AppScale 1.6.9 Released!

[Chris Bunch]

Hi all,
   We're happy to announce the release of AppScale 1.6.9! After two weeks of development and one week of QA, we're happy to have fixed the following bugs:

- Cross group (XG) transactions for Python and Java App Engine apps
- Java XMPP support
- Spot instance support when running over Amazon EC2

- Automatic price estimation algorithm for spot instance support
- Robustness fixes for ZooKeeper interface

- Transactional task support for Python App Engine apps
- Memcache increment / decrement in Java App Engine

- Fixes for Python App Engine Channel API
- Have god monitor HAProxy


- NTP sync for VMs in AppScale deployments
- 'appscale deploy' now works for relative app paths


- Deferred task support
- Increased validation on AppScalefile
- Rebranded continue URL page

- "appscale clean" command, to terminate AppScale on all nodes
- Fixed "submit issue" button on dashboard

- Added support for environment variables in app.yaml files
- Starting AppMonitoring service in EC2 correctly

As usual, we have both the source and public AMI available. Here are some links:

The main source, at https://github.com/AppScale/AppScale
The tools source, at https://github.com/appscale/appscale-tools
A public Amazon EC2 ami, ami-4e472227

Links for KVM, VirtualBox, and Eucalyptus images can be found at http://downloads.appscale.com

We're continuing with two weeks of development and one week of QA for the next sprint, and are prioritizing our product backlog to determine the issues to tackle. For that release (1.7.0), we have a new Trello board (https://trello.com/board/1-7-0/515f17ce976f70e80e0049db), so join us and see what we're up to!

Of course, file any bugs you run into at https://github.com/AppScale/AppScale/issues for the main source and https://github.com/appscale/appscale-tools/issues for the tools source so that we can prioritize them and address them. You can also find us on #appscale on freenode if you run into problems or the like.

And as always, thanks for using AppScale!

[Moussa Jimi]

Hi Chris
Congratulations for this great work, I wish you good luck to develop better than that :)