1.6.5 Prerelease SDKs now available!

[Ikai Lan (Google)]

Hey everyone,

The App Engine 1.6.5 prerelease SDKs are now available. You can get them here:

Python: http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/downloads/detail?name=google_appengine_1.6.5_prerelease.zip

Java: http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/downloads/detail?name=appengine-java-sdk-prerelease-1.6.5.zip

There's a lot of good stuff you've all been asking for in this release. I've posted the release notes below:

Python - Version 1.6.5

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- You can now perform datastore queries that return a subset of your entity

  properties with the same performance and cost of a keys-only query. This

  feature is experimental.

- In the High Replication Datastore, there is a new metadata kind,

  __entity_group__, that has a numeric __version__ property. This property is

  guaranteed to increase on every change to the entity group.

- The Images API now supports manipulating objects hosted on Google Cloud

  Storage.

- In the Images API, the get_serving_url call now optionally allows you to

  specify if the URL you are generating should be served over https.

- In the Task Queue REST API, you can now specify a tag when you insert a task

  on a Pull Queue.

- In the Task Queue API, you can specify a deadline for the lease_tasks call.

  The default deadline has been increased from 5 seconds to 10 seconds.

- You can now use cron to schedule Datastore backups.

- The Datastore Admin now has a page that displays information on the status of

  your Datastore backups and restores.

- You can now abort your Datastore backup or restore from the Datastore Admin.

- In the Admin Console, you can report production issues with your application

  directly to Google from the application's pages. Simply click the "Report

  Production Issues" link, fill out the requested information, and submit.

- We have added support for concurrent transactions to @db.transactional and

  db.run_in_transaction_options() along with other transaction propagation

  options.

- We've introduced an experimental new Mac Installer that only supports Python

  2.7.

- In your app.yaml file, you can include an env_variables stanza that will set

  the given environment variables in your application's runtime.

- Jinja2 now includes the _debugsupport module.

- Fixed an issue with the dev_appserver where it defaulted the HTTP

  Content-Type of a request to text/plain instead of text/html.

- Fixed an issue where the SDK would include some indexes that were not needed

  in production.

- Fixed an issue in the SDK where the SDK admin console would not display utf-8

  encoded list property values.

  http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=7079

Java - Version 1.6.5

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- You can now perform datastore queries that return a subset of your entity

  properties with the same performance and cost of a keys-only query. This

  feature is experimental.

- In the High Replication Datastore, there is a new metadata kind,

  __entity_group__, that has a numeric __version__ property. This property is

  guaranteed to increase on every change to the entity group.

- The Images API now supports manipulating objects hosted on Google Cloud

  Storage.

- In the Images API, the getServingUrl() call now optionally allows you to

  specify if the URL you are generating should be served over https.

- In the Task Queue REST API, you can now specify a tag when you insert a task

  on a Pull Queue.

- In the Task Queue API, you can specify a deadline for the leaseTasks() call.

  The default deadline has been increased from 5 seconds to 10 seconds.

- You can now use cron to schedule Datastore backups.

- The Datastore Admin now has a page that displays information on the status of

  your Datastore backups and restores.

- You can now abort your Datastore backup or restore from the Datastore Admin.

- In the Admin Console, you can report production issues with your application

  directly to Google from the application's pages. Simply click the "Report

  Production Issues" link, fill out the requested information, and submit.

- As announced in 1.6.4, omitting the <threadsafe> directive from

  appengine-web.xml results in an error.

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Ikai Lan 
Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine

plus.ikailan.com 

[PK]

We put 1.6.5 through our functional and performance regression test suite and looks good!!

Very excited about:

- In the Images API, the get_serving_url call now optionally allows you to

  specify if the URL you are generating should be served over https.

- In the Admin Console, you can report production issues with your application

  directly to Google from the application's pages. Simply click the "Report

  Production Issues" link, fill out the requested information, and submit.

- The backup improvements, we will reconsider using it in addition to our proprietary export mechanism

Thanks,

PK

[PK]

We put 1.6.5 through our functional and performance regression test suite and looks good!!

Very excited about:

- In the Images API, the get_serving_url call now optionally allows you to

  specify if the URL you are generating should be served over https.

- In the Admin Console, you can report production issues with your application

  directly to Google from the application's pages. Simply click the "Report

  Production Issues" link, fill out the requested information, and submit.

[Nathaniel Stensland]

How to find out more about 

- You can now perform datastore queries that return a subset of your entity

  properties with the same performance and cost of a keys-only query. This

  feature is experimental.

?

[Alfred Fuller]

For now you have to hunt around in the doc string, look for "projection" near query objects :-).

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