Announcment: gaeutilities 1.3rc1 available for download and testing

[Joe Bowman]

At this point all features are in place for the 1.3 release of
gaeutliities and it's ready for testing. A lot of improvements have
been made for this release, and any testing that can be done before
the final release would be appreciated. Documentation updates are in
progress, as well as a redesign of the project at http://gaeutilities.appspot.com
which will include a more unit based approach, and better
documentation.

1.3rc1
- rotmodel - upgraded to fully extend db.Model, retrying on various
get/set
datastore operations.
- sessions - Major rewrite of sessions, that should be 100% backwards
compatible. Session not only uses rotmodel for gets, but
has it's own wrapper for puts, that will keep state in
memcache past failed datastore writes, and self correct
on future requests.
- paginator - introduced a new paginator class, that of this version
still
requests a lot of testing. Use at your own risk, will be
finalized by release 1.3
- all - Lots of documenation updates and various other tweaks to
optimize performance. Site documenation updates will be final
for release 1.3