AppScale 2.2.0

[Navraj Chohan]

Hey AppScalers!

Today we're releasing 2.2.0 which has our initial implementation of the search API powered by SOLR. There are many security and bug fixes, along with an upgrade to the NDB library.

Highlights of features/bugs in AppScale 2.2.0:

- Updated NDB to latest version

- GHOST patch

- No more uncommitted reads outside or inside a transaction

- PHP version fix

- Fixed unit test

- Initial support for Search API (experimental)

- Fix for "+" sign in EC2 key for multinode deployments

- Updated fast start

- Removed unused scripts and deadcode

- Removed apache from build

- Removed ntp call in cronjob

- Updated logic for reconnection to ZK

- Fixed FD leak for ZK

- Native backup and restore for AppScale

- Catching exception from Cassandra causing groomer/garbage collection issues

- Fixed issue when binding to private IP

- Made unit tests run faster

- Added support for all ancestor paths on composite indexes

Release notes:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AppScale/appscale/master/RELEASE

AppScale GAE monitoring portal:

https://portal.appscale.com

Documentation can be found at the GitHub Wiki.

Please report bugs at the AppScale GitHub Issue Tracker. Talk to us at #appscale on freenode, and feel free to email the community mailing list if you run into problems.

Thanks,

Raj

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Navraj Chohan (Raj), PhD
Co-Founder of AppScale Systems
A Google Cloud Partner,

Gartner 2014 Cool Vendor, 
and a GigaOm Structure/LaunchPad "Best of the Best" Startups

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