1.7.3 Pre-release SDKs Available

[Richmond Manzana]

Hi,

We've posted the pre-release SDKs for Python and Java here:

http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/downloads/list

Pre-Release notes below.

Cheers,

Rich

App Engine Python SDK - Release Notes

Version 1.7.3

===============================

- Django 1.4 is now supported in Python 2.7

- The file-based implementation of the Datastore stub will be deprecated soon.

  A warning message informing users that SQLLite stub will be the default

  stub soon is now displayed.

- Datastore Index stats now report type instead of representation-type.

- Rich sort expressions beyond single field names are now supported in the

  Search API for dev_appserver.

- search.MIN_NUMBER_VALUE and search.MAX_NUMBER_VALUE are now public in the

  Search API.

- Globally Consistent Indexes are now deprecated in the Search API.

- Index.list_documents() has been deprecated and replaced with

  Index.get_range() in the Search API.

- search.list_indexes() has been deprecated and replaced with

  search.get_indexes() in the Search API.

- Added method Index.get(doc_id) to get a document by its ID in the Search API

- Index.add() has been deprecated and renamed to Index.put() in the Search API.

- Index.remove() has been deprecated and renamed to Index.delete() in the

  Search API.

- The AddDocumentError and RemoveDocumentError classes, which were already

  deprecated, have been removed from the Search API.

- OperationCode.object_id and OperationCode.document_id, which were already

  deprecated, have been removed from the Search API.

- Users can now change authentication options after app creation

    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=483

- Fixed an issue with Datastore backup/restore finalization steps only looking

  at the default queue in Admin Console.

- Fixed an NDB issue with Structured Properties not converting dict properly.

    http://code.google.com/p/appengine-ndb-experiment/issues/detail?id=207

- Fixed an NDB issue where multiple async transactions corrupt old

  Datastore connections.

    http://code.google.com/p/appengine-ndb-experiment/issues/detail?id=209

- Fixed an NDB issue with fetch() with offset > 1000 returning an empty list.

    http://code.google.com/p/appengine-ndb-experiment/issues/detail?id=210

- Fixed an issue with 2 factor authentication not giving useful error messages.

    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8020

- Fixed an issue in the Search API snippeting breaking if the field contains

  a single word in dev_appserver.

    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8171

- Fixed an issue with PyCrypto AES cipher not running on dev_appserver.

    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8188

App Engine Java SDK - Release Notes

Version 1.7.3

=============

- We encourage you to try and test your application using Java 7 and App

  Engine SDK. Note that Java 7 is *not* a supported runtime.

- Java 7 Features that we encourage you to try in dev appserver:

    Strings in switch

    Binary integral literals and underscores in number literals

    Multi-catch and more precise rethrow

    Improved type inference for generic instance creation (diamond)

    try-with-resources statement

    Simplified varargs method invocation

- Java 7 features that are NOT supported:

    All new Java 7 classes (the Google App Engine whitelist has not been

    updated yet)

    Method Handles

    Invoke Dynamic bytecode

- InetAddress name resolution now displays UnknownHostException instead of a

  runtime exception error when the host is unknown.

- Datastore Index stats now report type instead of representation-type.

- Class Loading Priority can now be granted to specific JAR files by adding

  class-loader-config element in appengine-web.xml file. This is an

  experimental feature.

- Queries with transactions are now fully checked for consistency in Remote

  API.

- Global Consistent Indexes are now deprecated in the Search API.

- ListResponse<Document> listDocuments(ListRequest) has been deprecated and

  replaced with GetResponse<Document> getRange(GetRequest) in the Search API.

- ListIndexesReponse listIndexes(ListIndexesRequest) has been deprecated and

  replaced with GetResponse<Index> getIndexes(GetIndexesRequest) in the Search

  API.

- getField(String) has been deprecated and aliased to getFields(String) in the

  Search API.

- AddResponse Index.add() has been deprecated and renamed to PutResponse

  Index.put() in the Search API.

- RemoveResponse Index.remove() has been deprecated and renamed to

  DeleteReponse Index.delete() in the Search API.

- Users can now change authentication options after app creation

    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=483

- Fixed an issue with Channel API breaking when using urlfetch service. This

  issue was limited to the SDK.

    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8166

- Fixed an issue with ResponseRewriterFilter not being threadsafe when using

  Remote API.

    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8167

[Jeff Schnitzer]

Great to see that Java7 is coming!

Jeff

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[Vinny P]

Looking forward to multicatch!

Quick question: when you say Java 7 is not supported, do you mean that GAE production will not run Java 7 apps at all, or that Java 7 apps will run but may be flaky?

Thanks,

-Vinny P

On Friday, October 19, 2012 1:04:41 PM UTC-5, Richmond Manzana wrote:

Hi,

We've posted the pre-release SDKs for Python and Java here:

http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/downloads/list

Pre-Release notes below.

Cheers,

Rich

[André Pankraz]

Great...JRE 7!
But java.lang.* are JRE 6? No new methods in Object.class etc?

[Richmond Manzana]

Java 7 apps will not run at all in Production unless you are in the Trusted Tester program.  Look forward to a TT program sign-up in our upcoming blog post.

-Rich

[PK]

As a data point, it passed our regression tests without any noticeable performance degradation. Thanks!!

PK

www.gae123.com

[Kenneth]

If you're going to be moving to sqlite, please fix the following bug (or is it fixed in 1.7.3?):

http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7717

While there is a workaround you're going to kill people who are just starting out.

Also, while sqlite is much faster starting up, each request feels quite a bit slower.  If I get some time I'll try to benchmark it and create an issue.

Thanks.

[alex]

I assume you're talking about Windows users only.
On Mac OS and Linux, I'm always using dev server with sqlite (mostly
py/py27) for many months now and it's blazing fast (for a dev server),
can't complain.

-- alex

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