1 Copyright 2013 Google Inc.
4 App Engine Java SDK - Release Notes
8 - Fixed an issue with the Search API where searching for geo points whose
9 distance from a fixed point is greater than some value returns documents that
10 do not include that field.
11 - Fixed an issue with appstats generating a ClassCastException in the
13 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6071
14 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7052
15 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10661
16 - Fixed an issue with the dev_appserver Search API not finding atoms with
18 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7962
19 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10251
20 - Fixed an issue with the Search API where querying for a field that does not
21 exist returns an error instead of returning zero matches on that field.
22 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10407
26 - Speed up memcache API deserialization by using Class.forName instead of
27 ClassLoader.loadClass.
28 - Added client side deployment logging to Java appcfg, which will improve
29 deployment performance of Java Applications.
30 - Fixed an issue with Datastore Queries containing nonexisting fields returning
31 no results instead of an error.
32 - Fixed an issue with Datastore String properties so they are now <=500
33 characters, not <500 characters.
34 - Fixed an issue with the Search API where it does not correctly parse
35 expressions that use the subtraction operator without surrounding
37 - Fixed an issue with 4-byte UTF-8 character web requests not forming correctly
39 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8603
43 - Various internal bug fixes. No new features for Java SDK 1.9.3.
47 - We are pleased to announce the availability of Dedicated Memcache service
48 to our customers in the EU.
52 - The Performance Settings section of the Application settings page in the
53 Admin Console, Backends API and all backends related management tools are now
54 deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Users of Backends are
55 recommended to migrate to the App Engine Modules API, which provides a more
56 flexible implementation of the same functionality. These settings are now all
57 configurable via Modules configuration files.
58 See the Modules documentation for more information:
59 https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/java/modules/#Java_Configuration
63 - Java 6 applications cannot be deployed to Google App Engine from any version
64 of the SDK. Existing Java 6 applications will continue to run. If you are
65 still relying on a Java 6 application in Google App Engine, we strongly
66 encourage you to start testing and deploying your app using Java 7. Java 7
67 has been certified by Oracle to be fully backwards compatible with Java 6,
68 as well as providing a number of benefits to developers. Java 7 applications
69 will be fully supported in future releases of the App Engine SDK.
70 If you absolutely need to continue to deploy Java 6 applications for
71 compatibility reasons, you can request that your application be whitelisted
72 for Java 6 deployment from http://goo.gl/ycffXq. As we review each whitelist
73 application by hand, please allow 10 working days for review, and note that
74 only billed applications that show a proven incompatibility will be
75 considered for exemption.
76 - Newly created App Engine applications now have a Google Cloud Storage bucket
77 created automatically as part of the same Google Cloud Project. For more
78 information please see:
79 https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/java/googlecloudstorageclient/
80 activate#Using_the_default_Gcs_bucket
81 - Modules Service API and application management features are now GA.
82 - Removed deprecated ModulesService methods and exceptions:
85 getDefaultVersionAsync()
86 getNumInstancesAsync()
87 getVersionHostnameAsync()
88 getInstanceHostnameAsync()
89 startModule() (replaced by startVersion)
90 startModuleAsync() (replaced by startVersionAsync)
91 stopModule() (replaced by stopVersion)
92 stopModuleAsync() (replaced by stopVersionAsync)
93 getModuleHostname() (replaced by getVersionHostname and getInstanceHostname)
94 getModuleHostnameAsync()
95 InvalidInstanceException
96 InvalidModuloeException
97 InvalidVersionException
98 - Moved ModulesService from package com.google.appengine.api.labs.modules to
99 package com.google.appengine.api.modules and from appengine-api-labs.jar to
101 - The following deprecated methods in com.google.appengine.api.log.LogQuery
102 will be removed in an upcoming release.
103 Builder.withModuleVersions(List<Pair<String, String>> moduleVersionIds)
104 Builder.withServerVersions(List<Pair<String, String>> serverVersionIds)
105 moduleVersions(List<Pair<String, String>> moduleVersions)
106 serverVersions(List<Pair<String, String>> serverVersions)
109 To avoid breakage when these are removed please update your code as per the
110 javadocs and upload the updated version.
111 - MapReduce is now a Preview feature. Documentation and getting started guides
113 https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/java/dataprocessing/.
114 - The size limit on the Search API is now computed and enforced on a per-index
115 basis, rather than for the app as a whole. The per-index limit is now 10GB.
116 There is no fixed limit on the number of indexes, or on the total amount of
117 Search API storage an application may use.
118 - Users now have the ability to embed images in emails via the Content-Id
120 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=965
121 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10503
122 - New App Engine Application Identifiers must now start with a letter,
123 in addition to the existing requirements that the identifier be 6-30
124 characters which are letters, numbers, and hyphens, and not start or end with
129 - Renamed appcfg start to appcfg start_module_version and stop to
131 - The following methods are deprecated in the Modules API and will be removed
132 in an upcoming release:
135 getDefaultVersionAsync
137 getVersionHostnameAsync
138 getInstanceHostnameAsync
139 startModule (replaced by startVersion)
140 startModuleAsync (replaced by startVersionAsync)
141 stopModule (replaced by stopVersion)
142 stopModuleAsync (replaced by stopVersionAsync)
143 getModuleHostname (replaced by getVersionHostname and getInstanceHostname)
144 getModuleHostnameAsync
145 - The following exceptions have been deprecated in the Modules API and will be
146 removed in a following release:
147 InvalidInstanceException
148 InvalidModuloeException
149 InvalidVersionException
150 - The following exceptions have been removed in the Modules API:
151 ModuleAlreadyStartedException
152 ModuleAlreadyStoppedException
153 - Modules are now supported in the dev_appserver Development Console.
154 - Fixed an issue with ID allocation collisions in the Datastore.
155 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10134
159 - Dedicated Memcache is now a GA feature. Our deprecation policy applies and
160 customers are encouraged to use this feature in production.
161 - Memcache API calls are tracked by a new metric that estimates resource usage,
162 Memcache Compute Units (MCU's). There is a new quota bucket and
163 dashboard graph corresponding to the metric, as well as an option in the
164 memcache viewer to display top keys by MCU's.
165 - Fixed an issue with cloning apps not creating proper service account names.
166 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10235
167 - Fixed an issue with users receiving errors when uploading large files to GCS.
168 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10101
172 - Cloud Endpoints is now a GA feature.
173 - Memcache configuration changes and mutations (flush, set, etc.) made from the
174 Admin Console are now recorded in the admin console logs.
175 - The max_concurrent_requests setting is now configurable per version/module.
176 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7927
177 - LogService API functions related to the modules feature will be changing.
178 The following functions will be deprecated and new versions will be provided:
179 LogQuery.getModuleVersions(), LogQuery.moduleVersions() and
180 LogQuery.Builder.withModuleVersions().
181 The following functions will be removed in a future release:
182 LogQuery.getModuleVersions(), LogQuery.moduleVersions(),
183 LogQuery.Builder.withModuleVersions(), LogQuery.getServerVersions(),
184 LogQuery.serverVersions() and LogQuery.Builder.withServerVersions().
185 Serialized LogQuery objects with values set using any of the above removed
186 methods will not be supported in a future release.
187 - Fixed an issue with Datastore not correctly validating namespaces with
188 greater than 500 characters.
189 - Fixed and issue with vacuum_indexes not working in the SDK.
190 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10168
194 - GetAccessToken in the OAuth package is now a GA feature.
195 - The LogsService API functions related to the Modules feature will be
197 The following functions will be deprecated and new versions will be
198 provided: LogQuery.getModuleVersions(), LogQuery.moduleVersions() and
199 LogQuery.Builder.withModuleVersions().
200 The following functions will be removed in an upcoming release:
201 LogQuery.getModuleVersions(), LogQuery.moduleVersions() and
202 LogQuery.Builder.withModuleVersions(), LogQuery.getServerVersions(),
203 LogQuery.serverVersions() and LogQuery.Builder.withServerVersions().
204 Serialized LogQuery objects with values set using any of the above removed
205 methods will not be supported in an upcoming release.
206 - A memcache size chart has been added to admin console's dashboard. Access it
207 via the drop-down above the graph. The chart graphs memcache size over time
208 enabling customers to determine when cache flush events occurred. This is a
210 - The Cloud Endpoints API @ApiSerializer has been renamed to @ApiTransformer
211 and the Serializer interface has been renamed to Transformer.
212 @ApiSerializationProperty has also been renamed to @ApiResourceProperty.
213 - If a customer passes invalid data to a memcache put() call, they now see a
214 more useful error message.
215 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8671
216 - Fixed an issue with the SDK that allows an invalid Datastore query combination
217 of group by and filter properties.
218 - Fixed an issue affecting validation of the size of Datastore property names.
219 - Fixed an issue with Datastore query validation for strings with exactly 500
221 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10019
225 - The Search API is now a GA feature.
226 - The Conversion API, a decommissioned feature, has been removed from the
227 runtime. Applications in production that import the API should be fixed as
229 - Fixed an issue with the Admin Console Datastore Viewer throwing errors when
230 fetching UTF-8 kinds.
231 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7570
232 - Fixed an issue where files that contain an '@' could not be deployed.
233 - Fixed an issue with the Datastore Admin not being able to backup to another
235 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9808
239 - A Datastore Admin fix in this release improves security by ensuring that
240 scheduled backups can now only be started by a cron or task queue task.
241 Administrators can still start a backup by going to the Datastore Admin
242 in the Admin Console.
243 - The Java SDK local datastore now defaults to an HRD-like consistency policy,
244 including eventually consistent global queries. For more information see
245 developers.google.com/appengine/docs/java/tools/devserver#Using_the_Datastore
246 - The Conversion API, a decommissioned feature, has been removed from the SDK.
247 In the next release, the API will be removed from the runtime and any
248 attempt to import the API will raise an exception. Applications in
249 production that import the API should be fixed as soon as possible.
250 - Fixed the implementation of the Cloud SQL JDBC driver for App Engine which
251 restricted the connection lifetime to the lifetime of the HTTP request.
252 This will unblock users who want to use long running connections (e.g. in
254 - Fixed bulkloader issue for Java caused by improper updates of the Java
255 Remote API handlers in a previous version of the runtimes.
256 - Fixed Eclipse plugin on the development server to eliminate complaints
257 about missing indexes when using equality filters.
258 - Fixed the issue with SASL provider registration that was impacting
259 developers' ability to connect to GMail via IMAP.
263 - Published a major rewrite of the Search API documentation. Please see:
264 https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/java/search
265 - Interfacing into the Task Queue REST API no longer requires including "s~"
266 at the beginning of the project name.
267 - Fixed an issue with the Mail API, email addresses that contain encoded
268 newlines as specified in rfc2047 are now parsed correctly.
269 - Fixed an issue with ChannelService.sendMessage() failing when a client id has
271 - Fixed an issue with the Channel API send_message function not working in the
273 - Fixed an issue with the Local Channel service failing to properly validate
275 - Fixed an issue with enabling cloud integration for existing apps.
276 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9602
277 - Fixed an issue with the Datastore Admin UI failing to load due to the app
278 having too many kinds.
279 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9749
283 - Dedicated memcache is now available to all developers. With
284 dedicated memcache you can purchase in-memory data caching capacity
285 exclusively for your application, cache more data and drive up cache hit
286 rates. This is a Preview feature. For more information please see:
287 https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/adminconsole/memcache
288 - App Engine Modules is now available to all developers. App Engine Modules
289 allow developers to segment their applications into logical subcomponents.
290 This is a Preview feature. More information on this feature can be found
292 https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/java/modules/
293 - Fixed an issue with the Channel API's Javascript library; a memory leak
294 occurred when closing channels.
295 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9283
296 - Fixed an issue with App Engine receiving erroneous XMPP presence from
298 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9498
302 - This SDK will be the last release that can deploy Java 6 apps. In 1.8.2,
303 the SDK will only be compiled with the Java 7 compiler and the only target
304 runtime will be Java 7.
305 - The Task Queue async API is now a GA feature. The asynchronous methods
306 improve utilization by allowing your app to add, lease and delete multiple
308 - Cloud Console projects are now created by default whenever a new App Engine
309 app is created. This is a Preview feature.
310 - In an upcoming release the Experimental Google Cloud Storage API Functions
311 will be decommissioned. This API and its Experimental status is documented at
313 https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/java/googlestorage/overview
314 - The Google Cloud Storage library will replace Google Cloud Storage API and is
315 now available as a Preview feature. More information can be found at
316 https://code.google.com/p/appengine-gcs-client/
317 - Bandwidth between App Engine and Google Cloud Storage is currently free of
318 charge (this may change in the future for certain levels of service).
319 - The Search API has graduated from Experimental to Preview. Apps that have
320 billing enabled can exceed the free quota levels and will be charged for
321 usage above these levels.
322 - Estimated number of search results will only be accurate if it is less than
323 or equal to the number of results requested. By default this can be
324 overridden by setting number_found_accuracy QueryOption in the Search API.
325 - Dates, atoms, and number fields can now be found by searching without a field
326 restriction in the Search API.
327 - A quoted empty string now returns atom fields with empty values for the
329 - Snippet and count functions are no longer allowed in sort expressions for the
331 - The Search API now has improved error messages for user errors and internal
333 - The Datastore now assigns scattered auto ids by default. Legacy auto ids
334 are still available via the 'auto_id_policy' option in appengine-web.xml.
335 - The Sockets API now allows client code to call get/set options against
336 sockets. Previously, calls raised "Not Implemented" exceptions. When
337 java.net.Socket.get<option>() is called, a mock value is returned, calls to
338 set<option>() will be silently ignored.
339 - Fixed an issue with the namespace not being displayed when a user attempts
340 to select a namespace in the Admin Console.
341 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8164
342 - Fixed an issue in the Admin Console Logs page to correctly display 'Until'
343 instead of 'Since' for logs search criteria.
344 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8659
348 - The Mail API now allows attachments with .zip and .gzip extensions as long as
349 the archives do not contain entries with blacklisted extensions.
350 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5933
351 - New Billing Enabled apps will no longer default to an email quota of 20,000
352 per day. Instead, apps will need to file a request through the admin console
353 to get email quotas increased.
354 - Admin console dashboard charts and reports for all users have been fully
355 migrated to the new, more reliable backend announced in 1.7.6.
356 - The maximum size of POST requests made through URLfetch has been increased
358 - Fixed an interaction issue between the Java MapReduce library and the Files
359 API which causes loss of data. If you are using the experimental Java
360 MapReduce library, we strongly encourage you to update to the latest version
361 of the library in the public svn:
362 https://code.google.com/p/appengine-mapreduce/source/checkout
363 - Fixed an issue with the Mail API to prevent sending mail from a Google Apps
364 mail account that has been suspended.
365 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6181
366 - Fixed an issue that caused Full-Text Search to fail in the Java dev_appserver.
367 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9088
368 - Fixed an issue with Java dev_appserver which caused the AdWords API to not
370 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9213
371 - Fixed an issue with the Java SDK jar file being too large for Windows 64.
372 - Fixed a JAXBPermission.setDatatypeConverter permission issue in Java7 runtime.
376 - The Sockets API, which allows applications to make outgoing TCP connections
377 and send/receive UDP packets to the Internet using both IPv4 and IPv6, is now
378 available as an experimental feature.
379 - The Java runtime now defaults to Java7. If you still need to use the Java6
380 runtime, please use the --use_java6 flag when deploying your app. We encourage
381 you to move to Java7 as soon as possible.
382 - Billing enabled apps will no longer be subject to a $2.10 minimum weekly
383 spend. Instead, apps will only be charged for their actual usage.
384 - Fixed an issue where Datastore auto ids assigned by the scattered id
385 policy were too large to be represented as floating point numbers in the SDK.
386 - Fixed an issue with sort by doc_id not translating correctly causing
387 InvalidRequest errors in the Search API
388 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8958
392 - Improvements to the App Engine billing system will be rolled out gradually to
394 - The application summary no longer displays the default version of a running
395 application, instead it lists the application as 'RUNNING'. In an upcoming
396 release applications will have multiple logical sub components, each of which
397 will have a default version. This UI update is meant to align with this
399 - Projection queries are now a fully supported GA feature.
400 - The XMPP API now has multi-JID getPresence(). This provides the ability to get
401 the availability of multiple users.
402 - The Java dev_appserver now allocates automatic ids using the 'scattered' id
403 allocation policy by default. For more information, please see "Specifying the
404 Automatic ID Allocation Policy":
405 https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/java/tools/devserver#Using_the_
407 - Admin console dashboard charts and current load/errors reports will be moving
408 to a new, more reliable backend. The change will be gradually rolling to users
409 of admin console over the next few weeks.
410 - New Search API quotas are now displayed in the Admin Console. These quotas are
411 not currently enforced, but will be part of the pricing model for the Search
412 API in a future release.
413 - The experimental Search API's ability to explicitly sort search results by
414 SortExpression.RANK_FIELD_NAME (i.e. _order_id) field in ascending order has
416 - Globally consistent indexes in the experimental Search API are now deprecated
417 and will be removed in the next release.
418 - Task Queue tasks may now be added and deleted asynchronously. This allows
419 applications to perform common task queue operations without blocking. This is
420 an experimental feature.
421 - Fixed an issue which caused an incorrect server error message when setting the
422 default version on the admin console, though the version was set correctly.
423 - Fixed an issue that caused java.security.AccessControlException when creating
425 - Fixed an issue that caused NullPointerException in ListIndexesResponse
426 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8359
427 - Fixed an issue that caused an incorrect log message when launching the Java
429 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8851
433 - New instance classes F4_1G and B4_1G are now available. These instances have
434 compute capacity equal to F4/B4 but with a maximum of 1G RAM instead
436 - The DataNucleus plugin has been upgraded to 2.1.2.
437 - The deprecated classes AddException, AddResponse, ListException,
438 ListIndexesException, ListIndexesRequest, ListIndexesResponse, ListRequest,
439 ListResponse, and RemoveException were removed from the Search API in the
440 SDK. If your app references any of these classes, you must deploy a new
441 version without these references before the next release of App Engine.
442 If you do not do this, your app may stop working in production.
443 - The Conversion API, which was decommissioned last release, has been removed
444 from the SDK. In a future release, the API will be removed from the
445 runtime and applications that attempt to use it may stop working.
446 Applications in production that import the library should be fixed as soon as
448 - We are making Java 7 available as an experimental feature. We strongly
449 encourage local and production testing for all existing applications. For
450 more information, please visit:
451 http://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/java/java7
452 - The Channel API now has the ability to send channel messages from any app
453 version or backend regardless of where the channel was created.
454 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5123
455 - The URL Fetch service now supports PATCH method requests.
456 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6316
457 - The Mail API can now send mail bounce notifications to the app. The
458 notification will be delivered to /_ah/bounce if mail_bounce inbound
459 services are enabled.
460 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7451
461 - The Blobstore service now returns the created filename instead of the blobKey
462 when using Cloud Storage
463 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8337
464 - Fixed an issue with Datastore callback annotations not working when running
466 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7208
470 - Traffic Splitting is now a GA feature.
471 - Task Queue Statistics is now a GA feature.
472 - Logs API now has the ability to fetch requests based on a list of
473 request_ids. Currently, this only works in production and is not supported
475 - The SDK now includes an IDE-friendly zip with the source for the App Engine
476 APIs. The zip resides in <SDK_ROOT>/src/user.
477 - Additional support for Maven now exists through both Maven archetypes and a
478 Maven plugin. Documentation for the new Maven support can be found at
479 https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/java/tools/maven
480 - DISTINCT for Datastore queries is now available as an experimental feature.
481 - The decommissioned Conversion API has been removed.
482 - Various JSP improvements
483 JSPs are now compiled together as opposed to one by one. This improves the
484 compilation process time.
485 JSP compiled classes are packaged in JAR files.
486 You can now avoid the upload of JSP source, which is typically not needed
487 at runtime. This can be done via the new --delete_jsps option in the
488 appcfg tool. By default, this option is not set.
489 You can now package all the WEB-INF/classes/* classes into jar files. This
490 can be done via the new --enable_jar_classes option in the appcfg tools. By
491 default, this option is not set.
492 - Users can now set how many columns can be viewed in the Datastore Viewer via
493 a drop-down menu which customizes the number of columns displayed.
494 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8158
495 - Fixed an issue with BackendService.getCurrentInstance() returning thread ID
496 instead of integer instance ID in production.
497 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8338
498 - Fixed an issue with Datastore Backup failing when a schema has a very large
499 number of properties.
500 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8363
501 - Fixed an issue with users being unable to change Authentication Type after
502 app creation in the Admin Console.
503 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8394
507 - We encourage you to try and test your application using Java 7 and the App
508 Engine SDK. Note that Java 7 is *not* a supported runtime.
509 - Java 7 Features that we encourage you to try in dev appserver:
511 Binary integral literals and underscores in number literals
512 Multi-catch and more precise rethrow
513 Improved type inference for generic instance creation (diamond)
514 try-with-resources statement
515 Simplified varargs method invocation
516 - Java 7 features that are NOT supported:
517 All new Java 7 classes (the Google App Engine whitelist has not been
520 Invoke Dynamic bytecode
521 - InetAddress name resolution now displays UnknownHostException instead of a
522 runtime exception error when the host is unknown.
523 - Datastore Index stats now report type instead of representation-type.
524 - Class Loading Priority can now be granted to specific JAR files by adding
525 class-loader-config element in appengine-web.xml file. This is an
526 experimental feature.
527 - Queries with transactions are now fully checked for consistency in Remote
529 - Global Consistent Indexes are now deprecated in the Search API.
530 - ListResponse<Document> listDocuments(ListRequest) has been deprecated and
531 replaced with GetResponse<Document> getRange(GetRequest) in the Search API.
532 - ListIndexesReponse listIndexes(ListIndexesRequest) has been deprecated and
533 replaced with GetResponse<Index> getIndexes(GetIndexesRequest) in the Search
535 - getField(String) has been deprecated and aliased to getFields(String) in the
537 - AddResponse Index.add() has been deprecated and renamed to PutResponse
538 Index.put() in the Search API.
539 - RemoveResponse Index.remove() has been deprecated and renamed to
540 DeleteReponse Index.delete() in the Search API.
541 - Users can now change authentication options after app creation
542 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=483
543 - Fixed an issue with Channel API breaking when using urlfetch service. This
544 issue was limited to the SDK.
545 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8166
546 - Fixed an issue with ResponseRewriterFilter not being threadsafe when using
548 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8167
552 - Paid applications can now upload Static files and Code > 1GB. Additional
553 storage will be billed at $0.13/GB per month. Free applications will
554 continue to be provided 1GB of storage at no charge. Free quota will apply
556 - Thread support via com.google.appengine.api.ThreadManager is now a
558 - The Conversion API will be decommissioned soon. Developers using this API
559 will receive a warning message. Please find an alternative document
560 conversion/OCR service.
561 - You can now fetch Task Queue Statistics. This allows you to fetch
562 statistics and information about your task queue from within your
563 application. Statistics include information such as the number of tasks
564 in a queue, how many tasks were executed in the last minute and enforced
565 rate. This is an experimental feature.
566 - Added Timezone selection widget in Admin Console Admin Logs.
567 - Added a warning message about caching when modifying or deleting entities
568 in the local Datastore.
569 - Added a flush cache button to the SDK dev console and Admin Console.
570 - Attempting to update multiple entity groups in a single transaction
571 in Datastore now throws an error suggesting to use XG transactions.
572 - Search API now has a string maximum length limit of 2000 characters.
573 - Added millisecond variants for setting start/end time on LogQuery class in
575 - The local Datastore now enforces the 500 character maximum key length.
576 - Added SDK response header rewrite framework functionality to help with
577 response headers returned by users.
578 - We now allow a user with multiple google accounts the ability to create an
579 app if they are an SMS verified user.
580 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1419
581 - A more useful error message now displays when a deployment fails
582 due to local date/time settings being improperly set.
583 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2033
584 - Granted java.io.SerializablePermission for enableSubclassImplementation
585 and enableSubstitution.
586 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2500
587 - Cron Descriptions may now include non-ASCII characters.
588 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2641
589 - App Config Service Delete App Version Call Count quota raised to
591 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2808
592 - There are now more descriptive error messages for Datastore Admin
593 deadline exceeded errors in stack traces.
594 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5413
595 - Replaced error code “Administrators cannot be removed right now”
596 with a more descriptive message.
597 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7080
598 - Fixed an issue with namespace dropdown in Admin Console appearing blank
599 even though the URL specified namespace is correct.
600 - Fixed an issue with public-root not working with static content
601 in appengine-web.xml.
602 - Fixed an issue with SDK Datastore viewer not showing unindexed properties.
603 - Fixed an issue with ApiProxy.getCurrentEnvironment() not having
604 com.google.appengine.runtime.default_version_hostname
605 - Fixed an issue with mail service sendToAdmins() failing when using
606 multi-arg message constructor.
607 - Fixed an issue with Expires header in SDK to match production behavior.
608 - Fixed an issue with com.google.appengine.api.log.RequestLogs.getCombined()
609 not populating correctly in SDK.
610 - Fixed an issue with runtime failing to use scope with OAuth under certain
612 - Fixed an issue with support for entities with large numbers of properties
613 in Admin Console Dataviewer where previously the page would fail to render.
614 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=937
615 - Fixed an issue with multi-line string property not editing correctly
617 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1725
618 - Fixed an issue with BigDecimal losing precision after Datastore
620 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1748
621 - Fixed an issue where the local Memcache service leaked memory.
622 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2428
623 - Fixed an issue with HttpServlet.doOptions throwing SecurityException from
624 HttpServlet.getAllDeclaredMethods
625 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2658
626 - Fixed an issue with Paging link in Datastore viewer not working with # or &
627 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3591
628 - Fixed an issue with rounding errors when cropping with the local images
630 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3647
631 - Fixed an issue with Dataviewer GQL stripping new lines after initial run
632 when a user paginates results.
633 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4246
634 - Fixed an issue where keeping a file open prevented the deletion in the local
635 Blostore service. This is a Windows only issue.
636 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4744
637 - Fixed an issue with LocalServiceTestHelper throwing Multiple Triggers
638 error when used in task queue.
639 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4893
640 - Fixed an issue with Admin Console stack trace error reporting in appcfg.
641 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4920
642 - Fixed an issue with Datastore viewer showing incorrect result range text
644 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4975
645 - Fixed an issue with custom admin page display when logged into multiple
647 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5117
648 - Fixed an issue with the inability to carry dynamic proxy objects
650 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5299
651 - Fixed an issue with DeferredTaskServlet failing with custom context
653 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5451
654 - Fixed an issue with Admin Console Logs < 30 minutes not being
656 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5494
657 - Fixed an issue with apps that are using Mail API throwing
658 “No Provider for address type rfc822” error.
659 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5769
660 - Fixed an issue with AppStats failing when enabled with Backend in SDK.
661 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6071
662 - Fixed an issue with the SDK viewer not being able to view 1000+ entities.
663 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6138
664 - Fixed an issue with Viewers being able to prohibit code downloads.
665 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6255
666 - Fixed an issue with billing applications that are disabled.
667 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6344
668 - Fixed an issue with deploying to an existing version when an app
670 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6803
671 - Fixed an issue with Cron schedule failing on the 1st day of month.
672 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7286
673 - Fixed issue with gzip compression for application/plist content type.
674 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7641
675 - A note about an upcoming change: starting with the 1.7.3 release
676 of App Engine, data statistics will report statistics on property type
677 usage by indexes using the documented property type names ("Integer",
679 https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/datastore/stats)
680 rather than the current property representation names ("INT64",
681 "REFERENCE", etc, see http://goo.gl/db5dT). This will affect the
682 __Stat_PropertyType__, __Stat_PropertyType_Kind__,
683 __Stat_PropertyType_PropertyName_Kind__ and their per-namespace equivalents.
684 This will also affect the displayed "Breakdown by Property Type" under the
685 "Datastore Statistics" in your application's console.
689 - The URLFetch API now supports multiple cookie headers.
690 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3379
691 - You can download 90 days worth of Usage Reports for your application from the
692 Billing History page of the Admin Console.
693 - Task Queue requests now include an X-AppEngine-TaskExecutionCount that counts
694 the number of times a task was run by an instance.
695 - Added support for delete() to the Files API.
696 - Added support for multiple files to be deleted using the Files API.
697 - Added support to delete files from Google Cloud Storage using the Files API.
698 - Added a REQUEST_LOG_ID to be written in the logs and as an
699 ApiProxy.Environment attribute. This can be used to later identifying that
700 request in the application logs.
701 - The Memcache Viewer now supports namespaces.
702 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7245
703 - The Mail API now supports the following headers for outgoing mail: List-Id,
704 List-Unsubscribe, On-Behalf-Of, Resent-Date, Resent-From, Resent-To.
705 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2559
706 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7672
707 - Version 2 of the DataNucleus plugin has been upgraded and is now fully
708 supported. For a full list of improvements please see
709 http://code.google.com/p/datanucleus-appengine/source/browse/branches/2_1_0/dist/RELEASE_NOTES.ORM
710 - The Search API now supports default values for dates in SortExpressions.
711 - The .project and .classpath files are now included in the App Engine demos
712 so that they may be imported by Eclipse.
713 - Fixed an issue with the App Engine satisfaction survey in the Admin Console
714 which was released in 1.6.6, which will be re-enabled in this release.
715 - Fixed an issue where ListIndexes failed when trying to return a schema that
716 contained Geo fields.
717 - Fixed an issue with Search API websafe cursors not being returned as a
719 - Fixed an issue where Java's AsyncMemcacheServiceImpl was incorrectly throwing
720 MemcacheServiceException.
721 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6236
722 - Fixed a Memcache error when getting HttpSession.
723 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6463
724 - Fixed a search issue where snippets failed to highlight when a capital
725 letter is used in a search term.
726 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7665
727 - Fixed an issue where JDO and JPA keys-only queries were being executed as
728 full entity queries in the datastore.
729 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7712
730 - Fixed an issue where traffic splitting by cookie was not working.
731 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7813
735 - You can now configure your custom domain to serve HTTPS requests with App
736 Engine. You can choose either an SNI, VIP, or SNI and VIP configuration. SNI
737 costs $9/month for 5 certificates. A VIP costs $99/month.
738 https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/ssl
739 - Premier customers now have the option to create applications to be served from
740 datacenters located in the European Union.
741 - Developers can configure their HRD app to use Google's PageSpeed Service,
742 which automatically speeds up serving of content for your application. The
743 PageSpeed Service costs $0.39/gigabyte in addition to the normal App Engine
745 https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/adminconsole/performancesettings#pagespeed
746 - The Search API now contains support for storing and searching on GeoPoints.
747 - The total size of all application versions is now limited to 1 GB. In the
748 future, you'll be able to purchase additional storage for your application
750 - Logs API calls are now $.12/gigabyte for all data read from the Logs API over
752 - You can now specify a time frame of up to 1 year for the retention of your
753 application logs. All storage above 1 GB is billed based on the prices for
755 - You can now specify HTTP headers on static content for your application.
756 - The HRD Blob Migration tool is now generally available.
757 - After using the datastore backup utility, you can now restore that backup
759 - It will not be possible to create new authorizations for M/S applications to
760 access Cloud SQL instances.
761 - You can now delete a Google Cloud Storage object using delete() in the
762 Blobstore Service API.
763 - You can now fetch a Google Cloud Storage object using fetch() in the
764 Blobstore Service API.
765 - You can now store keys for a Google Cloud Storage object in the datastore.
766 - The BlobstoreService.createUploadUrl() call now works for Google Cloud Storage
768 - You can now use ImageService.getServingUrl() and
769 ImageService.deleteServingUrl() for Google Cloud Storage objects.
770 - You can now specify your own Security Provider in Java.
771 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1612
772 - The Java Datastore API now supports Or queries.
773 - We've increased various Search API limits. New limits are a maximum of 1000
774 documents returned from search() or listDocuments(), a maximum of 1000
775 indexes returned from listIndexes(), and a maximum offset of 1000 for search()
777 - Fixed a javascript syntax error in the Admin Console.
778 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7566
779 - Fixed an issue in the Search API tab of the Admin Console where it threw an
780 error displaying non-ascii characters.
781 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7601
785 - On May 8, 2012 we released an experimental Search API.
786 http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2012/05/looking-for-search-find-it-on-google.html
787 - The Admin Console now displays the quotas for Search API Calls and Search
789 - The Search API has deprecated the ListDocumentsException class. When using
790 this class you will see a compile-time warning.
791 - The Search API has deprecated the orderId attribute on the Document class. It
792 has been superseded by the rank attribute.
793 - The Search API has replaced AddDocumentResponse with AddResponse. This will
794 require fixing and redeploying applications that use Index.add().
795 - App creation for apps using the Master/Slave datastore is now restricted to
796 only those users who already own a Master/Slave app.
797 - Apps with billing enabled are now able to configure up to 100 cron jobs.
798 - Admin Console can no longer be included in an <iframe>. To prevent
799 clickjacking attacks on the Admin Console, we are now setting
800 X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN. To read more about clickjacking, please read:
801 https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Clickjacking.
802 - The datastore now supports embedding entities as properties of other entities.
803 - The Admin Console will now periodically prompt administrators to take an
804 optional App Engine satisfaction survey.
805 - Appstats now contains information about the cost of the RPCs made during the
807 - Fixed an issue where large datastore backups were unable to be deleted.
808 - Fixed an issue where datastore backups fail due to an ascii decoding issue.
809 - Fixed an issue where running a projection query on a multi-valued property
810 with an equality filter did not return any results.
811 - Fixed an issue where XG transactions did not work with the Remote API.
812 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7238
816 - You can now perform datastore queries that return a subset of your entity
817 properties with the same performance and cost of a keys-only query. This
818 feature is experimental.
819 - In the High Replication Datastore, there is a new metadata kind,
820 __entity_group__, that has a numeric __version__ property. This property is
821 guaranteed to increase on every change to the entity group.
822 - The Images API now supports manipulating objects hosted on Google Cloud
824 - In the Images API, the getServingUrl() call now optionally allows you to
825 specify if the URL you are generating should be served over https.
826 - In the Task Queue REST API, you can now specify a tag when you insert a task
828 - In the Task Queue API, you can specify a deadline for the leaseTasks() call.
829 The default deadline has been increased from 5 seconds to 10 seconds.
830 - You can now use cron to schedule Datastore backups.
831 - The Datastore Admin now has a page that displays information on the status of
832 your Datastore backups and restores.
833 - You can now abort your Datastore backup or restore from the Datastore Admin.
834 - You can now restore a single Datastore Kind from the Datastore Admin from a
836 - In the Admin Console, you can report production issues with your application
837 directly to Google from the application's pages. Simply click the "Report
838 Production Issues" link, fill out the requested information, and submit.
839 - All user requests have X-AppEngine-Region, X-AppEngine-City, and
840 X-AppEngine-CityLatLong headers which contain location information based on
841 the IP address of the client request. For a full description of these headers,
843 https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/java/runtime#Request_Headers
844 - As announced in 1.6.4, omitting the <threadsafe> directive from
845 appengine-web.xml results in an error.
849 - Billed applications that have specified additional logs retention over 1 GB
850 are now being charged for that storage at $0.24/GB/month (the first gigabyte
851 of logs storage is free). All logs beyond an application's specified storage
852 limit will be deleted. Please examine your Application Settings page to verify
853 you are retaining the desired amount of logs.
854 - Datastore statistics now show the amount of storage used by application
856 - We have released an experimental utility for migrating your application's
857 blobs at the same time you migrate your datastore data. You can opt-in to
858 blob migration in the Admin Console when you start your migration.
859 - We have updated the experimental Backup/Restore functionality to include
860 the option to backup and restore to Google Storage for Developers.
861 - Version 2.0 of the App Engine DataNucleus plugin is now available as an
862 experimental release. This plugin contains support for JDO 3 and JPA 2 and
863 over 40 bug fixes. For a full list see:
864 http://code.google.com/p/datanucleus-appengine/source/browse/branches/2_0_0/dist/RELEASE_NOTES.ORM
865 - Threads are available as an experimental feature via
866 com.google.appengine.api.ThreadManager.
867 - The Admin Console now provides a Memcache viewer that lists Memcache stats and
868 can display Memcache content based on key.
869 - Using the blobstoreService.serve method, your application can serve objects
870 hosted on Google Cloud Storage.
871 - The method ApiProxy.getRemainingMillis() returns the amount of milliseconds
872 remaining before a request hits the request deadline.
873 - New datastore query related callbacks - PreGet(), PreQuery(), and PostLoad()
875 - Omitting the <threadsafe> directive from appengine-web.xml now results in
876 a warning. Starting with the 1.6.5 release, omitting this directive will
878 - You can set an RPC deadline for the Task Queue API's leaseTasks() method.
879 - The Datastore Admin tab in the Admin Console now shows entities from every
881 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3962
882 - GQL queries in the Admin Console no longer throw an error when a trailing
883 semi-colon is included.
884 - Fixed an issue where setting ApiProxy delegate caused ClassCastException in
886 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4442
887 - Fixed an issue where <async-session-persistence> did not work.
888 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5774
889 - The Datastore Admin now shows entities from every namespace.
890 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3962
891 - Fixed an issue in the Java Development Server where Task Queue retry
892 parameters were ignored.
893 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5200
894 - Fixed an issue in the Java Pipeline API
895 (http://code.google.com/p/appengine-pipeline/) that would lead to "No object
896 found in pool with id=barrier(...)" errors when used in HRD applications.
901 - In the Admin Console, you can use the new Traffic Splitting feature to send a
902 certain percentage of traffic to a non-default application version. The
903 traffic is split by either cookie or IP address.
904 - Emails that are sent from Google Apps domains email addresses where the domain
905 has been set up to use DKIM will be signed: when an email was from a request
906 that originated on that app's domain or any time the email was sent from
907 an app adminstrator, including when that email is sent from a cron job or task
909 - In the Admin Console, you can now choose how much and how long you'd like to
910 store logs. All apps get 1G for free and eventually will be able to pay for
911 more, while the amount can be increased this release we won't start charging
912 for the additional capacity until the next release at the earliest.
913 - The instances screen in the Admin Console now has a button to shut down
915 - Each application log has a link to the instance that served the request. If
916 the instance is no longer serving requests, a message will be displayed.
917 - The TaskQueue API now supports the ability to tag a Pull Queue task. You may
918 then lease tasks by tag. This feature is experimental.
919 - Using Google Apps wildcard domain mappings, you can access alternate
920 versions of your app via a custom domain.
921 - Push and Pull Queues are now listed separately in the SDK development console.
922 - The PermGen size for backend and frontend instances classes has been
923 increased. The values are as follows: F1/B1 - 44MB, F2/B2 - 108MB,
924 F4/B4 - 236MB, B8 - 492.
925 - The DataNucleus Enhancer command line tool
926 (com.google.appengine.tools.enhancer.Enhance) now supports the
927 -enhancerVersion flag, which allow you to specify the version of DataNucleus
928 with which to enhance your JDO/JPA classes.
929 - The dev appserver command line now supports the --generated_dir flag, which
930 allows you to specify a directory in which to write files generated by the
932 - Fixed a StackOverflowError when using the Remote API.
933 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6349
937 - The Admin Console Datastore Admin has added experimental backup and restore
938 functionality. The job occurs within your application and counts against your
939 application quota, including Instance Hours, Datastore Ops and Datastore
941 - Developers can now specify how long a channel token will last until it
942 expires, with the default remaining two hours. Channel API quota is now
943 measured both in calls to create a channel and the number of hours of channel
944 time requested. The maximum hours of quota is the maximum number of channel
945 creation calls * 2, so free apps get 200 hours of requested channel token
947 - Task Queue API requests now include a X-Appengine-TaskETA header, that can be
948 used to measure task delivery latency.
949 - We have removed the deprecated labs version of the TaskQueue API.
950 - The default API deadlines for Blobstore API calls have been raised to 15s for
951 online and 30s for offline requests, up from 5s.
952 - The Images API now allows you to stretch an image without maintaining the
954 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2220
955 - Mail Quota for App Engine apps that have signed up for billing will only be
956 increased after the first payment for the app is processed.
957 - Fixed an issue where the SDK did not resize images down to 512 pixels by
958 default, as it does in production.
959 - Fixed an issue with the Images API where valid images were returning a
961 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5545
965 - You can now configure Frontend Instance Classes from your Admin Console's
966 application settings page. Three classes are available, with increasing
967 memory, CPU limits, and associated cost. By default, all applications use the
968 basic frontend instance setting of 128MB memory and 600MHz CPU.
969 - We've added new functionality to the Log API that will allow you to read your
970 application's logs programmatically.
971 - We are releasing an experimental Conversion API that will allow you to convert
972 between document types including .doc, .html, .pdf, images using OCR, and
974 - The High Replication Datastore migration utility is now available as a GA
975 feature, and is no longer experimental.
976 - The dev appserver now emits a warning when loading any classes that fall under
977 com.google.appengine.repackaged.*.
978 - Version 2.0.0 of the DataNucleus App Engine plugin is available as an
979 experimental download from http://goo.gl/kyQiO. This release
980 adds support for JPA2 and JDO3. Installation instructions are available at
982 - The Blobstore API now supports the multiple="true" attribute to the HTML input
984 - TaskOptions.Param now implements Serializable.
985 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3712
986 - Fixed an issue in the SDK where logging "null" caused a 500 error.
987 - Fixed an issue with backends where SessionManager might try to save a session
988 forever under certain circumstances.
989 - Fixed an issue where cached static files served to IPs on the DoS blacklist
990 consumed bandwidth quota.
991 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4607
995 - On November 7th, App Engine will be out of Preview. The new Terms of Service
996 and previously announced pricing changes will be in effect. Additionally, all
997 paid apps are now covered by our SLA.
998 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/billing.html
999 - Paid apps can now specify the maximum pending latency for instances and the
1000 minimum number of idle instances for your application in the Admin Console.
1001 - Task Queue storage has been separated in to its own line item. Previously,
1002 this was included in Datastore storage.
1003 - We have released an experimental utility, available in the Admin Console, to
1004 assist in migrating your application to the High Replication datastore. This
1005 utility allows you to copy the bulk of your data in the background, while the
1006 source application is still serving. You then need a brief read-only period to
1007 migrate your application data while you copy the data that has changed from
1008 the time the original copy started.
1009 - Blobstore, which was previously limited to apps with billing enabled, is now
1010 available for all apps.
1011 - We have published a new article on Datastore Index Selection and Advanced
1012 Search which explains our recent improvements to the query planner that make
1013 exploding indexes unnecessary.
1014 http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/indexselection.html
1015 - Applications can now receive xmpp error stanzas at /_ah/xmpp/error.
1016 - In the Admin Console data viewer, you can now filter by namespace from a drop
1017 down menu, if applicable.
1018 - In the Admin Console's Datastore Statistics, we now offer namespace suggest
1019 for filtering stats.
1020 - Added API functionality for making calls to the Memcache API asynchronously.
1021 - In the Memcache API, getIdentifiable() and putIfUntouched() now support
1023 - We've added a page, /_ah/admin/capabilitiesstatus, to the dev console that
1024 allows you to configure the capability state of the local API implementations
1025 when running locally.
1026 - We've added LocalCapabilitiesServiceTestConfig to the testing API, which
1027 allows you to configure the capability state of the local API implementations
1029 - The Datastore API now supports callbacks that can execute before or after
1030 put() and delete() calls.
1031 - The queue-name argument is now optional for async-session-persistence in
1033 - Fixed a ClassNotFound error when using async-session-persistence.
1034 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5774
1035 - Fixed an issue with memcache serialization when using a entity key with a name
1036 that points to the same reference as the key's parent.
1037 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2088
1038 - Fixed an issue where DoS stats in the Admin Console didn't work for High
1040 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5237
1041 - WARNING: Starting with 1.6.1 (our next release, NOT this release), URLFetch
1042 requests will honor the Accept-Encoding header. If your code sets this header
1043 then it must be prepared to receive content of the specified type. For more
1044 information please see
1045 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4978
1049 - We have increased the number of files you can upload with your application to
1050 from 3,000 to 10,000.
1051 - We have increased the size limit for a single file uploaded to App Engine from
1053 - We have increased the Frontend request deadline from 30 seconds to 60 seconds.
1054 - We have increased the online URLFetch maximum deadline from 10 seconds to 60
1055 seconds. The default deadline remains at 10 seconds. The offline maximum deadline
1056 for URLFetch remains at 10 minutes.
1057 - We have increased the URLFetch Post payload from 1MB to 5MB.
1058 - App Engine now supports Cross Group (XG) transactions with the High
1059 Replication Datastore, which allow you to perform transactions across multiple
1061 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/datastore/transactions.html
1062 - We have added a graph to the admin console that displays the number of
1063 instances for which you will be billed.
1064 - In the XMPP API, getPresence() is deprecated in favor of using the inbound
1065 presence handlers documented in
1066 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/xmpp/overview.html#Handling_User_Presence.
1067 - Fixed an issue in the Admin Console where the "Run Now" button did not work
1068 for tasks with a '-' in the name.
1069 - Fixed an issue to provide a better error message when a user tries to parse an
1070 HttpRequest's input stream more than once in a request.
1071 - Fixed an issue to provide a better error message when using the Mail API to
1072 send email to an invalid user address.
1073 - Fixed an issue in the SDK where HttpServletRequest.getInputStream().read()
1075 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5396
1076 - Fixed an issue where you could not schedule a cron job to run every 100
1078 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5861
1082 - You can now specify the maximum size for a blob in
1083 BlobstoreService.createUploadUrl().
1084 - Zigzag merge join queries will now continue scanning up to the 30 second
1085 Datastore query deadline. For zigzag queries that used to generate
1086 DatastoreNeedIndexException, many will now succeed. A small percentage will
1087 now instead timeout.
1088 - The SDK datastore viewer in the dev console now displays the number of "Write
1089 Ops" for each entity. "Write Ops" are the total number of entity and index
1090 writes that were required to create the entity.
1091 - The Prospective Search API is available in Java for all applications. This API
1092 is still experimental, so applications will be limited to a maximum of 1000
1094 - We made a classloading improvement that we expect to help loading request
1095 latencies for projects with large numbers of jars.
1096 - Added support for the set_default_version flag to Appcfg.
1097 - The Java Remote API now recognizes the HTTP_X_APPENGINE_INBOUND_APPID. This
1098 means that the Datastore Admin copy functionality will work when using
1099 Java's Remote API with the destination app.
1100 - Fixed an issue that incorrectly allowed creation of tasks with whitespace in
1102 - Fixed the error message for "transaction not found" to be more descriptive.
1103 - Fixed an issue with the dev appserver's local Blobstore implementation trying
1104 to modify an immutable collection.
1105 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3081
1106 - Fixed an SDK issue where CONFIG, FINE, FINER, FINEST logging messages were not
1108 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4591
1113 - We've removed the limit on the size of blob uploads using the Blobstore API.
1114 - You can now send emails with any attachment extension that is not included on
1115 the email attachment extension blacklist.
1116 - Added a getIndexes() method to the DatastoreService to retrieve an
1117 application's indexes and their corresponding states.
1118 - The development server has been updated to understand the reduced index
1119 requirements of the 1.5.2 datastore query planner changes.
1120 - The Datastore Admin functionality can now be enabled directly in the Admin
1122 - You can now use Remote API to access the services of one App Engine
1123 application from a different App Engine application.
1124 - The Java Testing APIs now default to UTC if no timezone is specified.
1125 - AppCfg now supports download_app, which will download all files that were
1126 uploaded from your war directory.
1127 - AppCfg now supports the -V (version) and -A (application) flags.
1128 - Added app_identity api with methods to work with service accounts for
1129 asserting identity on outbound HTTP calls.
1130 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/appidentity/overview.html
1131 - Added an improved HRD migration tool that requires a read-only period relative
1132 to your datastore write rate (as opposed to your datastore size, which is how
1133 the current version behaves). The tool is not yet generally available. If you
1134 are interested in being an early adopter please fill out this form:
1136 - Fixed an issue in the Channel API where jsapi was not served with the correct
1138 - Fixed an issue where blobs could not be uploaded using HTTPS.
1139 - Fixed an issue where GQL didn't allow querying for valid kind names
1140 containing '.', '-', and ':' by supporting quoted identifiers.
1141 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2584
1145 - You can now specify the minimum pending latency for instances and the maximum
1146 number of idle instances for your application in the Admin Console.
1147 - The datastore now never requires an exploding index.
1148 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/datastore/queries.html#Big_Entities_and_Exploding_Indexes
1149 - The SDK will now never suggest indexes with the same property repeated, as
1150 such indexes are likely to be exploding indexes.
1151 - Datastore stats are now available on a per-namespace basis.
1152 - The queue details page in the Admin Console now contains request header
1153 details, previous run information, and a task payload viewer.
1154 - You can modify the lease on a task leased from a pull queue using the
1155 modifyTaskLease() method.
1156 - Pull Task maximum size has been increased to 1MB.
1157 - You can now update the number of available backend instances without needing
1158 to first stop the backend using the "backend configure" appcfg directive.
1159 - You can now set the "References" and "In-Reply-To" headers with the Mail API.
1160 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2802
1161 - The whitelist has been updated to include support for JSR 105.
1162 - When the SDK throws a DatastoreNeedIndexException for a missing index
1163 definition, the exception can now be caught.
1167 - The development server's datastore and testing service implementations now
1168 contains logic that closely replicates the consistency guarantees of the High
1169 Replication datastore. To use, run the dev_appserver with the flag
1170 -Ddatastore.default_high_rep_job_policy_unapplied_job_pct=20.
1171 - All user request have an X-AppEngine-Country header which contains the
1172 ISO-3166-1 alpha-2 country code for the user, based on the IP address of the
1174 - The Channel API can now provide user presence, this can be configured by
1175 adding channel_presence to the list of inbound services for your application.
1176 - The Images API now supports the WebP format.
1177 - You can switch the timezone for App Engine logs in the Admin Console.
1178 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=734
1179 - Added javax.xml.ws.Service$Mode to the whitelist.
1180 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4770
1181 - You can configure your application to asynchronously write https session data
1182 by adding <async-session-persistence enabled="true"/> to your
1184 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1692
1185 - The local task queue unit testing API now supports Deferred Tasks.
1186 - Fixed an issue where using reserved URLs did not cause an error in the SDK.
1187 - Fixed an issue where having a backends.xml configuration file caused logging
1188 to stdout to fail in the SDK.
1189 - Fixed an issue where the Channel API didn't work with non-default versions of
1190 applications using the High Replication datastore.
1191 - Fixed an issue where the Remote API rtok comparison was broken for some users,
1192 causing appfcg download data to fail.
1193 - Fixed an issue with the SDK where you could not apply a transform to PNG
1195 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3458
1196 - When displaying corrupt data in the Admin Console dataviewer, a useful error
1197 will be displayed, instead of a 500.
1198 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4945
1199 - Fixed an issue with the SDK where non-string index names caused an error upon
1201 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5004
1202 - Datanucleus now supports polymorphic relationships.
1203 http://code.google.com/p/datanucleus-appengine/issues/detail?id=153
1204 - Datanucleus now supports PreparedQuery#countEntities(FetchOptions).
1205 http://code.google.com/p/datanucleus-appengine/issues/detail?id=225
1206 - Fixed an issue with datanucleus where recursive relation did not work.
1207 http://code.google.com/p/datanucleus-appengine/issues/detail?id=80
1211 - Fixed a bug that caused appengine-jsr107cache-1.5.0.jar to be empty.
1215 - Support for Backends which allow developers to create infrastructure
1216 components that complement the existing dynamic apps that App Engine already
1217 provides. Instances of a backend can maintain state, be addressed
1218 individually, and are not subject to per-request time limits. They can also be
1219 configured to consume more memory and CPU than ordinary dynamic instances.
1220 - Task Queues support pull mode, allowing for more control over task queue work
1221 rates. To use pull queues, include the 'mode' element in your queue.xml.
1222 - Pull queues are supported by a REST API, allowing access from outside App
1223 Engine. To use the REST API, you must also include a valid ACL section
1224 specifying which users can lease tasks from the pull queue.
1225 - Task Queue payload limits have been increased. Queues support 100KB per task.
1226 Within App Engine, the new limit is 32 MB per batch of tasks. With the REST
1227 API the limit is 1 MB per batch.
1228 - HTTP request and response sizes have been increased to 32 MB.
1229 - We have removed the rate quotas for requests, datastore operations,
1230 memcache operations, and image API operations. Resource quotas still apply.
1231 - When creating new applications, developers will now see the High Replication
1232 Datastore as the default configuration option. Developers that still wish to
1233 use the Master/Slave configuration must explicitly choose this option at
1234 application creation time.
1235 - The Task Queue maximum configurable processing rate has been increased to
1237 - Modified Dashboard latency graphs to indicate they only include dynamic
1239 - We have added two restrictions to the Mail API to improve the reliability
1240 of the service for all applications.
1241 - Emails must be sent from email accounts managed by Google (either Gmail or
1242 a domain signed up for Google Apps).
1243 - Reduced the number of free recipients per day from 2000 to 100 for new
1245 - Fixed an issue where the Javadoc for the File API was not generated.
1246 - Fixed an issue where the API Deadlines were not being enforced in the SDK.
1247 - Fixed an issue with Federated Users causing the Admin Console dataviewer to
1249 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=384
1250 - Fixed an issue causing SDK URL Fetch not to work behind proxy.
1251 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=544
1252 - Fixed an issue deploying an app with version set to 0.
1253 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=735
1254 - Improved support for reserving an app id that is a canonicalized version of
1255 a user's Gmail address.
1256 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1196
1257 - Added a more useful error message for unavailable App Ids.
1258 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1303
1259 - Added clearer error messaging for invalid transactions in the SDK.
1260 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1357
1261 - Added better error messages for cron.xml parsing.
1262 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1490
1263 - Entity constructors are now consistent with KeyFactory constructors.
1264 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1626
1265 - Task Queue names can now include the "_" character.
1266 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1723
1267 - The sender of an email is no longer BCC'd when they are already included in
1269 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1907
1270 - Added a more helpful error message when trying to send email to a malformed
1272 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2386
1273 - The SDK now returns an error if the Content-length header is not included in a
1274 post request, matching production.
1275 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2512
1276 - Fixed an issue where the wrong type of error was being thrown on HTTP request
1278 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2464
1279 - Fixed an issue where the Admin Console didn't keep the app version viewed
1280 consistent across actions.
1281 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4023
1282 - Added Javadocs for TaskOptions.taskName().
1283 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4316
1284 - Fixed a typo in the Admin Console on the New App page.
1285 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4620
1286 - Fixed an issue where sending mail from an app registered on the HR datastore
1287 required the app id be prefaced with s~.
1288 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4671
1289 - Fixed an issue where HTTP POST was broken in the SDK if the Content-Length
1290 header was specified.
1291 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4836
1295 - Added FileService API that allows writing to and reading from files in
1297 - You can now specify cron execution for a time interval between a start and end
1299 - You can now configure the specific application version to which a task queue
1300 or cron job will send requests.
1301 - The Admin Console Task Queues page now displays a more accurate estimate of
1302 queue size for queues containing more than 2000 tasks.
1303 - Java applications can enable concurrent request support by setting
1304 <threadsafe> to True in their appengine-web.xml. This flag indicates that
1305 request handlers for your app are thread safe and multiple request handlers
1306 may safely run at the same time in the same memory space for your application.
1307 - Deferred library support now available in Java.
1308 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2381
1309 - Remote API library now available in Java. This can be used in conjunction with
1310 apps using either the Java or the Python runtime.
1311 - The Java SDK now supports kindless and ancestor only queries.
1312 - Fixed an issue where JAX-WS clients in the SDK could not handle receiving a
1314 - Fixed an issue where the SDK did not support fetching HTTPS URLs.
1315 - Fixed an issue where no link was displayed in the Admin Console blobstore
1316 viewer for an unnamed blob.
1317 - Fixed an issue where the Admin Console data viewer couldn't edit entities
1318 with ByteString properties.
1319 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2367
1320 - Fixed an issue where the Admin Console crashed when using a non-ascii
1322 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2451
1323 - The Disable Application admin function has been button-ized.
1324 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4323
1325 - Fixed a regex validation issue in the queue.xml file that caused some uploads
1327 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4365
1328 - Fixed an issue where the Java SDK Task Queue did not support 10 minute
1330 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4564
1331 - Fixed an issue where the Channel API in the SDK didn't properly send messages
1332 with unicode characters.
1333 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4675
1337 - You can now vacuum datastore indexes with the Java SDK.
1338 - The XMPP API was updated to include presence and allow subscriptions.
1339 - The Task Queue now supports programmatic deleting of tasks.
1340 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2588
1341 - The maximum rate per queue at which tasks are processed has been increased to
1342 100 task per second.
1343 - The maximum number of concurrent requests for a single queue can be specified
1344 in the application's queue.xml. This provides an additional easy-to-use form
1345 of rate limiting. The current number of running tasks is also displayed in
1347 - Metadata queries in the Datastore now support cursors.
1348 - Admin Console logs viewer now displays time as YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.mmm.
1349 - The Mail API added KML and KMZ files as allowed attachments.
1350 - Added support for verifying the server SSL certificate when making a
1351 URLFetch request to an HTTPS URL. This will become the default in a future
1353 - Added a warning when an admin tries to upload a queue.yaml where the number
1354 of new queues and the number of disabled queues exceeds 100.
1355 - Added a putIfUntouched() method to the Memcache API.
1356 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2139
1357 - Added JAX-WS support for writing SOAP clients and SAAJ support for writing
1358 SOAP servers. JAX-WS for SOAP servers is not yet supported.
1359 - Fixed an issue where mail from @appid.appspotmail.com did not work when
1360 sending mail to app admins.
1361 - Fixed an issue where the SDK did not enforce the 100 task limit for the Task
1363 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3296
1364 - Fixed an issue where the Java SDK URLFetch did not support 32MB response
1366 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4215
1367 - Fixed an issues where <jsp-file> mappings in web.xml were broken.
1368 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4216
1372 There were no updates to the Java SDK for the 1.4.1 App Engine release.
1376 - The Always On feature allows applications to pay and keep 3 instances of their
1377 application always running, which can significantly reduce application
1379 - Developers can now enable Warmup Requests. By specifying a handler in an
1380 app's appengine-web.xml, App Engine will attempt to send a Warmup Request to
1381 initialize new instances before a user interacts with it. This can reduce the
1382 latency an end-user sees for initializing your application.
1383 - The Channel API is now available for all users.
1384 - Task Queue has been officially released, and is no longer an experimental
1385 feature. The API import paths that use 'labs' have been deprecated. Task queue
1386 storage will count towards an application's overall storage quota, and will
1387 thus be charged for.
1388 - The deadline for Task Queue and Cron requests has been raised to 10 minutes.
1389 Datastore and API deadlines within those requests remain unchanged.
1390 - For the Task Queue, developers can specify task retry-parameters in their
1392 - Apps that have enabled billing are allowed up to 100 queues with the Task
1394 - Metadata Queries on the datastore for datastore kinds, namespaces, and entity
1395 properties are available.
1396 - URL Fetch allowed response size has been increased, up to 32 MB. Request size
1397 is still limited to 1 MB.
1398 - The request and response sizes for the Images API have been increased to
1400 - The total size of Memcache batch operations is increased to 32 MB. The 1 MB
1401 limit on individual Memcache objects still applies.
1402 - The attachment size for outgoing emails has been increased from 1 MB to 10 MB.
1403 The size limit for incoming emails is still 10 MB.
1404 - Size and quantity limits on datastore batch get/put/delete operations have
1405 been removed. Individual entities are still limited to 1 MB, but your app may
1406 batch as many entities together for get/put/delete calls as the overall
1407 datastore deadline will allow for.
1408 - When iterating over query results, the datastore will now asynchronously
1409 prefetch results, reducing latency in many cases by 10-15%.
1410 - The Admin Console Blacklist page lists the top blacklist rejected visitors.
1411 - The automatic image thumbnailing service supports arbitrary crop sizes up to
1413 - Overall average instance latency in the Admin Console is now a weighted
1414 average over QPS per instance.
1415 - Added a low-level AysncDatastoreService for making calls to the datastore
1417 - Added a getBodyAsBytes() method to QueueStateInfo.TaskStateInfo, this returns
1418 the body of the task state as a pure byte-string.
1419 - The whitelist has been updated to include all classes from javax.xml.soap.
1420 - Fixed an issue sending email to multiple recipients.
1421 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1623
1422 - Revert the default logging level during GWT hosted mode back to INFO.
1423 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4011
1424 - Fixed an issue with OpenId over SSL.
1425 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3393
1429 - You can run task queue tasks immediately from the admin console.
1430 - Added an OutputSettings class to the Images API to specify the JPEG encoding
1431 quality when running in production.
1432 - Support for login of multiple Google accounts within an app, and longer login
1433 sessions. For more information see:
1434 http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?answer=181599
1435 - In queue.xml, the maximum allowed bucket size is now 100.
1436 - Removed limits on zigzag merge-join queries. Therefore the error "The built-in
1437 indices are not efficient enough for this query and your data. Please add a
1438 composite index for this query." will no longer be thrown in most cases,
1439 enabling more types of queries without indexes.
1440 - The whitelist has been updated to include java.net.InetAddress and some
1441 interfaces and abstract classes in javax.xml.soap, including
1442 javax.xml.soap.SOAPMessage.
1443 - Fixed an issue reserving App Ids by owners of emails containing periods,
1444 multiple cases, and googlemail.com address.
1445 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1196
1446 - Fixed an issue where TaskOptions had no public getters, making testing
1448 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3243
1449 - Fixed an issue on the development server where PNGs were being returned as
1451 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3661
1455 - Fixed an SDK issue where calling getServingUrl raised an exception.
1456 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3598
1460 - Multitenancy is now supported in the datastore, allowing better
1461 compartmentalization of user data.
1462 - Automatic image thumbnailing is now available in the Images API using
1464 - Users can now serve custom static error pages for over_quota, dos_api_denial
1466 - Results of datastore count() queries and offsets for all datastore queries
1467 are no longer capped at 1000.
1468 - Added a pause queue button to the task queue details page in the Admin
1470 - Historical graphs have been added to all of the dashboard graphs in the Admin
1472 - Content-range headers are supported on Blobstore downloads.
1473 - New method to allocate datastore ids in a given range: allocateIdRange()
1474 - The app.yaml format is supported with Java applications.
1475 - Increased several rate limited quotas for free applications.
1476 - Fixed an issue that did not allow forms of over 200,000 bytes to be submitted.
1477 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1608
1481 - Ability to configure the Task Queue storage limit with the
1482 total-storage-limit field in the queue.xml file.
1483 - Task Queues now support up to 50 qps per queue, up from 50 qps per app.
1484 - Developers can programmatically access Blobs with BlobstoreInputStream, which
1485 provides an InputStream view of a blob in Blobstore
1486 - Bulkloader transform helpers for lists and hierarchical keys were added.
1487 - remote_api_shell commands can be sent over HTTPS or HTTP.
1488 - Admin Console logs now include information on request time latency.
1489 - The datastore now supports end cursors.
1490 - Fixed an issue where requesting /appstats would not properly direct to
1492 - Fixed an issue with inconsistent URL mappings between the SDK and production.
1493 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2598
1497 - Client side bulkloader available with the Python SDK that has a new
1498 configuration syntax and wizard for easier import/export with the datastore.
1499 Can be used by enabling remote_api in your Java application
1500 - Applications can now be configured to authenticate with OpenID by selecting
1501 the OpenID option when creating your application in the admin console
1502 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=248
1503 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=56
1504 - New API to allow App Engine apps to act as OAuth service providers
1505 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=919
1506 - The version update check in the Java SDK now uses https
1507 - Allow full access to javax.el.*
1508 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3157
1509 - Increased the timeout during deployment to 15 minutes
1510 - Fixed an issue with JPA where an illegal cast exception was thrown during the
1511 fetch of integer fields
1512 - MemcacheService.setNamespace() is deprecated in favor of
1513 MemcacheServiceFactory.getMemcacheManager(namespace)
1514 - Support in the SDK for Java 1.5 is being deprecated. These warnings now appear
1515 when starting the SDK
1519 - Fixed an issue where servlet filters could cause 404s
1520 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3138
1524 - Added two new system properties com.google.appengine.application.id and
1525 com.google.appengine.application.version
1526 - DeadlineExceededException is now always thrown before
1527 HardDeadlineExceededError
1528 - Decreased likelihood of "Too many URLMap" deployment errors for complex
1530 - Fixed an error where QuotaService.getCpuTimeInMegaCycles() was returning
1531 cycles instead of megacycles
1532 - Fixed an issue between differing behavior of jsp in the production and
1533 development environments
1534 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3022
1535 - Fixed an issue uploading webapps with .tag files
1536 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2902
1540 - New API to read the contents of uploaded Blobs (fetch_data)
1541 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2536
1542 - URLFetch now supports accessing ports 80-90, 440-450, and 1024-65535
1543 - Mail API now allows common document formats as attachments
1544 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=494
1545 - The Task Queue API now supports adding multiple tasks in a single call to
1547 - Fixed charset handling for inbound emails
1548 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2326
1549 - Fixed issue with compositing background colors in dev_appserver
1550 - New feature in the datastore to specify whether to use strong or eventually
1551 consistent reads (the default is strong)
1552 - New datastore feature allows setting deadlines for operations
1553 - Increased the maximum Task Queue refill rate from 20/s to 50/s
1554 - Support for IP blacklisting to prevent denial of service (DoS) attacks
1555 - App Stats is now available for the Java SDK in addition to Python
1556 - Fix issue with expiration times not being reset on Put on the Memchache API
1557 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1284
1558 - Fix issue preventing static files from being served when a servlet is mapped to root
1559 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1379
1563 - Datastore Query Cursors
1564 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/datastore/queriesandindexes.html#Query_Cursors
1565 - Transactional Tasks
1566 - Support for Custom Admin Console pages
1567 - Java Precompilation is now on by default
1568 Developers can opt-out of precompilation by setting the flag in
1570 <precompilation-enabled>false</precompilation-enabled>
1571 - New built-in support for unit testing (see appengine-testing.jar)
1572 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/tools/localunittesting.html
1573 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=326
1574 - net.sf.jsr107 package included as an alternative to the low-level
1576 - javax.annotation.Resource/Resources added to the package whitelist
1577 - New "month" and "synchronized" syntax for Cron configuration
1578 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/config/cron.html
1579 - URLFetch supports asynchronous requests
1580 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1899
1581 - appcfg.sh uses HTTPS for application deployment
1582 - appcfg.sh adds request_logs --append
1583 - Changes to the order queries without a specified sort order are returned
1584 Only queries that use IN will see different results.
1585 - Added support for multiple != filters on the same property
1586 - Improved support for keys-only queries when using IN and != filters
1587 - Support for ETags, If-matches, If-not-matches HTTP Headers, as well as 304
1588 status codes now available on static files (not yet available on the
1589 dev_appserver or Blobstore blobs)
1590 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=575
1591 - Fixed issue where the maximum transform count was enforced for composite
1593 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1656
1594 - Fixed issue with whitespace on the end of strings in web.xml
1595 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2242
1596 - Fixed web.xml <error-page> entries for 404 error codes
1597 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1477
1598 - Added validation prevent welcome-files with absolute paths
1599 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1249
1600 - Fixed issue where cancelling a deployment in progress could unintentionally
1602 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2255
1603 - Fixed issue with QuotaService.getCpuTimeInMegaCycles() returning 0
1604 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2639
1605 - Fixed issue where JSP exceptions will be incorrectly cast causing a
1607 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1438
1611 - Support for the new Blobstore API
1612 - New com.google.appengine.runtime.{version,environment} system properties
1613 (and a SystemProperty accessor class)
1614 - New sample applications for GWT 2.0
1615 - Optimizations for many reflection operations
1619 - Support for JAXB. JAXB is included in JDK 1.6 (and App Engine's production
1620 servers). If you're using JDK 1.5 with your local dev_appserver, you will
1621 need to include the JAXB libraries with your application to use it.
1622 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1267
1623 - New support for application pre-compilation to reduce the length of
1624 loading requests. To enable pre-compilation on your application, add this
1625 flag to your appengine-web.xml:
1626 <precompilation-enabled>true</precompilation-enabled>
1627 If you have trouble deploying your application, you should remove this
1628 flag or set it to false.
1629 - Added Quota API (com.google.appengine.api.quota) to match Python API.
1630 - Low-level Memcache API now supports batchIncrement().
1631 - HTTPResponse object now has getFinalUrl() method for 302 redirects.
1632 - http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1464
1633 - Java Dev Appserver now automatically executes tasks. If you prefer the
1634 old behavior where tasks do not automatically execute you can use the
1635 following flag when starting the server:
1636 -Dtask_queue.disable_auto_task_execution
1637 - Additional file extensions permitted when sending mail.
1638 - http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=494
1639 - Fixed issue with Java mail handler not processing multipart messages
1641 - Fixed agent code included in appengine-local-runtime.jar results in
1643 - http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2280
1644 - Fixed issue with sort orders defined on properties that allow multiple
1646 - http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2349
1647 - Fixed problem with dropped query strings after requiring log-in.
1648 - http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2225
1649 - Removed limitation preventing multiple parameters with the same name.
1650 - http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2090
1651 - Fixed issue with local datastore incorrectly sorting results of ancestor
1653 - http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2177
1654 - New Index building status page in the Admin Console
1655 - Task Queue now supports purging queues, and deleting tasks and queues via
1657 - http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2159
1658 - http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1740
1659 - Over Quota HTTP status code changed from 403 to 503, other to 500.
1660 - http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=961
1661 - Task Queue now considers all HTTP 2xx status codes to represent success.
1663 For past release notes, visit:
1664 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/wiki/SdkForJavaReleaseNotes