5MB.
1155 - App Engine now supports Cross Group (XG) transactions with the High
1156 Replication Datastore, which allow you to perform transactions across multiple
1158 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/datastore/transactions.html
1159 - We have added a graph to the admin console that displays the number of
1160 instances for which you will be billed.
1161 - In the XMPP API, getPresence() is deprecated in favor of using the inbound
1162 presence handlers documented in
1163 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/xmpp/overview.html#Handling_User_Presence.
1164 - Fixed an issue in the Admin Console where the "Run Now" button did not work
1165 for tasks with a '-' in the name.
1166 - Fixed an issue to provide a better error message when a user tries to parse an
1167 HttpRequest's input stream more than once in a request.
1168 - Fixed an issue to provide a better error message when using the Mail API to
1169 send email to an invalid user address.
1170 - Fixed an issue in the SDK where HttpServletRequest.getInputStream().read()
1172 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5396
1173 - Fixed an issue where you could not schedule a cron job to run every 100
1175 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5861
1179 - You can now specify the maximum size for a blob in
1180 BlobstoreService.createUploadUrl().
1181 - Zigzag merge join queries will now continue scanning up to the 30 second
1182 Datastore query deadline. For zigzag queries that used to generate
1183 DatastoreNeedIndexException, many will now succeed. A small percentage will
1184 now instead timeout.
1185 - The SDK datastore viewer in the dev console now displays the number of "Write
1186 Ops" for each entity. "Write Ops" are the total number of entity and index
1187 writes that were required to create the entity.
1188 - The Prospective Search API is available in Java for all applications. This API
1189 is still experimental, so applications will be limited to a maximum of 1000
1191 - We made a classloading improvement that we expect to help loading request
1192 latencies for projects with large numbers of jars.
1193 - Added support for the set_default_version flag to Appcfg.
1194 - The Java Remote API now recognizes the HTTP_X_APPENGINE_INBOUND_APPID. This
1195 means that the Datastore Admin copy functionality will work when using
1196 Java's Remote API with the destination app.
1197 - Fixed an issue that incorrectly allowed creation of tasks with whitespace in
1199 - Fixed the error message for "transaction not found" to be more descriptive.
1200 - Fixed an issue with the dev appserver's local Blobstore implementation trying
1201 to modify an immutable collection.
1202 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3081
1203 - Fixed an SDK issue where CONFIG, FINE, FINER, FINEST logging messages were not
1205 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4591
1210 - We've removed the limit on the size of blob uploads using the Blobstore API.
1211 - You can now send emails with any attachment extension that is not included on
1212 the email attachment extension blacklist.
1213 - Added a getIndexes() method to the DatastoreService to retrieve an
1214 application's indexes and their corresponding states.
1215 - The development server has been updated to understand the reduced index
1216 requirements of the 1.5.2 datastore query planner changes.
1217 - The Datastore Admin functionality can now be enabled directly in the Admin
1219 - You can now use Remote API to access the services of one App Engine
1220 application from a different App Engine application.
1221 - The Java Testing APIs now default to UTC if no timezone is specified.
1222 - AppCfg now supports download_app, which will download all files that were
1223 uploaded from your war directory.
1224 - AppCfg now supports the -V (version) and -A (application) flags.
1225 - Added app_identity api with methods to work with service accounts for
1226 asserting identity on outbound HTTP calls.
1227 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/appidentity/overview.html
1228 - Added an improved HRD migration tool that requires a read-only period relative
1229 to your datastore write rate (as opposed to your datastore size, which is how
1230 the current version behaves). The tool is not yet generally available. If you
1231 are interested in being an early adopter please fill out this form:
1233 - Fixed an issue in the Channel API where jsapi was not served with the correct
1235 - Fixed an issue where blobs could not be uploaded using HTTPS.
1236 - Fixed an issue where GQL didn't allow querying for valid kind names
1237 containing '.', '-', and ':' by supporting quoted identifiers.
1238 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2584
1242 - You can now specify the minimum pending latency for instances and the maximum
1243 number of idle instances for your application in the Admin Console.
1244 - The datastore now never requires an exploding index.
1245 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/datastore/queries.html#Big_Entities_and_Exploding_Indexes
1246 - The SDK will now never suggest indexes with the same property repeated, as
1247 such indexes are likely to be exploding indexes.
1248 - Datastore stats are now available on a per-namespace basis.
1249 - The queue details page in the Admin Console now contains request header
1250 details, previous run information, and a task payload viewer.
1251 - You can modify the lease on a task leased from a pull queue using the
1252 modifyTaskLease() method.
1253 - Pull Task maximum size has been increased to 1MB.
1254 - You can now update the number of available backend instances without needing
1255 to first stop the backend using the "backend configure" appcfg directive.
1256 - You can now set the "References" and "In-Reply-To" headers with the Mail API.
1257 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2802
1258 - The whitelist has been updated to include support for JSR 105.
1259 - When the SDK throws a DatastoreNeedIndexException for a missing index
1260 definition, the exception can now be caught.
1264 - The development server's datastore and testing service implementations now
1265 contains logic that closely replicates the consistency guarantees of the High
1266 Replication datastore. To use, run the dev_appserver with the flag
1267 -Ddatastore.default_high_rep_job_policy_unapplied_job_pct=20.
1268 - All user request have an X-AppEngine-Country header which contains the
1269 ISO-3166-1 alpha-2 country code for the user, based on the IP address of the
1271 - The Channel API can now provide user presence, this can be configured by
1272 adding channel_presence to the list of inbound services for your application.
1273 - The Images API now supports the WebP format.
1274 - You can switch the timezone for App Engine logs in the Admin Console.
1275 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=734
1276 - Added javax.xml.ws.Service$Mode to the whitelist.
1277 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4770
1278 - You can configure your application to asynchronously write https session data
1279 by adding <async-session-persistence enabled="true"/> to your
1281 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1692
1282 - The local task queue unit testing API now supports Deferred Tasks.
1283 - Fixed an issue where using reserved URLs did not cause an error in the SDK.
1284 - Fixed an issue where having a backends.xml configuration file caused logging
1285 to stdout to fail in the SDK.
1286 - Fixed an issue where the Channel API didn't work with non-default versions of
1287 applications using the High Replication datastore.
1288 - Fixed an issue where the Remote API rtok comparison was broken for some users,
1289 causing appfcg download data to fail.
1290 - Fixed an issue with the SDK where you could not apply a transform to PNG
1292 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3458
1293 - When displaying corrupt data in the Admin Console dataviewer, a useful error
1294 will be displayed, instead of a 500.
1295 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4945
1296 - Fixed an issue with the SDK where non-string index names caused an error upon
1298 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5004
1299 - Datanucleus now supports polymorphic relationships.
1300 http://code.google.com/p/datanucleus-appengine/issues/detail?id=153
1301 - Datanucleus now supports PreparedQuery#countEntities(FetchOptions).
1302 http://code.google.com/p/datanucleus-appengine/issues/detail?id=225
1303 - Fixed an issue with datanucleus where recursive relation did not work.
1304 http://code.google.com/p/datanucleus-appengine/issues/detail?id=80
1308 - Fixed a bug that caused appengine-jsr107cache-1.5.0.jar to be empty.
1312 - Support for Backends which allow developers to create infrastructure
1313 components that complement the existing dynamic apps that App Engine already
1314 provides. Instances of a backend can maintain state, be addressed
1315 individually, and are not subject to per-request time limits. They can also be
1316 configured to consume more memory and CPU than ordinary dynamic instances.
1317 - Task Queues support pull mode, allowing for more control over task queue work
1318 rates. To use pull queues, include the 'mode' element in your queue.xml.
1319 - Pull queues are supported by a REST API, allowing access from outside App
1320 Engine. To use the REST API, you must also include a valid ACL section
1321 specifying which users can lease tasks from the pull queue.
1322 - Task Queue payload limits have been increased. Queues support 100KB per task.
1323 Within App Engine, the new limit is 32 MB per batch of tasks. With the REST
1324 API the limit is 1 MB per batch.
1325 - HTTP request and response sizes have been increased to 32 MB.
1326 - We have removed the rate quotas for requests, datastore operations,
1327 memcache operations, and image API operations. Resource quotas still apply.
1328 - When creating new applications, developers will now see the High Replication
1329 Datastore as the default configuration option. Developers that still wish to
1330 use the Master/Slave configuration must explicitly choose this option at
1331 application creation time.
1332 - The Task Queue maximum configurable processing rate has been increased to
1334 - Modified Dashboard latency graphs to indicate they only include dynamic
1336 - We have added two restrictions to the Mail API to improve the reliability
1337 of the service for all applications.
1338 - Emails must be sent from email accounts managed by Google (either Gmail or
1339 a domain signed up for Google Apps).
1340 - Reduced the number of free recipients per day from 2000 to 100 for new
1342 - Fixed an issue where the Javadoc for the File API was not generated.
1343 - Fixed an issue where the API Deadlines were not being enforced in the SDK.
1344 - Fixed an issue with Federated Users causing the Admin Console dataviewer to
1346 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=384
1347 - Fixed an issue causing SDK URL Fetch not to work behind proxy.
1348 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=544
1349 - Fixed an issue deploying an app with version set to 0.
1350 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=735
1351 - Improved support for reserving an app id that is a canonicalized version of
1352 a user's Gmail address.
1353 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1196
1354 - Added a more useful error message for unavailable App Ids.
1355 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1303
1356 - Added clearer error messaging for invalid transactions in the SDK.
1357 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1357
1358 - Added better error messages for cron.xml parsing.
1359 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1490
1360 - Entity constructors are now consistent with KeyFactory constructors.
1361 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1626
1362 - Task Queue names can now include the "_" character.
1363 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1723
1364 - The sender of an email is no longer BCC'd when they are already included in
1366 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1907
1367 - Added a more helpful error message when trying to send email to a malformed
1369 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2386
1370 - The SDK now returns an error if the Content-length header is not included in a
1371 post request, matching production.
1372 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2512
1373 - Fixed an issue where the wrong type of error was being thrown on HTTP request
1375 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2464
1376 - Fixed an issue where the Admin Console didn't keep the app version viewed
1377 consistent across actions.
1378 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4023
1379 - Added Javadocs for TaskOptions.taskName().
1380 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4316
1381 - Fixed a typo in the Admin Console on the New App page.
1382 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4620
1383 - Fixed an issue where sending mail from an app registered on the HR datastore
1384 required the app id be prefaced with s~.
1385 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4671
1386 - Fixed an issue where HTTP POST was broken in the SDK if the Content-Length
1387 header was specified.
1388 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4836
1392 - Added FileService API that allows writing to and reading from files in
1394 - You can now specify cron execution for a time interval between a start and end
1396 - You can now configure the specific application version to which a task queue
1397 or cron job will send requests.
1398 - The Admin Console Task Queues page now displays a more accurate estimate of
1399 queue size for queues containing more than 2000 tasks.
1400 - Java applications can enable concurrent request support by setting
1401 <threadsafe> to True in their appengine-web.xml. This flag indicates that
1402 request handlers for your app are thread safe and multiple request handlers
1403 may safely run at the same time in the same memory space for your application.
1404 - Deferred library support now available in Java.
1405 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2381
1406 - Remote API library now available in Java. This can be used in conjunction with
1407 apps using either the Java or the Python runtime.
1408 - The Java SDK now supports kindless and ancestor only queries.
1409 - Fixed an issue where JAX-WS clients in the SDK could not handle receiving a
1411 - Fixed an issue where the SDK did not support fetching HTTPS URLs.
1412 - Fixed an issue where no link was displayed in the Admin Console blobstore
1413 viewer for an unnamed blob.
1414 - Fixed an issue where the Admin Console data viewer couldn't edit entities
1415 with ByteString properties.
1416 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2367
1417 - Fixed an issue where the Admin Console crashed when using a non-ascii
1419 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2451
1420 - The Disable Application admin function has been button-ized.
1421 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4323
1422 - Fixed a regex validation issue in the queue.xml file that caused some uploads
1424 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4365
1425 - Fixed an issue where the Java SDK Task Queue did not support 10 minute
1427 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4564
1428 - Fixed an issue where the Channel API in the SDK didn't properly send messages
1429 with unicode characters.
1430 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4675
1434 - You can now vacuum datastore indexes with the Java SDK.
1435 - The XMPP API was updated to include presence and allow subscriptions.
1436 - The Task Queue now supports programmatic deleting of tasks.
1437 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2588
1438 - The maximum rate per queue at which tasks are processed has been increased to
1439 100 task per second.
1440 - The maximum number of concurrent requests for a single queue can be specified
1441 in the application's queue.xml. This provides an additional easy-to-use form
1442 of rate limiting. The current number of running tasks is also displayed in
1444 - Metadata queries in the Datastore now support cursors.
1445 - Admin Console logs viewer now displays time as YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.mmm.
1446 - The Mail API added KML and KMZ files as allowed attachments.
1447 - Added support for verifying the server SSL certificate when making a
1448 URLFetch request to an HTTPS URL. This will become the default in a future
1450 - Added a warning when an admin tries to upload a queue.yaml where the number
1451 of new queues and the number of disabled queues exceeds 100.
1452 - Added a putIfUntouched() method to the Memcache API.
1453 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2139
1454 - Added JAX-WS support for writing SOAP clients and SAAJ support for writing
1455 SOAP servers. JAX-WS for SOAP servers is not yet supported.
1456 - Fixed an issue where mail from @appid.appspotmail.com did not work when
1457 sending mail to app admins.
1458 - Fixed an issue where the SDK did not enforce the 100 task limit for the Task
1460 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3296
1461 - Fixed an issue where the Java SDK URLFetch did not support 32MB response
1463 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4215
1464 - Fixed an issues where <jsp-file> mappings in web.xml were broken.
1465 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4216
1469 There were no updates to the Java SDK for the 1.4.1 App Engine release.
1473 - The Always On feature allows applications to pay and keep 3 instances of their
1474 application always running, which can significantly reduce application
1476 - Developers can now enable Warmup Requests. By specifying a handler in an
1477 app's appengine-web.xml, App Engine will attempt to send a Warmup Request to
1478 initialize new instances before a user interacts with it. This can reduce the
1479 latency an end-user sees for initializing your application.
1480 - The Channel API is now available for all users.
1481 - Task Queue has been officially released, and is no longer an experimental
1482 feature. The API import paths that use 'labs' have been deprecated. Task queue
1483 storage will count towards an application's overall storage quota, and will
1484 thus be charged for.
1485 - The deadline for Task Queue and Cron requests has been raised to 10 minutes.
1486 Datastore and API deadlines within those requests remain unchanged.
1487 - For the Task Queue, developers can specify task retry-parameters in their
1489 - Apps that have enabled billing are allowed up to 100 queues with the Task
1491 - Metadata Queries on the datastore for datastore kinds, namespaces, and entity
1492 properties are available.
1493 - URL Fetch allowed response size has been increased, up to 32 MB. Request size
1494 is still limited to 1 MB.
1495 - The request and response sizes for the Images API have been increased to
1497 - The total size of Memcache batch operations is increased to 32 MB. The 1 MB
1498 limit on individual Memcache objects still applies.
1499 - The attachment size for outgoing emails has been increased from 1 MB to 10 MB.
1500 The size limit for incoming emails is still 10 MB.
1501 - Size and quantity limits on datastore batch get/put/delete operations have
1502 been removed. Individual entities are still limited to 1 MB, but your app may
1503 batch as many entities together for get/put/delete calls as the overall
1504 datastore deadline will allow for.
1505 - When iterating over query results, the datastore will now asynchronously
1506 prefetch results, reducing latency in many cases by 10-15%.
1507 - The Admin Console Blacklist page lists the top blacklist rejected visitors.
1508 - The automatic image thumbnailing service supports arbitrary crop sizes up to
1510 - Overall average instance latency in the Admin Console is now a weighted
1511 average over QPS per instance.
1512 - Added a low-level AysncDatastoreService for making calls to the datastore
1514 - Added a getBodyAsBytes() method to QueueStateInfo.TaskStateInfo, this returns
1515 the body of the task state as a pure byte-string.
1516 - The whitelist has been updated to include all classes from javax.xml.soap.
1517 - Fixed an issue sending email to multiple recipients.
1518 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1623
1519 - Revert the default logging level during GWT hosted mode back to INFO.
1520 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4011
1521 - Fixed an issue with OpenId over SSL.
1522 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3393
1526 - You can run task queue tasks immediately from the admin console.
1527 - Added an OutputSettings class to the Images API to specify the JPEG encoding
1528 quality when running in production.
1529 - Support for login of multiple Google accounts within an app, and longer login
1530 sessions. For more information see:
1531 http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?answer=181599
1532 - In queue.xml, the maximum allowed bucket size is now 100.
1533 - Removed limits on zigzag merge-join queries. Therefore the error "The built-in
1534 indices are not efficient enough for this query and your data. Please add a
1535 composite index for this query." will no longer be thrown in most cases,
1536 enabling more types of queries without indexes.
1537 - The whitelist has been updated to include java.net.InetAddress and some
1538 interfaces and abstract classes in javax.xml.soap, including
1539 javax.xml.soap.SOAPMessage.
1540 - Fixed an issue reserving App Ids by owners of emails containing periods,
1541 multiple cases, and googlemail.com address.
1542 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1196
1543 - Fixed an issue where TaskOptions had no public getters, making testing
1545 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3243
1546 - Fixed an issue on the development server where PNGs were being returned as
1548 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3661
1552 - Fixed an SDK issue where calling getServingUrl raised an exception.
1553 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3598
1557 - Multitenancy is now supported in the datastore, allowing better
1558 compartmentalization of user data.
1559 - Automatic image thumbnailing is now available in the Images API using
1561 - Users can now serve custom static error pages for over_quota, dos_api_denial
1563 - Results of datastore count() queries and offsets for all datastore queries
1564 are no longer capped at 1000.
1565 - Added a pause queue button to the task queue details page in the Admin
1567 - Historical graphs have been added to all of the dashboard graphs in the Admin
1569 - Content-range headers are supported on Blobstore downloads.
1570 - New method to allocate datastore ids in a given range: allocateIdRange()
1571 - The app.yaml format is supported with Java applications.
1572 - Increased several rate limited quotas for free applications.
1573 - Fixed an issue that did not allow forms of over 200,000 bytes to be submitted.
1574 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1608
1578 - Ability to configure the Task Queue storage limit with the
1579 total-storage-limit field in the queue.xml file.
1580 - Task Queues now support up to 50 qps per queue, up from 50 qps per app.
1581 - Developers can programmatically access Blobs with BlobstoreInputStream, which
1582 provides an InputStream view of a blob in Blobstore
1583 - Bulkloader transform helpers for lists and hierarchical keys were added.
1584 - remote_api_shell commands can be sent over HTTPS or HTTP.
1585 - Admin Console logs now include information on request time latency.
1586 - The datastore now supports end cursors.
1587 - Fixed an issue where requesting /appstats would not properly direct to
1589 - Fixed an issue with inconsistent URL mappings between the SDK and production.
1590 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2598
1594 - Client side bulkloader available with the Python SDK that has a new
1595 configuration syntax and wizard for easier import/export with the datastore.
1596 Can be used by enabling remote_api in your Java application
1597 - Applications can now be configured to authenticate with OpenID by selecting
1598 the OpenID option when creating your application in the admin console
1599 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=248
1600 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=56
1601 - New API to allow App Engine apps to act as OAuth service providers
1602 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=919
1603 - The version update check in the Java SDK now uses https
1604 - Allow full access to javax.el.*
1605 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3157
1606 - Increased the timeout during deployment to 15 minutes
1607 - Fixed an issue with JPA where an illegal cast exception was thrown during the
1608 fetch of integer fields
1609 - MemcacheService.setNamespace() is deprecated in favor of
1610 MemcacheServiceFactory.getMemcacheManager(namespace)
1611 - Support in the SDK for Java 1.5 is being deprecated. These warnings now appear
1612 when starting the SDK
1616 - Fixed an issue where servlet filters could cause 404s
1617 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3138
1621 - Added two new system properties com.google.appengine.application.id and
1622 com.google.appengine.application.version
1623 - DeadlineExceededException is now always thrown before
1624 HardDeadlineExceededError
1625 - Decreased likelihood of "Too many URLMap" deployment errors for complex
1627 - Fixed an error where QuotaService.getCpuTimeInMegaCycles() was returning
1628 cycles instead of megacycles
1629 - Fixed an issue between differing behavior of jsp in the production and
1630 development environments
1631 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3022
1632 - Fixed an issue uploading webapps with .tag files
1633 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2902
1637 - New API to read the contents of uploaded Blobs (fetch_data)
1638 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2536
1639 - URLFetch now supports accessing ports 80-90, 440-450, and 1024-65535
1640 - Mail API now allows common document formats as attachments
1641 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=494
1642 - The Task Queue API now supports adding multiple tasks in a single call to
1644 - Fixed charset handling for inbound emails
1645 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2326
1646 - Fixed issue with compositing background colors in dev_appserver
1647 - New feature in the datastore to specify whether to use strong or eventually
1648 consistent reads (the default is strong)
1649 - New datastore feature allows setting deadlines for operations
1650 - Increased the maximum Task Queue refill rate from 20/s to 50/s
1651 - Support for IP blacklisting to prevent denial of service (DoS) attacks
1652 - App Stats is now available for the Java SDK in addition to Python
1653 - Fix issue with expiration times not being reset on Put on the Memchache API
1654 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1284
1655 - Fix issue preventing static files from being served when a servlet is mapped to root
1656 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1379
1660 - Datastore Query Cursors
1661 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/datastore/queriesandindexes.html#Query_Cursors
1662 - Transactional Tasks
1663 - Support for Custom Admin Console pages
1664 - Java Precompilation is now on by default
1665 Developers can opt-out of precompilation by setting the flag in
1667 <precompilation-enabled>false</precompilation-enabled>
1668 - New built-in support for unit testing (see appengine-testing.jar)
1669 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/tools/localunittesting.html
1670 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=326
1671 - net.sf.jsr107 package included as an alternative to the low-level
1673 - javax.annotation.Resource/Resources added to the package whitelist
1674 - New "month" and "synchronized" syntax for Cron configuration
1675 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/config/cron.html
1676 - URLFetch supports asynchronous requests
1677 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1899
1678 - appcfg.sh uses HTTPS for application deployment
1679 - appcfg.sh adds request_logs --append
1680 - Changes to the order queries without a specified sort order are returned
1681 Only queries that use IN will see different results.
1682 - Added support for multiple != filters on the same property
1683 - Improved support for keys-only queries when using IN and != filters
1684 - Support for ETags, If-matches, If-not-matches HTTP Headers, as well as 304
1685 status codes now available on static files (not yet available on the
1686 dev_appserver or Blobstore blobs)
1687 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=575
1688 - Fixed issue where the maximum transform count was enforced for composite
1690 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1656
1691 - Fixed issue with whitespace on the end of strings in web.xml
1692 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2242
1693 - Fixed web.xml <error-page> entries for 404 error codes
1694 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1477
1695 - Added validation prevent welcome-files with absolute paths
1696 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1249
1697 - Fixed issue where cancelling a deployment in progress could unintentionally
1699 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2255
1700 - Fixed issue with QuotaService.getCpuTimeInMegaCycles() returning 0
1701 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2639
1702 - Fixed issue where JSP exceptions will be incorrectly cast causing a
1704 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1438
1708 - Support for the new Blobstore API
1709 - New com.google.appengine.runtime.{version,environment} system properties
1710 (and a SystemProperty accessor class)
1711 - New sample applications for GWT 2.0
1712 - Optimizations for many reflection operations
1716 - Support for JAXB. JAXB is included in JDK 1.6 (and App Engine's production
1717 servers). If you're using JDK 1.5 with your local dev_appserver, you will
1718 need to include the JAXB libraries with your application to use it.
1719 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1267
1720 - New support for application pre-compilation to reduce the length of
1721 loading requests. To enable pre-compilation on your application, add this
1722 flag to your appengine-web.xml:
1723 <precompilation-enabled>true</precompilation-enabled>
1724 If you have trouble deploying your application, you should remove this
1725 flag or set it to false.
1726 - Added Quota API (com.google.appengine.api.quota) to match Python API.
1727 - Low-level Memcache API now supports batchIncrement().
1728 - HTTPResponse object now has getFinalUrl() method for 302 redirects.
1729 - http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1464
1730 - Java Dev Appserver now automatically executes tasks. If you prefer the
1731 old behavior where tasks do not automatically execute you can use the
1732 following flag when starting the server:
1733 -Dtask_queue.disable_auto_task_execution
1734 - Additional file extensions permitted when sending mail.
1735 - http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=494
1736 - Fixed issue with Java mail handler not processing multipart messages
1738 - Fixed agent code included in appengine-local-runtime.jar results in
1740 - http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2280
1741 - Fixed issue with sort orders defined on properties that allow multiple
1743 - http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2349
1744 - Fixed problem with dropped query strings after requiring log-in.
1745 - http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2225
1746 - Removed limitation preventing multiple parameters with the same name.
1747 - http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2090
1748 - Fixed issue with local datastore incorrectly sorting results of ancestor
1750 - http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2177
1751 - New Index building status page in the Admin Console
1752 - Task Queue now supports purging queues, and deleting tasks and queues via
1754 - http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2159
1755 - http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1740
1756 - Over Quota HTTP status code changed from 403 to 503, other to 500.
1757 - http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=961
1758 - Task Queue now considers all HTTP 2xx status codes to represent success.
1760 For past release notes, visit:
1761 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/wiki/SdkForJavaReleaseNotes