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4 App Engine SDK - Release Notes
9 ==============================
10 - A memcache size chart has been added to admin console's dashboard. Access it
11 via the drop-down above the graph. The chart graphs memcache size over time
12 enabling customers to determine when cache flush events occurred. This is a
14 - Fixed an issue with the dev_appserver that allows an invalid Datastore query
15 combination of group by and filter properties.
16 - Fixed an issue with the bulkloader that causes uploads to the dev_appserver
18 - Fixed an issue affecting validation of the size of Datastore property names.
19 - Fixed an issue with Datastore query validation for strings with exactly 500
21 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10019
24 ==============================
25 - Django 1.5.4 is now available in the Runtime. This is a Preview feature.
26 - app_identity.get_access_token in the App Identity API is now a GA feature.
27 - Geo is now a supported field type in the Search API for the dev_appserver.
28 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7486
31 ==============================
32 - php://memory and php://temp I/O streams are now supported.
37 ==============================
38 - The Search API is now a GA feature.
39 - Fixed an issue with the dev_appserver Datastore where UTF-8 validation did
40 not occur on string values.
41 - Fixed an issue with the Admin Console Datastore Viewer throwing errors when
43 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7570
44 - Fixed an issue with the Datastore Admin not being able to backup to another
46 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9808
47 - Fixed an issue where files that contain an '@' could not be deployed.
48 https://code.google.com/a/google.com/p/google-appengine-php-trusted-tester
52 ==============================
53 - Developers can now use pdb when debugging python applications in the
55 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9012
56 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9027
59 ==============================
60 - Modules are now supported for the PHP Runtime.
61 - The Log Service API is now available.
62 - The PHP interpreter has been upgraded from PHP 5.4.17 to PHP 5.4.19.
63 - The /e modifier for mb_ereg_replace has been disabled.
64 - The PHP interpreter has been switched to the JSON-C library.
65 - The Mac OSX SDK now includes a PHP interpreter, installing PHP separately is
67 - The Windows SDK now includes a PHP interpreter, installing PHP separately is
73 ==============================
74 - A Datastore Admin fix in this release improves security by ensuring that
75 scheduled backups can now only be started by a cron or task queue task.
76 Administrators can still start a backup by going to the Datastore Admin
80 ==============================
81 - Better support is now provided for the _$folder$ magic cloud storage keyword,
82 and the implementation of basic mkdir()/rmdir() functionality via GCS
84 - This release adds the wrappers @transactional_async and @transactonal_tasklet
85 to correct (a) @transactional @tasklet being synchronous despite the
86 decorator, and (b) @tasklet @transactional not running the generator in a
88 https://code.google.com/p/appengine-ndb-experiment/issues/detail?id=195
89 - Fixed a unicode issue associated with expressions in the Search API. A search
90 with snippeted fields was failing on documents containing unicode characters.
91 - Fixed an issue with the dev_appserver not auto-detecting the lib/ directory
93 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8459
94 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9847
95 - Fixed an issue where Blobstore usage was being charged even though the
96 actual data was being stored in Cloud Storage. All affected developers have
97 been informed and reimbursements are underway.
98 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9659
99 - Fixed an issue that ensures all .py files in google.appengine.api that are
100 available in the SDK are also available in the runtime.
101 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9755
102 - Fixed an issue of warning messages being displayed when running appcfg
103 update (eg. appcfg.py update . --oauth2) from the 1.8.3 Python SDK. The
104 appengine_rpc_httplib2 will work without warnings regardless of which
105 oauth2client library is being used.
106 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9807
110 ==============================
111 - The PHP interpreter was upgraded from PHP 5.4.8 to PHP 5.4.17.
112 - The is_writable() method now supports Google Cloud Storage files and buckets.
113 - You no longer need to specify the PHP runtime on the command line when
114 deploying applications via appcfg.py
115 - Backends are disabled for PHP and are no longer supported with the PHP
117 - Upload of PHP apps now ignores any pre-compilation errors. This allows
118 precompilation to be disabled on a per-runtime basis, and defaults to
120 - Fixed an issue where SYSTEMROOT was not passed to the environment checking
121 script thereby not recognizing the PHP intepreter for Windows in the SDK.
122 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9382
127 ===============================
128 - Published a major rewrite of the Search API documentation. Please see:
129 https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/search/
130 - Interfacing into the Task Queue REST API no longer requires including "s~"
131 at the beginning of the project name.
132 - Fixed an issue with the Mail API, email addresses that contain encoded
133 newlines as specified in rfc2047 are now parsed correctly.
134 - Fixed an issue with channels.send_message failing when a client id has 3 or
136 - Fixed an issue with ndb.non_transactional correctly restoring the db
137 library's transactional state.
138 https://code.google.com/p/appengine-ndb-experiment/issues/detail?id=232
139 - Fixed an issue with NDB raising the correct exception when the rollback
140 itself has an exception.
141 https://code.google.com/p/appengine-ndb-experiment/issues/detail?id=234
142 - The NDB model property settings 'default' and 'required' are no longer
144 https://code.google.com/p/appengine-ndb-experiment/issues/detail?id=236
145 - Fixed an issue with debugger/breakpoint not working on the dev_appserver.
146 http://code.google.com/p/appengine-devappserver2-experiment/issues/detail?
148 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9012
149 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9027
150 - Fixed an issue with NDB queries supporting iterate over distinct queries.
151 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9591
152 - Fixed an issue with enabling cloud integration for existing apps.
153 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9602
154 - Fixed an issue with users not being able to view the cron jobs page in the
156 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9665
157 - Fixed an issue with the Channel API send_message function not working on the
159 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9675
160 - Fixed an issue with Modules get_current_module_name() incorrectly reporting
161 as default when it is not.
162 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9687
163 - Fixed an issue with the Datastore Admin UI failing to load due to the app
164 having too many kinds.
165 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9749
166 - Fixed an issue with the Channel API Testbed not working correctly after
167 upgrading to SDK 1.8.2
168 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9757
171 ===============================
172 - Users who are whitelisted to use PHP are now able to deploy PHP to any of
174 - There is now better support for stat() related functions for Google Cloud
176 - Added a read through cache to the GCS client to improve performance. This
177 allows for optimistic caching for write-once, read-many applications and
178 performs on-write invalidation.
179 - Environment variables that are set in app.yaml are now available in the PHP
181 - You can now pass an array of metadata as part of the Google Cloud Storage
183 - Apps can now use opendir()/readdir()/rewinddir()/closedir() on Google Cloud
185 - The PHP Task Queue API now supports adding tasks in bulk via the addTasks()
186 method on the new PushQueue class.
187 - The PHP Task Queue API now supports setting headers on the PushTask class.
188 - Interfacing into the Task Queue REST API no longer requires including "s~"
189 at the beginning of the project name.
190 - Fixed an issue with the Mail API, email addresses that contain encoded
191 newlines as specified in rfc2047 are now parsed correctly.
192 - Fixed an issue with enabling cloud integration for existing apps.
193 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9602
198 ===============================
199 - Dedicated memcache is now available to all developers. With
200 dedicated memcache you can purchase in-memory data caching capacity
201 exclusively for your application, cache more data and drive up cache hit
202 rates. This is a Preview feature. For more information please see:
203 https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/adminconsole/memcache
204 - App Engine Modules is now available to all developers. App Engine Modules
205 allow developers to segment their applications into logical subcomponents.
206 This is a Preview feature. More information on this feature can be found
208 https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/modules/
209 - Push-to-Deploy is now available to all developers. This Preview feature makes
210 it even easier to deploy Python apps.
211 - The Python Interpreter has been upgraded to 2.7.5.
212 - lxml 2.3.5 is now available.
213 - Fixed an issue with the Datastore bulkloader syntax when using the Python 2.5
215 - Fixed an issue with the Channel API's Javascript library; a memory leak
216 occurred when closing channels.
217 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9283
218 - Fixed an issue with App Engine receiving erroneous XMPP presence from
220 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9498
223 ===============================
224 - Dedicated memcache is now available to all developers. With
225 dedicated memcache you can purchase in-memory data caching capacity
226 exclusively for your application, cache more data and drive up cache hit
227 rates. This is a Preview feature. For more information please see:
228 https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/adminconsole/memcache
229 - Push-to-Deploy is now available to all developers. This Preview feature makes
230 it even easier to deploy PHP apps.
231 - appcfg.py no longer requires the -R parameter to deploy PHP applications.
232 - The function libxml_disable_entity_loader() is now disabled by default for
233 security reasons. It can be re-enabled if necessary using the
234 google_app_engine.enable_functions directive in the php.ini file.
235 - Added support for the move_uploaded_file() and rename() methods on files
236 stored on Google Cloud Storage.
237 - Fixed an issue with the dev_appserver on Windows where the PHP interpreter
238 was not passed a required environment variable.
239 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9382
240 - Fixed an issue with the URL Fetch timeout option being ignored.
241 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9460
246 ===============================
247 - The Task Queue async API is now a GA feature. The asynchronous methods
248 improve utilization by allowing your app to add, lease and delete multiple
250 - Cloud Console projects are now created by default whenever a new App Engine
251 app is created. This is a Preview feature.
252 - In an upcoming release the Experimental Google Cloud Storage API Functions
253 will be decommissioned. This API and its Experimental status is documented at
255 https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/googlestorage/functions
256 - The Google Cloud Storage library will replace Google Cloud Storage API and is
257 now available as a Preview feature. More information can be found at
258 https://code.google.com/p/appengine-gcs-client/
259 - Bandwidth between App Engine and Google Cloud Storage is currently free of
260 charge (this may change in the future for certain levels of service).
261 - The Search API has graduated from Experimental to Preview. Apps that have
262 billing enabled can exceed the free quota levels and will be charged for
263 usage above these levels.
264 - Estimated number of search results will only be accurate if it is less than
265 or equal to the number of results requested. By default this can be
266 overridden by setting number_found_accuracy QueryOption in the Search API.
267 - Dates, atoms, and number fields can now be found by searching without a field
268 restriction in the Search API.
269 - A quoted empty string now returns atom fields with empty values for the
271 - Snippet and count functions are no longer allowed in sort expressions for the
273 - The Search API now has improved error messages for user errors and internal
275 - App Engine now supports deployment of applications via the Git tool. Once you
276 complete the initial setup steps, you will be ready to deploy apps with the
277 same ease you push code to a git repository using
278 "% git push appengine master". This is a Limited Preview feature. You may
279 request access via the following link:
280 https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/forms/d/
281 1aLaAOZb_cXFiVqzLAMvPV9kh0FmvlLRUbwD-LBbLuUI/viewform
282 - The Datastore now assigns scattered auto ids by default. Legacy auto ids
283 are still available via the 'auto_id_policy' option in app.yaml.
284 - The Sockets API now allows client code to call get/set options against
285 sockets. Previously, calls raised "Not Implemented" exceptions. For supported
286 options, calls to getsockopt will return a mock value and calls to setsockopt
287 will be silently ignored. Errors will continue to be raised for unsupported
288 options. The currently supported options are: SO_KEEPALIVE, SO_DEBUG,
289 TCP_NODELAY, SO_LINGER, SO_OOBINLINE, SO_SNDBUF, SO_RCVBUF, and SO_REUSEADDR.
290 - Updated skip_files documentation to reflect the new default.
291 https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/config/
292 appconfig#Skipping_Files
293 - The ndb library now supports distinct queries. This is a Preview feature.
294 https://code.google.com/p/appengine-ndb-experiment/issues/detail?id=229
295 - Fixed an issue with Google Cloud Storage objects not being compatible across
296 various APIs on the dev_appserver.
297 - Fixed an issue with the namespace not being displayed when a user attempts
298 to select a namespace in the Admin Console.
299 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8164
300 - Fixed an issue in the Admin Console Logs page to correctly display 'Until'
301 instead of 'Since' for logs search criteria.
302 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8659
305 ===============================
306 - Enabled the Mcrypt extension.
307 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9332
308 - Enabled the iconv extension.
309 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9340
310 - Enabled the mbstring extension.
311 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9342
312 - It is now possible to include/require files from Google Cloud Storage using
313 the google_app_engine.allow_include_gs_buckets ini setting.
314 - Basic support for url_stat() with Cloud Storage Streams is now provided.
315 This means that many standard filesystem functions such as is_file(),
316 is_readable(), is_writeable(), filesize(), etc now work with Cloud Storage
318 - Honor the default_stream_context for Google Cloud Storage streams when
320 - Added deleteImageServingUrl() method to the CloudStorageTools class.
321 - The createGsKey() method of CloudStorageTools has been made private.
322 - Fixed a bug where $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] was including the query string.
323 - App Engine now supports deployment of applications via the Git tool. Once you
324 complete the initial setup steps, you will be ready to deploy apps with the
325 same ease you push code to a git repository using
326 "% git push appengine master". This is a Limited Preview feature. You may
327 request access via the following link:
328 https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/forms/d/
329 1aLaAOZb_cXFiVqzLAMvPV9kh0FmvlLRUbwD-LBbLuUI/viewform
330 - Updated skip_files documentation to reflect the new default.
331 https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/php/config/
332 appconfig#Skipping_Files
333 - Removed the NotAllowedError, RedirectTooLongError, and UserNotFoundError
334 exception classes from the Users API. Their use is replaced by throwing a
335 UsersException or InvalidArgumentException as appropriate.
336 - Removed the Capability API.
337 - Fixed an issue with Google Cloud Storage objects not being compatible across
338 various APIs on the dev_appserver.
341 ===============================
342 - The Mail API now allows attachments with .zip and .gzip extensions as long as
343 the archives do not contain entries with blacklisted extensions.
344 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5933
345 - New Billing Enabled apps will no longer default to an email quota of 20,000
346 per day. Instead, apps will need to file a request through the admin console
347 to get email quotas increased.
348 - Admin console dashboard charts and reports for all users have been fully
349 migrated to the new, more reliable backend announced in 1.7.6.
350 - The maximum size of POST requests made through URLfetch has been increased
352 - Fixed an issue with the Mail API to prevent sending mail from a Google Apps
353 mail account that has been suspended.
354 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6181
355 - Fixed an issue with the admin handler of the new dev_appserver failing to
356 import appengine_config automatically.
359 ===============================
360 - The Sockets API, which allows applications to make outgoing TCP connections
361 and send/receive UDP packets to the Internet using both IPv4 and IPv6, is now
362 available as an experimental feature for billed apps.
363 - The ftplib module is now restored. It depends on the experimental Sockets
365 - Billing enabled apps will no longer be subject to a $2.10 minimum weekly
366 spend. Instead, apps will only be charged for their actual usage.
367 - Matplotlib 1.1.1, an experimental feature, is being deprecated and will be
368 removed in 1.7.8. Please switch to matplotlib 1.2.0.
369 - Fixed an issue where the dev_appserver Datastore auto ids assigned by the
370 scattered id policy were too large to be represented as floating point
372 - Fixed an issue where the dev_appserver threw an exception on any Search API
373 call that used an index that was originally created as GLOBALLY consistent.
374 - Fixed an issue with NDB not serializing projection entities correctly.
375 https://code.google.com/p/appengine-ndb-experiment/issues/detail?id=215
376 - Fixed an issue with NDB not projecting structured properties correctly.
377 https://code.google.com/p/appengine-ndb-experiment/issues/detail?id=227
378 - Fixed an issue with task queues failing to resolve backend addresses in
379 the new dev_appserver.
380 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5105
381 - Fixed an issue with the Search API allowing multiple documents with no IDs
382 to be in one put request.
383 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8553
384 - Fixed an issue with sort by doc_id not translating correctly causing
385 InvalidRequest errors on the Search API.
386 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8958
387 - Fixed an issue with the Search admin UI where an Internal Server Error
389 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9005
390 - Fixed an issue with Prospective Search failing in the new dev_appserver.
391 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9003
392 - Fixed an issue with the new dev_appserver failing with ImportError.
393 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9008
394 - Fixed an issue with Sqlite3 being unable to open a database file in the new
396 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9031
397 - Fixed an issue with serving urls that contain unicode characters in the new
399 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9040
402 ===============================
403 - The new and improved development appserver, which was previewed last release,
404 now becomes the default. The old development appserver has been renamed to
405 old_appserver.py and will remain available until the first release after
406 1 July 2013 when it will be removed from the SDK. For more information, please
408 http://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/tools/devserver
409 - A Go runtime has been added to the new and improved development appserver.
410 - The Debug log level for the runtime has been enabled.
411 - Improvements to the App Engine billing system will be rolled out gradually to
412 all apps. Fore more information, please visit
413 http://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/billing
414 - The application summary no longer displays the default version of a running
415 application, instead it lists the application as 'RUNNING'. In an upcoming
416 release applications will have multiple logical sub components, each of which
417 will have a default version. This UI update is meant to align with this
419 - Projection queries are now a fully supported GA feature.
420 - The XMPP API now has multi-JID get_presence. This provides the ability to get
421 the availability of multiple users.
422 - Django 1.4 and Webob 1.2.3 are now promoted to GA.
423 - Apps now have the ability to fopen() files that are declared as static files
424 in app.yaml using the application_readable flag.
425 - The dev_appserver now allocates automatic ids using the 'scattered' id
426 allocation policy by default. For more information, please see "Specifying the
427 Automatic ID Allocation Policy":
428 https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/tools/devserver#Using_the_
430 - Admin console dashboard charts and current load/errors reports will be moving
431 to a new, more reliable backend. The change will be gradually rolling to users
432 of admin console over the next few weeks.
433 - New Search API quotas are now displayed in the Admin Console. These quotas are
434 not currently enforced, but will be part of the pricing model for the Search
435 API in a future release.
436 - The experimental Search API's ability to explicitly sort search results by
437 SortExpression.RANK_FIELD_NAME (i.e. _order_id) field in ascending order has
439 - Globally consistent indexes in the experimental Search API are now deprecated
440 and will be removed in the next release.
441 - Task Queue tasks may now be added and deleted asynchronously. This allows
442 applications to perform common task queue operations without blocking. This is
443 an experimental feature.
444 - In the experimental MapReduce framework, shards that encounter Files API
445 errors will retry three times before the entire job fails.
446 - Google Protocol RPC now supports deserializing and reserializing of unexpected
448 - A new Google Protocol RPC field type for supporting datetime values has been
449 added. For more information, please visit
450 https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/tools/protorpc
451 - Fixed an issue which caused an incorrect server error message when setting the
452 default version on the admin console, though the version was set correctly.
453 - Fixed an issue where get_indexes() didn't correctly populate the namespace
454 when run from the new dev_appserver.
455 - Fixed an issue with the new dev_appserver failing on invalid login cookies. It
456 now uses type="email" for email in the login form.
457 https://code.google.com/p/appengine-devappserver2-experiment/issues/detail?
459 - Fixed an issue with the new dev_appserver to have fix_sys_path add the
460 necessary libraries to sys.path making it now compatible with the testbed.
461 https://code.google.com/p/appengine-devappserver2-experiment/issues/detail?
465 ===============================
466 - New instance classes F4_1G and B4_1G are now available. These instances have
467 compute capacity equal to F4/B4 but with a maximum of 1G RAM instead
469 - The Logs API stub now uses sqlite in the dev_appserver. Please note that the
470 --persist_logs flag is still needed in order for logs to be saved.
471 - The deprecated classes and functions AddError, AddResult,
472 ListIndexesResponse, ListResponse, RemoveError, RemoveResult, and
473 list_indexes were removed from the Search API in the SDK. If your app
474 references any of these classes or functions, you must deploy a new version
475 without these references before the next release of App Engine. If you do not
476 do this, your app may stop working in production.
477 - The Conversion API, which was decommissioned last release, has been removed
478 from the SDK. In a future release, the API will be removed from the runtime
479 and any attempt to import the library will raise an exception. Applications
480 in production that import the library should be fixed as soon as possible.
481 - Matplotlib v1.2.0 is now available as an experimental feature.
482 - Django 1.4 has been upgraded to 1.4.3. This is an experimental feature.
483 - We are including a preview of a new and improved version of our development
484 server. The new version is faster, provides more faithful support for
485 complex multi-threaded applications, has better support for Datastore and
486 supports more libraries. Try dev_appserver2.py in the SDK. This is an
487 experimental feature. For more information, please visit
488 http://code.google.com/p/appengine-devappserver2-experiment/
489 - The Channel API now has the ability to send channel messages from any app
490 version or backend regardless of where the channel was created.
491 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5123
492 - The URL Fetch service now supports PATCH method requests.
493 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6316
494 - The Mail API can now send mail bounce notifications to the app. The
495 notification will be delivered to /_ah/bounce if mail_bounce inbound
496 services are enabled.
497 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7451
498 - The Blobstore service now returns the created filename instead of the blobKey
499 when using Cloud Storage
500 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8337
501 - Fixed an issue with os.urandom throwing an exception in dev_appserver2 when
503 http://code.google.com/p/appengine-devappserver2-experiment/issues/
505 - Fixed an issue with time.tzset not existing in dev_appserver2 for Windows.
506 https://code.google.com/p/appengine-devappserver2-experiment/issues/
510 ===============================
511 - Background threads is now a GA feature.
512 - Traffic Splitting is now a GA feature.
513 - Task Queue Statistics is now a GA feature.
514 - Logs API now has the ability to fetch requests based on a list of
515 request_ids. Currently, this only works in production and is not supported
517 - Python Interpreter has been upgraded to 2.7.3.
518 - WebOb 1.2.3 is now available for Python 2.7. Users using the undocumented
519 1.2.2 should update their app, since that version will be removed in the
521 - DISTINCT for Datastore queries is now available as an experimental feature.
522 - Matplotlib v1.1.1 is now available as an experimental feature.
523 - The decommissioned Conversion API has been removed.
524 - Added a warning that the interactive console will be disabled if a user runs
525 dev_appserver with the --address flag.
526 - JSON properties are now restrictable to list or dictionaries in NDB.
527 http://code.google.com/p/appengine-ndb-experiment/issues/detail?id=223
528 - Users can now set how many columns can be viewed in the Datastore Viewer via
529 a drop-down menu which customizes the number of columns displayed.
530 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8158
531 - Fixed an issue with expandos throwing an error when containing nested
533 http://code.google.com/p/appengine-ndb-experiment/issues/detail?id=216
534 - Fixed an issue with properties not being added to structured properties in
536 http://code.google.com/p/appengine-ndb-experiment/issues/detail?id=220
537 - Fixed an issue with PyCrypto raising an ImportError when installing
538 globally into site-packages.
539 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1627
540 - Fixed an issue with PyCrypto not working with OSX 10.8 or Ubuntu Precise.
541 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7925
542 - Fixed an issue with backends.get_instance returning thread ID instead of
543 integer instance ID in production.
544 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8338
545 - Fixed an issue with Datastore Backup failing when a schema has a very large
546 number of properties.
547 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8363
548 - Fixed an issue with dev_appserver not reloading changed code.
549 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8383
550 - Fixed an issue with custom ordered queries not working using sqlite on the
552 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8390
553 - Fixed an issue with users being unable to change Authentication Type after
554 app creation in the Admin Console.
555 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8394
558 ===============================
559 - Django 1.4 is now supported in Python 2.7
560 - The file-based implementation of the Datastore stub will be deprecated soon.
561 - A warning message informing users that SQLLite stub will be the default
562 stub soon is now displayed.
563 - Datastore Index stats now report type instead of representation-type.
564 - Rich sort expressions beyond single field names are now supported in the
565 Search API for dev_appserver.
566 - search.MIN_NUMBER_VALUE and search.MAX_NUMBER_VALUE are now public in the
568 - Globally Consistent Indexes are now deprecated in the Search API.
569 - search.list_indexes() has been deprecated and replaced with
570 search.get_indexes() in the Search API.
571 - Index.list_documents() has been deprecated and replaced with
572 Index.get_range() in the Search API.
573 - Added method Index.get(doc_id) to get a document by its ID in the Search API
574 - Index.add() has been deprecated and renamed to Index.put() in the Search API.
575 - Index.remove() has been deprecated and renamed to Index.delete() in the
577 - The AddDocumentError and RemoveDocumentError classes, which were already
578 deprecated, have been removed from the Search API.
579 - OperationCode.object_id and OperationCode.document_id, which were already
580 deprecated, have been removed from the Search API.
581 - Users can now change authentication options after app creation
582 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=483
583 - Fixed an issue with Datastore backup/restore finalization steps only looking
584 at the default queue in Admin Console.
585 - Fixed an NDB issue with Structured Properties not converting dict properly.
586 http://code.google.com/p/appengine-ndb-experiment/issues/detail?id=207
587 - Fixed an NDB issue where multiple async transactions corrupt old
588 Datastore connections.
589 http://code.google.com/p/appengine-ndb-experiment/issues/detail?id=209
590 - Fixed an NDB issue with fetch() with offset > 1000 returning an empty list.
591 http://code.google.com/p/appengine-ndb-experiment/issues/detail?id=210
592 - Fixed an issue with 2 factor authentication not giving useful error messages.
593 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8020
594 - Fixed an issue in the Search API snippeting breaking if the field contains
595 a single word in dev_appserver.
596 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8171
597 - Fixed an issue with PyCrypto AES cipher not running on dev_appserver.
598 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8188
601 ===============================
602 - Paid applications can now upload Static files and Code > 1GB. Additional
603 storage will be billed at $0.13/GB per month. Free applications will
604 continue to be provided 1GB of storage at no charge. Free quota will apply
606 - PyCrypto 2.6 is now a GA feature for Python 2.7
607 - The Conversion API will be decommissioned soon. Developers using this API
608 will receive a warning message. Please find an alternative document
609 conversion/OCR service.
610 - You can now fetch Task Queue Statistics. This allows you to fetch
611 statistics and information about your task queue from within your
612 application. Statistics include information such as the number of tasks
613 in a queue, how many tasks were executed in the last minute and enforced
614 rate. This is an experimental feature.
615 - Added Timezone selection widget in Admin Console Admin Logs.
616 - Added a warning message about caching when modifying or deleting datastore
618 - Added a flush cache button to dev_appserver and Admin Console.
619 - Attempting to update multiple entity groups in a single transaction
620 in Datastore now throws an error suggesting to use XG transactions.
621 - Search API now has a string maximum length limit of 2000 characters.
622 - We now allow a user with multiple google accounts the ability to create an
623 app if they are an SMS verified user.
624 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1419
625 - A more useful error message now displays when a deployment fails
626 due to local date/time settings being improperly set.
627 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2033
628 - Cron Descriptions may now include non-ASCII characters.
629 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2641
630 - App Config Service Delete App Version Call Count quota raised to
632 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2808
633 - Queries with transactions are now supported in Remote API.
634 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3643
635 - There are now more descriptive error messages for Datastore Admin
636 deadline exceeded errors in stack trace.
637 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5413
638 - Replaced error code “Administrators cannot be removed right now”
639 with a more descriptive message.
640 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7080
641 - Fixed an issue with namespace dropdown in Admin Console appearing blank
642 even though the URL specified namespace is correct.
643 - Fixed an issue where Model.get_by_id() returns none in dev_appserver
644 whereas this is not allowed in production.
645 - Fixed an issue with dev_appserver app_identity.get_default_version_hostname()
646 - Fixed an issue with mail service sendToAdmins() failing when using
647 multi-arg message constructor.
648 - Fixed an issue with dev_appserver for mimetypes.guess_type()
649 - Fixed an issue with runtime failing to use scope with OAuth under certain
651 - Fixed an issue with AppConfigNotFound error.
652 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=686
653 - Fixed an issue with static path with + in dev_appserver.
654 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=888
655 - Fixed an issue with support for models with large numbers of properties in
656 Admin Console Dataviewer where previously the page would fail to render.
657 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=937
658 - Fixed an issue with multi-line string property not editing correctly
660 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1725
661 - Fixed an issue with URLFetch mimetools.Message parsing incorrectly.
662 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2011
663 - Fixed an issue with the behavior of Expires header in dev_appserver
664 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2106
665 - Fixed an issue with Content-Disposition header being removed if filename
666 contains utf-8 characters.
667 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2212
668 - Fixed an issue with incoming Mail API where encoded headers failed to
670 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2288
671 - Fixed an issue with non-ascii text displaying incorrect values
672 when posted by URL created by blobstore.create_upload_url()
673 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2749
674 - Fixed an issue with using sendmail in Mail API.
675 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3106
676 - Fixed an issue with appcfg.py cron_info giving the wrong timezone information.
677 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3307
678 - Fixed an issue with Paging link in Datastore viewer not working with # or &
679 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3591
680 - Fixed an issue with rounding errors in crop image transform on dev_appserver.
681 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3647
682 - Fixed an issue with TypeError being incorrectly raised when attachment
683 has Character Set and Language Information.
684 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3836
685 - Fixed an issue with Mail API attachments in unicode failing
686 in_check_attachments()
687 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3900
688 - Fixed an issue with ereporter not reporting errors when applications
690 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4212
691 - Fixed an issue with Dataviewer GQL stripping new lines after initial run
692 and a user paginates results.
693 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4246
694 - Fixed an issue with Python Unicode prefix in Datastore viewer.
695 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4275
696 - Fixed an issue with get_serving_url for images giving non-cacheable URLs
698 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4402
699 - Fixed an issue with fancy_urllib using squid proxy server with
701 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4849
702 - Fixed an issue with custom admin page not displaying when restricted to
704 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5117
705 - Fixed an issue with dev_appserver_import_hook.py handling Crypto import
707 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4612
708 - Fixed an issue with Remote API gzip compression for transmitted data.
709 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5298
710 - Fixed an issue with remote API shell not having pwd in Python Path.
711 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5317
712 - Fixed an issue with Admin Console Logs < 30 minutes not being available.
713 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5494
714 - Fixed an issue with Apps that are using Mail API reporting
715 “No Provider for address type rfc822” error.
716 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5769
717 - Fixed an issue with concurrent write access to Datastore stubs.
718 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6058
719 - Fixed an issue with Viewers being able to prohibit code downloads.
720 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6255
721 - Fixed an issue with billing applications that are disabled.
722 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6344
723 - Fixed an issue with deploying to an existing version
724 when an app has 10 versions.
725 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6803
726 - Fixed an issue with bulkloader “model” class not uploading correctly.
727 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6907
728 - Fixed an issue with TextProperty in Datastore viewer.
729 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6997
730 - Fixed an issue with appcfg.py request_logs failing with ~oauth2
731 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7011
732 - Fixed an issue with editing a bytestring field in Datastore viewer.
733 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7046
734 - Fixed an issue with dev_appserver clearing after restart. This is a
736 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7244
737 - Fixed an issue with Cron schedule failing on 1st day of month.
738 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7286
739 - Fixed an issue with gzip compression for application/plist content type.
740 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7641
741 - Fixed an issue with datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp() in python 2.7
742 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7819
743 - A note about an upcoming change: starting with the 1.7.3 release
744 of App Engine, data statistics will report statistics on property type
745 usage by indexes using the documented property type names ("Integer",
747 https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/datastore/stats)
748 rather than the current property representation names ("INT64",
749 "REFERENCE", etc, see http://goo.gl/db5dT). This will affect the
750 __Stat_PropertyType__, __Stat_PropertyType_Kind__,
751 __Stat_PropertyType_PropertyName_Kind__ and their per-namespace equivalents.
752 This will also affect the displayed "Breakdown by Property Type" under the
753 "Datastore Statistics" in your application's console.
756 ===============================
757 - The URLFetch API now supports multiple cookie headers.
758 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3379
759 - You can download 90 days worth of Usage Reports for your application from the
760 Billing History page of the Admin Console.
761 - Task Queue requests now include an X-AppEngine-TaskExecutionCount that counts
762 the number of times a task was run by an instance.
763 - Added support for multiple files to be deleted using the Files API.
764 - Added support to delete files from Google Cloud Storage using the Files API.
765 - Added a REQUEST_LOG_ID to be written in the logs and as an environment
766 variable. This can be used to later identifying that request in the
768 - The Memcache Viewer now supports namespaces.
769 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7245
770 - The Mail API now supports the following headers for outgoing mail: List-Id,
771 List-Unsubscribe, On-Behalf-Of, Resent-Date, Resent-From, Resent-To.
772 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2559
773 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7672
774 - PyCrypto 2.6. is now supported in the Python 2.7 runtime.
775 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7884
776 - NDB now throws a BadProjectionError when trying to perform a projection query
777 on an unknown or unindexed property.
778 - NDB Tasklets use the namespace from when it was called, not the namespace from
779 when it is performed.
780 http://code.google.com/p/appengine-ndb-experiment/issues/detail?id=190
781 - NDB Properties' string representation size is limited to the max string
782 length for Blob and Text properties.
783 - Appstats provides an interactive shell for observing RPC behavior of calls
785 - Appstats now contains information about the cost of the RPCs made during the
787 - The Images API now supports specifying the default pixel color to fill in for
788 image types that don't support transparent images, such as JPEG.
789 - We've added full asynchronous API support in the Images API.
790 - Added an error to the Images API to indicate when a blob being referenced is
791 not found or not accessible.
792 - Made the Python search limits public in the Search API.
793 - Added namespace support for the Search API in the Python SDK.
794 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7670
795 - Added support in the Search API for simple sorting in the SDK.
796 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7456
797 - The Testbed testing framework now supports the Logservice API.
798 - Added support in the Files API to list Google Cloud Storage files.
799 - Improve the MapReduce File API Reader to support multiple files and file
801 - Fixed an issue with the App Engine satisfaction survey in the Admin Console
802 which was released in 1.6.6, which will be re-enabled in this release.
803 - Fixed an issue with Search API websafe cursors not being returned as a
805 - Fixed an issue where SearchRequest was returning errors that weren't
806 available as search.Error subclasses.
807 - Fixed an NDB issue where entities over 1000000 bytes where written to
808 memcache, causing failure.
809 http://code.google.com/p/appengine-ndb-experiment/issues/detail?id=193
810 - Fixed NDB AutoBatcher error handling.
811 http://code.google.com/p/appengine-ndb-experiment/issues/detail?id=196
812 - Fixed an issue where Appstats assuming all objects have a __class__ attribute
813 resulted in an error.
814 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5668
815 - Fixed an issue where there was unbalanced string quoting in Appstats
817 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5976
818 - Fixed an issue where search indexes were not persisted in the SDK.
819 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6791
820 - Fixed an issue where an error in formatter.py in Appstats was being thrown.
821 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7034
822 - Fixed an issue in the SDK where the Search API did not support boolean queries
824 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7247
825 - Fixed an issue where numeric and date comparators were not supported in the
826 Search API in the Python SDK.
827 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7247
828 - Fixed an issue where Appstats didn't show a detailed view of an RPC when using
829 the Python 2.7 runtime.
830 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7558
831 - Fixed a search issue where snippets failed to highlight when a capital letter
832 is used in a search term.
833 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7665
834 - Fixed an issue where the SDK Admin tool couldn't browse search indexes
835 containing unicode characters.
836 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7791
837 - Fixed an issue where traffic splitting by cookie was not working.
838 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7813
839 - Fixed an issue where RequestTooLargeError was being incorrectly thrown using
841 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7820
842 - Fixed a memcache race condition.
843 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7864
844 - Fixed a Search issue in the SDK where a query that does not match all search
845 terms resulted in divide-by-zero.
846 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7943
849 ===============================
850 - You can now configure your custom domain to serve HTTPS requests with App
851 Engine. You can choose either an SNI, VIP, or SNI and VIP configuration. SNI
852 costs $9/month for 5 certificates. A VIP costs $99/month.
853 https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/ssl
854 - Premier customers now have the option to create applications to be served from
855 datacenters located in the European Union.
856 - Developers can configure their HRD app to use Google's PageSpeed Service,
857 which automatically speeds up serving of content for your application. The
858 PageSpeed Service costs $0.39/gigabyte in addition to the normal App Engine
860 https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/adminconsole/performancesettings#pagespeed
861 - The Search API now contains support for storing and searching on GeoPoints.
862 - The total size of all application versions is now limited to 1 GB. In the
863 future, you'll be able to purchase additional storage for your application
865 - Logs API calls are now $.12/gigabyte for all data read from the Logs API over
867 - You can now specify a time frame of up to 1 year for the retention of your
868 application logs. All storage above 1 GB is billed based on the prices for
870 - You can now specify HTTP headers on static content for your application.
871 - The HRD Blob Migration tool is now generally available.
872 - After using the datastore backup utility, you can now restore that backup
874 - It will not be possible to create new authorizations for M/S applications to
875 access Cloud SQL instances.
876 - You can now delete a Google Cloud Storage object using blobstore.delete().
877 - You can now fetch a Google Cloud Storage object using blobstore.fetch().
878 - You can now store keys for a Google Cloud Storage object in the datastore.
879 - The create_upload_url call now works for Google Cloud Storage objects.
880 - You can now use get_serving_url() and delete_serving_url() for Google
881 Cloud Storage buckets.
882 - Projection queries are now supported in NDB.
883 - In NDB, app and namespace are now keyword arguments to get_by_id().
884 - Context().call_on_commit() added to NDB for adding a callback to be executed
885 upon successful commit of a transaction.
886 - NDB Context.memcache_* ops now accept unicode.
887 - NDB has added support for storing protorpc.Message objects.
888 - Improved error messaging for multiple repeated=True levels with
889 StructuredProperty in NDB.
890 - PyAMF is now fully launched.
891 - We've increased various Search API limits. New limits are a maximum of 1000
892 documents returned from search() or list_documents(), a maximum of 1000
893 indexes returned from list_indexes(), and a maximum offset of 1000 for
894 search() or list_indexes()
895 - Fixed an issue where the Search API did not enforce limits on NumberFields.
896 - Fixed an issue in the SDK where SortExpression did not enforce the
897 presence of a default_value set when required.
898 - Fixed an issue where lxml did not support unicode parsing.
899 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7158
900 - Fixed a javascript syntax error in the Admin Console.
901 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7566
902 - Fixed an issue in SDK admin viewer where a TemplateDoesNotExist error was
903 thrown when clicking on any Full-Text Search index.
904 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7598
905 - Fixed an issue in the Search API tab of the Admin Console where it threw an
906 error displaying non-ascii characters.
907 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7601
910 ===============================
911 - On May 8, 2012 we released an experimental Search API.
912 http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2012/05/looking-for-search-find-it-on-google.html
913 - The Admin Console now displays the quotas for Search API Calls and Search
915 - The Search API has deprecated the order_id attribute on Document class. It has
916 been replaced with the rank attribute.
917 - The Search API has deprecated the document attribute on ListResponse and
918 replaced it with a result attribute. Also the document_id attribute on
919 OperationResult class is deprecated and replaced with the id attribute.
920 - Fixed an issue where unicode is not consistently handled in the Python Search
922 - App creation for apps using the Master/Slave datastore is now restricted to
923 only those users who already own a Master/Slave app.
924 - Apps with billing enabled are now able to configure up to 100 cron jobs.
925 - Admin Console can no longer be included in an <iframe>. To prevent
926 clickjacking attacks on the Admin Console, we are now setting
927 X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN. To read more about clickjacking, please read:
928 https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Clickjacking.
929 - The Admin Console will now periodically prompt administrators to take an
930 optional App Engine satisfaction survey.
931 - You can now use the third party PyAMF library with Python 2.7. This is
932 available as an experimental feature.
933 - For NDB, Rollback has been added to the default list of flow exceptions.
934 http://code.google.com/p/appengine-ndb-experiment/issues/detail?id=179
935 - Fixed an issue where large datastore backups were unable to be deleted.
936 - Fixed an issue where datastore backups fail due to an ASCII decoding issue.
937 - Fixed an issue where the SDK did not import subpackages correctly when using
939 - Fixed an issue where running a projection query on a multi-valued property
940 with an equality filter did not return any results.
941 - Fixed an issue where unicode environment variables were dropped in Appstats
942 when using Python 2.7.
943 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6448
944 - Fixed an issue where XG transactions did not work with the Remote API.
945 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7238
948 ===============================
949 - You can now perform datastore queries that return a subset of your entity
950 properties with the same performance and cost of a keys-only query. This
951 feature is experimental.
952 - In the High Replication Datastore, there is a new metadata kind,
953 __entity_group__, that has a numeric __version__ property. This property is
954 guaranteed to increase on every change to the entity group.
955 - The Images API now supports manipulating objects hosted on Google Cloud
957 - In the Images API, the get_serving_url call now optionally allows you to
958 specify if the URL you are generating should be served over https.
959 - In the Task Queue REST API, you can now specify a tag when you insert a task
961 - In the Task Queue API, you can specify a deadline for the lease_tasks call.
962 The default deadline has been increased from 5 seconds to 10 seconds.
963 - You can now use cron to schedule Datastore backups.
964 - The Datastore Admin now has a page that displays information on the status of
965 your Datastore backups and restores.
966 - You can now abort your Datastore backup or restore from the Datastore Admin.
967 - You can now restore a single Datastore Kind from the Datastore Admin from a
969 - In the Admin Console, you can report production issues with your application
970 directly to Google from the application's pages. Simply click the "Report
971 Production Issues" link, fill out the requested information, and submit.
972 - All user requests have X-AppEngine-Region, X-AppEngine-City, and
973 X-AppEngine-CityLatLong headers which contain location information based on
974 the IP address of the client request. For a full description of these headers,
976 https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/runtime#Request_Headers
977 - We have added support for concurrent transactions to @db.transactional and
978 db.run_in_transaction_options() along with other transaction propagation
980 - We've introduced an experimental new Mac Installer that only supports Python
982 - In your app.yaml file, you can include an env_variables stanza that will set
983 the given environment variables in your application's runtime.
984 - Jinja2 now includes the _debugsupport module.
985 - Fixed an issue with the dev_appserver where it defaulted the HTTP
986 Content-Type of a request to text/plain instead of text/html.
987 - Fixed an issue where the SDK would include some indexes that were not needed
989 - Fixed an issue in the SDK where the SDK admin console would not display utf-8
990 encoded list property values.
991 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7079
994 ===============================
995 - Billed applications that have specified additional logs retention over 1 GB
996 are now being charged for that storage at $0.24/GB/month (the first gigabyte
997 of logs storage is free). All logs beyond an application's specified storage
998 limit will be deleted. Please examine your Application Settings page to verify
999 you are retaining the desired amount of logs.
1000 - Datastore statistics now show the amount of storage used by application
1002 - We have released an experimental utility for migrating your application's
1003 blobs at the same time you migrate your datastore data. You can opt-in to
1004 blob migration in the Admin Console when you start your migration.
1005 - We have updated the experimental Backup/Restore functionality to include
1006 the option to backup and restore to Google Cloud Storage.
1007 - The NDB datastore API is now generally available. For full release notes
1008 on the version 0.9.9 and 1.0.0 fixes that have been integrated into the
1010 http://code.google.com/p/appengine-ndb-experiment/source/browse/RELEASE_NOTES?name=sandbox
1011 - In the Python 2.7 runtime, Background threads are available as an
1012 experimental release when using App Engine backends.
1013 - Using the Blobstore API's send_blob() method, your application can serve
1014 objects hosted on Google Storage for Developers.
1015 - The Admin Console now provides a Memcache viewer that lists Memcache stats and
1016 can display Memcache content based on key.
1017 - In the Capabilities API stub in the SDK, you can now enable or disable
1018 a capability using SetPackagedEnabled.
1019 - The Windows installer now prompts to install Python 2.7 instead of
1021 - The Testbed API now supports the Capabilities API.
1022 - GQL queries in the Admin Console no longer throw an error when a trailing
1023 semi-colon is included.
1024 - The Datastore API now includes a NonTransactional decorator to ensure that
1025 a function is run outside of a transaction. Existing transactions are paused
1026 while the function is executing.
1027 - The Datastore Admin tab in the Admin Console now shows entities from every
1029 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3962
1030 - Fixed an issue with _strptime when threadsafe was specified.
1031 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6489
1032 - Fixed an issue where DatastoreFileStub.__del__ fails on tempfile.msktemp.
1033 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6749
1034 - WebOb 1.1.1 is now included in the SDK, and used by default there when
1035 Python 2.7 is specified.
1036 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7014
1037 - Fixed an issue where the index.yaml file was cleared if your skip_files entry
1038 differs from the default skip_files list.
1039 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7031
1042 ===============================
1043 - In the Admin Console, you can use new the Traffic Splitting feature to send a
1044 certain percentage of traffic to a non-default application version. The
1045 traffic is split by either cookie or IP address.
1046 - Emails that are sent from Google Apps domains email addresses where the domain
1047 has been set up to use DKIM will be signed: when an email was from a request
1048 that originated on that app's domain or any time the email was sent from
1049 an app adminstrator, including when that email is sent from a cron job or task
1051 - In the Admin Console, you can now choose how much and how long you'd like to
1052 store logs. All apps get 1G for free and eventually will be able to pay for
1053 more, while the amount can be increased this release we won't start charging
1054 for the additional capacity until the next release at the earliest.
1055 - The instances screen in the Admin Console now has a button to shut down
1056 a specific instance.
1057 - Each application log has a link to the instance that served the request. If
1058 the instance is no longer serving requests, a message will be displayed.
1059 - The TaskQueue API now supports the ability to tag a Pull Queue task. You may
1060 then lease tasks by tag. This feature is experimental.
1061 - Using Google Apps wildcard domain mappings, you can access alternate
1062 versions of your app via a custom domain.
1063 - Push and Pull Queues are now listed separately in the SDK development console.
1064 - Developer documentation for the experimental NDB API, the replacement for
1065 db.py, is now available.
1066 - Appcfg now supports OAuth2.
1067 - webapp 2.5.1 is now available in the Python 2.7 runtime.
1068 - Django 1.3 is now available in the Python 2.7 runtime.
1069 - GQL Query now supports custom type casting for list elements for "IN" filters.
1070 - Fixed an issue where StringProperty's validate() didn't check the 500 byte
1072 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4030
1073 - Fixed an issue where the datastore admin didn't work with Federated Login.
1074 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4111
1075 - Fixed an issue in the SDK where failing to call _RemoveTxn in the
1076 datastore_stub_util caused a memory leak:
1077 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6157
1078 - Code that inherits from the deferred library's TaskHandler can now define
1079 custom handling of exceptions.
1080 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6478
1081 - Fixed an issue where logging in the SDK was broken in Windows 7 using
1083 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6756
1084 - Fixed an issue in the SDK where the Conversion API call limited was limited
1085 to 1 MB when the production limit is 2 MB.
1086 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6794
1087 - Fixed an issue so that a deferred task retries like a push queue task when
1088 using the SingularTaskFailure exception:
1089 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6412
1093 ===============================
1094 - The Admin Console Datastore Admin has added experimental backup and restore
1095 functionality. The job occurs within your application and counts against your
1096 application quota, including Instance Hours, Datastore Ops and Datastore
1098 - Developers can now specify how long a channel token will last until it
1099 expires, with the default remaining two hours. Channel API quota is now
1100 measured both in calls to create a channel and the number of hours of channel
1101 time requested. The maximum hours of quota is the maximum number of channel
1102 creation calls * 2, so free apps get 200 hours of requested channel token
1104 - Python Django now work with Cloud SQL without additional configuration. For
1105 further information see https://developers.google.com/cloud-sql/.
1106 - Task Queue API requests now include a X-Appengine-TaskETA header, that can be
1107 used to measure task delivery latency.
1108 - The default API deadlines for Blobstore API calls have been raised to 15s for
1109 online and 30s for offline requests, up from 5s.
1110 - The Images API now allows you to stretch an image without maintaining the
1112 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2220
1113 - The Blobstore API now includes the asynchronous function calls
1114 create_upload_url_async, delete_async, and fetch_data_async.
1115 - Django version 1.3 is now available in the Python 2.5 runtime.
1116 - We've added a django_wsgi builtin to allow easier bootstrapping of Django
1118 - Mail Quota for App Engine apps that have signed up for billing will only be
1119 increased after the first payment for the app is processed.
1120 - As announced in 1.6.1, in this release for the experimental Python 2.7
1121 runtime, the mapreduce and datastore_admin builtins are not available to apps
1122 deployed to Python 2.7.
1123 - Fixed an issue with remote_api where calling fetch_page() with a page size
1124 of 301 and chaining the calls through the returned cursor was skipping half
1126 - Fixed an issue where the PIL _imagingmath module was not available in Python
1128 - Fixed an issue where the SDK did not resize images down to 512 pixels by
1129 default, as it does in production.
1130 - Fixed an issue with the Images API where valid images were returning a
1132 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5545
1133 - Fixed an issue where the SDK didn't start when using Python 2.7 and the
1135 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6187
1136 - Fixed an issue where Jinja2 was not included in the SDK for use with Python
1138 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6265
1139 - Fixed an issue with the sql datastore stub in Python 2.7 where the sqlite
1140 module no longer accepted strings with non-ASCII characters.
1141 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6290
1142 - Fixed an issue where gzip did not work with Python 2.7 in the dev_appserver.
1143 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6324
1144 - Fixed an issue where urllib2 did not work with Python 2.7.
1145 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6567
1146 - Fixed an error in the Datastore Viewer where an error was thrown when viewing
1147 an Entity which defines an index with no properties.
1148 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6600
1149 - Fixed an issue where transactional tasks were not enqueued in the SDK when
1150 running in high_replication mode.
1151 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6669
1154 ===============================
1155 - You can now configure Frontend Instance Classes from your Admin Console's
1156 application settings page. Three classes are available, with increasing
1157 memory, CPU limits, and associated cost. By default, all applications use the
1158 basic frontend instance setting of 128MB memory and 600MHz CPU.
1159 - We've added new functionality to the Log API that will allow you to read your
1160 application's logs programmatically.
1161 - We are releasing an experimental Conversion API that will allow you to convert
1162 between document types including .doc, .html, .pdf, images using OCR, and
1164 - The High Replication Datastore migration utility is now available as a GA
1165 feature, and is no longer experimental.
1166 - The ext.db API query functions (run, fetch, count, get) now accept the keyword
1167 arguments: deadline, read_policy, prefetch_size, batch_size, limit, offset,
1168 start_cursor, end_cursor, keys_only. It is recommended that developers use
1169 Query.run() with a limit or batch_size instead of Query.fetch() when iterating
1171 - The ext.db API model functions (get, put, delete, allocate_ids) now directly
1172 accept the keyword arguments: deadline, read_policy
1173 - The Blobstore API now supports the multiple="true" attribute to the HTML input
1175 - Fixed an issue logging unicode objects in the SDK.
1176 - Fixed an issue with the dev_appserver where HTTP HEAD always returned
1178 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2000
1179 - Fixed an issue in the SDK where importing Crypto.Util.Counter caused an
1181 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4168
1182 - Fixed an issue where the SDK didn't work with virtualenv.
1183 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4339
1184 - Fixed an issue where cached static files served to IPs on the DoS blacklist
1185 consumed bandwidth quota.
1186 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4607
1187 - Fixed an issue that was causing slow serving of requests in the SDK.
1188 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6005
1189 - Fixed an issue where the Channel API didn't work in the SDK with Python 2.7.
1190 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6267
1191 - Fixed an httplib compatibility issue between Python 2.5 and Python 2.7 in the
1193 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6271
1194 - Fixed an issue where queries larger than 1MB didn't work with Python 2.7.
1195 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6282
1196 - Fixed an error in the SDK on first page load for a handler.
1197 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6302
1198 - Fixed an issue in the SDK that caused slowness due to app's logs being written
1199 to the datastore. Set the --persist_logs flag in the SDK if you are using the
1200 Logservice API to read logs.
1201 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6355
1202 - WARNING: Starting with the 1.6.2 release of the experimental Python 2.7
1203 runtime, the mapreduce and datastore_admin builtins will not be supported.
1206 ===============================
1207 - On November 7th, App Engine will be out of Preview. The new Terms of Service
1208 and previously announced pricing changes will be in effect. Additionally, all
1209 paid apps are now covered by our SLA.
1210 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/billing.html
1211 - Paid apps can now specify the maximum pending latency for instances and the
1212 minimum number of idle instances for your application in the Admin Console.
1213 - Task Queue storage has been separated in to its own line item. Previously,
1214 this was included in Datastore storage.
1215 - We have released an experimental utility, available in the Admin Console, to
1216 assist in migrating your application to the High Replication datastore. This
1217 utility allows you to copy the bulk of your data in the background, while the
1218 source application is still serving. You then need a brief read-only period to
1219 migrate your application data while you copy the data that has changed from
1220 the time the original copy started.
1221 - Blobstore, which was previously limited to apps with billing enabled, is now
1222 available for all apps.
1223 - We have published a new article on Datastore Index Selection and Advanced
1224 Search which explains our recent improvements to the query planner that make
1225 exploding indexes unnecessary.
1226 http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/indexselection.html
1227 - Applications can now receive xmpp error stanzas at /_ah/xmpp/error.
1228 - In the Admin Console data viewer, you can now filter by namespace from a drop
1229 down menu, if applicable.
1230 - In the Admin Console's Datastore Statistics, we now offer namespace suggest
1231 for filtering stats.
1232 - We have released as experimental the full MapReduce framework.
1233 - The SDK now supports Python 2.7.
1234 - Python 2.7 now supports WebOb 1.1.1, which has some significant bug fixes.
1235 Applications that explicitly set the "webob" version to "1.1" in their
1236 app.yaml files must update the version to "1.1.1".
1237 - The mail_stub.get_sent_messages() call now returns EmailMessage instances.
1238 - Fixed an issue when setting an initial_value in memcache.incr unexpectedly
1240 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2012
1241 - Fixed an issue where DoS stats in the Admin Console didn't work for High
1243 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5237
1244 - WARNING: Starting with 1.6.1 (our next release, NOT this release), URLFetch
1245 requests will honor the Accept-Encoding header. If your code sets this header
1246 then it must be prepared to receive content of the specified type. For more
1247 information please see
1248 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4978
1251 ===============================
1252 - Python 2.7 is now available as an experimental runtime for all applications
1253 using the High Replication Datastore. To upload your app to the Python 2.7
1254 runtime, change the runtime argument in your app.yaml to python27. Note that
1255 the dev_appserver does NOT work with Python 2.7 - you must deploy your
1256 application in order test it.
1257 - We have increased the number of files you can upload with your application
1258 from 3,000 to 10,000.
1259 - We have increased the size limit for a single file uploaded to App Engine from
1261 - We have increased the Frontend request deadline from 30 seconds to 60 seconds.
1262 - We have increased the online URLFetch maximum deadline from 10 seconds to 60
1263 seconds. The default deadline remains at 10 seconds. The offline maximum deadline
1264 for URLFetch remains at 10 minutes.
1265 - We have increased the URLFetch Post payload from 1MB to 5MB.
1266 - App Engine now supports Cross Group (XG) transactions with the High
1267 Replication Datastore, which allow you to perform transactions across
1268 multiple entity groups.
1269 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/datastore/transactions.html
1270 - We have released an experimental API that can write to Google Storage for
1271 Developers directly from App Engine.
1272 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/googlestorage/overview.html
1273 - We have added a graph to the admin console that displays the number of
1274 instances for which you will be billed.
1275 - In the XMPP API, get_presence() is deprecated in favor of using the inbound
1276 presence handlers documented in
1277 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/xmpp/overview.html#Handling_User_Presence.
1278 - The Task Queue API 'target' parameter now accepts a new value,
1279 taskqueue.DEFAULT_APP_VERSION, which will send the task to the default
1280 frontend version, rather than the version or backend where the 'add' method is
1282 - In the URLFetch API, make_fetch_call() now returns an RPC object.
1283 - Fixed an issue in the Admin Console where the "Run Now" button did not work
1284 for tasks with a '-' in the name.
1285 - Fixed an issue where the SDK did not decode Base64 encoded blobs.
1286 - Fixed an issue to provide a better error message when using the Mail API to
1287 send email to an invalid user address.
1288 - Fixed an issue in the SDK where a skip_files entry caused an ImportError when
1289 the library was located elsewhere in the PYTHONPATH.
1290 - Fixed an issue in the SDK index viewer where the arrows indicating whether a
1291 query was ascending or descending were not properly rendered.
1292 - Fixed an issue where httplib did not support the deadline argument for
1294 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2216
1295 - Fixed an issue where you could not schedule a cron job to run every 100
1297 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5243
1298 - Fixed an issue in the SDK where failed tasks retried immediately instead of
1299 waiting for 30 seconds.
1300 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5587
1301 - Fixed an issue making it possible to modify request headers using the deferred
1303 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5861
1306 ===============================
1307 - You can now specify the maximum size for a blob in create_upload_url().
1308 - Zigzag merge join queries will now continue scanning up to the 30 second
1309 Datastore query deadline. For zigzag queries that used to generate NeedIndex
1310 errors, many will now succeed. A small percentage will now instead timeout.
1311 - The SDK datastore viewer in the dev console now displays the number of "Write
1312 Ops" for each entity. "Write Ops" are the total number of entity and index
1313 writes that were required to create the entity.
1314 - Added API functionality for making calls to the Memcache API asynchronously.
1315 - Fixed an issue that incorrectly allowed creation of tasks with whitespace in
1317 - Fixed the error message for "transaction not found" to be more descriptive.
1318 - Fixed an issue where blobstore uploads didn't work in the SDK with the
1319 -a 0.0.0.0 flag set.
1320 - Fixed an issue where --dry_run was broken for upload_data in bulkload.py.
1321 - Fixed an issue where db.Model().to_xml() incorrectly updated auto-updating
1323 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=322
1324 - Fixed an issue where the SDK didn't expand the '~' in a file path.
1325 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=522
1326 - Fixed an issue where is_saved() wasn't valid after db.Model.__init__.
1327 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=844
1328 - Fixed an issue where GQL IN queries with an empty list returned all entities.
1329 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=932
1330 - Fixed an issue where the SDK's sqlite stub did not handle cursors on
1331 descending queries correctly.
1332 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3121
1333 - Fixed a typo in the SDK's Datastore Stats generator message.
1334 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5425
1337 =============================
1338 - We've removed the limit on the size of blob uploads using the Blobstore API.
1339 - You can now send emails with any attachment extension that is not included on
1340 the email attachment extension blacklist.
1341 - Added a db.get_indexes() method to retrieve an application's indexes and
1342 their corresponding states.
1343 - The dev_appserver has been updated to understand the reduced index
1344 requirements of the 1.5.2 datastore query planner changes.
1345 - The Datastore Admin functionality can now be enabled directly in the Admin
1347 - Added cas(), the compare-and-set function, to the Memcache API.
1348 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2139
1349 - Added a set_default_fetch_deadline to the URLFetch API which sets the
1350 URLFetch deadline globally.
1351 - Added app_identity api with methods to get the application id, default
1352 hostname, and service accounts for asserting identity on outbound HTTP calls.
1353 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/appidentity/overview.html
1354 - Added an improved HRD migration tool that requires a read-only period relative
1355 to your datastore write rate (as opposed to your datastore size, which is how
1356 the current version behaves). The tool is not yet generally available. If you
1357 are interested in being an early adopter please fill out this form:
1359 - Fixed an issue in the Channel API where jsapi was not served with the correct
1361 - Fixed an issue that broke use_library when the Python SDK was located in a
1362 directory that contained the word 'django'.
1363 - Fixed an issue where blobs could not be uploaded using HTTPS.
1364 - Fixed an issue where GQL didn't allow querying for valid kind names
1365 containing '.', '-', and ':' by supporting quoted identifiers.
1366 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2584
1369 =============================
1370 - You can now specify the minimum pending latency for instances and the maximum
1371 number of idle instances for your application in the Admin Console.
1372 - The datastore now never requires an exploding index.
1373 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/datastore/queries.html#Big_Entities_and_Exploding_Indexes
1374 - The SDK will now never suggest indexes with the same property repeated, as
1375 such indexes are likely to be exploding indexes.
1376 - The SDK now supports multiple concurrent transactions.
1377 - Datastore stats are now available on a per-namespace basis.
1378 - The queue details page in the Admin Console now contains request header
1379 details, previous run information, and a task payload viewer.
1380 - You can modify the lease on a task leased from a pull queue using the
1381 modify_task_lease() method.
1382 - Pull Task maximum size has been increased to 1MB.
1383 - You can now update the number of available backend instances without needing
1384 to first stop the backend using the "backend configure" appcfg.py directive.
1385 - You can now set the "References" and "In-Reply-To" headers with the Mail API.
1386 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2802
1387 - The SDK "application" environment variable will now be prefixed with dev~.
1388 The new preferred way of retrieving your app id is to use
1389 appidentity.get_application_id(). The --default_partition flag can be used
1390 for applications whose code relied on a specific environment variable.
1391 - In the Deferred API, defer() now accepts the _target parameter.
1392 - Added a to_dict() function to db.py which converts a model to a dictionary.
1393 - Added a get_original_metadata() method to the Images API to extract EXIF
1394 information from images.
1395 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4133
1396 - Added an @transactional decorator to db.py for functions that should
1397 always be run in a transaction.
1398 - Fixed an issue in the SDK where the Deferred API did not work when using
1399 the --backends flag.
1400 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5072
1403 ============================
1404 - ProtoRPC is a new experimental library that provides a simple method for
1405 creating a well-defined and easy-to-use web-based RPC service.
1406 - The development server's datastore implementation now contains logic that
1407 closely replicates the consistency guarantees of the High Replication
1408 datastore. To use, run the dev_appserver with the flag --high_replication set
1410 - All user request have an X-AppEngine-Country header which contains the
1411 ISO-3166-1 alpha-2 country code for the user, based on the IP address of the
1413 - The Channel API can now provide user presence, this can be configured by
1414 adding channel_presence to the list of inbound services for your application.
1415 - The Images API now supports the WebP format. Due to limitations in PIL, the
1416 SDK does not support the WebP format.
1417 - You can switch the timezone for App Engine logs in the Admin Console.
1418 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=734
1419 - Fixed an issue in the SDK where leased tasks had the POST method. They now
1421 - Fixed an issue where the Channel API didn't work with non-default versions of
1422 applications using the High Replication datastore.
1423 - When displaying corrupt data in the Admin Console dataviewer, a useful error
1424 will be displayed, instead of a 500.
1425 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4945
1428 ==============================
1429 - Support for Backends which allow developers to create infrastructure
1430 components that complement the existing dynamic apps that App Engine already
1431 provides. Instances of a backend can maintain state, be addressed
1432 individually, and are not subject to per-request time limits. They can also be
1433 configured to consume more memory and CPU than ordinary dynamic instances.
1434 - Task Queues support pull mode, allowing for more control over task queue work
1435 rates. To use pull queues, include the 'mode' argument in your queue.yaml.
1436 - Pull queues are supported by a REST API, allowing access from outside App
1437 Engine. To use the REST API, you must also include a valid ACL section
1438 specifying which users can lease tasks from the pull queue.
1439 - Task Queue payload limits have been increased. Queues support 100KB per task.
1440 Within App Engine, the new limit is 32 MB per batch of tasks. With the REST
1441 API the limit is 1 MB per batch.
1442 - HTTP request and response sizes have been increased to 32 MB.
1443 - We have removed the rate quotas for requests, datastore operations,
1444 memcache operations, and image API operations. Resource quotas still apply.
1445 - When creating new applications, developers will now see the High Replication
1446 Datastore as the default configuration option. Developers that still wish to
1447 use the Master/Slave configuration must explicitly choose this option at
1448 application creation time.
1449 - The Task Queue maximum configurable processing rate has been increased to
1451 - We have added two restrictions to the Mail API to improve the reliability
1452 of the service for all applications.
1453 - Emails must be sent from email accounts managed by Google (either Gmail or
1454 a domain signed up for Google Apps).
1455 - Reduced the number of free recipients per day from 2000 to 100 for new
1457 - All application Owners, as listed in the Admin Console, can download the app's
1458 code, unless code download is disabled for the application.
1459 - Added db.py support for making calls to the datastore asynchronously.
1460 Available functions are get_async(), put_async(), delete_async(),
1461 allocate_ids_async(). Call get_result on the return value of asynchronous
1462 datastore functions to block on the call.
1463 - Metadata queries can now get all namespaces, kinds, and properties in a given
1465 - The Testbed API now supports the Channel API.
1466 - Users can provide Django settings to be loaded in webapp's django_setup.
1467 - Modified Dashboard latency graphs to indicate they only include dynamic
1469 - Fixed an issue where metadata queries did not support unicode characters.
1470 - Fixed an issue where HTTP headers could contain new line characters.
1471 - A warning message is shown when the Python version used to run the SDK is
1472 different than the Python version used in production.
1473 - Fixed an issue with Federated Users causing the Admin Console dataviewer to
1475 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=384
1476 - MacOS and Windows style newlines are now supported for logging in the SDK.
1477 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=560
1478 - Fixed an issue where sending mail with smtp_host set did not work.
1479 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=626
1480 - Fixed the file permissions for appinfo_errors.py and appinfo.py in the SDK.
1481 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=725
1482 - Fixed an issue deploying an app with version set to 0.
1483 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=735
1484 - Fixed an issue where the SDK allowed GET or DELETE with a body, which does
1485 not work in production.
1486 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=983
1487 - Fixed an issue where URLFetch/urllib did not work with MacOS and
1489 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=985
1490 - Fixed the an issue in the SDK where the mail body was incorrectly generated
1491 when the sendmail option was enabled.
1492 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1061
1493 - Fixed an issue in the SDK dataviewer where editing a ListProperty(db.Category)
1494 resulted in a BadValueError.
1495 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1139
1496 - Fixed an issue in the SDK where the signal module could be imported, as it
1498 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1150
1499 - Improved support for reserving an app id that is a canonicalized version of
1500 a user's Gmail address.
1501 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1196
1502 - Added a more useful error messages for unavailable App Ids.
1503 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1303
1504 - The SDK now uses hashlib instead of sha. Python 2.4 is no longer supported.
1505 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1334
1506 - Fixed an issue where images.composite() did not support PNG transparency in
1508 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1417
1509 - Added better error messages for cron.yaml parsing.
1510 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1490
1511 - Fixed an issue where uploading an index.yaml file with DOS line endings
1513 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1548
1514 - Fixed an issue where unicode characters in a script caused an error.
1515 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1675
1516 - Task Queue names can now include the "_" character.
1517 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1723
1518 - The sender of an email is no longer BCC'd when they are already included in
1520 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1907
1521 - Fixed an issue where non-string types were interpreted as strings when
1522 parsing the index.yaml file.
1523 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2158
1524 - Image API now supplies image format.
1525 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2308
1526 - Fixed webapp.request.get_range to work with default=None.
1527 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2363
1528 - Added a more helpful error message when trying to send email to a malformed
1530 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2386
1531 - The SDK now returns an error if the Content-length header is not included in a
1532 post request, matching production.
1533 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2512
1534 - Fixed an issue using URLFetch to fetch pages where the URL contained unicode.
1535 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2670
1536 - Fixed an issue where the SDK looked in the wrong folder for the SDK Version
1538 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3050
1539 - Fixed a webapp.Request get() issue where the default was not being properly
1540 returned when allow_multiple was set to True.
1541 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3235
1542 - Fixed an issue where handler.get_url did not work for non-default versions of
1544 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3300
1545 - Fixed an issue where X-AppEngine-TaskRetryCount did not increment in the SDK.
1546 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3501
1547 - Applied a user patch that partially fixed an issue where bulkloader resume
1549 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3581
1550 - Fixed a logging issue with the SDK BlobImageDispatcher.
1551 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3606
1552 - ListProperty now supports datetime.time and datetime.date, as documented.
1553 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3818
1554 - Fixed an issue where the Content-length header was being incorrectly stored as
1556 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3875
1557 - Fixed an issue where the Admin Console didn't keep the app version viewed
1558 consistent across actions.
1559 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4023
1560 - Fixed an issue using os.environ in appengine_config.py in the SDK.
1561 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4209
1562 - Fixed an issue where HTTP requests on the SDK where truncated if a semicolon
1563 was included in the request.
1564 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4241
1565 - Fixed an issue where images.get_serving_url() did not handle blob_info.key()
1567 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4346
1568 - Fixed an issue where checking for a new version caused the appcfg download_app
1570 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4553
1571 - Fixed a typo in the Admin Console on the New App page.
1572 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4620
1573 - Return a better error when a ReferenceProperty fails to resolve.
1574 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4626
1575 - Fixed an issue where sending mail from an app registered on the HR datastore
1576 required the app id be prefaced with s~.
1577 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4671
1578 - Fixed an issue where URLFetch with urllib over HTTPS didn't work.
1579 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4824
1583 =================================
1584 - Added Files API that allows writing to and reading from files in blobstore.
1585 - You can now specify cron execution for a time interval between a start and end
1587 - You can now configure the specific application version to which a task queue
1588 or cron job will send requests.
1589 - The Admin Console Task Queues page now displays a more accurate estimate of
1590 queue size for queues containing more than 2000 tasks.
1591 - The Prospective Search API (formerly named the Matcher API) is available for
1592 use by all applications. This API is still experimental, so applications will
1593 be limited to a maximum of 1000 subscriptions.
1594 - The Testbed API provides easy configuration of stub libraries for local
1596 - In the Images API, the quality parameter was added to the resize, rotate,
1597 horizontal_flip, vertical_flip, crop and im_feeling_lucky methods.
1598 - Fixed an issue where static file serving in the dev_appserver didn't support
1600 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=368
1601 - An error is now raised when the script mapping in the app.yaml file is missing
1602 the .py file extension.
1603 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=976
1604 - Fixed an issue where no link was displayed in the Admin Console blobstore
1605 viewer for an unnamed blob.
1606 - Fixed an issue where the Admin Console data viewer couldn't edit entities
1607 with ByteString properties.
1608 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2367
1609 - Fixed an issue where the Admin Console crashed when using a non-ascii
1611 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2451
1612 - Fixed an issue filtering on __key__ while using the --use_sqlite option with
1614 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3232
1615 - The Disable Application admin function has been button-ized.
1616 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4323
1617 - Fixed an SDK issue where debugging logging wouldn't correctly print URLFetch
1619 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=783
1620 - Fixed an SDK issue where an incompatible line ending was used on blob upload.
1621 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3328
1622 - Added more graceful handling of the missing mapreduce.yaml file when the user
1623 has enabled the Datastore Admin but is not otherwise using the MapReduce
1625 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3903
1626 - Fixed an issue where the method webapp_add_wsgi_middleware was no longer
1628 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4236
1631 ================================
1632 - The XMPP API was updated to include presence and allow subscriptions.
1633 - The Task Queue now supports programmatic deleting of tasks.
1634 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2588
1635 - The maximum rate per queue at which tasks are processed has been increased to
1636 100 tasks per second.
1637 - The maximum number of concurrent requests for a single queue can be specified
1638 in the application's queue.yaml. This provides an additional easy-to-use form
1639 of rate limiting. The current number of running tasks is also displayed in
1641 - Metadata queries in the Datastore now support cursors.
1642 - Admin Console logs viewer now displays time as YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.mmm.
1643 - The Mail API added KML and KMZ files as allowed attachments.
1644 - Added support for verifying the server SSL certificate when making a
1645 URLFetch request to an HTTPS URL. This will become the default in a future
1647 - Added a warning when an admin tries to upload a queue.yaml where the number
1648 of new queues and the number of disabled queues exceeds 100.
1649 - Django 1.2.5 is available via use of the use_library() declaration. This
1650 version of Django has also been added to the Python SDK.
1651 - Added builtin support for the deferred library.
1652 - If Python Precompilation fails, an error will be printed but the app will
1654 - Added a --disable_sdk_update_check command line flag to the dev_appserver.
1655 - Fixed an issue where the datastore copy functionality did not work if writes
1656 were disabled on the source application.
1657 - Fixed an issue where mail from @appid.appspotmail.com did not work when
1658 sending mail to app admins.
1659 - Fixed an issue where the dev_appserver URLFetch API limit was 16MB. It is now
1660 32 MB to match production.
1661 - Fixed a zipimport issue on Windows which was not working due to path
1663 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2086
1664 - Fixed an issue where the SDK did not enforce the 100 task limit for the Task
1666 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3296
1667 - Fixed an issue where Query.order() was broken for properties with the 'name'
1669 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3693
1670 - Fixed an unhelpful error message in the Python namespace_manager.
1671 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3931
1675 ================================
1676 - During application creation, developers can choose between two Datastore
1677 configurations: High Replication or Master/Slave.
1678 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/datastore/hr/#Selecting_a_Datastore
1679 - You can set your application's datastore to read-only mode in the Admin
1680 Console. Any writes attempted while the app is set to read-only will throw a
1681 CapabilityDisabledError. This feature can be helpful for migrating or copying
1682 data between two applications.
1683 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/adminconsole/applicationsettings.html#Disable_Datastore_Writes
1684 - The Datastore Admin tool has been updated to allow copying of one app's
1685 datastore to another. The destination app must have the Remote API enabled.
1686 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/adminconsole/datastoreadmin.html
1687 - The deadline for offline URL Fetch API requests for Python and Java have been
1688 increased to a maximum of 10 minutes. The default deadline for offline
1689 URL Fetch requests remains the same.
1690 - Fixed an issue where an AttributeError was occasionally thrown on a datastore
1692 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4196
1695 ================================
1696 - The Always On feature allows applications to pay and keep 3 instances of their
1697 application always running, which can significantly reduce application
1699 - Developers can now enable Warmup Requests. By specifying a handler in an
1700 app's app.yaml, App Engine will attempt to send a Warmup Request to initialize
1701 new instances before a user interacts with it. This can reduce the latency an
1702 end-user sees for initializing your application.
1703 - The Channel API is now available for all users.
1704 - Task Queue has been officially released, and is no longer an experimental
1705 feature. The API import paths that use 'labs' have been deprecated. Task queue
1706 storage will count towards an application's overall storage quota, and will
1707 thus be charged for.
1708 - The deadline for Task Queue and Cron requests has been raised to 10 minutes.
1709 Datastore and API deadlines within those requests remain unchanged.
1710 - For the Task Queue, developers can specify task retry_parameters in their
1712 - Apps that have enabled billing are allowed up to 100 queues with the Task
1714 - Metadata Queries on the datastore for datastore kinds, namespaces, and entity
1715 properties are available.
1716 - URLFetch allowed response size has been increased, up to 32 MB. Request size
1717 is still limited to 1 MB.
1718 - The request and response sizes for the Images API have been increased to
1720 - The total size of Memcache batch operations is increased to 32 MB. The 1 MB
1721 limit on individual Memcache objects still applies.
1722 - The attachment size for outgoing emails has been increased from 1 MB to 10 MB.
1723 The size limit for incoming emails is still 10 MB.
1724 - Size and quantity limits on datastore batch get/put/delete operations have
1725 been removed. Individual entities are still limited to 1 MB, but your app may
1726 batch as many entities together for get/put/delete calls as the overall
1727 datastore deadline will allow for.
1728 - When iterating over query results, the datastore will now asynchronously
1729 prefetch results, reducing latency in many cases by 10-15%.
1730 - The Admin Console Blacklist page lists the top blacklist rejected visitors.
1731 - The automatic image thumbnailing service supports arbitrary crop sizes up to
1733 - Overall average instance latency in the Admin Console is now a weighted
1734 average over QPS per instance.
1735 - The developer who uploaded an app version can download that version's code
1736 using the appcfg.py download_app command. This feature can be disabled on
1737 a per application basis in the admin console, under the 'Permissions' tab.
1738 Once disabled, code download for the application CANNOT be re-enabled.
1739 - Fixed an issue where custom Admin Console pages did not work for Google
1740 Apps for your Domain users.
1741 - In the Python runtime, an instance is killed and restarted when a request
1742 handler hits DeadlineExceededError. This should fix an issue related to
1743 intermittent SystemErrors using Django.
1744 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=772
1745 - Allow Django initialization to be moved to appengine_config.py to avoid
1746 Django version conflicts when mixing webapp.template with pure Django.
1747 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1758
1748 - Fixed an issue with OpenId over SSL.
1749 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3393
1750 - Fixed an issue on the dev_appserver where login/logout code didn't work using
1752 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3566
1753 - Fixed an issue in the dev_appserver where get_serving_url did not work
1754 for transparent, cropped PNGs:
1755 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3887
1756 - Fixed an issue with the DatastoreFileStub.
1757 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3895
1760 ==================================
1761 - Builtin app.yaml handlers are available for common application functions,
1763 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/config/appconfig.html#Builtin_Handlers
1764 - The Admin Console now provides an experimental tool to delete all entities in
1765 the datastore or all entities of a given type. This is available only if
1766 enabled using the datastore_admin builtin. Deleting entities will count
1767 against application quota.
1768 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/datastore/creatinggettinganddeletingdata.html#Deleting_Entities_in_Bulk
1769 - You can run task queue tasks immediately from the Admin Console.
1770 - You can now specify the quality of JPEG images via the Image API's
1771 execute_transforms function. Available in production only.
1772 - Support for login of multiple Google accounts within an app, and longer login
1773 sessions. For more information see:
1774 http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?answer=181599
1775 - In queue.yaml, the maximum allowed bucket size is now 100.
1776 - Precompilation is now enabled by default. To disable, use the
1777 --no_precompilation flag when updating your app.
1778 - BlobInfo now has an open() method that returns a BlobReader.
1779 - BlobReader now accepts a BlobInfo.
1780 - Removed limits on zigzag merge-join queries. Therefore the error "The built-in
1781 indices are not efficient enough for this query and your data. Please add a
1782 composite index for this query." will no longer be thrown in most cases,
1783 enabling more types of queries without indexes.
1784 - Fixed an issue with task queue tasks not running on the dev_appserver when
1786 - Fixed an issue on the dev_appserver where auto task running wasn't working for
1788 - Fixed an issue reserving App Ids by owners of similarly-named mails accounts
1789 containing periods, multiple cases, and googlemail.com address.
1790 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1196
1791 - Fixed an issue on the development server where PNGs were being returned as
1793 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3661
1796 ===============================
1797 - Fix an issue where namespace_manager.google_apps_namespace() was not included
1798 in the 1.3.6 release.
1801 =================================
1802 - Multitenancy is now supported in the datastore, allowing better
1803 compartmentalization of user data.
1804 - Automatic image thumbnailing is now available in the Images API using
1806 - Users can now serve custom static error pages for over_quota, dos_api_denial
1808 - Results of datastore count() queries and offsets for all datastore queries
1809 are no longer capped at 1000.
1810 - Added a pause queue button to the task queue details page in the Admin
1812 - Historical graphs have been added to all of the dashboard graphs in the Admin
1814 - Content-range headers are supported on Blobstore downloads.
1815 - Remote API now supports the Blobstore API.
1816 - New method to allocate datastore ids in a given range: db.allocate_id_range().
1817 - New db method is_in_transaction() determines if a transaction is still open.
1818 - Increased several rate limited quotas for free applications.
1819 - Fixed an issue in db.py where unindexed property lists for user-specified
1820 property names were ignored.
1821 - Fixed an issue where the task queue uses local time instead of UTC time to
1823 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2508
1824 - Fixed an issue in the SDK with datastore cursors being too large.
1825 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3152
1828 =================================
1829 - Developers can enable Python pre-compilation to decrease start up time for
1830 new application instances. This can be enabled by including the
1831 derived_file_type in your app.yaml.
1832 - Ability to configure the Task Queue storage limit with the
1833 total_storage_limit field in the queue.yaml file.
1834 - Task Queues now support up to 50 qps per queue, up from 50 qps per app.
1835 - Developers can programmatically access Blobs with BlobReader, a file-like
1836 interface for reading blobs.
1837 - Bulkloader transform helpers for lists and hierarchical keys were added.
1838 - remote_api_shell commands can be sent over HTTPS or HTTP.
1839 - Admin Console logs now include information on request time latency.
1840 - Db.delete will now accept an iterable, in addition to a list of models or
1842 - The datastore now supports end cursors.
1843 - Fixed an issue properly handling a query with an offset that returns no
1845 - Fixed an issue that improperly allowed quad-dotted netmasks as subnet prefixes
1847 - Fixed an issue via user submitted patch in the SDK dataviewer displaying
1848 multiline StringProperties.
1849 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=502
1852 =================================
1853 - New bulkloader configuration syntax and wizard for easier import/export with
1855 - Applications can now be configured to authenticate with OpenID by selecting
1856 the OpenID option when creating your application in the admin console.
1857 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=248
1858 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=56
1859 - New API to allow App Engine apps to act as OAuth service providers.
1860 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=919
1861 - Auto task execution is now enabled in the dev_appserver. To turn this off
1862 use the flag --disable_task_running.
1863 - Fixed an issue using db.put() with constructor initialized id based keys.
1864 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3209
1867 =================================
1868 - A new experimental feature allows you to set dev_appserver datastore file
1869 stub to use sqlite. To enable, set the flag --use_sqlite=true.
1870 - It is now possible to implement properties on db.Expando.
1871 - Fixed a datastore issue where an error was thrown when setting a query offset
1872 to more than the number of results throws an error.
1873 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2875
1874 - Fixed issue not allowing ByteString type to be viewed in the Development
1875 Console datastore viewer.
1876 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1176
1879 =================================
1880 - New API to read the contents of uploaded Blobs (fetch_data)
1881 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2536
1882 - URLFetch now supports accessing ports 80-90, 440-450, and 1024-65535
1883 - Mail API now allows common document formats as attachments
1884 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=494
1885 - The Task Queue API now supports adding multiple tasks in a single call to
1887 - Fixed charset handling for inbound emails
1888 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2326
1889 - Fixed issue with compositing background colors in dev_appserver
1890 - New feature in the datastore to specify whether to use strong or eventually
1891 consistent reads (the default is strong)
1892 - New datastore feature allows setting deadlines for operations
1893 - Increased the maximum Task Queue refill rate from 20/s to 50/s
1894 - Support for IP blacklisting to prevent denial of service (DoS) attacks
1895 - Fix an issue with Mac Launcher in Mac OSX 10.5.5
1896 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=778
1897 - Fix issue with slow updates when there are many skipped files
1898 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2492
1899 - Fix issue with cursor not updating when using a GqlQuery
1900 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2757
1903 ================================
1904 - Datastore Query Cursors
1905 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/datastore/queriesandindexes.html#Query_Cursors
1906 - Transactional Task Creation
1907 - Support for Custom Admin Console pages
1908 - New "month" and "synchronized" syntax for Cron configuration
1909 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/config/cron.html
1910 - Application Stats library now included in with SDK
1911 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/tools/appstats.html
1912 - Bulk Loader supports bulk downloading all kinds simultaneously
1913 - appcfg.py validates SSL certificates for HTTPS on Upload
1914 - Support for ETags, If-matches, If-not-matches HTTP Headers, as well as 304
1915 status codes now available on static files (not available on the
1916 dev_appserver or Blobstore blobs)
1917 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=575
1919 Version 1.3.0 - December 14, 2009
1920 ================================
1921 - Adds support for the new Blobstore API
1923 Version 1.2.8 - October 28, 2009
1924 ================================
1925 - New memcache offset_multi method and batch support in incr and decr.
1926 - Urlfetch Response object now contains final_url of 302 redirects.
1927 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1464
1928 - Additional file extensions permitted when sending mail.
1929 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=494
1930 - Fixed issue decoding messages for incoming mail.
1931 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2289
1932 - Fixed issue with datastore list properties containing both blob (or text)
1933 and non-blob values.
1934 - Admin console includes more information about indexes being built.
1935 - Fixed Users API usage with remote_api
1936 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1205
1937 - Fixed issue with IN queries in remote_api
1938 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1986
1939 - Bulk Loader --dump and --restore now work across app IDs.
1940 - Bulk Loader --restore works with numeric IDs.
1941 - Bulk Loader exporter maps __key__ property to the entity key.
1942 - Fixed issue in Bulk Loader with missing properties on export.
1943 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2068
1944 - Fixed issue in Bulk Loader with line breaks in data.
1945 - Fixed exception in Bulk Loader with certain data ranges.
1946 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2085
1947 - Added SERVER_SOFTWARE environment variable to runtime.
1948 - Over Quota HTTP status code changed from 403 to 503
1949 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=961
1950 - Task Queue now considers all HTTP 2xx status codes to represent success
1951 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1779
1952 - Task Queue now supports purging all tasks in a queue from the Admin Console.
1953 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2159
1954 - Task Queue now supports deleting a non-empty queue from the Admin Console.
1955 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1740
1956 - New "auth_fail_action: unauthorized" option in app.yaml: when present, a
1957 401 status code will be returned instead of a 302 redirect to the Google
1958 Accounts login page for pages with login: required. [Python only for now]
1961 Version 1.2.7 - October 14, 2009
1962 ================================
1963 - Changed the 'key' parameter to Model.__init__ to be keyword only.
1964 - Fixed taskqueue import in Remote API.
1965 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2259
1968 Version 1.2.6 - September 17, 2009
1969 ==================================
1970 - Added incoming email support.
1971 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=165
1972 - Remote API now supports XMPP and task queues.
1973 - The default for all handlers is now secure: optional. Users can
1974 now access all pages via SSL unless explicitly disallowed.
1975 - Remote API now supports HTTPS.
1976 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1461
1977 - Appcfg now uses https by default.
1978 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=794
1979 - Appcfg.py now supports the --application and --version flags to
1980 override the values specified in app.yaml.
1981 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=670
1982 - GQL now supports '= NULL' queries.
1983 - The db.Model constructor now supports explicitly setting a key
1984 (and thus an id) for a Model instance.
1985 - New Datastore stats api. Stats are also visible in the admin console.
1986 - Bulkloader dump and restore now supports restoring to a different
1987 app id and restoring numeric keys.
1990 Version 1.2.5 - August 13, 2009
1991 ===============================
1992 - The Windows Python SDK now includes a GUI launcher, similar to the Mac SDK.
1993 - Added XMPP support.
1994 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/xmpp
1995 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=231
1996 - Datastore now supports multiple writes to the same entity within a
1998 - Datastore entity key names can now start with a digit.
1999 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1352
2000 - Datastore now supports ancestor + kind queries without a composite index
2001 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1003
2002 - Bulkloader now supports configurationless dump and restore with new
2003 --dump and --restore options.
2004 - Bulkloader now supports a --dry_run flag to testing data prior to uploading.
2005 - Appcfg.py now allows specifying any end date for request_logs.
2006 - Urlfetch now allows setting the Referer header.
2007 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=445
2008 - Urlfetch stub now correctly handles HEAD requests.
2009 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=866
2010 - New remote_api_shell tool for interactive remote_api operations.
2011 - New google.ext.ereporter module to collect and email exception reports.
2012 - New google.ext.deferred module to execute ad-hoc tasks on the Task Queue.
2014 Version 1.2.4 - July 16, 2009
2015 =============================
2016 - Added support for kindless queries, ie. transaction descendant queries.
2017 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=913
2018 - Composite indexes no longer required for certain types of key queries.
2019 - Improved exception reporting in the bulkloader.
2020 - Datastore transaction RPC sent at beginning of transaction rather than
2021 upon first Datastore request.
2022 - PolyModel supports keys_only query.
2023 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1630
2024 - Remote API supports more API's (Images, Memcache and URLFetch).
2025 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1596
2027 - Support for multiple inheritance for Model and PolyModel.
2028 - Enhancement to SearchableModel allowing multiple properties to be
2030 - Various code quality improvements.
2032 Version 1.2.3 - June 1, 2009
2033 ============================
2035 - Task Queue support available as google.appengine.api.labs.taskqueue.
2036 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/taskqueue
2037 - Django 1.0 support. You must install Django locally on your machine
2038 for the SDK but no longer need to upload it to App Engine.
2039 from google.appengine.dist import use_library
2040 use_library('django', '1.0')
2041 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=872
2042 - Urlfetch supports asynchronous requests.
2043 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=958
2044 - Urlfetch in SDK now matches App Engine more closely:
2045 By default, it now sets the referer header, does not set the Accept
2046 header, and sets Accept-Encoding to gzip.
2047 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=970
2048 - Fixed issue with httplib and absolute URLs.
2049 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1311
2050 - Memcache key length is no longer restricted to 250 bytes: longer keys
2051 will be replaced with a hash of the key.
2052 - Datastore ancestor queries now work within transactions.
2053 - Datastore transactions in SDK now snapshot on the first operation so they
2054 do not see writes made during the transaction. Matches App Engine.
2056 Version 1.2.2 - April 22, 2009
2057 ==============================
2059 - New quota API which returns the CPU usage of the current request.
2060 from google.appengine.api import quota
2061 cpu_usage_so_far = quota.get_request_cpu_usage()
2062 - Urlfetch fetch now has support for user configurable deadlines.
2063 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=79
2064 - Urlfetch in the SDK allows the Accept-Encoding header to match App Engine.
2065 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1071
2066 - urllib now supports HTTPS in addition to HTTP
2067 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1156
2068 - Datastore indexes on single properties can now be disabled by setting
2069 indexed=False on the property constructor.
2070 - Datastore now supports Key-only queries, using either SELECT __key__ or
2071 or db.Query(Model, keys_only=True)
2072 - Fixed issues with Datastore IN filters and sorting: sort order is now
2073 correct, and can be used with __key__.
2074 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1100
2075 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1016
2076 - Cron supports additional time specification formats.
2077 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1261
2078 - Fixed an issue in the dev_appserver admin console datastore viewer
2079 (/_ah/admin/datastore) with sorting columns containing None types.
2080 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1007
2081 - Bulk Loader improvements: New appcfg download_data command.
2082 Better backoff support and debugging output for long requests.
2083 - New --vhost flag on appcfg.py request_logs command to select logs for
2085 - Python _ast module is now available for import
2086 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=779
2087 - Fixed issue with the color argument of the Images API composite method.
2089 Version 1.2.1 - April 13, 2009
2090 =============================
2092 - Stable, unique IDs for User objects. The Users service now
2093 provides a unique user_id for each user that stays the same even
2094 if a user changes her email address.
2095 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1019
2096 - The Images API now supports compositing images and calculating
2097 a color histogram for an image.
2098 - New allowed mail attachment types: ics, vcf
2099 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=494
2100 - Urlfetch requests can now set the User-Agent header.
2101 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=342
2102 - An App Engine-specific version of the Python PyCrypto cryptography
2103 library is now available. Learn more at
2104 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/tools/libraries.html
2105 - The bulk loader configuration format has changed.to allow non-CSV
2106 input. This change is not backwards compatible, so you will need to
2108 An early release of the bulk downloader is also now available in
2109 bulkloader.py. Learn more about these changes at:
2110 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/tools/uploadingdata.html
2111 - Fixed parsing of unicode GQL queries.
2112 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1105
2113 - Fixed dev_appserver security restrictions for os.path
2114 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1068
2115 - Fixed Reply-To header set in emails sent from dev_appserver.
2116 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1017
2119 Version 1.2.0 - March 24, 2009
2120 ==============================
2121 - Cron support. Appcfg.py will upload the schedule to App Engine.
2122 The dev_appserver console at /_ah/admin describes your schedule but does
2123 not automatically run scheduled jobs. Learn more at
2124 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/config/cron.html
2125 - New allow_skipped_files flag in dev_appserver to allow it to read files
2126 which are not available in App Engine.
2127 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=550
2128 - New upload_data command in appcfg to run the bulk uploader.
2129 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/tools/uploadingdata.html
2131 Version 1.1.9 - February 2, 2009
2132 ================================
2134 - HTTP Request and Response limit raised to 10MB from 1MB.
2135 Note that API call limits remain at 1MB.
2136 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=78
2137 - urllib and urllib2 now available, implemented using urlfetch.
2138 Also adds additional stubs which may enable other modules.
2139 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=61
2140 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=68
2141 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=572
2142 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=821
2143 - Early release of a new data bulk upload tool, bulkloader.py
2144 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/tools/uploadingdata.html
2145 - New remote_api for datastore at google.appengine.ext.remote_api
2146 - Single property descending indexes are automatically generated.
2147 - Added db.Query support for IN and != operators.
2148 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=751
2149 - Fixed issue where gql date/time parsing could not handle Unicode strings.
2150 - Fixed issue with db model instance key() returning the wrong key for
2151 unsaved instances with parent as key
2152 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=883
2153 - New run_in_transaction_custom_retries method for datastore.
2154 - Fixed issue with relative dev_appserver datastore and history paths.
2155 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=845
2156 - Static files and skipped files are not readable in dev_appserver, to match
2157 the behavior on App Engine.
2158 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=550
2159 - Images API allows multiple transforms of the same type in one request. A
2160 limit of 10 total transforms per request has been added.
2161 - PIL import will work with both PIL.Image and Image.
2162 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=929
2163 - Fixed an issue with sending email in dev_appserver when the application
2165 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=182
2166 - Memcache counters (incr/decr) do nothing on non positive integers to match
2167 the behavior on App Engine.
2168 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=918
2170 Version 1.1.8 - January 7, 2008
2171 =================================
2172 - Skip_files RegexStr validator allows lists to for regex-ors.
2173 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=81
2174 - sys.path and sys.argv are no longer reset for each request.
2175 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=772
2176 - New ByteString data type for the datastore. Indexed non-text short-blob.
2177 - UserProperty now takes auto_current_user and auto_current_user_add
2179 - Support for polymorphic models and queries.
2180 - db.Model.order() now supports __key__.
2181 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=884
2182 - Urlfetch no longer sets content-length: 0 when there is no body.
2183 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=817
2184 - Get height and width of an image via the Images API.
2185 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=435
2186 - Limit auto-Bcc of email sender to the case where the email sender is the
2187 currently-logged-in user.
2188 - Adds limit of 100 order/filters on datastore query size to the SDK.
2189 - Fix unicode support for the bulkloader
2190 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=157
2191 - Bulkload.py from the appengine/tools directory to the appengine/ directory
2192 - Modify webapp to use logging.exception instead of logging.error.
2193 - Additional fixes to SDK sanitizing response headers to match production.
2194 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=198
2196 Version 1.1.7 - November 20, 2008
2197 =================================
2198 - Fixed an issue with urlfetch response headers.
2199 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=877
2201 Version 1.1.6 - November 17, 2008
2202 =================================
2204 - Datastore now supports filtering and sorting on the __key__ special
2205 property, which evaluates to each entity's key.
2206 - Fixed a bug where it was possible to append None to ListProperty.
2207 - Datastore appengine.ext.db models allow deletion by key without
2208 instantiating a model instance.
2209 - Datastore models allow access to key name before put() if key_name given.
2210 - Datastore fetch max results and max query offset match production limits.
2211 - Fixed an issue in production where query fails with NeedIndexError when
2212 a model has two ancestor indexes.
2213 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=423
2214 - Allow trailing whitespace in PropertyValueFromString for datetime.
2215 - Fixed to_xml on models with binary data in a BlobProperty: they now
2217 Note: This changes XML serialization.
2218 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=430
2219 - Fixed an issue with setting expando attributes.
2220 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=431
2221 - Fixed an issue where TypeError was raised instead of NeedIndexError for
2222 "merge join" queries, i.e. queries with only equals filters and no ancestor
2223 or sort orders, that still need an index.
2224 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=749
2225 - URLFetch in the SDK now has the same 5 second timeout to match production.
2226 - URLFetch response headers are combined
2227 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=412
2228 - URLFetch now uses original method when following a redirect.
2229 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=363
2230 - URLFetch logs a warning when using a non standard port.
2231 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=436
2232 - URLFetch allows integers as values in request headers.
2233 - Enforce response size and API request size limits to match production.
2234 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=447
2235 - SDK sanitizes response headers to match production
2236 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=198
2237 - Login URLs now require login in the SDK to match production.
2238 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=53
2239 - Fixed an issue with long URLs in HTTP 302 redirect responses.
2240 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=407
2241 - Fixed an issue with regular expressions in static_files in app.yaml
2242 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=711
2243 - SDK only allows "C" locale to match production.
2244 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=356
2245 - Support the bufsize positional arg in open()/file().
2246 - lstat is aliased to stat.
2247 - appcfg handles index building errors more gracefully.
2248 - Fixed an issue with symlinks in the path to the Python core libraries.
2251 Version 1.1.5 - September 29, 2008
2252 ==================================
2254 - Additional fixes for file paths on Windows and OSX.
2255 - Sped up the datastore stub.
2256 - Allow different types in list properties in datastore.Entity and Expando.
2257 - Add add_multi and replace_multi to memcache API.
2258 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/memcache/clientclass.html#Client_add_multi
2259 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/memcache/clientclass.html#Client_replace_multi
2260 - Ignore errors from the API proxy when calling memcache read methods.
2261 - Set the webapp Request charset property more accurately from CONTENT_TYPE.
2262 - Fixed an issue in the development console with schema caching.
2263 - Fixed an issue with StringListProperty not returning a class
2264 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=415
2265 - Fixed an issue in the development console where quotes couldn't be used
2267 - Fixed an issue with TimeProperty("0:0") (midnight).
2268 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=279
2270 Version 1.1.4 - September 26, 2008
2271 ==================================
2273 - Fixed issue with incorrectly escaping static_files paths on Windows.
2274 - Workaround -inf not being supported on Windows in Datastore.
2276 Version 1.1.3 - September 8, 2008
2277 =================================
2279 - Added support for zipimport.
2280 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=70
2281 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=161
2282 - Added zipserve module for serving static content from a zip file.
2283 See google/appengine/ext/zipserve/__init__.py for more information.
2284 - Added a memcache viewer to the development console.
2285 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/thedevwebserver.html#The_Development_Console
2286 - Added new follow_redirects flag to the URLFetch service.
2287 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=404
2288 - Fixed caching headers for static content.
2289 - Fixed an issue with incorrectly escaping paths on Windows.
2290 - Fixed an issue with the current directory while running applications.
2292 Version 1.1.2 - August 20, 2008
2293 ===============================
2295 - Batch puts across Datastore entity groups.
2296 - Transaction retries reduced from 10 to 3.
2297 - Fixed certain transaction failures being silent.
2298 - Added support for indexes with a single repeated property.
2300 Version 1.1.1 - July 21, 2008
2301 =============================
2303 - Fixed DELETE for URLFetch on dev_appserver.
2304 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=566
2305 - Fixed PATH_INFO to be un-escaped version of the path.
2306 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=267
2307 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=457
2308 - Fixed order function testing for property on Expando class.
2309 - Support all mail attachment mime-types under Windows.
2310 - Added support for date and time objects to GQL.
2311 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=318
2312 - Fixed memcache KeyError problem.
2313 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=417
2314 - Default URLFetch POST content-type is x-www-form-urlencoded.
2315 - Fixed problems where global variables would be set to None
2316 when a request raised an exception or returned an error
2318 - Added support for GIFs and JPEG using PIL.
2319 - Added support for type conversion of literals to GQL.
2320 - Added support for pickling Expando instances.
2321 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=545
2322 - Added APPLICATION_ID environment variable to runtime.
2323 - Added support for key_name to djangoforms.
2324 - Added ability to put multiple transaction groups in one request
2325 outside of transactions.
2326 - Added support for downloading request logs using appcfg.
2327 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=76
2328 - Fixed DateProperty not supporting values before 1970 and beyond
2330 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=352
2331 - Set cap of 5000 indexed properties per entity.
2332 - GoogleAppEngineLauncher now has context menus in the main project
2334 - UI improvements to GoogleAppEngineLauncher preferences window.
2335 - Fixed GoogleAppEngineLauncher broken symlink for bulk_uploadclient.
2337 Version 1.1.0 - May 28, 2008
2338 ============================
2340 - Added an API for image manipulation.
2341 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=38
2342 - Added memcache API.
2343 - Fixed URLFetch for URLs with query strings.
2344 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=341
2345 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=346
2346 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=369
2347 - Added support for multiple values for the same filter string.
2348 - Fixed URLFetch's referrer to now set itself to the application's
2350 - Added --show_mail_body flag to dev_appserver.py.
2351 - Added support for IN and != to GQL.
2352 - Fixed URLFetch to accept strings as well as constant integers.
2353 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=234
2354 - Added CURRENT_VERSION_ID environment variable.
2355 - Fixed uploading issues affecting @googlemail.com developers.
2356 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=119
2357 - Fixed Datastore API to allow the assignment of [] to non-dynamic
2359 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=276
2360 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=254
2361 - Fixed NeedIndexError to include the index that the query needed.
2363 Version 1.0.2 - May 15, 2008
2364 ============================
2366 - Fixed UTC timezone issue on Windows.
2367 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=131
2368 - Fixed webapp template cache bug.
2369 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=273
2370 - URLFetch service redirect behavior now matches deployed behavior.
2371 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=84
2372 - Better handling of bad HOMEDRIVE parameters on Windows.
2373 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=27
2374 - Fixed HTTP response header termination.
2375 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=209
2376 - Fixed behavior with source files that have Windows line-endings or
2377 missing line-endings.
2378 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=237
2379 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=258
2380 - Fixed C-Extension module loading issues.
2381 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=95
2382 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=83
2383 - Fixed Windows DLL extension loading issues.
2384 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=222
2385 - Added missing os.uname function.
2386 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=186
2387 - Windows installer can now over-install.
2388 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=241
2389 - Windows installer now allows installation even if it can't find Python.
2390 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5
2391 - Fixed skip_files exception.
2392 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=80
2393 - Better error handling for cookie-file related problems.
2394 - User platform, SDK version, and Python version are now supplied to
2395 server-side on deployment; also supplied on dev_appserver start-up
2396 if the "nag" is enabled.
2399 Version 1.0.1 - April 14, 2008
2400 ==============================
2402 - Fixed app.yaml static_dir attribute on Windows.
2403 - Fixed uploading large files on OSX.
2404 - Fixed recursion issue in webapp template rendering cache.
2405 - Fixed MacPorts installation.