cloud-test: App Engine 1.5.5 SDK Release

App Engine 1.5.5 SDK Release

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

2011 has seen some exciting releases for App Engine. As the days get shorter, the weather gets colder, and all that Halloween candy starts tempting everyone in the grocery store, we’ve been hard at work on our latest action packed release.

Premier Accounts
When choosing a platform for your most critical business applications, we recognize that uptime guarantees, easy management and paid support are often just as important as product features. So today we’re launching Google App Engine premier accounts. For $500 per month (not including the cost to provision internet services), you’ll receive:

Premium support (see the

Technical Support Services Guidelines for details).

A 99.95% uptime Service Level Agreement (see the draft agreement, the final agreement will be in the signed offline agreement).

The ability to create an unlimited number of apps on your premier account domain.

No minimum monthly fees per app. Pay only for the resources you use.

Monthly billing via invoice.

To sign up for a premier account, please contact our sales team at appengine_premier_requests@google.com.

Python 2.7
PIL? NumPy? Concurrent requests? Python 2.7 has it all, and today we’re opening up Python 2.7 as an experimental release. We’ve put together a list of all the known differences between the current 2.5 runtime and the new runtime.

Overall Changes
We know that bumping up against hard limits can be frustrating, and we’ve talked all year about our continued push to lift our system limits. With this release we are raising several of these:

Request Duration: The frontend request deadline has been increased from 30 seconds to 60 seconds. We’ve increased the maximum URLFetch deadline to match from 10 seconds to 60 seconds.

File limits: We’ve increased the number of files you can upload with your application from 3,000 to 10,000 files, and the file size limit has also been increased from 10MB to 32MB.

API Limits: Post payloads for URLFetches are now capped at 5MB instead of 1MB.

We’re also announcing several limited preview features and trusted tester programs:

Cloud SQL Preview: We announced last week that we are offering a preview of SQL support in App Engine. Give it a try and let us know what you think.

Full-text Search: We are looking for early trusted testers for our long anticipated Full-Text Search API. Please fill out this form if you’re interested in trying it out.

Conversion API: Ever wanted to convert from text to PDF in your App? Then consider signing up as a trusted tester for the Conversion API.

Datastore

Cross Group (XG) Transactions: For those who need transactional writes to entities in multiple entity groups (and that's everyone, right?), XG Transactions are just the thing. This feature uses two phase commit to make cross group writes atomic just like single group writes.

Platform Improvements

Experimental Google Cloud Storage Integration: As Google Cloud Storage, formerly Google Storage for Developers, graduates from labs, we are improving our integration by adding access via the files API.

Prediction API: Another of our friends graduating from labs is the Prediction API. Check out some of the App Engine examples in their getting started guide.

Of course, these are just the high level changes. This release is packed full of features and bug fixes, and as always, we welcome your feedback in the group.

Posted by The App Engine Team

17 comments :

IgorOctober 11, 2011 at 10:47 AM
Download page still lists version 1.5.4
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Cycling the AlpsOctober 11, 2011 at 11:03 AM
This is really cool!!!!!!!

File limits: We’ve increased the number of files you can upload with your application from 3,000 to 10,000 files, and the file size limit has also been increased from 10MB to 32MB.
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MaxOctober 11, 2011 at 11:33 AM
@Ikai, I cann't find "Experimental Google Cloud Storage" for Java SDK in the javadocs or online docs.

Is that feature only for the python?
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kcunhaOctober 11, 2011 at 11:37 AM
Everything that I wanted :)

=>URLFetch deadline
=>File limits

Congratulations AppEngine Team!
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Yudong LiOctober 11, 2011 at 2:18 PM
The file size from 10M to 32M is really cool that I used to have split my big dat file into several pieces and try to assemble it on the server side, which is really painful.
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TrungOctober 11, 2011 at 5:49 PM
is it still more expensive than the other cloud solution out there?
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DanDanOctober 11, 2011 at 6:24 PM
NumPy!

Sick!!

Terrific work GAE team, absolutely terrific
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Benjamin SautnerOctober 12, 2011 at 5:21 AM
thanks guys, nimbits.com upgraded to 1.5.5 without issue. I'm looking forward to full text search.
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wagaf-dOctober 12, 2011 at 4:29 PM
Cross Group (XG) Transactions.... Hell yeah !
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Chris HubickOctober 12, 2011 at 11:41 PM
Yay!

My portal software URLFetch's static-files from it's own context, and I have often hit the old timeout doing even that.

I also publish the Javadoc API's for my software and it's constituent libraries as static files within the site, so the raised file limit is nice to see as well!
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nickOctober 13, 2011 at 1:55 AM
Integrate with Cloud Storage is cool.
but if your app is face to Asia, blobstore is much cheaper on bandwidth.
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rcOctober 13, 2011 at 6:35 AM
Custom domain SSL?
Any news on when it is coming?
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MihaiOctober 13, 2011 at 8:53 AM
what about SSL support ? Any news ?
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Louis Le CoeurOctober 14, 2011 at 1:38 AM
Still waiting for the *essential* SSL on custom domains... SNI is ubiquitous now so there is really no excuse no to implement it. Thanks for the good work otherwise.
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jyoti26October 17, 2011 at 9:40 PM
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OffBeatMammalOctober 19, 2011 at 9:46 PM
looking forward to trying out Cloud SQL. The lack of SQL and trying to make things work in table store has been a bit of a -ve
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