Google Cloud Platform Blog: App Engine 1.6.5 Released

Google Cloud Platform Blog

Product updates, customer stories, and tips and tricks on Google Cloud Platform

App Engine 1.6.5 Released

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

a bit more than showersDatastoreprojection queriesSELECT Property1, Property2 FROM MyEntity ORDER BY Property3

Each entity group now has a numeric version property that strictly increases on every entity group change. You can use this counter, for example, to easily and consistently cache the results of an ancestor query, such as the count of all entities in an entity group (Java®, Python examples).

The Datastore Admin now allows you to restore individual Kinds from an existing backup, abort in-progress backups, and view more detailed backup and restore information.

For Python users, the @db.transactional decorator now supports concurrent transactions. We’ve also expanded the options available for the db.run_in_transtion_options() function.

Images API

The Images API can now access image objects stored in Google Cloud Storage.

The URLs generated by get_serving_url()/getServingUrl() that make use of our high-speed image serving infrastructure can now be generated to serve over HTTPS.

Task QueueApply now to be a Trusted Tester.Request Headersrequest headersRegion, City and LatLngJavaFinally, an important piece of news for our Java developers: the <threadsafe> element is now required in appengine-web.xml file; omitting it will cause an error in the dev appserver.As always, send us feedback in our Google Group, send us technical questions on Stack Overflow, and read the complete release notes for all the new features and fixes in this release for Java, Python, and Go.Posted by the App Engine Team
Java is a registered trademark of Oracle and/or its affiliates.