Cross-posted from the Google App
Engine Blog The Google App Engine team has been
busy putting together our final release of 2012. This release includes a number of features
graduating from Experimental status as well as the usual batch of bug fixes and improvements.
We’ll be taking a short break from our monthly release cycle over the holidays, but we’ll be
back to our normal schedule starting in February.
Expanded EU Support We’re happy to announce that we are expanding European Union datacenter support,
based on positive feedback from early users. You can sign up here. Please note, deployment is
currently limited to billing-enabled applications. We understand that data locality and latency are important to developers and are
committed to further expanding this support in the coming months.
Java We've made a new Maven plugin available, added the source to
the SDK for easier IDE debugging, and made significant performance improvements to the JSP
compilation process. Please
see our Java release
notes for more information.
Python We’ve made a big push to bring a number of new features to GA, upgraded the
interpreter to version 2.7.3, and added several new experimental features. For more details, please see our Python
release notes.
New and Upgraded Features We also have a handful of notable features in this release:
Task Queue
statistics (General Availability): You can see statistics such as the
current number of tasks in a queue, the number of tasks executed in the last hour, and
more.
Traffic splitting (General Availability): You can split
requests amongst different versions of your app.
LogsReader and Logs API (General Availability): You can now
fetch requests based on a list of request IDs.
Expanded Datastore query support (Experimental): We’ve added
‘DISTINCT’ support to Datastore queries.
Full release notes and Google Cloud Platform newsletter
The complete list of features and a list of bug fixes for 1.7.4 can be found in
our release notes. For App Engine coding questions and
answers check us out on Stack Overflow, and for general discussion and
feedback, find us on our Google Group.
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By the Google App Engine Team