1 Copyright 2013 Google Inc.
4 App Engine SDK - Release Notes
9 ==============================
10 - Asynchronous calls are now supported in the Search API.
13 ==============================
14 - Fixed an issue that causes script routing errors in the dev_appserver when
15 the url regular expression uses subgroups that include a leading slash.
16 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=11134
21 ==============================
22 - TLS is now supported and enabled by default in the dev_appserver.
23 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=497
24 - Fixed an issue with the Datastore Admin failing to load due to a
25 DeadlineExceededError when retrieving kinds.
26 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=11145
29 =============================
30 - Fixed an issue where form fields submitted with Google Cloud Storage upload
31 may not get encoded correctly.
32 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9534
37 =============================
38 - Fixed an issue with Datastore Admin not properly restoring backups if writes
40 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=11090
43 =============================
44 - Fixed an issue with NDB repeated, nested structures growing exponentially
46 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=11082
49 =============================
50 - PHP is now updated to 5.4.30.
55 ==============================
56 - Added memcache historical hit ratio to Admin Console dashboard.
57 - Fixed an issue with sockets connections timing out after 2 minutes.
58 - Fixed an issue with appcfg request_logs not working.
59 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10886
62 ==============================
63 - Fixed an issue with the dev_appserver remove_ignored_dirs not working.
66 ==============================
67 - Fixed an issue with the dev_appserver directory separator for DOCUMENT_ROOT,
68 SCRIPT_FILENAME, SCRIPT_NAME, and PHP_SELF not working on Windows.
69 - Fixed an issue with decrement not working in Memcache and Memcached.
70 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10964
75 ==============================
76 - Django 1.5.4 has been upgraded to 1.5.8.
77 - Django 1.4.3 has been upgraded to 1.4.13.
78 - Fixed an issue with taskqueue_stub.py _Group.GetQueuesAsDict() raising
79 TypeError intermittently.
80 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10131
85 ==============================
86 - STARTTLS support for the dev_appserver is now available.
87 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=497
88 - Fixed an issue with the Search API where searching for geo points whose
89 distance from a fixed point is greater than some value returns documents that
90 do not include that field.
91 - Fixed an issue with the Search API where querying for a field that does not
92 exist returns an error instead of returning zero matches on that field.
93 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10407
96 ==============================
97 - Fixed an issue where certain legal Cloud Storage bucket names fail to
99 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10745
104 ==============================
105 - Fixed an issue with the Search API where it does not correctly parse
106 expressions that use the subtraction operator without surrounding
108 - Fixed an issue with the devappserver Search API allowing searches for a field
109 with a negated value.
110 - Fixed an issue with the devappserver Search API not handling searches for
111 empty quotes the same way as production.
112 - Fixed an issue with the devappserver Search API not matching documents with
113 atom fields the same way as production.
114 - Fixed an issue with the devappserver Search API allowing expressions that
115 use the snippet operator over a numeric field.
116 - Fixed an issue with the devappserver Search API allowing sorting expressions
117 to use the snippet operator.
118 - Fixed an issue with the devappserver Search API not validating that cursors
119 are from a previous search.
120 - Fixed an issue with the devappserver Search API not parsing queries that use
121 the fuzzy search operator (~).
122 - Fixed an issue with the devappserver Search API not validating the default
123 value for sorting expressions on date fields.
124 - Fixed an issue with the devappserver memcache viewer not displaying items
125 with non-ASCII characters properly.
126 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9459
127 - Fixed an issue with the devappserver allowing arbitrarily large file uploads
128 using HTTP POST requests. It now matches production limits of 32MB.
129 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10384
130 - Fixed an issue with NDB deserialization looping infinitely when nested value
132 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10758
135 ==============================
136 - Fixed an issue with libcurl giving a load error for Mac OS X Snow Leopard
138 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10405
139 - Fixed an issue with making simultaneous mysqli connections to the same
140 CloudSQL instance causing the request to time out.
145 ==============================
146 - Fixed an issue with NDB deserialization going into an infinite loop when
147 repeated nested structured properties are None.
148 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10758
151 ==============================
152 - Fixed an issue with the fnmatch() function not being supported in production.
153 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10723
158 ==============================
159 - We are pleased to announce the availability of Dedicated Memcache service
160 to our customers in the EU.
163 ==============================
164 - Users now have the ability to embed images in emails via the Content-Id
166 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=965
167 - The Zip module is now included in the SDK.
168 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10703
169 - Fixed an issue with the Google Cloud Storage upload proxy truncating POST
170 field data when it is longer than 80 characters.
171 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10355
172 - Fixed an issue with default max sized uploads no longer handling unlimited
174 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10727
179 ==============================
180 - The Performance Settings section of the Application settings page in the
181 Admin Console, Backends API and all backends related management tools are now
182 deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Users of Backends are
183 recommended to migrate to the App Engine Modules API, which provides a more
184 flexible implementation of the same functionality. These settings are now all
185 configurable via Modules configuration files.
186 See the Modules documentation for more information:
187 https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/modules/
188 #Python_Configuration
191 ==============================
192 - Fixed an issue with ZendFramework causing App Engine project to crash when
194 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9553
195 - Fixed an issue with URLFetch not sending strings with null characters
197 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10477
198 - Fixed an issue with uploading files to a Google Cloud Storage failing
200 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10634
205 ==============================
206 - Modules Service API and application management features are now GA.
207 - New App Engine Application Identifiers must now start with a letter,
208 in addition to the existing requirements that the identifier be 6-30
209 characters which are letters, numbers, and hyphens, and not start or end with
213 ==============================
214 - The size limit on the Search API is now computed and enforced on a per-index
215 basis, rather than for the app as a whole. The per-index limit is now 10GB.
216 There is no fixed limit on the number of indexes, or on the total amount of
217 Search API storage an application may use.
218 - Newly created App Engine applications now have a Google Cloud Storage bucket
219 created automatically as part of the same Google Cloud Project. For more
220 information please see:
221 https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/
222 googlecloudstorageclient/activate#Using_the_default_Gcs_bucket
223 - Users now have the ability to embed images in emails via the Content-Id
225 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=965
226 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10503
227 - Removed deprecated modules.py methods start_module, start_module_async,
228 stop_module, stop_module_async get_modules_async, get_versions_async,
229 get_default_version_async, get_num_instances_async, and get_hostname_async.
230 - Fixed an issue with NDB backup/restore corrupting certain compressed
232 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8599
235 ==============================
236 - The PHP interpreter has been upgraded from PHP 5.4.19 to PHP 5.4.22.
237 - Autoloading is now available in the SDK so developers will no longer need to
238 explicitly require SDK files.
239 - Expanded php.ini setting google_appengine.allow_include_gs_buckets to allow
240 a path filter to be included for improved security.
241 - Newly created App Engine applications now have a Google Cloud Storage bucket
242 created automatically as part of the same Google Cloud Project. For more
243 information please see:
244 https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/php/googlestorage/
246 - An "E_USER_WARNING" warning message is now triggered if an application moves
247 a user uploaded file to a Google Cloud Storage bucket/path. This is due to
248 the fact that code may be included and lead to a local file inclusion
250 - Added API functions CloudStorageTools::getMetadata() and
251 CloudStorageTools::getContentType() for retrieving the metadata and content
252 type of Google Cloud Storage objects.
253 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10182
254 - Fixed an issue with empty Google Cloud Storage folders not displaying
255 correctly in the Developers Console. New folders are now created using the
256 "/" suffix instead of "_$folder_" so that they are displayed correctly.
257 - Fixed an issue with PHP_SELF and SCRIPT_NAME not being implemented correctly.
258 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9989
259 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10478
264 ==============================
265 - Renamed appcfg start to appcfg start_module_version and stop to
267 - Fixed an issue with ID allocation collisions in the Datastore.
268 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10134
269 - Fixed an issue with Cloud Storage calls failing in the dev_appserver.
270 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10181
271 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10185
272 - Fixed an issue with the dev_appserver not starting on Windows when using
273 versions of Python earlier than 2.7.2.
274 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10363
277 ==============================
278 - Deprecated start_module, start_module_async, stop_module, stop_module_async
279 get_modules_async, get_versions_async, get_default_version_async,
280 get_num_instances_async, get_hostname_async and added start_version,
281 start_version_async, stop_version, stop_version_async as replacements in the
283 - Added verbose_name support for ComputedProperty in NDB.
284 https://code.google.com/p/appengine-ndb-experiment/issues/detail?id=239
285 - Fixed an issue with deffered.defer not waiting for async operations.
286 https://code.google.com/p/appengine-ndb-experiment/issues/detail?id=238
287 - Fixed an issue with LocalStructureProperty not handling None value in NDB.
288 https://code.google.com/p/appengine-ndb-experiment/issues/detail?id=233
289 - Fixed an issue NDB not working with sqlite.
290 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8381
291 - Fixed an issue with debug not working with PyDev in 1.8.8.
292 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10390
293 - Fixed an issue with object properties not being retrieved in NDB.
294 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10467
297 =============================
298 - Renamed startModule, stopModule to startVersion, stopVersion in the Modules
300 - Added support for the ftp extension.
301 - Added support for the zip extension.
302 - Added support for the gethostname() function.
303 - A proper "billing required" message is now given when users attempt to use
304 Sockets API on free apps.
305 - Fixed an issue with header keys and values having whitespaces preventing
306 responses from being compressed.
307 - Fixed an issue with content-type and metadata not being updated when renaming
308 Google Cloud Storage objects.
309 - Fixed an issue with Cloud Storage rename requests failing when an object has
315 ==============================
316 - Dedicated Memcache is now a GA feature. Our deprecation policy applies and
317 customers are encouraged to use this feature in production.
318 - Memcache API calls are tracked by a new metric that estimates resource usage,
319 Memcache Compute Units (MCU's). There is a new quota bucket and
320 dashboard graph corresponding to the metric, as well as an option in the
321 memcache viewer to display top keys by MCU's.
322 - The dev_appserver logs.db format is not backward compatible with 1.8.7.
323 Users that revert to the 1.8.7 dev_appserver after trying 1.8.8 must delete
324 this file. Unless specifically named by the user in the command line, the
325 file is found at /tmp/<app-id>/logs.db. The error seen if this file is not
326 removed is: 'IntegrityError: RequestLogs.module may not be NULL'
327 - Added /_ah/gcs endpoint on the dev_appserver for local emulation of Google
328 Cloud Storage services.
329 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10178
330 - Fixed an issue with users receiving errors when uploading large files to GCS.
331 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10101
332 - Fixed an issue with cloning apps not creating proper service account names.
333 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10235
336 ==============================
337 - Fixed an issue with the dev_appserver app id validation for UTF-8
338 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10116
341 ==============================
342 - The Sockets API is now available for Billing Enabled Applications.
343 - PHP String has been added as a key type in the Admin Console Memcache viewer.
344 - Added CloudStorageTools::getPublicUrl() method for constructing URLs for
345 Google Cloud Storage objects.
346 - Opening GCS objects in text mode is now supported.
347 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10177
348 - A false error is now returned if stream_cast is called on a GCS stream.
349 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10202
354 ==============================
355 - Cloud Endpoints is now a GA feature.
356 - Memcache configuration changes and mutations (flush, set, etc.) made from the
357 Admin Console are now recorded in the admin console logs.
358 - The max_concurrent_requests setting is now configurable per version/module.
359 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7927
360 - Fixed an issue with Datastore not correctly validating namespaces with
361 greater than 500 characters.
364 ==============================
365 - Fixed an issue with NDB not returning the same instance for async gets
367 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9976
370 ==============================
371 - Added support for the mcrypt PHP extension to the PHP interpreter included
372 with the Mac OSX SDK.
373 - Added support for the zlib extension library to the PHP interpreter included
374 with the Mac OSX SDK.
375 - Added support for the PHP gd extension to the PHP interpreter included with
377 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10156
378 - Fixed an issue where blank multipart form values are uploaded incorrectly
379 into Google Cloud Storage.
380 - Fixed an issue where PHP applications could not be run locally using the
381 Mac OS X launcher on Mac OS X Lion and earlier.
382 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10135
387 ==============================
388 - A memcache size chart has been added to admin console's dashboard. Access it
389 via the drop-down above the graph. The chart graphs memcache size over time
390 enabling customers to determine when cache flush events occurred. This is a
392 - Fixed an issue with the dev_appserver that allows an invalid Datastore query
393 combination of group by and filter properties.
394 - Fixed an issue with the bulkloader that causes uploads to the dev_appserver
396 - Fixed an issue affecting validation of the size of Datastore property names.
397 - Fixed an issue with Datastore query validation for strings with exactly 500
399 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=10019
402 ==============================
403 - Django 1.5.4 is now available in the Runtime. This is a Preview feature.
404 - app_identity.get_access_token in the App Identity API is now a GA feature.
405 - Geo is now a supported field type in the Search API for the dev_appserver.
406 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7486
409 ==============================
410 - php://memory and php://temp I/O streams are now supported.
415 ==============================
416 - The Search API is now a GA feature.
417 - Fixed an issue with the dev_appserver Datastore where UTF-8 validation did
418 not occur on string values.
419 - Fixed an issue with the Admin Console Datastore Viewer throwing errors when
420 fetching UTF-8 kinds.
421 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7570
422 - Fixed an issue with the Datastore Admin not being able to backup to another
424 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9808
425 - Fixed an issue where files that contain an '@' could not be deployed.
426 https://code.google.com/a/google.com/p/google-appengine-php-trusted-tester
430 ==============================
431 - Developers can now use pdb when debugging python applications in the
433 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9012
434 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9027
437 ==============================
438 - Modules are now supported for the PHP Runtime.
439 - The Log Service API is now available.
440 - The PHP interpreter has been upgraded from PHP 5.4.17 to PHP 5.4.19.
441 - The /e modifier for mb_ereg_replace has been disabled.
442 - The PHP interpreter has been switched to the JSON-C library.
443 - The Mac OSX SDK now includes a PHP interpreter, installing PHP separately is
445 - The Windows SDK now includes a PHP interpreter, installing PHP separately is
451 ==============================
452 - A Datastore Admin fix in this release improves security by ensuring that
453 scheduled backups can now only be started by a cron or task queue task.
454 Administrators can still start a backup by going to the Datastore Admin
455 in the Admin Console.
458 ==============================
459 - Better support is now provided for the _$folder$ magic cloud storage keyword,
460 and the implementation of basic mkdir()/rmdir() functionality via GCS
462 - This release adds the wrappers @transactional_async and @transactonal_tasklet
463 to correct (a) @transactional @tasklet being synchronous despite the
464 decorator, and (b) @tasklet @transactional not running the generator in a
466 https://code.google.com/p/appengine-ndb-experiment/issues/detail?id=195
467 - Fixed a unicode issue associated with expressions in the Search API. A search
468 with snippeted fields was failing on documents containing unicode characters.
469 - Fixed an issue with the dev_appserver not auto-detecting the lib/ directory
471 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8459
472 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9847
473 - Fixed an issue where Blobstore usage was being charged even though the
474 actual data was being stored in Cloud Storage. All affected developers have
475 been informed and reimbursements are underway.
476 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9659
477 - Fixed an issue that ensures all .py files in google.appengine.api that are
478 available in the SDK are also available in the runtime.
479 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9755
480 - Fixed an issue of warning messages being displayed when running appcfg
481 update (eg. appcfg.py update . --oauth2) from the 1.8.3 Python SDK. The
482 appengine_rpc_httplib2 will work without warnings regardless of which
483 oauth2client library is being used.
484 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9807
488 ==============================
489 - The PHP interpreter was upgraded from PHP 5.4.8 to PHP 5.4.17.
490 - The is_writable() method now supports Google Cloud Storage files and buckets.
491 - You no longer need to specify the PHP runtime on the command line when
492 deploying applications via appcfg.py
493 - Backends are disabled for PHP and are no longer supported with the PHP
495 - Upload of PHP apps now ignores any pre-compilation errors. This allows
496 precompilation to be disabled on a per-runtime basis, and defaults to
498 - Fixed an issue where SYSTEMROOT was not passed to the environment checking
499 script thereby not recognizing the PHP intepreter for Windows in the SDK.
500 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9382
505 ===============================
506 - Published a major rewrite of the Search API documentation. Please see:
507 https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/search/
508 - Interfacing into the Task Queue REST API no longer requires including "s~"
509 at the beginning of the project name.
510 - Fixed an issue with the Mail API, email addresses that contain encoded
511 newlines as specified in rfc2047 are now parsed correctly.
512 - Fixed an issue with channels.send_message failing when a client id has 3 or
514 - Fixed an issue with ndb.non_transactional correctly restoring the db
515 library's transactional state.
516 https://code.google.com/p/appengine-ndb-experiment/issues/detail?id=232
517 - Fixed an issue with NDB raising the correct exception when the rollback
518 itself has an exception.
519 https://code.google.com/p/appengine-ndb-experiment/issues/detail?id=234
520 - The NDB model property settings 'default' and 'required' are no longer
522 https://code.google.com/p/appengine-ndb-experiment/issues/detail?id=236
523 - Fixed an issue with debugger/breakpoint not working on the dev_appserver.
524 http://code.google.com/p/appengine-devappserver2-experiment/issues/detail?
526 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9012
527 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9027
528 - Fixed an issue with NDB queries supporting iterate over distinct queries.
529 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9591
530 - Fixed an issue with enabling cloud integration for existing apps.
531 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9602
532 - Fixed an issue with users not being able to view the cron jobs page in the
534 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9665
535 - Fixed an issue with the Channel API send_message function not working on the
537 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9675
538 - Fixed an issue with Modules get_current_module_name() incorrectly reporting
539 as default when it is not.
540 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9687
541 - Fixed an issue with the Datastore Admin UI failing to load due to the app
542 having too many kinds.
543 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9749
544 - Fixed an issue with the Channel API Testbed not working correctly after
545 upgrading to SDK 1.8.2
546 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9757
549 ===============================
550 - Users who are whitelisted to use PHP are now able to deploy PHP to any of
552 - There is now better support for stat() related functions for Google Cloud
554 - Added a read through cache to the GCS client to improve performance. This
555 allows for optimistic caching for write-once, read-many applications and
556 performs on-write invalidation.
557 - Environment variables that are set in app.yaml are now available in the PHP
559 - You can now pass an array of metadata as part of the Google Cloud Storage
561 - Apps can now use opendir()/readdir()/rewinddir()/closedir() on Google Cloud
563 - The PHP Task Queue API now supports adding tasks in bulk via the addTasks()
564 method on the new PushQueue class.
565 - The PHP Task Queue API now supports setting headers on the PushTask class.
566 - Interfacing into the Task Queue REST API no longer requires including "s~"
567 at the beginning of the project name.
568 - Fixed an issue with the Mail API, email addresses that contain encoded
569 newlines as specified in rfc2047 are now parsed correctly.
570 - Fixed an issue with enabling cloud integration for existing apps.
571 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9602
576 ===============================
577 - Dedicated memcache is now available to all developers. With
578 dedicated memcache you can purchase in-memory data caching capacity
579 exclusively for your application, cache more data and drive up cache hit
580 rates. This is a Preview feature. For more information please see:
581 https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/adminconsole/memcache
582 - App Engine Modules is now available to all developers. App Engine Modules
583 allow developers to segment their applications into logical subcomponents.
584 This is a Preview feature. More information on this feature can be found
586 https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/modules/
587 - Push-to-Deploy is now available to all developers. This Preview feature makes
588 it even easier to deploy Python apps.
589 - The Python Interpreter has been upgraded to 2.7.5.
590 - lxml 2.3.5 is now available.
591 - Fixed an issue with the Datastore bulkloader syntax when using the Python 2.5
593 - Fixed an issue with the Channel API's Javascript library; a memory leak
594 occurred when closing channels.
595 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9283
596 - Fixed an issue with App Engine receiving erroneous XMPP presence from
598 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9498
601 ===============================
602 - Dedicated memcache is now available to all developers. With
603 dedicated memcache you can purchase in-memory data caching capacity
604 exclusively for your application, cache more data and drive up cache hit
605 rates. This is a Preview feature. For more information please see:
606 https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/adminconsole/memcache
607 - Push-to-Deploy is now available to all developers. This Preview feature makes
608 it even easier to deploy PHP apps.
609 - appcfg.py no longer requires the -R parameter to deploy PHP applications.
610 - The function libxml_disable_entity_loader() is now disabled by default for
611 security reasons. It can be re-enabled if necessary using the
612 google_app_engine.enable_functions directive in the php.ini file.
613 - Added support for the move_uploaded_file() and rename() methods on files
614 stored on Google Cloud Storage.
615 - Fixed an issue with the dev_appserver on Windows where the PHP interpreter
616 was not passed a required environment variable.
617 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9382
618 - Fixed an issue with the URL Fetch timeout option being ignored.
619 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9460
624 ===============================
625 - The Task Queue async API is now a GA feature. The asynchronous methods
626 improve utilization by allowing your app to add, lease and delete multiple
628 - Cloud Console projects are now created by default whenever a new App Engine
629 app is created. This is a Preview feature.
630 - In an upcoming release the Experimental Google Cloud Storage API Functions
631 will be decommissioned. This API and its Experimental status is documented at
633 https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/googlestorage/functions
634 - The Google Cloud Storage library will replace Google Cloud Storage API and is
635 now available as a Preview feature. More information can be found at
636 https://code.google.com/p/appengine-gcs-client/
637 - Bandwidth between App Engine and Google Cloud Storage is currently free of
638 charge (this may change in the future for certain levels of service).
639 - The Search API has graduated from Experimental to Preview. Apps that have
640 billing enabled can exceed the free quota levels and will be charged for
641 usage above these levels.
642 - Estimated number of search results will only be accurate if it is less than
643 or equal to the number of results requested. By default this can be
644 overridden by setting number_found_accuracy QueryOption in the Search API.
645 - Dates, atoms, and number fields can now be found by searching without a field
646 restriction in the Search API.
647 - A quoted empty string now returns atom fields with empty values for the
649 - Snippet and count functions are no longer allowed in sort expressions for the
651 - The Search API now has improved error messages for user errors and internal
653 - App Engine now supports deployment of applications via the Git tool. Once you
654 complete the initial setup steps, you will be ready to deploy apps with the
655 same ease you push code to a git repository using
656 "% git push appengine master". This is a Limited Preview feature. You may
657 request access via the following link:
658 https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/forms/d/
659 1aLaAOZb_cXFiVqzLAMvPV9kh0FmvlLRUbwD-LBbLuUI/viewform
660 - The Datastore now assigns scattered auto ids by default. Legacy auto ids
661 are still available via the 'auto_id_policy' option in app.yaml.
662 - The Sockets API now allows client code to call get/set options against
663 sockets. Previously, calls raised "Not Implemented" exceptions. For supported
664 options, calls to getsockopt will return a mock value and calls to setsockopt
665 will be silently ignored. Errors will continue to be raised for unsupported
666 options. The currently supported options are: SO_KEEPALIVE, SO_DEBUG,
667 TCP_NODELAY, SO_LINGER, SO_OOBINLINE, SO_SNDBUF, SO_RCVBUF, and SO_REUSEADDR.
668 - Updated skip_files documentation to reflect the new default.
669 https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/config/
670 appconfig#Skipping_Files
671 - The ndb library now supports distinct queries. This is a Preview feature.
672 https://code.google.com/p/appengine-ndb-experiment/issues/detail?id=229
673 - Fixed an issue with Google Cloud Storage objects not being compatible across
674 various APIs on the dev_appserver.
675 - Fixed an issue with the namespace not being displayed when a user attempts
676 to select a namespace in the Admin Console.
677 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8164
678 - Fixed an issue in the Admin Console Logs page to correctly display 'Until'
679 instead of 'Since' for logs search criteria.
680 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8659
683 ===============================
684 - Enabled the Mcrypt extension.
685 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9332
686 - Enabled the iconv extension.
687 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9340
688 - Enabled the mbstring extension.
689 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9342
690 - It is now possible to include/require files from Google Cloud Storage using
691 the google_app_engine.allow_include_gs_buckets ini setting.
692 - Basic support for url_stat() with Cloud Storage Streams is now provided.
693 This means that many standard filesystem functions such as is_file(),
694 is_readable(), is_writeable(), filesize(), etc now work with Cloud Storage
696 - Honor the default_stream_context for Google Cloud Storage streams when
698 - Added deleteImageServingUrl() method to the CloudStorageTools class.
699 - The createGsKey() method of CloudStorageTools has been made private.
700 - Fixed a bug where $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] was including the query string.
701 - App Engine now supports deployment of applications via the Git tool. Once you
702 complete the initial setup steps, you will be ready to deploy apps with the
703 same ease you push code to a git repository using
704 "% git push appengine master". This is a Limited Preview feature. You may
705 request access via the following link:
706 https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/forms/d/
707 1aLaAOZb_cXFiVqzLAMvPV9kh0FmvlLRUbwD-LBbLuUI/viewform
708 - Updated skip_files documentation to reflect the new default.
709 https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/php/config/
710 appconfig#Skipping_Files
711 - Removed the NotAllowedError, RedirectTooLongError, and UserNotFoundError
712 exception classes from the Users API. Their use is replaced by throwing a
713 UsersException or InvalidArgumentException as appropriate.
714 - Removed the Capability API.
715 - Fixed an issue with Google Cloud Storage objects not being compatible across
716 various APIs on the dev_appserver.
719 ===============================
720 - The Mail API now allows attachments with .zip and .gzip extensions as long as
721 the archives do not contain entries with blacklisted extensions.
722 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5933
723 - New Billing Enabled apps will no longer default to an email quota of 20,000
724 per day. Instead, apps will need to file a request through the admin console
725 to get email quotas increased.
726 - Admin console dashboard charts and reports for all users have been fully
727 migrated to the new, more reliable backend announced in 1.7.6.
728 - The maximum size of POST requests made through URLfetch has been increased
730 - Fixed an issue with the Mail API to prevent sending mail from a Google Apps
731 mail account that has been suspended.
732 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6181
733 - Fixed an issue with the admin handler of the new dev_appserver failing to
734 import appengine_config automatically.
737 ===============================
738 - The Sockets API, which allows applications to make outgoing TCP connections
739 and send/receive UDP packets to the Internet using both IPv4 and IPv6, is now
740 available as an experimental feature for billed apps.
741 - The ftplib module is now restored. It depends on the experimental Sockets
743 - Billing enabled apps will no longer be subject to a $2.10 minimum weekly
744 spend. Instead, apps will only be charged for their actual usage.
745 - Matplotlib 1.1.1, an experimental feature, is being deprecated and will be
746 removed in 1.7.8. Please switch to matplotlib 1.2.0.
747 - Fixed an issue where the dev_appserver Datastore auto ids assigned by the
748 scattered id policy were too large to be represented as floating point
750 - Fixed an issue where the dev_appserver threw an exception on any Search API
751 call that used an index that was originally created as GLOBALLY consistent.
752 - Fixed an issue with NDB not serializing projection entities correctly.
753 https://code.google.com/p/appengine-ndb-experiment/issues/detail?id=215
754 - Fixed an issue with NDB not projecting structured properties correctly.
755 https://code.google.com/p/appengine-ndb-experiment/issues/detail?id=227
756 - Fixed an issue with task queues failing to resolve backend addresses in
757 the new dev_appserver.
758 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5105
759 - Fixed an issue with the Search API allowing multiple documents with no IDs
760 to be in one put request.
761 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8553
762 - Fixed an issue with sort by doc_id not translating correctly causing
763 InvalidRequest errors on the Search API.
764 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8958
765 - Fixed an issue with the Search admin UI where an Internal Server Error
767 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9005
768 - Fixed an issue with Prospective Search failing in the new dev_appserver.
769 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9003
770 - Fixed an issue with the new dev_appserver failing with ImportError.
771 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9008
772 - Fixed an issue with Sqlite3 being unable to open a database file in the new
774 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9031
775 - Fixed an issue with serving urls that contain unicode characters in the new
777 https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=9040
780 ===============================
781 - The new and improved development appserver, which was previewed last release,
782 now becomes the default. The old development appserver has been renamed to
783 old_appserver.py and will remain available until the first release after
784 1 July 2013 when it will be removed from the SDK. For more information, please
786 http://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/tools/devserver
787 - A Go runtime has been added to the new and improved development appserver.
788 - The Debug log level for the runtime has been enabled.
789 - Improvements to the App Engine billing system will be rolled out gradually to
790 all apps. Fore more information, please visit
791 http://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/billing
792 - The application summary no longer displays the default version of a running
793 application, instead it lists the application as 'RUNNING'. In an upcoming
794 release applications will have multiple logical sub components, each of which
795 will have a default version. This UI update is meant to align with this
797 - Projection queries are now a fully supported GA feature.
798 - The XMPP API now has multi-JID get_presence. This provides the ability to get
799 the availability of multiple users.
800 - Django 1.4 and Webob 1.2.3 are now promoted to GA.
801 - Apps now have the ability to fopen() files that are declared as static files
802 in app.yaml using the application_readable flag.
803 - The dev_appserver now allocates automatic ids using the 'scattered' id
804 allocation policy by default. For more information, please see "Specifying the
805 Automatic ID Allocation Policy":
806 https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/tools/devserver#Using_the_
808 - Admin console dashboard charts and current load/errors reports will be moving
809 to a new, more reliable backend. The change will be gradually rolling to users
810 of admin console over the next few weeks.
811 - New Search API quotas are now displayed in the Admin Console. These quotas are
812 not currently enforced, but will be part of the pricing model for the Search
813 API in a future release.
814 - The experimental Search API's ability to explicitly sort search results by
815 SortExpression.RANK_FIELD_NAME (i.e. _order_id) field in ascending order has
817 - Globally consistent indexes in the experimental Search API are now deprecated
818 and will be removed in the next release.
819 - Task Queue tasks may now be added and deleted asynchronously. This allows
820 applications to perform common task queue operations without blocking. This is
821 an experimental feature.
822 - In the experimental MapReduce framework, shards that encounter Files API
823 errors will retry three times before the entire job fails.
824 - Google Protocol RPC now supports deserializing and reserializing of unexpected
826 - A new Google Protocol RPC field type for supporting datetime values has been
827 added. For more information, please visit
828 https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/tools/protorpc
829 - Fixed an issue which caused an incorrect server error message when setting the
830 default version on the admin console, though the version was set correctly.
831 - Fixed an issue where get_indexes() didn't correctly populate the namespace
832 when run from the new dev_appserver.
833 - Fixed an issue with the new dev_appserver failing on invalid login cookies. It
834 now uses type="email" for email in the login form.
835 https://code.google.com/p/appengine-devappserver2-experiment/issues/detail?
837 - Fixed an issue with the new dev_appserver to have fix_sys_path add the
838 necessary libraries to sys.path making it now compatible with the testbed.
839 https://code.google.com/p/appengine-devappserver2-experiment/issues/detail?
843 ===============================
844 - New instance classes F4_1G and B4_1G are now available. These instances have
845 compute capacity equal to F4/B4 but with a maximum of 1G RAM instead
847 - The Logs API stub now uses sqlite in the dev_appserver. Please note that the
848 --persist_logs flag is still needed in order for logs to be saved.
849 - The deprecated classes and functions AddError, AddResult,
850 ListIndexesResponse, ListResponse, RemoveError, RemoveResult, and
851 list_indexes were removed from the Search API in the SDK. If your app
852 references any of these classes or functions, you must deploy a new version
853 without these references before the next release of App Engine. If you do not
854 do this, your app may stop working in production.
855 - The Conversion API, which was decommissioned last release, has been removed
856 from the SDK. In a future release, the API will be removed from the runtime
857 and any attempt to import the library will raise an exception. Applications
858 in production that import the library should be fixed as soon as possible.
859 - Matplotlib v1.2.0 is now available as an experimental feature.
860 - Django 1.4 has been upgraded to 1.4.3. This is an experimental feature.
861 - We are including a preview of a new and improved version of our development
862 server. The new version is faster, provides more faithful support for
863 complex multi-threaded applications, has better support for Datastore and
864 supports more libraries. Try dev_appserver2.py in the SDK. This is an
865 experimental feature. For more information, please visit
866 http://code.google.com/p/appengine-devappserver2-experiment/
867 - The Channel API now has the ability to send channel messages from any app
868 version or backend regardless of where the channel was created.
869 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5123
870 - The URL Fetch service now supports PATCH method requests.
871 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6316
872 - The Mail API can now send mail bounce notifications to the app. The
873 notification will be delivered to /_ah/bounce if mail_bounce inbound
874 services are enabled.
875 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7451
876 - The Blobstore service now returns the created filename instead of the blobKey
877 when using Cloud Storage
878 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8337
879 - Fixed an issue with os.urandom throwing an exception in dev_appserver2 when
881 http://code.google.com/p/appengine-devappserver2-experiment/issues/
883 - Fixed an issue with time.tzset not existing in dev_appserver2 for Windows.
884 https://code.google.com/p/appengine-devappserver2-experiment/issues/
888 ===============================
889 - Background threads is now a GA feature.
890 - Traffic Splitting is now a GA feature.
891 - Task Queue Statistics is now a GA feature.
892 - Logs API now has the ability to fetch requests based on a list of
893 request_ids. Currently, this only works in production and is not supported
895 - Python Interpreter has been upgraded to 2.7.3.
896 - WebOb 1.2.3 is now available for Python 2.7. Users using the undocumented
897 1.2.2 should update their app, since that version will be removed in the
899 - DISTINCT for Datastore queries is now available as an experimental feature.
900 - Matplotlib v1.1.1 is now available as an experimental feature.
901 - The decommissioned Conversion API has been removed.
902 - Added a warning that the interactive console will be disabled if a user runs
903 dev_appserver with the --address flag.
904 - JSON properties are now restrictable to list or dictionaries in NDB.
905 http://code.google.com/p/appengine-ndb-experiment/issues/detail?id=223
906 - Users can now set how many columns can be viewed in the Datastore Viewer via
907 a drop-down menu which customizes the number of columns displayed.
908 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8158
909 - Fixed an issue with expandos throwing an error when containing nested
911 http://code.google.com/p/appengine-ndb-experiment/issues/detail?id=216
912 - Fixed an issue with properties not being added to structured properties in
914 http://code.google.com/p/appengine-ndb-experiment/issues/detail?id=220
915 - Fixed an issue with PyCrypto raising an ImportError when installing
916 globally into site-packages.
917 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1627
918 - Fixed an issue with PyCrypto not working with OSX 10.8 or Ubuntu Precise.
919 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7925
920 - Fixed an issue with backends.get_instance returning thread ID instead of
921 integer instance ID in production.
922 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8338
923 - Fixed an issue with Datastore Backup failing when a schema has a very large
924 number of properties.
925 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8363
926 - Fixed an issue with dev_appserver not reloading changed code.
927 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8383
928 - Fixed an issue with custom ordered queries not working using sqlite on the
930 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8390
931 - Fixed an issue with users being unable to change Authentication Type after
932 app creation in the Admin Console.
933 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8394
936 ===============================
937 - Django 1.4 is now supported in Python 2.7
938 - The file-based implementation of the Datastore stub will be deprecated soon.
939 - A warning message informing users that SQLLite stub will be the default
940 stub soon is now displayed.
941 - Datastore Index stats now report type instead of representation-type.
942 - Rich sort expressions beyond single field names are now supported in the
943 Search API for dev_appserver.
944 - search.MIN_NUMBER_VALUE and search.MAX_NUMBER_VALUE are now public in the
946 - Globally Consistent Indexes are now deprecated in the Search API.
947 - search.list_indexes() has been deprecated and replaced with
948 search.get_indexes() in the Search API.
949 - Index.list_documents() has been deprecated and replaced with
950 Index.get_range() in the Search API.
951 - Added method Index.get(doc_id) to get a document by its ID in the Search API
952 - Index.add() has been deprecated and renamed to Index.put() in the Search API.
953 - Index.remove() has been deprecated and renamed to Index.delete() in the
955 - The AddDocumentError and RemoveDocumentError classes, which were already
956 deprecated, have been removed from the Search API.
957 - OperationCode.object_id and OperationCode.document_id, which were already
958 deprecated, have been removed from the Search API.
959 - Users can now change authentication options after app creation
960 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=483
961 - Fixed an issue with Datastore backup/restore finalization steps only looking
962 at the default queue in Admin Console.
963 - Fixed an NDB issue with Structured Properties not converting dict properly.
964 http://code.google.com/p/appengine-ndb-experiment/issues/detail?id=207
965 - Fixed an NDB issue where multiple async transactions corrupt old
966 Datastore connections.
967 http://code.google.com/p/appengine-ndb-experiment/issues/detail?id=209
968 - Fixed an NDB issue with fetch() with offset > 1000 returning an empty list.
969 http://code.google.com/p/appengine-ndb-experiment/issues/detail?id=210
970 - Fixed an issue with 2 factor authentication not giving useful error messages.
971 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8020
972 - Fixed an issue in the Search API snippeting breaking if the field contains
973 a single word in dev_appserver.
974 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8171
975 - Fixed an issue with PyCrypto AES cipher not running on dev_appserver.
976 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8188
979 ===============================
980 - Paid applications can now upload Static files and Code > 1GB. Additional
981 storage will be billed at $0.13/GB per month. Free applications will
982 continue to be provided 1GB of storage at no charge. Free quota will apply
984 - PyCrypto 2.6 is now a GA feature for Python 2.7
985 - The Conversion API will be decommissioned soon. Developers using this API
986 will receive a warning message. Please find an alternative document
987 conversion/OCR service.
988 - You can now fetch Task Queue Statistics. This allows you to fetch
989 statistics and information about your task queue from within your
990 application. Statistics include information such as the number of tasks
991 in a queue, how many tasks were executed in the last minute and enforced
992 rate. This is an experimental feature.
993 - Added Timezone selection widget in Admin Console Admin Logs.
994 - Added a warning message about caching when modifying or deleting datastore
996 - Added a flush cache button to dev_appserver and Admin Console.
997 - Attempting to update multiple entity groups in a single transaction
998 in Datastore now throws an error suggesting to use XG transactions.
999 - Search API now has a string maximum length limit of 2000 characters.
1000 - We now allow a user with multiple google accounts the ability to create an
1001 app if they are an SMS verified user.
1002 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1419
1003 - A more useful error message now displays when a deployment fails
1004 due to local date/time settings being improperly set.
1005 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2033
1006 - Cron Descriptions may now include non-ASCII characters.
1007 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2641
1008 - App Config Service Delete App Version Call Count quota raised to
1010 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2808
1011 - Queries with transactions are now supported in Remote API.
1012 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3643
1013 - There are now more descriptive error messages for Datastore Admin
1014 deadline exceeded errors in stack trace.
1015 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5413
1016 - Replaced error code “Administrators cannot be removed right now”
1017 with a more descriptive message.
1018 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7080
1019 - Fixed an issue with namespace dropdown in Admin Console appearing blank
1020 even though the URL specified namespace is correct.
1021 - Fixed an issue where Model.get_by_id() returns none in dev_appserver
1022 whereas this is not allowed in production.
1023 - Fixed an issue with dev_appserver app_identity.get_default_version_hostname()
1024 - Fixed an issue with mail service sendToAdmins() failing when using
1025 multi-arg message constructor.
1026 - Fixed an issue with dev_appserver for mimetypes.guess_type()
1027 - Fixed an issue with runtime failing to use scope with OAuth under certain
1029 - Fixed an issue with AppConfigNotFound error.
1030 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=686
1031 - Fixed an issue with static path with + in dev_appserver.
1032 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=888
1033 - Fixed an issue with support for models with large numbers of properties in
1034 Admin Console Dataviewer where previously the page would fail to render.
1035 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=937
1036 - Fixed an issue with multi-line string property not editing correctly
1038 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1725
1039 - Fixed an issue with URLFetch mimetools.Message parsing incorrectly.
1040 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2011
1041 - Fixed an issue with the behavior of Expires header in dev_appserver
1042 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2106
1043 - Fixed an issue with Content-Disposition header being removed if filename
1044 contains utf-8 characters.
1045 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2212
1046 - Fixed an issue with incoming Mail API where encoded headers failed to
1048 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2288
1049 - Fixed an issue with non-ascii text displaying incorrect values
1050 when posted by URL created by blobstore.create_upload_url()
1051 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2749
1052 - Fixed an issue with using sendmail in Mail API.
1053 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3106
1054 - Fixed an issue with appcfg.py cron_info giving the wrong timezone information.
1055 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3307
1056 - Fixed an issue with Paging link in Datastore viewer not working with # or &
1057 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3591
1058 - Fixed an issue with rounding errors in crop image transform on dev_appserver.
1059 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3647
1060 - Fixed an issue with TypeError being incorrectly raised when attachment
1061 has Character Set and Language Information.
1062 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3836
1063 - Fixed an issue with Mail API attachments in unicode failing
1064 in_check_attachments()
1065 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3900
1066 - Fixed an issue with ereporter not reporting errors when applications
1068 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4212
1069 - Fixed an issue with Dataviewer GQL stripping new lines after initial run
1070 and a user paginates results.
1071 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4246
1072 - Fixed an issue with Python Unicode prefix in Datastore viewer.
1073 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4275
1074 - Fixed an issue with get_serving_url for images giving non-cacheable URLs
1076 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4402
1077 - Fixed an issue with fancy_urllib using squid proxy server with
1079 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4849
1080 - Fixed an issue with custom admin page not displaying when restricted to
1082 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5117
1083 - Fixed an issue with dev_appserver_import_hook.py handling Crypto import
1085 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4612
1086 - Fixed an issue with Remote API gzip compression for transmitted data.
1087 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5298
1088 - Fixed an issue with remote API shell not having pwd in Python Path.
1089 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5317
1090 - Fixed an issue with Admin Console Logs < 30 minutes not being available.
1091 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5494
1092 - Fixed an issue with Apps that are using Mail API reporting
1093 “No Provider for address type rfc822” error.
1094 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5769
1095 - Fixed an issue with concurrent write access to Datastore stubs.
1096 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6058
1097 - Fixed an issue with Viewers being able to prohibit code downloads.
1098 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6255
1099 - Fixed an issue with billing applications that are disabled.
1100 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6344
1101 - Fixed an issue with deploying to an existing version
1102 when an app has 10 versions.
1103 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6803
1104 - Fixed an issue with bulkloader “model” class not uploading correctly.
1105 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6907
1106 - Fixed an issue with TextProperty in Datastore viewer.
1107 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6997
1108 - Fixed an issue with appcfg.py request_logs failing with ~oauth2
1109 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7011
1110 - Fixed an issue with editing a bytestring field in Datastore viewer.
1111 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7046
1112 - Fixed an issue with dev_appserver clearing after restart. This is a
1114 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7244
1115 - Fixed an issue with Cron schedule failing on 1st day of month.
1116 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7286
1117 - Fixed an issue with gzip compression for application/plist content type.
1118 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7641
1119 - Fixed an issue with datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp() in python 2.7
1120 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7819
1121 - A note about an upcoming change: starting with the 1.7.3 release
1122 of App Engine, data statistics will report statistics on property type
1123 usage by indexes using the documented property type names ("Integer",
1125 https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/datastore/stats)
1126 rather than the current property representation names ("INT64",
1127 "REFERENCE", etc, see http://goo.gl/db5dT). This will affect the
1128 __Stat_PropertyType__, __Stat_PropertyType_Kind__,
1129 __Stat_PropertyType_PropertyName_Kind__ and their per-namespace equivalents.
1130 This will also affect the displayed "Breakdown by Property Type" under the
1131 "Datastore Statistics" in your application's console.
1134 ===============================
1135 - The URLFetch API now supports multiple cookie headers.
1136 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3379
1137 - You can download 90 days worth of Usage Reports for your application from the
1138 Billing History page of the Admin Console.
1139 - Task Queue requests now include an X-AppEngine-TaskExecutionCount that counts
1140 the number of times a task was run by an instance.
1141 - Added support for multiple files to be deleted using the Files API.
1142 - Added support to delete files from Google Cloud Storage using the Files API.
1143 - Added a REQUEST_LOG_ID to be written in the logs and as an environment
1144 variable. This can be used to later identifying that request in the
1146 - The Memcache Viewer now supports namespaces.
1147 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7245
1148 - The Mail API now supports the following headers for outgoing mail: List-Id,
1149 List-Unsubscribe, On-Behalf-Of, Resent-Date, Resent-From, Resent-To.
1150 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2559
1151 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7672
1152 - PyCrypto 2.6. is now supported in the Python 2.7 runtime.
1153 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7884
1154 - NDB now throws a BadProjectionError when trying to perform a projection query
1155 on an unknown or unindexed property.
1156 - NDB Tasklets use the namespace from when it was called, not the namespace from
1157 when it is performed.
1158 http://code.google.com/p/appengine-ndb-experiment/issues/detail?id=190
1159 - NDB Properties' string representation size is limited to the max string
1160 length for Blob and Text properties.
1161 - Appstats provides an interactive shell for observing RPC behavior of calls
1163 - Appstats now contains information about the cost of the RPCs made during the
1165 - The Images API now supports specifying the default pixel color to fill in for
1166 image types that don't support transparent images, such as JPEG.
1167 - We've added full asynchronous API support in the Images API.
1168 - Added an error to the Images API to indicate when a blob being referenced is
1169 not found or not accessible.
1170 - Made the Python search limits public in the Search API.
1171 - Added namespace support for the Search API in the Python SDK.
1172 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7670
1173 - Added support in the Search API for simple sorting in the SDK.
1174 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7456
1175 - The Testbed testing framework now supports the Logservice API.
1176 - Added support in the Files API to list Google Cloud Storage files.
1177 - Improve the MapReduce File API Reader to support multiple files and file
1179 - Fixed an issue with the App Engine satisfaction survey in the Admin Console
1180 which was released in 1.6.6, which will be re-enabled in this release.
1181 - Fixed an issue with Search API websafe cursors not being returned as a
1183 - Fixed an issue where SearchRequest was returning errors that weren't
1184 available as search.Error subclasses.
1185 - Fixed an NDB issue where entities over 1000000 bytes where written to
1186 memcache, causing failure.
1187 http://code.google.com/p/appengine-ndb-experiment/issues/detail?id=193
1188 - Fixed NDB AutoBatcher error handling.
1189 http://code.google.com/p/appengine-ndb-experiment/issues/detail?id=196
1190 - Fixed an issue where Appstats assuming all objects have a __class__ attribute
1191 resulted in an error.
1192 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5668
1193 - Fixed an issue where there was unbalanced string quoting in Appstats
1195 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5976
1196 - Fixed an issue where search indexes were not persisted in the SDK.
1197 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6791
1198 - Fixed an issue where an error in formatter.py in Appstats was being thrown.
1199 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7034
1200 - Fixed an issue in the SDK where the Search API did not support boolean queries
1202 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7247
1203 - Fixed an issue where numeric and date comparators were not supported in the
1204 Search API in the Python SDK.
1205 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7247
1206 - Fixed an issue where Appstats didn't show a detailed view of an RPC when using
1207 the Python 2.7 runtime.
1208 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7558
1209 - Fixed a search issue where snippets failed to highlight when a capital letter
1210 is used in a search term.
1211 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7665
1212 - Fixed an issue where the SDK Admin tool couldn't browse search indexes
1213 containing unicode characters.
1214 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7791
1215 - Fixed an issue where traffic splitting by cookie was not working.
1216 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7813
1217 - Fixed an issue where RequestTooLargeError was being incorrectly thrown using
1219 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7820
1220 - Fixed a memcache race condition.
1221 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7864
1222 - Fixed a Search issue in the SDK where a query that does not match all search
1223 terms resulted in divide-by-zero.
1224 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7943
1227 ===============================
1228 - You can now configure your custom domain to serve HTTPS requests with App
1229 Engine. You can choose either an SNI, VIP, or SNI and VIP configuration. SNI
1230 costs $9/month for 5 certificates. A VIP costs $99/month.
1231 https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/ssl
1232 - Premier customers now have the option to create applications to be served from
1233 datacenters located in the European Union.
1234 - Developers can configure their HRD app to use Google's PageSpeed Service,
1235 which automatically speeds up serving of content for your application. The
1236 PageSpeed Service costs $0.39/gigabyte in addition to the normal App Engine
1238 https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/adminconsole/performancesettings#pagespeed
1239 - The Search API now contains support for storing and searching on GeoPoints.
1240 - The total size of all application versions is now limited to 1 GB. In the
1241 future, you'll be able to purchase additional storage for your application
1243 - Logs API calls are now $.12/gigabyte for all data read from the Logs API over
1245 - You can now specify a time frame of up to 1 year for the retention of your
1246 application logs. All storage above 1 GB is billed based on the prices for
1248 - You can now specify HTTP headers on static content for your application.
1249 - The HRD Blob Migration tool is now generally available.
1250 - After using the datastore backup utility, you can now restore that backup
1252 - It will not be possible to create new authorizations for M/S applications to
1253 access Cloud SQL instances.
1254 - You can now delete a Google Cloud Storage object using blobstore.delete().
1255 - You can now fetch a Google Cloud Storage object using blobstore.fetch().
1256 - You can now store keys for a Google Cloud Storage object in the datastore.
1257 - The create_upload_url call now works for Google Cloud Storage objects.
1258 - You can now use get_serving_url() and delete_serving_url() for Google
1259 Cloud Storage buckets.
1260 - Projection queries are now supported in NDB.
1261 - In NDB, app and namespace are now keyword arguments to get_by_id().
1262 - Context().call_on_commit() added to NDB for adding a callback to be executed
1263 upon successful commit of a transaction.
1264 - NDB Context.memcache_* ops now accept unicode.
1265 - NDB has added support for storing protorpc.Message objects.
1266 - Improved error messaging for multiple repeated=True levels with
1267 StructuredProperty in NDB.
1268 - PyAMF is now fully launched.
1269 - We've increased various Search API limits. New limits are a maximum of 1000
1270 documents returned from search() or list_documents(), a maximum of 1000
1271 indexes returned from list_indexes(), and a maximum offset of 1000 for
1272 search() or list_indexes()
1273 - Fixed an issue where the Search API did not enforce limits on NumberFields.
1274 - Fixed an issue in the SDK where SortExpression did not enforce the
1275 presence of a default_value set when required.
1276 - Fixed an issue where lxml did not support unicode parsing.
1277 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7158
1278 - Fixed a javascript syntax error in the Admin Console.
1279 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7566
1280 - Fixed an issue in SDK admin viewer where a TemplateDoesNotExist error was
1281 thrown when clicking on any Full-Text Search index.
1282 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7598
1283 - Fixed an issue in the Search API tab of the Admin Console where it threw an
1284 error displaying non-ascii characters.
1285 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7601
1288 ===============================
1289 - On May 8, 2012 we released an experimental Search API.
1290 http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2012/05/looking-for-search-find-it-on-google.html
1291 - The Admin Console now displays the quotas for Search API Calls and Search
1293 - The Search API has deprecated the order_id attribute on Document class. It has
1294 been replaced with the rank attribute.
1295 - The Search API has deprecated the document attribute on ListResponse and
1296 replaced it with a result attribute. Also the document_id attribute on
1297 OperationResult class is deprecated and replaced with the id attribute.
1298 - Fixed an issue where unicode is not consistently handled in the Python Search
1300 - App creation for apps using the Master/Slave datastore is now restricted to
1301 only those users who already own a Master/Slave app.
1302 - Apps with billing enabled are now able to configure up to 100 cron jobs.
1303 - Admin Console can no longer be included in an <iframe>. To prevent
1304 clickjacking attacks on the Admin Console, we are now setting
1305 X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN. To read more about clickjacking, please read:
1306 https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Clickjacking.
1307 - The Admin Console will now periodically prompt administrators to take an
1308 optional App Engine satisfaction survey.
1309 - You can now use the third party PyAMF library with Python 2.7. This is
1310 available as an experimental feature.
1311 - For NDB, Rollback has been added to the default list of flow exceptions.
1312 http://code.google.com/p/appengine-ndb-experiment/issues/detail?id=179
1313 - Fixed an issue where large datastore backups were unable to be deleted.
1314 - Fixed an issue where datastore backups fail due to an ASCII decoding issue.
1315 - Fixed an issue where the SDK did not import subpackages correctly when using
1317 - Fixed an issue where running a projection query on a multi-valued property
1318 with an equality filter did not return any results.
1319 - Fixed an issue where unicode environment variables were dropped in Appstats
1320 when using Python 2.7.
1321 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6448
1322 - Fixed an issue where XG transactions did not work with the Remote API.
1323 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7238
1326 ===============================
1327 - You can now perform datastore queries that return a subset of your entity
1328 properties with the same performance and cost of a keys-only query. This
1329 feature is experimental.
1330 - In the High Replication Datastore, there is a new metadata kind,
1331 __entity_group__, that has a numeric __version__ property. This property is
1332 guaranteed to increase on every change to the entity group.
1333 - The Images API now supports manipulating objects hosted on Google Cloud
1335 - In the Images API, the get_serving_url call now optionally allows you to
1336 specify if the URL you are generating should be served over https.
1337 - In the Task Queue REST API, you can now specify a tag when you insert a task
1339 - In the Task Queue API, you can specify a deadline for the lease_tasks call.
1340 The default deadline has been increased from 5 seconds to 10 seconds.
1341 - You can now use cron to schedule Datastore backups.
1342 - The Datastore Admin now has a page that displays information on the status of
1343 your Datastore backups and restores.
1344 - You can now abort your Datastore backup or restore from the Datastore Admin.
1345 - You can now restore a single Datastore Kind from the Datastore Admin from a
1347 - In the Admin Console, you can report production issues with your application
1348 directly to Google from the application's pages. Simply click the "Report
1349 Production Issues" link, fill out the requested information, and submit.
1350 - All user requests have X-AppEngine-Region, X-AppEngine-City, and
1351 X-AppEngine-CityLatLong headers which contain location information based on
1352 the IP address of the client request. For a full description of these headers,
1354 https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/runtime#Request_Headers
1355 - We have added support for concurrent transactions to @db.transactional and
1356 db.run_in_transaction_options() along with other transaction propagation
1358 - We've introduced an experimental new Mac Installer that only supports Python
1360 - In your app.yaml file, you can include an env_variables stanza that will set
1361 the given environment variables in your application's runtime.
1362 - Jinja2 now includes the _debugsupport module.
1363 - Fixed an issue with the dev_appserver where it defaulted the HTTP
1364 Content-Type of a request to text/plain instead of text/html.
1365 - Fixed an issue where the SDK would include some indexes that were not needed
1367 - Fixed an issue in the SDK where the SDK admin console would not display utf-8
1368 encoded list property values.
1369 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7079
1372 ===============================
1373 - Billed applications that have specified additional logs retention over 1 GB
1374 are now being charged for that storage at $0.24/GB/month (the first gigabyte
1375 of logs storage is free). All logs beyond an application's specified storage
1376 limit will be deleted. Please examine your Application Settings page to verify
1377 you are retaining the desired amount of logs.
1378 - Datastore statistics now show the amount of storage used by application
1380 - We have released an experimental utility for migrating your application's
1381 blobs at the same time you migrate your datastore data. You can opt-in to
1382 blob migration in the Admin Console when you start your migration.
1383 - We have updated the experimental Backup/Restore functionality to include
1384 the option to backup and restore to Google Cloud Storage.
1385 - The NDB datastore API is now generally available. For full release notes
1386 on the version 0.9.9 and 1.0.0 fixes that have been integrated into the
1388 http://code.google.com/p/appengine-ndb-experiment/source/browse/RELEASE_NOTES?name=sandbox
1389 - In the Python 2.7 runtime, Background threads are available as an
1390 experimental release when using App Engine backends.
1391 - Using the Blobstore API's send_blob() method, your application can serve
1392 objects hosted on Google Storage for Developers.
1393 - The Admin Console now provides a Memcache viewer that lists Memcache stats and
1394 can display Memcache content based on key.
1395 - In the Capabilities API stub in the SDK, you can now enable or disable
1396 a capability using SetPackagedEnabled.
1397 - The Windows installer now prompts to install Python 2.7 instead of
1399 - The Testbed API now supports the Capabilities API.
1400 - GQL queries in the Admin Console no longer throw an error when a trailing
1401 semi-colon is included.
1402 - The Datastore API now includes a NonTransactional decorator to ensure that
1403 a function is run outside of a transaction. Existing transactions are paused
1404 while the function is executing.
1405 - The Datastore Admin tab in the Admin Console now shows entities from every
1407 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3962
1408 - Fixed an issue with _strptime when threadsafe was specified.
1409 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6489
1410 - Fixed an issue where DatastoreFileStub.__del__ fails on tempfile.msktemp.
1411 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6749
1412 - WebOb 1.1.1 is now included in the SDK, and used by default there when
1413 Python 2.7 is specified.
1414 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7014
1415 - Fixed an issue where the index.yaml file was cleared if your skip_files entry
1416 differs from the default skip_files list.
1417 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7031
1420 ===============================
1421 - In the Admin Console, you can use new the Traffic Splitting feature to send a
1422 certain percentage of traffic to a non-default application version. The
1423 traffic is split by either cookie or IP address.
1424 - Emails that are sent from Google Apps domains email addresses where the domain
1425 has been set up to use DKIM will be signed: when an email was from a request
1426 that originated on that app's domain or any time the email was sent from
1427 an app adminstrator, including when that email is sent from a cron job or task
1429 - In the Admin Console, you can now choose how much and how long you'd like to
1430 store logs. All apps get 1G for free and eventually will be able to pay for
1431 more, while the amount can be increased this release we won't start charging
1432 for the additional capacity until the next release at the earliest.
1433 - The instances screen in the Admin Console now has a button to shut down
1434 a specific instance.
1435 - Each application log has a link to the instance that served the request. If
1436 the instance is no longer serving requests, a message will be displayed.
1437 - The TaskQueue API now supports the ability to tag a Pull Queue task. You may
1438 then lease tasks by tag. This feature is experimental.
1439 - Using Google Apps wildcard domain mappings, you can access alternate
1440 versions of your app via a custom domain.
1441 - Push and Pull Queues are now listed separately in the SDK development console.
1442 - Developer documentation for the experimental NDB API, the replacement for
1443 db.py, is now available.
1444 - Appcfg now supports OAuth2.
1445 - webapp 2.5.1 is now available in the Python 2.7 runtime.
1446 - Django 1.3 is now available in the Python 2.7 runtime.
1447 - GQL Query now supports custom type casting for list elements for "IN" filters.
1448 - Fixed an issue where StringProperty's validate() didn't check the 500 byte
1450 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4030
1451 - Fixed an issue where the datastore admin didn't work with Federated Login.
1452 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4111
1453 - Fixed an issue in the SDK where failing to call _RemoveTxn in the
1454 datastore_stub_util caused a memory leak:
1455 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6157
1456 - Code that inherits from the deferred library's TaskHandler can now define
1457 custom handling of exceptions.
1458 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6478
1459 - Fixed an issue where logging in the SDK was broken in Windows 7 using
1461 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6756
1462 - Fixed an issue in the SDK where the Conversion API call limited was limited
1463 to 1 MB when the production limit is 2 MB.
1464 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6794
1465 - Fixed an issue so that a deferred task retries like a push queue task when
1466 using the SingularTaskFailure exception:
1467 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6412
1471 ===============================
1472 - The Admin Console Datastore Admin has added experimental backup and restore
1473 functionality. The job occurs within your application and counts against your
1474 application quota, including Instance Hours, Datastore Ops and Datastore
1476 - Developers can now specify how long a channel token will last until it
1477 expires, with the default remaining two hours. Channel API quota is now
1478 measured both in calls to create a channel and the number of hours of channel
1479 time requested. The maximum hours of quota is the maximum number of channel
1480 creation calls * 2, so free apps get 200 hours of requested channel token
1482 - Python Django now work with Cloud SQL without additional configuration. For
1483 further information see https://developers.google.com/cloud-sql/.
1484 - Task Queue API requests now include a X-Appengine-TaskETA header, that can be
1485 used to measure task delivery latency.
1486 - The default API deadlines for Blobstore API calls have been raised to 15s for
1487 online and 30s for offline requests, up from 5s.
1488 - The Images API now allows you to stretch an image without maintaining the
1490 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2220
1491 - The Blobstore API now includes the asynchronous function calls
1492 create_upload_url_async, delete_async, and fetch_data_async.
1493 - Django version 1.3 is now available in the Python 2.5 runtime.
1494 - We've added a django_wsgi builtin to allow easier bootstrapping of Django
1496 - Mail Quota for App Engine apps that have signed up for billing will only be
1497 increased after the first payment for the app is processed.
1498 - As announced in 1.6.1, in this release for the experimental Python 2.7
1499 runtime, the mapreduce and datastore_admin builtins are not available to apps
1500 deployed to Python 2.7.
1501 - Fixed an issue with remote_api where calling fetch_page() with a page size
1502 of 301 and chaining the calls through the returned cursor was skipping half
1504 - Fixed an issue where the PIL _imagingmath module was not available in Python
1506 - Fixed an issue where the SDK did not resize images down to 512 pixels by
1507 default, as it does in production.
1508 - Fixed an issue with the Images API where valid images were returning a
1510 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5545
1511 - Fixed an issue where the SDK didn't start when using Python 2.7 and the
1513 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6187
1514 - Fixed an issue where Jinja2 was not included in the SDK for use with Python
1516 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6265
1517 - Fixed an issue with the sql datastore stub in Python 2.7 where the sqlite
1518 module no longer accepted strings with non-ASCII characters.
1519 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6290
1520 - Fixed an issue where gzip did not work with Python 2.7 in the dev_appserver.
1521 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6324
1522 - Fixed an issue where urllib2 did not work with Python 2.7.
1523 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6567
1524 - Fixed an error in the Datastore Viewer where an error was thrown when viewing
1525 an Entity which defines an index with no properties.
1526 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6600
1527 - Fixed an issue where transactional tasks were not enqueued in the SDK when
1528 running in high_replication mode.
1529 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6669
1532 ===============================
1533 - You can now configure Frontend Instance Classes from your Admin Console's
1534 application settings page. Three classes are available, with increasing
1535 memory, CPU limits, and associated cost. By default, all applications use the
1536 basic frontend instance setting of 128MB memory and 600MHz CPU.
1537 - We've added new functionality to the Log API that will allow you to read your
1538 application's logs programmatically.
1539 - We are releasing an experimental Conversion API that will allow you to convert
1540 between document types including .doc, .html, .pdf, images using OCR, and
1542 - The High Replication Datastore migration utility is now available as a GA
1543 feature, and is no longer experimental.
1544 - The ext.db API query functions (run, fetch, count, get) now accept the keyword
1545 arguments: deadline, read_policy, prefetch_size, batch_size, limit, offset,
1546 start_cursor, end_cursor, keys_only. It is recommended that developers use
1547 Query.run() with a limit or batch_size instead of Query.fetch() when iterating
1549 - The ext.db API model functions (get, put, delete, allocate_ids) now directly
1550 accept the keyword arguments: deadline, read_policy
1551 - The Blobstore API now supports the multiple="true" attribute to the HTML input
1553 - Fixed an issue logging unicode objects in the SDK.
1554 - Fixed an issue with the dev_appserver where HTTP HEAD always returned
1556 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2000
1557 - Fixed an issue in the SDK where importing Crypto.Util.Counter caused an
1559 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4168
1560 - Fixed an issue where the SDK didn't work with virtualenv.
1561 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4339
1562 - Fixed an issue where cached static files served to IPs on the DoS blacklist
1563 consumed bandwidth quota.
1564 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4607
1565 - Fixed an issue that was causing slow serving of requests in the SDK.
1566 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6005
1567 - Fixed an issue where the Channel API didn't work in the SDK with Python 2.7.
1568 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6267
1569 - Fixed an httplib compatibility issue between Python 2.5 and Python 2.7 in the
1571 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6271
1572 - Fixed an issue where queries larger than 1MB didn't work with Python 2.7.
1573 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6282
1574 - Fixed an error in the SDK on first page load for a handler.
1575 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6302
1576 - Fixed an issue in the SDK that caused slowness due to app's logs being written
1577 to the datastore. Set the --persist_logs flag in the SDK if you are using the
1578 Logservice API to read logs.
1579 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6355
1580 - WARNING: Starting with the 1.6.2 release of the experimental Python 2.7
1581 runtime, the mapreduce and datastore_admin builtins will not be supported.
1584 ===============================
1585 - On November 7th, App Engine will be out of Preview. The new Terms of Service
1586 and previously announced pricing changes will be in effect. Additionally, all
1587 paid apps are now covered by our SLA.
1588 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/billing.html
1589 - Paid apps can now specify the maximum pending latency for instances and the
1590 minimum number of idle instances for your application in the Admin Console.
1591 - Task Queue storage has been separated in to its own line item. Previously,
1592 this was included in Datastore storage.
1593 - We have released an experimental utility, available in the Admin Console, to
1594 assist in migrating your application to the High Replication datastore. This
1595 utility allows you to copy the bulk of your data in the background, while the
1596 source application is still serving. You then need a brief read-only period to
1597 migrate your application data while you copy the data that has changed from
1598 the time the original copy started.
1599 - Blobstore, which was previously limited to apps with billing enabled, is now
1600 available for all apps.
1601 - We have published a new article on Datastore Index Selection and Advanced
1602 Search which explains our recent improvements to the query planner that make
1603 exploding indexes unnecessary.
1604 http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/indexselection.html
1605 - Applications can now receive xmpp error stanzas at /_ah/xmpp/error.
1606 - In the Admin Console data viewer, you can now filter by namespace from a drop
1607 down menu, if applicable.
1608 - In the Admin Console's Datastore Statistics, we now offer namespace suggest
1609 for filtering stats.
1610 - We have released as experimental the full MapReduce framework.
1611 - The SDK now supports Python 2.7.
1612 - Python 2.7 now supports WebOb 1.1.1, which has some significant bug fixes.
1613 Applications that explicitly set the "webob" version to "1.1" in their
1614 app.yaml files must update the version to "1.1.1".
1615 - The mail_stub.get_sent_messages() call now returns EmailMessage instances.
1616 - Fixed an issue when setting an initial_value in memcache.incr unexpectedly
1618 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2012
1619 - Fixed an issue where DoS stats in the Admin Console didn't work for High
1621 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5237
1622 - WARNING: Starting with 1.6.1 (our next release, NOT this release), URLFetch
1623 requests will honor the Accept-Encoding header. If your code sets this header
1624 then it must be prepared to receive content of the specified type. For more
1625 information please see
1626 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4978
1629 ===============================
1630 - Python 2.7 is now available as an experimental runtime for all applications
1631 using the High Replication Datastore. To upload your app to the Python 2.7
1632 runtime, change the runtime argument in your app.yaml to python27. Note that
1633 the dev_appserver does NOT work with Python 2.7 - you must deploy your
1634 application in order test it.
1635 - We have increased the number of files you can upload with your application
1636 from 3,000 to 10,000.
1637 - We have increased the size limit for a single file uploaded to App Engine from
1639 - We have increased the Frontend request deadline from 30 seconds to 60 seconds.
1640 - We have increased the online URLFetch maximum deadline from 10 seconds to 60
1641 seconds. The default deadline remains at 10 seconds. The offline maximum deadline
1642 for URLFetch remains at 10 minutes.
1643 - We have increased the URLFetch Post payload from 1MB to 5MB.
1644 - App Engine now supports Cross Group (XG) transactions with the High
1645 Replication Datastore, which allow you to perform transactions across
1646 multiple entity groups.
1647 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/datastore/transactions.html
1648 - We have released an experimental API that can write to Google Storage for
1649 Developers directly from App Engine.
1650 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/googlestorage/overview.html
1651 - We have added a graph to the admin console that displays the number of
1652 instances for which you will be billed.
1653 - In the XMPP API, get_presence() is deprecated in favor of using the inbound
1654 presence handlers documented in
1655 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/xmpp/overview.html#Handling_User_Presence.
1656 - The Task Queue API 'target' parameter now accepts a new value,
1657 taskqueue.DEFAULT_APP_VERSION, which will send the task to the default
1658 frontend version, rather than the version or backend where the 'add' method is
1660 - In the URLFetch API, make_fetch_call() now returns an RPC object.
1661 - Fixed an issue in the Admin Console where the "Run Now" button did not work
1662 for tasks with a '-' in the name.
1663 - Fixed an issue where the SDK did not decode Base64 encoded blobs.
1664 - Fixed an issue to provide a better error message when using the Mail API to
1665 send email to an invalid user address.
1666 - Fixed an issue in the SDK where a skip_files entry caused an ImportError when
1667 the library was located elsewhere in the PYTHONPATH.
1668 - Fixed an issue in the SDK index viewer where the arrows indicating whether a
1669 query was ascending or descending were not properly rendered.
1670 - Fixed an issue where httplib did not support the deadline argument for
1672 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2216
1673 - Fixed an issue where you could not schedule a cron job to run every 100
1675 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5243
1676 - Fixed an issue in the SDK where failed tasks retried immediately instead of
1677 waiting for 30 seconds.
1678 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5587
1679 - Fixed an issue making it possible to modify request headers using the deferred
1681 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5861
1684 ===============================
1685 - You can now specify the maximum size for a blob in create_upload_url().
1686 - Zigzag merge join queries will now continue scanning up to the 30 second
1687 Datastore query deadline. For zigzag queries that used to generate NeedIndex
1688 errors, many will now succeed. A small percentage will now instead timeout.
1689 - The SDK datastore viewer in the dev console now displays the number of "Write
1690 Ops" for each entity. "Write Ops" are the total number of entity and index
1691 writes that were required to create the entity.
1692 - Added API functionality for making calls to the Memcache API asynchronously.
1693 - Fixed an issue that incorrectly allowed creation of tasks with whitespace in
1695 - Fixed the error message for "transaction not found" to be more descriptive.
1696 - Fixed an issue where blobstore uploads didn't work in the SDK with the
1697 -a 0.0.0.0 flag set.
1698 - Fixed an issue where --dry_run was broken for upload_data in bulkload.py.
1699 - Fixed an issue where db.Model().to_xml() incorrectly updated auto-updating
1701 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=322
1702 - Fixed an issue where the SDK didn't expand the '~' in a file path.
1703 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=522
1704 - Fixed an issue where is_saved() wasn't valid after db.Model.__init__.
1705 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=844
1706 - Fixed an issue where GQL IN queries with an empty list returned all entities.
1707 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=932
1708 - Fixed an issue where the SDK's sqlite stub did not handle cursors on
1709 descending queries correctly.
1710 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3121
1711 - Fixed a typo in the SDK's Datastore Stats generator message.
1712 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5425
1715 =============================
1716 - We've removed the limit on the size of blob uploads using the Blobstore API.
1717 - You can now send emails with any attachment extension that is not included on
1718 the email attachment extension blacklist.
1719 - Added a db.get_indexes() method to retrieve an application's indexes and
1720 their corresponding states.
1721 - The dev_appserver has been updated to understand the reduced index
1722 requirements of the 1.5.2 datastore query planner changes.
1723 - The Datastore Admin functionality can now be enabled directly in the Admin
1725 - Added cas(), the compare-and-set function, to the Memcache API.
1726 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2139
1727 - Added a set_default_fetch_deadline to the URLFetch API which sets the
1728 URLFetch deadline globally.
1729 - Added app_identity api with methods to get the application id, default
1730 hostname, and service accounts for asserting identity on outbound HTTP calls.
1731 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/appidentity/overview.html
1732 - Added an improved HRD migration tool that requires a read-only period relative
1733 to your datastore write rate (as opposed to your datastore size, which is how
1734 the current version behaves). The tool is not yet generally available. If you
1735 are interested in being an early adopter please fill out this form:
1737 - Fixed an issue in the Channel API where jsapi was not served with the correct
1739 - Fixed an issue that broke use_library when the Python SDK was located in a
1740 directory that contained the word 'django'.
1741 - Fixed an issue where blobs could not be uploaded using HTTPS.
1742 - Fixed an issue where GQL didn't allow querying for valid kind names
1743 containing '.', '-', and ':' by supporting quoted identifiers.
1744 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2584
1747 =============================
1748 - You can now specify the minimum pending latency for instances and the maximum
1749 number of idle instances for your application in the Admin Console.
1750 - The datastore now never requires an exploding index.
1751 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/datastore/queries.html#Big_Entities_and_Exploding_Indexes
1752 - The SDK will now never suggest indexes with the same property repeated, as
1753 such indexes are likely to be exploding indexes.
1754 - The SDK now supports multiple concurrent transactions.
1755 - Datastore stats are now available on a per-namespace basis.
1756 - The queue details page in the Admin Console now contains request header
1757 details, previous run information, and a task payload viewer.
1758 - You can modify the lease on a task leased from a pull queue using the
1759 modify_task_lease() method.
1760 - Pull Task maximum size has been increased to 1MB.
1761 - You can now update the number of available backend instances without needing
1762 to first stop the backend using the "backend configure" appcfg.py directive.
1763 - You can now set the "References" and "In-Reply-To" headers with the Mail API.
1764 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2802
1765 - The SDK "application" environment variable will now be prefixed with dev~.
1766 The new preferred way of retrieving your app id is to use
1767 appidentity.get_application_id(). The --default_partition flag can be used
1768 for applications whose code relied on a specific environment variable.
1769 - In the Deferred API, defer() now accepts the _target parameter.
1770 - Added a to_dict() function to db.py which converts a model to a dictionary.
1771 - Added a get_original_metadata() method to the Images API to extract EXIF
1772 information from images.
1773 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4133
1774 - Added an @transactional decorator to db.py for functions that should
1775 always be run in a transaction.
1776 - Fixed an issue in the SDK where the Deferred API did not work when using
1777 the --backends flag.
1778 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5072
1781 ============================
1782 - ProtoRPC is a new experimental library that provides a simple method for
1783 creating a well-defined and easy-to-use web-based RPC service.
1784 - The development server's datastore implementation now contains logic that
1785 closely replicates the consistency guarantees of the High Replication
1786 datastore. To use, run the dev_appserver with the flag --high_replication set
1788 - All user request have an X-AppEngine-Country header which contains the
1789 ISO-3166-1 alpha-2 country code for the user, based on the IP address of the
1791 - The Channel API can now provide user presence, this can be configured by
1792 adding channel_presence to the list of inbound services for your application.
1793 - The Images API now supports the WebP format. Due to limitations in PIL, the
1794 SDK does not support the WebP format.
1795 - You can switch the timezone for App Engine logs in the Admin Console.
1796 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=734
1797 - Fixed an issue in the SDK where leased tasks had the POST method. They now
1799 - Fixed an issue where the Channel API didn't work with non-default versions of
1800 applications using the High Replication datastore.
1801 - When displaying corrupt data in the Admin Console dataviewer, a useful error
1802 will be displayed, instead of a 500.
1803 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4945
1806 ==============================
1807 - Support for Backends which allow developers to create infrastructure
1808 components that complement the existing dynamic apps that App Engine already
1809 provides. Instances of a backend can maintain state, be addressed
1810 individually, and are not subject to per-request time limits. They can also be
1811 configured to consume more memory and CPU than ordinary dynamic instances.
1812 - Task Queues support pull mode, allowing for more control over task queue work
1813 rates. To use pull queues, include the 'mode' argument in your queue.yaml.
1814 - Pull queues are supported by a REST API, allowing access from outside App
1815 Engine. To use the REST API, you must also include a valid ACL section
1816 specifying which users can lease tasks from the pull queue.
1817 - Task Queue payload limits have been increased. Queues support 100KB per task.
1818 Within App Engine, the new limit is 32 MB per batch of tasks. With the REST
1819 API the limit is 1 MB per batch.
1820 - HTTP request and response sizes have been increased to 32 MB.
1821 - We have removed the rate quotas for requests, datastore operations,
1822 memcache operations, and image API operations. Resource quotas still apply.
1823 - When creating new applications, developers will now see the High Replication
1824 Datastore as the default configuration option. Developers that still wish to
1825 use the Master/Slave configuration must explicitly choose this option at
1826 application creation time.
1827 - The Task Queue maximum configurable processing rate has been increased to
1829 - We have added two restrictions to the Mail API to improve the reliability
1830 of the service for all applications.
1831 - Emails must be sent from email accounts managed by Google (either Gmail or
1832 a domain signed up for Google Apps).
1833 - Reduced the number of free recipients per day from 2000 to 100 for new
1835 - All application Owners, as listed in the Admin Console, can download the app's
1836 code, unless code download is disabled for the application.
1837 - Added db.py support for making calls to the datastore asynchronously.
1838 Available functions are get_async(), put_async(), delete_async(),
1839 allocate_ids_async(). Call get_result on the return value of asynchronous
1840 datastore functions to block on the call.
1841 - Metadata queries can now get all namespaces, kinds, and properties in a given
1843 - The Testbed API now supports the Channel API.
1844 - Users can provide Django settings to be loaded in webapp's django_setup.
1845 - Modified Dashboard latency graphs to indicate they only include dynamic
1847 - Fixed an issue where metadata queries did not support unicode characters.
1848 - Fixed an issue where HTTP headers could contain new line characters.
1849 - A warning message is shown when the Python version used to run the SDK is
1850 different than the Python version used in production.
1851 - Fixed an issue with Federated Users causing the Admin Console dataviewer to
1853 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=384
1854 - MacOS and Windows style newlines are now supported for logging in the SDK.
1855 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=560
1856 - Fixed an issue where sending mail with smtp_host set did not work.
1857 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=626
1858 - Fixed the file permissions for appinfo_errors.py and appinfo.py in the SDK.
1859 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=725
1860 - Fixed an issue deploying an app with version set to 0.
1861 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=735
1862 - Fixed an issue where the SDK allowed GET or DELETE with a body, which does
1863 not work in production.
1864 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=983
1865 - Fixed an issue where URLFetch/urllib did not work with MacOS and
1867 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=985
1868 - Fixed the an issue in the SDK where the mail body was incorrectly generated
1869 when the sendmail option was enabled.
1870 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1061
1871 - Fixed an issue in the SDK dataviewer where editing a ListProperty(db.Category)
1872 resulted in a BadValueError.
1873 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1139
1874 - Fixed an issue in the SDK where the signal module could be imported, as it
1876 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1150
1877 - Improved support for reserving an app id that is a canonicalized version of
1878 a user's Gmail address.
1879 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1196
1880 - Added a more useful error messages for unavailable App Ids.
1881 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1303
1882 - The SDK now uses hashlib instead of sha. Python 2.4 is no longer supported.
1883 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1334
1884 - Fixed an issue where images.composite() did not support PNG transparency in
1886 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1417
1887 - Added better error messages for cron.yaml parsing.
1888 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1490
1889 - Fixed an issue where uploading an index.yaml file with DOS line endings
1891 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1548
1892 - Fixed an issue where unicode characters in a script caused an error.
1893 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1675
1894 - Task Queue names can now include the "_" character.
1895 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1723
1896 - The sender of an email is no longer BCC'd when they are already included in
1898 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1907
1899 - Fixed an issue where non-string types were interpreted as strings when
1900 parsing the index.yaml file.
1901 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2158
1902 - Image API now supplies image format.
1903 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2308
1904 - Fixed webapp.request.get_range to work with default=None.
1905 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2363
1906 - Added a more helpful error message when trying to send email to a malformed
1908 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2386
1909 - The SDK now returns an error if the Content-length header is not included in a
1910 post request, matching production.
1911 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2512
1912 - Fixed an issue using URLFetch to fetch pages where the URL contained unicode.
1913 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2670
1914 - Fixed an issue where the SDK looked in the wrong folder for the SDK Version
1916 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3050
1917 - Fixed a webapp.Request get() issue where the default was not being properly
1918 returned when allow_multiple was set to True.
1919 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3235
1920 - Fixed an issue where handler.get_url did not work for non-default versions of
1922 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3300
1923 - Fixed an issue where X-AppEngine-TaskRetryCount did not increment in the SDK.
1924 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3501
1925 - Applied a user patch that partially fixed an issue where bulkloader resume
1927 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3581
1928 - Fixed a logging issue with the SDK BlobImageDispatcher.
1929 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3606
1930 - ListProperty now supports datetime.time and datetime.date, as documented.
1931 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3818
1932 - Fixed an issue where the Content-length header was being incorrectly stored as
1934 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3875
1935 - Fixed an issue where the Admin Console didn't keep the app version viewed
1936 consistent across actions.
1937 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4023
1938 - Fixed an issue using os.environ in appengine_config.py in the SDK.
1939 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4209
1940 - Fixed an issue where HTTP requests on the SDK where truncated if a semicolon
1941 was included in the request.
1942 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4241
1943 - Fixed an issue where images.get_serving_url() did not handle blob_info.key()
1945 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4346
1946 - Fixed an issue where checking for a new version caused the appcfg download_app
1948 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4553
1949 - Fixed a typo in the Admin Console on the New App page.
1950 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4620
1951 - Return a better error when a ReferenceProperty fails to resolve.
1952 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4626
1953 - Fixed an issue where sending mail from an app registered on the HR datastore
1954 required the app id be prefaced with s~.
1955 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4671
1956 - Fixed an issue where URLFetch with urllib over HTTPS didn't work.
1957 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4824
1961 =================================
1962 - Added Files API that allows writing to and reading from files in blobstore.
1963 - You can now specify cron execution for a time interval between a start and end
1965 - You can now configure the specific application version to which a task queue
1966 or cron job will send requests.
1967 - The Admin Console Task Queues page now displays a more accurate estimate of
1968 queue size for queues containing more than 2000 tasks.
1969 - The Prospective Search API (formerly named the Matcher API) is available for
1970 use by all applications. This API is still experimental, so applications will
1971 be limited to a maximum of 1000 subscriptions.
1972 - The Testbed API provides easy configuration of stub libraries for local
1974 - In the Images API, the quality parameter was added to the resize, rotate,
1975 horizontal_flip, vertical_flip, crop and im_feeling_lucky methods.
1976 - Fixed an issue where static file serving in the dev_appserver didn't support
1978 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=368
1979 - An error is now raised when the script mapping in the app.yaml file is missing
1980 the .py file extension.
1981 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=976
1982 - Fixed an issue where no link was displayed in the Admin Console blobstore
1983 viewer for an unnamed blob.
1984 - Fixed an issue where the Admin Console data viewer couldn't edit entities
1985 with ByteString properties.
1986 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2367
1987 - Fixed an issue where the Admin Console crashed when using a non-ascii
1989 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2451
1990 - Fixed an issue filtering on __key__ while using the --use_sqlite option with
1992 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3232
1993 - The Disable Application admin function has been button-ized.
1994 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4323
1995 - Fixed an SDK issue where debugging logging wouldn't correctly print URLFetch
1997 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=783
1998 - Fixed an SDK issue where an incompatible line ending was used on blob upload.
1999 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3328
2000 - Added more graceful handling of the missing mapreduce.yaml file when the user
2001 has enabled the Datastore Admin but is not otherwise using the MapReduce
2003 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3903
2004 - Fixed an issue where the method webapp_add_wsgi_middleware was no longer
2006 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4236
2009 ================================
2010 - The XMPP API was updated to include presence and allow subscriptions.
2011 - The Task Queue now supports programmatic deleting of tasks.
2012 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2588
2013 - The maximum rate per queue at which tasks are processed has been increased to
2014 100 tasks per second.
2015 - The maximum number of concurrent requests for a single queue can be specified
2016 in the application's queue.yaml. This provides an additional easy-to-use form
2017 of rate limiting. The current number of running tasks is also displayed in
2019 - Metadata queries in the Datastore now support cursors.
2020 - Admin Console logs viewer now displays time as YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.mmm.
2021 - The Mail API added KML and KMZ files as allowed attachments.
2022 - Added support for verifying the server SSL certificate when making a
2023 URLFetch request to an HTTPS URL. This will become the default in a future
2025 - Added a warning when an admin tries to upload a queue.yaml where the number
2026 of new queues and the number of disabled queues exceeds 100.
2027 - Django 1.2.5 is available via use of the use_library() declaration. This
2028 version of Django has also been added to the Python SDK.
2029 - Added builtin support for the deferred library.
2030 - If Python Precompilation fails, an error will be printed but the app will
2032 - Added a --disable_sdk_update_check command line flag to the dev_appserver.
2033 - Fixed an issue where the datastore copy functionality did not work if writes
2034 were disabled on the source application.
2035 - Fixed an issue where mail from @appid.appspotmail.com did not work when
2036 sending mail to app admins.
2037 - Fixed an issue where the dev_appserver URLFetch API limit was 16MB. It is now
2038 32 MB to match production.
2039 - Fixed a zipimport issue on Windows which was not working due to path
2041 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2086
2042 - Fixed an issue where the SDK did not enforce the 100 task limit for the Task
2044 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3296
2045 - Fixed an issue where Query.order() was broken for properties with the 'name'
2047 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3693
2048 - Fixed an unhelpful error message in the Python namespace_manager.
2049 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3931
2053 ================================
2054 - During application creation, developers can choose between two Datastore
2055 configurations: High Replication or Master/Slave.
2056 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/datastore/hr/#Selecting_a_Datastore
2057 - You can set your application's datastore to read-only mode in the Admin
2058 Console. Any writes attempted while the app is set to read-only will throw a
2059 CapabilityDisabledError. This feature can be helpful for migrating or copying
2060 data between two applications.
2061 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/adminconsole/applicationsettings.html#Disable_Datastore_Writes
2062 - The Datastore Admin tool has been updated to allow copying of one app's
2063 datastore to another. The destination app must have the Remote API enabled.
2064 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/adminconsole/datastoreadmin.html
2065 - The deadline for offline URL Fetch API requests for Python and Java have been
2066 increased to a maximum of 10 minutes. The default deadline for offline
2067 URL Fetch requests remains the same.
2068 - Fixed an issue where an AttributeError was occasionally thrown on a datastore
2070 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4196
2073 ================================
2074 - The Always On feature allows applications to pay and keep 3 instances of their
2075 application always running, which can significantly reduce application
2077 - Developers can now enable Warmup Requests. By specifying a handler in an
2078 app's app.yaml, App Engine will attempt to send a Warmup Request to initialize
2079 new instances before a user interacts with it. This can reduce the latency an
2080 end-user sees for initializing your application.
2081 - The Channel API is now available for all users.
2082 - Task Queue has been officially released, and is no longer an experimental
2083 feature. The API import paths that use 'labs' have been deprecated. Task queue
2084 storage will count towards an application's overall storage quota, and will
2085 thus be charged for.
2086 - The deadline for Task Queue and Cron requests has been raised to 10 minutes.
2087 Datastore and API deadlines within those requests remain unchanged.
2088 - For the Task Queue, developers can specify task retry_parameters in their
2090 - Apps that have enabled billing are allowed up to 100 queues with the Task
2092 - Metadata Queries on the datastore for datastore kinds, namespaces, and entity
2093 properties are available.
2094 - URLFetch allowed response size has been increased, up to 32 MB. Request size
2095 is still limited to 1 MB.
2096 - The request and response sizes for the Images API have been increased to
2098 - The total size of Memcache batch operations is increased to 32 MB. The 1 MB
2099 limit on individual Memcache objects still applies.
2100 - The attachment size for outgoing emails has been increased from 1 MB to 10 MB.
2101 The size limit for incoming emails is still 10 MB.
2102 - Size and quantity limits on datastore batch get/put/delete operations have
2103 been removed. Individual entities are still limited to 1 MB, but your app may
2104 batch as many entities together for get/put/delete calls as the overall
2105 datastore deadline will allow for.
2106 - When iterating over query results, the datastore will now asynchronously
2107 prefetch results, reducing latency in many cases by 10-15%.
2108 - The Admin Console Blacklist page lists the top blacklist rejected visitors.
2109 - The automatic image thumbnailing service supports arbitrary crop sizes up to
2111 - Overall average instance latency in the Admin Console is now a weighted
2112 average over QPS per instance.
2113 - The developer who uploaded an app version can download that version's code
2114 using the appcfg.py download_app command. This feature can be disabled on
2115 a per application basis in the admin console, under the 'Permissions' tab.
2116 Once disabled, code download for the application CANNOT be re-enabled.
2117 - Fixed an issue where custom Admin Console pages did not work for Google
2118 Apps for your Domain users.
2119 - In the Python runtime, an instance is killed and restarted when a request
2120 handler hits DeadlineExceededError. This should fix an issue related to
2121 intermittent SystemErrors using Django.
2122 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=772
2123 - Allow Django initialization to be moved to appengine_config.py to avoid
2124 Django version conflicts when mixing webapp.template with pure Django.
2125 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1758
2126 - Fixed an issue with OpenId over SSL.
2127 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3393
2128 - Fixed an issue on the dev_appserver where login/logout code didn't work using
2130 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3566
2131 - Fixed an issue in the dev_appserver where get_serving_url did not work
2132 for transparent, cropped PNGs:
2133 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3887
2134 - Fixed an issue with the DatastoreFileStub.
2135 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3895
2138 ==================================
2139 - Builtin app.yaml handlers are available for common application functions,
2141 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/config/appconfig.html#Builtin_Handlers
2142 - The Admin Console now provides an experimental tool to delete all entities in
2143 the datastore or all entities of a given type. This is available only if
2144 enabled using the datastore_admin builtin. Deleting entities will count
2145 against application quota.
2146 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/datastore/creatinggettinganddeletingdata.html#Deleting_Entities_in_Bulk
2147 - You can run task queue tasks immediately from the Admin Console.
2148 - You can now specify the quality of JPEG images via the Image API's
2149 execute_transforms function. Available in production only.
2150 - Support for login of multiple Google accounts within an app, and longer login
2151 sessions. For more information see:
2152 http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?answer=181599
2153 - In queue.yaml, the maximum allowed bucket size is now 100.
2154 - Precompilation is now enabled by default. To disable, use the
2155 --no_precompilation flag when updating your app.
2156 - BlobInfo now has an open() method that returns a BlobReader.
2157 - BlobReader now accepts a BlobInfo.
2158 - Removed limits on zigzag merge-join queries. Therefore the error "The built-in
2159 indices are not efficient enough for this query and your data. Please add a
2160 composite index for this query." will no longer be thrown in most cases,
2161 enabling more types of queries without indexes.
2162 - Fixed an issue with task queue tasks not running on the dev_appserver when
2164 - Fixed an issue on the dev_appserver where auto task running wasn't working for
2166 - Fixed an issue reserving App Ids by owners of similarly-named mails accounts
2167 containing periods, multiple cases, and googlemail.com address.
2168 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1196
2169 - Fixed an issue on the development server where PNGs were being returned as
2171 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3661
2174 ===============================
2175 - Fix an issue where namespace_manager.google_apps_namespace() was not included
2176 in the 1.3.6 release.
2179 =================================
2180 - Multitenancy is now supported in the datastore, allowing better
2181 compartmentalization of user data.
2182 - Automatic image thumbnailing is now available in the Images API using
2184 - Users can now serve custom static error pages for over_quota, dos_api_denial
2186 - Results of datastore count() queries and offsets for all datastore queries
2187 are no longer capped at 1000.
2188 - Added a pause queue button to the task queue details page in the Admin
2190 - Historical graphs have been added to all of the dashboard graphs in the Admin
2192 - Content-range headers are supported on Blobstore downloads.
2193 - Remote API now supports the Blobstore API.
2194 - New method to allocate datastore ids in a given range: db.allocate_id_range().
2195 - New db method is_in_transaction() determines if a transaction is still open.
2196 - Increased several rate limited quotas for free applications.
2197 - Fixed an issue in db.py where unindexed property lists for user-specified
2198 property names were ignored.
2199 - Fixed an issue where the task queue uses local time instead of UTC time to
2201 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2508
2202 - Fixed an issue in the SDK with datastore cursors being too large.
2203 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3152
2206 =================================
2207 - Developers can enable Python pre-compilation to decrease start up time for
2208 new application instances. This can be enabled by including the
2209 derived_file_type in your app.yaml.
2210 - Ability to configure the Task Queue storage limit with the
2211 total_storage_limit field in the queue.yaml file.
2212 - Task Queues now support up to 50 qps per queue, up from 50 qps per app.
2213 - Developers can programmatically access Blobs with BlobReader, a file-like
2214 interface for reading blobs.
2215 - Bulkloader transform helpers for lists and hierarchical keys were added.
2216 - remote_api_shell commands can be sent over HTTPS or HTTP.
2217 - Admin Console logs now include information on request time latency.
2218 - Db.delete will now accept an iterable, in addition to a list of models or
2220 - The datastore now supports end cursors.
2221 - Fixed an issue properly handling a query with an offset that returns no
2223 - Fixed an issue that improperly allowed quad-dotted netmasks as subnet prefixes
2225 - Fixed an issue via user submitted patch in the SDK dataviewer displaying
2226 multiline StringProperties.
2227 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=502
2230 =================================
2231 - New bulkloader configuration syntax and wizard for easier import/export with
2233 - Applications can now be configured to authenticate with OpenID by selecting
2234 the OpenID option when creating your application in the admin console.
2235 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=248
2236 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=56
2237 - New API to allow App Engine apps to act as OAuth service providers.
2238 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=919
2239 - Auto task execution is now enabled in the dev_appserver. To turn this off
2240 use the flag --disable_task_running.
2241 - Fixed an issue using db.put() with constructor initialized id based keys.
2242 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3209
2245 =================================
2246 - A new experimental feature allows you to set dev_appserver datastore file
2247 stub to use sqlite. To enable, set the flag --use_sqlite=true.
2248 - It is now possible to implement properties on db.Expando.
2249 - Fixed a datastore issue where an error was thrown when setting a query offset
2250 to more than the number of results throws an error.
2251 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2875
2252 - Fixed issue not allowing ByteString type to be viewed in the Development
2253 Console datastore viewer.
2254 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1176
2257 =================================
2258 - New API to read the contents of uploaded Blobs (fetch_data)
2259 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2536
2260 - URLFetch now supports accessing ports 80-90, 440-450, and 1024-65535
2261 - Mail API now allows common document formats as attachments
2262 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=494
2263 - The Task Queue API now supports adding multiple tasks in a single call to
2265 - Fixed charset handling for inbound emails
2266 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2326
2267 - Fixed issue with compositing background colors in dev_appserver
2268 - New feature in the datastore to specify whether to use strong or eventually
2269 consistent reads (the default is strong)
2270 - New datastore feature allows setting deadlines for operations
2271 - Increased the maximum Task Queue refill rate from 20/s to 50/s
2272 - Support for IP blacklisting to prevent denial of service (DoS) attacks
2273 - Fix an issue with Mac Launcher in Mac OSX 10.5.5
2274 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=778
2275 - Fix issue with slow updates when there are many skipped files
2276 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2492
2277 - Fix issue with cursor not updating when using a GqlQuery
2278 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2757
2281 ================================
2282 - Datastore Query Cursors
2283 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/datastore/queriesandindexes.html#Query_Cursors
2284 - Transactional Task Creation
2285 - Support for Custom Admin Console pages
2286 - New "month" and "synchronized" syntax for Cron configuration
2287 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/config/cron.html
2288 - Application Stats library now included in with SDK
2289 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/tools/appstats.html
2290 - Bulk Loader supports bulk downloading all kinds simultaneously
2291 - appcfg.py validates SSL certificates for HTTPS on Upload
2292 - Support for ETags, If-matches, If-not-matches HTTP Headers, as well as 304
2293 status codes now available on static files (not available on the
2294 dev_appserver or Blobstore blobs)
2295 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=575
2297 Version 1.3.0 - December 14, 2009
2298 ================================
2299 - Adds support for the new Blobstore API
2301 Version 1.2.8 - October 28, 2009
2302 ================================
2303 - New memcache offset_multi method and batch support in incr and decr.
2304 - Urlfetch Response object now contains final_url of 302 redirects.
2305 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1464
2306 - Additional file extensions permitted when sending mail.
2307 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=494
2308 - Fixed issue decoding messages for incoming mail.
2309 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2289
2310 - Fixed issue with datastore list properties containing both blob (or text)
2311 and non-blob values.
2312 - Admin console includes more information about indexes being built.
2313 - Fixed Users API usage with remote_api
2314 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1205
2315 - Fixed issue with IN queries in remote_api
2316 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1986
2317 - Bulk Loader --dump and --restore now work across app IDs.
2318 - Bulk Loader --restore works with numeric IDs.
2319 - Bulk Loader exporter maps __key__ property to the entity key.
2320 - Fixed issue in Bulk Loader with missing properties on export.
2321 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2068
2322 - Fixed issue in Bulk Loader with line breaks in data.
2323 - Fixed exception in Bulk Loader with certain data ranges.
2324 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2085
2325 - Added SERVER_SOFTWARE environment variable to runtime.
2326 - Over Quota HTTP status code changed from 403 to 503
2327 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=961
2328 - Task Queue now considers all HTTP 2xx status codes to represent success
2329 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1779
2330 - Task Queue now supports purging all tasks in a queue from the Admin Console.
2331 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2159
2332 - Task Queue now supports deleting a non-empty queue from the Admin Console.
2333 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1740
2334 - New "auth_fail_action: unauthorized" option in app.yaml: when present, a
2335 401 status code will be returned instead of a 302 redirect to the Google
2336 Accounts login page for pages with login: required. [Python only for now]
2339 Version 1.2.7 - October 14, 2009
2340 ================================
2341 - Changed the 'key' parameter to Model.__init__ to be keyword only.
2342 - Fixed taskqueue import in Remote API.
2343 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2259
2346 Version 1.2.6 - September 17, 2009
2347 ==================================
2348 - Added incoming email support.
2349 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=165
2350 - Remote API now supports XMPP and task queues.
2351 - The default for all handlers is now secure: optional. Users can
2352 now access all pages via SSL unless explicitly disallowed.
2353 - Remote API now supports HTTPS.
2354 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1461
2355 - Appcfg now uses https by default.
2356 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=794
2357 - Appcfg.py now supports the --application and --version flags to
2358 override the values specified in app.yaml.
2359 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=670
2360 - GQL now supports '= NULL' queries.
2361 - The db.Model constructor now supports explicitly setting a key
2362 (and thus an id) for a Model instance.
2363 - New Datastore stats api. Stats are also visible in the admin console.
2364 - Bulkloader dump and restore now supports restoring to a different
2365 app id and restoring numeric keys.
2368 Version 1.2.5 - August 13, 2009
2369 ===============================
2370 - The Windows Python SDK now includes a GUI launcher, similar to the Mac SDK.
2371 - Added XMPP support.
2372 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/xmpp
2373 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=231
2374 - Datastore now supports multiple writes to the same entity within a
2376 - Datastore entity key names can now start with a digit.
2377 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1352
2378 - Datastore now supports ancestor + kind queries without a composite index
2379 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1003
2380 - Bulkloader now supports configurationless dump and restore with new
2381 --dump and --restore options.
2382 - Bulkloader now supports a --dry_run flag to testing data prior to uploading.
2383 - Appcfg.py now allows specifying any end date for request_logs.
2384 - Urlfetch now allows setting the Referer header.
2385 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=445
2386 - Urlfetch stub now correctly handles HEAD requests.
2387 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=866
2388 - New remote_api_shell tool for interactive remote_api operations.
2389 - New google.ext.ereporter module to collect and email exception reports.
2390 - New google.ext.deferred module to execute ad-hoc tasks on the Task Queue.
2392 Version 1.2.4 - July 16, 2009
2393 =============================
2394 - Added support for kindless queries, ie. transaction descendant queries.
2395 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=913
2396 - Composite indexes no longer required for certain types of key queries.
2397 - Improved exception reporting in the bulkloader.
2398 - Datastore transaction RPC sent at beginning of transaction rather than
2399 upon first Datastore request.
2400 - PolyModel supports keys_only query.
2401 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1630
2402 - Remote API supports more API's (Images, Memcache and URLFetch).
2403 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1596
2405 - Support for multiple inheritance for Model and PolyModel.
2406 - Enhancement to SearchableModel allowing multiple properties to be
2408 - Various code quality improvements.
2410 Version 1.2.3 - June 1, 2009
2411 ============================
2413 - Task Queue support available as google.appengine.api.labs.taskqueue.
2414 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/taskqueue
2415 - Django 1.0 support. You must install Django locally on your machine
2416 for the SDK but no longer need to upload it to App Engine.
2417 from google.appengine.dist import use_library
2418 use_library('django', '1.0')
2419 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=872
2420 - Urlfetch supports asynchronous requests.
2421 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=958
2422 - Urlfetch in SDK now matches App Engine more closely:
2423 By default, it now sets the referer header, does not set the Accept
2424 header, and sets Accept-Encoding to gzip.
2425 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=970
2426 - Fixed issue with httplib and absolute URLs.
2427 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1311
2428 - Memcache key length is no longer restricted to 250 bytes: longer keys
2429 will be replaced with a hash of the key.
2430 - Datastore ancestor queries now work within transactions.
2431 - Datastore transactions in SDK now snapshot on the first operation so they
2432 do not see writes made during the transaction. Matches App Engine.
2434 Version 1.2.2 - April 22, 2009
2435 ==============================
2437 - New quota API which returns the CPU usage of the current request.
2438 from google.appengine.api import quota
2439 cpu_usage_so_far = quota.get_request_cpu_usage()
2440 - Urlfetch fetch now has support for user configurable deadlines.
2441 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=79
2442 - Urlfetch in the SDK allows the Accept-Encoding header to match App Engine.
2443 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1071
2444 - urllib now supports HTTPS in addition to HTTP
2445 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1156
2446 - Datastore indexes on single properties can now be disabled by setting
2447 indexed=False on the property constructor.
2448 - Datastore now supports Key-only queries, using either SELECT __key__ or
2449 or db.Query(Model, keys_only=True)
2450 - Fixed issues with Datastore IN filters and sorting: sort order is now
2451 correct, and can be used with __key__.
2452 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1100
2453 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1016
2454 - Cron supports additional time specification formats.
2455 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1261
2456 - Fixed an issue in the dev_appserver admin console datastore viewer
2457 (/_ah/admin/datastore) with sorting columns containing None types.
2458 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1007
2459 - Bulk Loader improvements: New appcfg download_data command.
2460 Better backoff support and debugging output for long requests.
2461 - New --vhost flag on appcfg.py request_logs command to select logs for
2463 - Python _ast module is now available for import
2464 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=779
2465 - Fixed issue with the color argument of the Images API composite method.
2467 Version 1.2.1 - April 13, 2009
2468 =============================
2470 - Stable, unique IDs for User objects. The Users service now
2471 provides a unique user_id for each user that stays the same even
2472 if a user changes her email address.
2473 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1019
2474 - The Images API now supports compositing images and calculating
2475 a color histogram for an image.
2476 - New allowed mail attachment types: ics, vcf
2477 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=494
2478 - Urlfetch requests can now set the User-Agent header.
2479 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=342
2480 - An App Engine-specific version of the Python PyCrypto cryptography
2481 library is now available. Learn more at
2482 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/tools/libraries.html
2483 - The bulk loader configuration format has changed.to allow non-CSV
2484 input. This change is not backwards compatible, so you will need to
2486 An early release of the bulk downloader is also now available in
2487 bulkloader.py. Learn more about these changes at:
2488 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/tools/uploadingdata.html
2489 - Fixed parsing of unicode GQL queries.
2490 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1105
2491 - Fixed dev_appserver security restrictions for os.path
2492 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1068
2493 - Fixed Reply-To header set in emails sent from dev_appserver.
2494 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1017
2497 Version 1.2.0 - March 24, 2009
2498 ==============================
2499 - Cron support. Appcfg.py will upload the schedule to App Engine.
2500 The dev_appserver console at /_ah/admin describes your schedule but does
2501 not automatically run scheduled jobs. Learn more at
2502 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/config/cron.html
2503 - New allow_skipped_files flag in dev_appserver to allow it to read files
2504 which are not available in App Engine.
2505 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=550
2506 - New upload_data command in appcfg to run the bulk uploader.
2507 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/tools/uploadingdata.html
2509 Version 1.1.9 - February 2, 2009
2510 ================================
2512 - HTTP Request and Response limit raised to 10MB from 1MB.
2513 Note that API call limits remain at 1MB.
2514 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=78
2515 - urllib and urllib2 now available, implemented using urlfetch.
2516 Also adds additional stubs which may enable other modules.
2517 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=61
2518 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=68
2519 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=572
2520 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=821
2521 - Early release of a new data bulk upload tool, bulkloader.py
2522 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/tools/uploadingdata.html
2523 - New remote_api for datastore at google.appengine.ext.remote_api
2524 - Single property descending indexes are automatically generated.
2525 - Added db.Query support for IN and != operators.
2526 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=751
2527 - Fixed issue where gql date/time parsing could not handle Unicode strings.
2528 - Fixed issue with db model instance key() returning the wrong key for
2529 unsaved instances with parent as key
2530 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=883
2531 - New run_in_transaction_custom_retries method for datastore.
2532 - Fixed issue with relative dev_appserver datastore and history paths.
2533 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=845
2534 - Static files and skipped files are not readable in dev_appserver, to match
2535 the behavior on App Engine.
2536 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=550
2537 - Images API allows multiple transforms of the same type in one request. A
2538 limit of 10 total transforms per request has been added.
2539 - PIL import will work with both PIL.Image and Image.
2540 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=929
2541 - Fixed an issue with sending email in dev_appserver when the application
2543 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=182
2544 - Memcache counters (incr/decr) do nothing on non positive integers to match
2545 the behavior on App Engine.
2546 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=918
2548 Version 1.1.8 - January 7, 2008
2549 =================================
2550 - Skip_files RegexStr validator allows lists to for regex-ors.
2551 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=81
2552 - sys.path and sys.argv are no longer reset for each request.
2553 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=772
2554 - New ByteString data type for the datastore. Indexed non-text short-blob.
2555 - UserProperty now takes auto_current_user and auto_current_user_add
2557 - Support for polymorphic models and queries.
2558 - db.Model.order() now supports __key__.
2559 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=884
2560 - Urlfetch no longer sets content-length: 0 when there is no body.
2561 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=817
2562 - Get height and width of an image via the Images API.
2563 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=435
2564 - Limit auto-Bcc of email sender to the case where the email sender is the
2565 currently-logged-in user.
2566 - Adds limit of 100 order/filters on datastore query size to the SDK.
2567 - Fix unicode support for the bulkloader
2568 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=157
2569 - Bulkload.py from the appengine/tools directory to the appengine/ directory
2570 - Modify webapp to use logging.exception instead of logging.error.
2571 - Additional fixes to SDK sanitizing response headers to match production.
2572 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=198
2574 Version 1.1.7 - November 20, 2008
2575 =================================
2576 - Fixed an issue with urlfetch response headers.
2577 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=877
2579 Version 1.1.6 - November 17, 2008
2580 =================================
2582 - Datastore now supports filtering and sorting on the __key__ special
2583 property, which evaluates to each entity's key.
2584 - Fixed a bug where it was possible to append None to ListProperty.
2585 - Datastore appengine.ext.db models allow deletion by key without
2586 instantiating a model instance.
2587 - Datastore models allow access to key name before put() if key_name given.
2588 - Datastore fetch max results and max query offset match production limits.
2589 - Fixed an issue in production where query fails with NeedIndexError when
2590 a model has two ancestor indexes.
2591 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=423
2592 - Allow trailing whitespace in PropertyValueFromString for datetime.
2593 - Fixed to_xml on models with binary data in a BlobProperty: they now
2595 Note: This changes XML serialization.
2596 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=430
2597 - Fixed an issue with setting expando attributes.
2598 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=431
2599 - Fixed an issue where TypeError was raised instead of NeedIndexError for
2600 "merge join" queries, i.e. queries with only equals filters and no ancestor
2601 or sort orders, that still need an index.
2602 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=749
2603 - URLFetch in the SDK now has the same 5 second timeout to match production.
2604 - URLFetch response headers are combined
2605 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=412
2606 - URLFetch now uses original method when following a redirect.
2607 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=363
2608 - URLFetch logs a warning when using a non standard port.
2609 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=436
2610 - URLFetch allows integers as values in request headers.
2611 - Enforce response size and API request size limits to match production.
2612 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=447
2613 - SDK sanitizes response headers to match production
2614 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=198
2615 - Login URLs now require login in the SDK to match production.
2616 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=53
2617 - Fixed an issue with long URLs in HTTP 302 redirect responses.
2618 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=407
2619 - Fixed an issue with regular expressions in static_files in app.yaml
2620 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=711
2621 - SDK only allows "C" locale to match production.
2622 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=356
2623 - Support the bufsize positional arg in open()/file().
2624 - lstat is aliased to stat.
2625 - appcfg handles index building errors more gracefully.
2626 - Fixed an issue with symlinks in the path to the Python core libraries.
2629 Version 1.1.5 - September 29, 2008
2630 ==================================
2632 - Additional fixes for file paths on Windows and OSX.
2633 - Sped up the datastore stub.
2634 - Allow different types in list properties in datastore.Entity and Expando.
2635 - Add add_multi and replace_multi to memcache API.
2636 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/memcache/clientclass.html#Client_add_multi
2637 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/memcache/clientclass.html#Client_replace_multi
2638 - Ignore errors from the API proxy when calling memcache read methods.
2639 - Set the webapp Request charset property more accurately from CONTENT_TYPE.
2640 - Fixed an issue in the development console with schema caching.
2641 - Fixed an issue with StringListProperty not returning a class
2642 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=415
2643 - Fixed an issue in the development console where quotes couldn't be used
2645 - Fixed an issue with TimeProperty("0:0") (midnight).
2646 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=279
2648 Version 1.1.4 - September 26, 2008
2649 ==================================
2651 - Fixed issue with incorrectly escaping static_files paths on Windows.
2652 - Workaround -inf not being supported on Windows in Datastore.
2654 Version 1.1.3 - September 8, 2008
2655 =================================
2657 - Added support for zipimport.
2658 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=70
2659 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=161
2660 - Added zipserve module for serving static content from a zip file.
2661 See google/appengine/ext/zipserve/__init__.py for more information.
2662 - Added a memcache viewer to the development console.
2663 http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/thedevwebserver.html#The_Development_Console
2664 - Added new follow_redirects flag to the URLFetch service.
2665 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=404
2666 - Fixed caching headers for static content.
2667 - Fixed an issue with incorrectly escaping paths on Windows.
2668 - Fixed an issue with the current directory while running applications.
2670 Version 1.1.2 - August 20, 2008
2671 ===============================
2673 - Batch puts across Datastore entity groups.
2674 - Transaction retries reduced from 10 to 3.
2675 - Fixed certain transaction failures being silent.
2676 - Added support for indexes with a single repeated property.
2678 Version 1.1.1 - July 21, 2008
2679 =============================
2681 - Fixed DELETE for URLFetch on dev_appserver.
2682 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=566
2683 - Fixed PATH_INFO to be un-escaped version of the path.
2684 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=267
2685 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=457
2686 - Fixed order function testing for property on Expando class.
2687 - Support all mail attachment mime-types under Windows.
2688 - Added support for date and time objects to GQL.
2689 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=318
2690 - Fixed memcache KeyError problem.
2691 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=417
2692 - Default URLFetch POST content-type is x-www-form-urlencoded.
2693 - Fixed problems where global variables would be set to None
2694 when a request raised an exception or returned an error
2696 - Added support for GIFs and JPEG using PIL.
2697 - Added support for type conversion of literals to GQL.
2698 - Added support for pickling Expando instances.
2699 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=545
2700 - Added APPLICATION_ID environment variable to runtime.
2701 - Added support for key_name to djangoforms.
2702 - Added ability to put multiple transaction groups in one request
2703 outside of transactions.
2704 - Added support for downloading request logs using appcfg.
2705 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=76
2706 - Fixed DateProperty not supporting values before 1970 and beyond
2708 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=352
2709 - Set cap of 5000 indexed properties per entity.
2710 - GoogleAppEngineLauncher now has context menus in the main project
2712 - UI improvements to GoogleAppEngineLauncher preferences window.
2713 - Fixed GoogleAppEngineLauncher broken symlink for bulk_uploadclient.
2715 Version 1.1.0 - May 28, 2008
2716 ============================
2718 - Added an API for image manipulation.
2719 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=38
2720 - Added memcache API.
2721 - Fixed URLFetch for URLs with query strings.
2722 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=341
2723 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=346
2724 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=369
2725 - Added support for multiple values for the same filter string.
2726 - Fixed URLFetch's referrer to now set itself to the application's
2728 - Added --show_mail_body flag to dev_appserver.py.
2729 - Added support for IN and != to GQL.
2730 - Fixed URLFetch to accept strings as well as constant integers.
2731 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=234
2732 - Added CURRENT_VERSION_ID environment variable.
2733 - Fixed uploading issues affecting @googlemail.com developers.
2734 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=119
2735 - Fixed Datastore API to allow the assignment of [] to non-dynamic
2737 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=276
2738 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=254
2739 - Fixed NeedIndexError to include the index that the query needed.
2741 Version 1.0.2 - May 15, 2008
2742 ============================
2744 - Fixed UTC timezone issue on Windows.
2745 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=131
2746 - Fixed webapp template cache bug.
2747 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=273
2748 - URLFetch service redirect behavior now matches deployed behavior.
2749 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=84
2750 - Better handling of bad HOMEDRIVE parameters on Windows.
2751 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=27
2752 - Fixed HTTP response header termination.
2753 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=209
2754 - Fixed behavior with source files that have Windows line-endings or
2755 missing line-endings.
2756 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=237
2757 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=258
2758 - Fixed C-Extension module loading issues.
2759 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=95
2760 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=83
2761 - Fixed Windows DLL extension loading issues.
2762 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=222
2763 - Added missing os.uname function.
2764 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=186
2765 - Windows installer can now over-install.
2766 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=241
2767 - Windows installer now allows installation even if it can't find Python.
2768 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5
2769 - Fixed skip_files exception.
2770 http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=80
2771 - Better error handling for cookie-file related problems.
2772 - User platform, SDK version, and Python version are now supplied to
2773 server-side on deployment; also supplied on dev_appserver start-up
2774 if the "nag" is enabled.
2777 Version 1.0.1 - April 14, 2008
2778 ==============================
2780 - Fixed app.yaml static_dir attribute on Windows.
2781 - Fixed uploading large files on OSX.
2782 - Fixed recursion issue in webapp template rendering cache.
2783 - Fixed MacPorts installation.