App Engine SDK 1.3.2 is out!

[Ikai L (Google)]

Check it out!

http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2010/03/app-engine-sdk-132-released.html

Blog post:

App Engine SDK 1.3.2 Released

Today we are excited to announce the release of version 1.3.2 of the App Engine SDK for both the Java and Python runtimes. 1.3.2 includes a number of changes and bug fixes.

For this release, we have concentrated on removing a number of limitations that have been affecting developers:

• Blobstore API - A new method (fetch_data for Python, fetchData for Java) allows your application to request the contents of a Blob from within your application’s code.
• URLFetch API - We’ve expanded the number of ports you can access with the URLFetch API. You can now access ports 80-90, 440-450, and 1024-65535.
• Mail API - We’ve expanded the allowed mail attachments to include common document extensions including .doc, .ppt, and .xls.
• Task Queue API - We’ve increased the maximum total Task Queue refill rate to 50 per second.

We’re also happy to announce, based on your feedback, a new Denial of Service (DoS) blocking system in App Engine. This system allows you to blacklist specific IP addresses from accessing your application, and to prevent them from costing your application money or eating up your quota. You can also view the top IPs that have accessed your application in the Admin Console, to help you figure out what IPs you may want to block. More information on this feature is available for Pythonand Java.

There’s a lot of other changes and fixes in this release, including a new Java version of the Appstats profiling tool, so read the release notes (Python, Java) for a complete list of changes and download the new versions of the SDK.

Release Notes:

Version 1.3.2 - March 25, 2010

• New API to read the contents of uploaded Blobs (fetch_data)
• http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2536

• URLFetch now supports accessing ports 80-90, 440-450, and 1024-65535
• Mail API now allows common document formats as attachments
• http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=494
• The Task Queue API now supports adding multiple tasks in a single call to Queue.add()
• Fixed charset handling for inbound emails
• http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2326
• Fixed issue with compositing background colors in dev_appserver
• New feature in the datastore to specify whether to use strong or eventually consistent reads (the default is strong)
• New datastore feature allows setting deadlines for operations
• Increased the maximum Task Queue refill rate from 20/s to 50/s
• Support for IP blacklisting to prevent denial of service (DoS) attacks
• Fix an issue with Mac Launcher in Mac OSX 10.5.5
• http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=778
• Fix issue with slow updates when there are many skipped files
• http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2492
• Fix issue with cursor not updating when using a GqlQuery?
• http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2757

You might also want to note that we've updated the public roadmap:

http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/roadmap.html

Features on Deck

• SSL for third-party domains
• Background servers capable of running for longer than 30s
• Ability to reserve instances to reduce application loading overhead
• Ability to select different availability vs. latency options for Datastore
• Support for mapping operations across datasets
• Datastore dump and restore facility
• Raise request/response size limits for some APIs
• Improved monitoring and alerting of application serving
• Support for Browser Push (Comet) communication
• Built-in support for OAuth & OpenID

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Ikai Lan
Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine
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