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-Copyright 2008 Google Inc.
-All rights reserved.
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-App Engine Java SDK - Release Notes
-
-Version 1.6.0
-=============
-- On November 7th, App Engine will be out of Preview. The new Terms of Service
-  and previously announced pricing changes will be in effect. Additionally, all
-  paid apps are now covered by our SLA.
-    http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/billing.html
-- Paid apps can now specify the maximum pending latency for instances and the
-  minimum number of idle instances for your application in the Admin Console.
-- Task Queue storage has been separated in to its own line item. Previously,
-  this was included in Datastore storage.
-- We have released an experimental utility, available in the Admin Console, to
-  assist in migrating your application to the High Replication datastore. This
-  utility allows you to copy the bulk of your data in the background, while the
-  source application is still serving. You then need a brief read-only period to
-  migrate your application data while you copy the data that has changed from
-  the time the original copy started.
-- Blobstore, which was previously limited to apps with billing enabled, is now
-  available for all apps.
-- We have published a new article on Datastore Index Selection and Advanced
-  Search which explains our recent improvements to the query planner that make
-  exploding indexes unnecessary.
-    http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/indexselection.html
-- Applications can now receive xmpp error stanzas at /_ah/xmpp/error.
-- In the Admin Console data viewer, you can now filter by namespace from a drop
-  down menu, if applicable.
-- In the Admin Console's Datastore Statistics, we now offer namespace suggest
-  for filtering stats.
-- Added API functionality for making calls to the Memcache API asynchronously.
-- In the Memcache API, getIdentifiable() and putIfUntouched() now support
-  batch operations.
-- We've added a page, /_ah/admin/capabilitiesstatus, to the dev console that
-  allows you to configure the capability state of the local API implementations
-  when running locally.
-- We've added LocalCapabilitiesServiceTestConfig to the testing API, which
-  allows you to configure the capability state of the local API implementations
-  in your tests.
-- The Datastore API now supports callbacks that can execute before or after
-  put() and delete() calls.
-- The queue-name argument is now optional for async-session-persistence in
-  appengine-web.xml.
-- Fixed a ClassNotFound error when using async-session-persistence.
-    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5774
-- Fixed an issue with memcache serialization when using a entity key with a name
-  that points to the same reference as the key's parent.
-    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2088
-- Fixed an issue where DoS stats in the Admin Console didn't work for High
-  Replication apps.
-    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5237
-- WARNING: Starting with 1.6.1 (our next release, NOT this release), URLFetch
-  requests will honor the Accept-Encoding header. If your code sets this header
-  then it must be prepared to receive content of the specified type. For more
-  information please see
-    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4978
-
-Version 1.5.5
-=============
-- We have increased the number of files you can upload with your application to
-  from 3,000 to 10,000.
-- We have increased the size limit for a single file uploaded to App Engine from
-  10MB to 32MB.
-- We have increased the Frontend request deadline from 30 seconds to 60 seconds.
-- We have increased the online URLFetch maximum deadline from 10 seconds to 60
-  seconds. The default deadline remains at 10 seconds. The offline maximum deadline
-  for URLFetch remains at 10 minutes.
-- We have increased the URLFetch Post payload from 1MB to 5MB.
-- App Engine now supports Cross Group (XG) transactions with the High
-  Replication Datastore, which allow you to perform transactions across multiple
-  entity groups.
-    http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/datastore/transactions.html
-- We have added a graph to the admin console that displays the number of
-  instances for which you will be billed.
-- In the XMPP API, getPresence() is deprecated in favor of using the inbound
-  presence handlers documented in
-  http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/xmpp/overview.html#Handling_User_Presence.
-- Fixed an issue in the Admin Console where the "Run Now" button did not work
-  for tasks with a '-' in the name.
-- Fixed an issue to provide a better error message when a user tries to parse an
-  HttpRequest's input stream more than once in a request.
-- Fixed an issue to provide a better error message when using the Mail API to
-  send email to an invalid user address.
-- Fixed an issue in the SDK where HttpServletRequest.getInputStream().read()
-  always returned -1.
-    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5396
-- Fixed an issue where you could not schedule a cron job to run every 100
-  minutes.
-    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5861
-
-Version 1.5.4
-=============
-- You can now specify the maximum size for a blob in
-  BlobstoreService.createUploadUrl().
-- Zigzag merge join queries will now continue scanning up to the 30 second
-  Datastore query deadline. For zigzag queries that used to generate
-  DatastoreNeedIndexException, many will now succeed. A small percentage will
-  now instead timeout.
-- The SDK datastore viewer in the dev console now displays the number of "Write
-  Ops" for each entity. "Write Ops" are the total number of entity and index
-  writes that were required to create the entity.
-- The Prospective Search API is available in Java for all applications. This API
-  is still experimental, so applications will be limited to a maximum of 1000
-  subscriptions.
-- We made a classloading improvement that we expect to help loading request
-  latencies for projects with large numbers of jars.
-- Added support for the set_default_version flag to Appcfg.
-- The Java Remote API now recognizes the HTTP_X_APPENGINE_INBOUND_APPID. This
-  means that the Datastore Admin copy functionality will work when using
-  Java's Remote API with the destination app.
-- Fixed an issue that incorrectly allowed creation of tasks with whitespace in
-  the url.
-- Fixed the error message for "transaction not found" to be more descriptive.
-- Fixed an issue with the dev appserver's local Blobstore implementation trying
-  to modify an immutable collection.
-    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3081
-- Fixed an SDK issue where CONFIG, FINE, FINER, FINEST logging messages were not
-  displayed.
-    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4591
-
-
-Version 1.5.3
-=============
-- We've removed the limit on the size of blob uploads using the Blobstore API.
-- You can now send emails with any attachment extension that is not included on
-  the email attachment extension blacklist.
-- Added a getIndexes() method to the DatastoreService to retrieve an
-  application's indexes and their corresponding states.
-- The development server has been updated to understand the reduced index
-  requirements of the 1.5.2 datastore query planner changes.
-- The Datastore Admin functionality can now be enabled directly in the Admin
-  Console.
-- You can now use Remote API to access the services of one App Engine
-  application from a different App Engine application.
-- The Java Testing APIs now default to UTC if no timezone is specified.
-- AppCfg now supports download_app, which will download all files that were
-  uploaded from your war directory.
-- AppCfg now supports the -V (version) and -A (application) flags.
-- Added app_identity api with methods to work with service accounts for
-  asserting identity on outbound HTTP calls.
-    http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/appidentity/overview.html
-- Added an improved HRD migration tool that requires a read-only period relative
-  to your datastore write rate (as opposed to your datastore size, which is how
-  the current version behaves). The tool is not yet generally available.  If you
-  are interested in being an early adopter please fill out this form:
-  http://goo.gl/3jrXu
-- Fixed an issue in the Channel API where jsapi was not served with the correct
-  mime type.
-- Fixed an issue where blobs could not be uploaded using HTTPS.
-- Fixed an issue where GQL didn't allow querying for valid kind names
-  containing '.', '-', and ':' by supporting quoted identifiers.
-    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2584
-
-Version 1.5.2
-=============
-- You can now specify the minimum pending latency for instances and the maximum
-  number of idle instances for your application in the Admin Console.
-- The datastore now never requires an exploding index.
-    http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/datastore/queries.html#Big_Entities_and_Exploding_Indexes
-- The SDK will now never suggest indexes with the same property repeated, as
-  such indexes are likely to be exploding indexes.
-- Datastore stats are now available on a per-namespace basis.
-- The queue details page in the Admin Console now contains request header
-  details, previous run information, and a task payload viewer.
-- You can modify the lease on a task leased from a pull queue using the
-  modifyTaskLease() method.
-- Pull Task maximum size has been increased to 1MB.
-- You can now update the number of available backend instances without needing
-  to first stop the backend using the "backend configure" appcfg directive.
-- You can now set the "References" and "In-Reply-To" headers with the Mail API.
-    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2802
-- The whitelist has been updated to include support for JSR 105.
-- When the SDK throws a DatastoreNeedIndexException for a missing index
-  definition, the exception can now be caught.
-
-Version 1.5.1
-=============
-- The development server's datastore and testing service implementations now
-  contains logic that closely replicates the consistency guarantees of the High
-  Replication datastore. To use, run the dev_appserver with the flag
-  -Ddatastore.default_high_rep_job_policy_unapplied_job_pct=20.
-- All user request have an X-AppEngine-Country header which contains the
-  ISO-3166-1 alpha-2 country code for the user, based on the IP address of the
-  client request.
-- The Channel API can now provide user presence, this can be configured by
-  adding channel_presence to the list of inbound services for your application.
-- The Images API now supports the WebP format.
-- You can switch the timezone for App Engine logs in the Admin Console.
-  http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=734
-- Added javax.xml.ws.Service$Mode to the whitelist.
-  http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4770
-- You can configure your application to asynchronously write https session data
-  by adding <async-session-persistence enabled="true"/> to your
-  appengine-web.xml.
-  http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1692
-- The local task queue unit testing API now supports Deferred Tasks.
-- Fixed an issue where using reserved URLs did not cause an error in the SDK.
-- Fixed an issue where having a backends.xml configuration file caused logging
-  to stdout to fail in the SDK.
-- Fixed an issue where the Channel API didn't work with non-default versions of
-  applications using the High Replication datastore.
-- Fixed an issue where the Remote API rtok comparison was broken for some users,
-  causing appfcg download data to fail.
-- Fixed an issue with the SDK where you could not apply a transform to PNG
-  images.
-  http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3458
-- When displaying corrupt data in the Admin Console dataviewer, a useful error
-  will be displayed, instead of a 500.
-  http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4945
-- Fixed an issue with the SDK where non-string index names caused an error upon
-  upload.
-  http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5004
-- Datanucleus now supports polymorphic relationships.
-  http://code.google.com/p/datanucleus-appengine/issues/detail?id=153
-- Datanucleus now supports PreparedQuery#countEntities(FetchOptions).
-  http://code.google.com/p/datanucleus-appengine/issues/detail?id=225
-- Fixed an issue with datanucleus where recursive relation did not work.
-  http://code.google.com/p/datanucleus-appengine/issues/detail?id=80
-
-Version 1.5.0.1
-===============
-- Fixed a bug that caused appengine-jsr107cache-1.5.0.jar to be empty.
-
-Version 1.5.0
-=============
-- Support for Backends which allow developers to create infrastructure
-  components that complement the existing dynamic apps that App Engine already
-  provides. Instances of a backend can maintain state, be addressed
-  individually, and are not subject to per-request time limits. They can also be
-  configured to consume more memory and CPU than ordinary dynamic instances.
-- Task Queues support pull mode, allowing for more control over task queue work
-  rates. To use pull queues, include the 'mode' element in your queue.xml.
-- Pull queues are supported by a REST API, allowing access from outside App
-  Engine. To use the REST API, you must also include a valid ACL section
-  specifying which users can lease tasks from the pull queue.
-- Task Queue payload limits have been increased. Queues support 100KB per task.
-  Within App Engine, the new limit is 32 MB per batch of tasks. With the REST
-  API the limit is 1 MB per batch.
-- HTTP request and response sizes have been increased to 32 MB.
-- We have removed the rate quotas for requests, datastore operations,
-  memcache operations, and image API operations. Resource quotas still apply.
-- When creating new applications, developers will now see the High Replication
-  Datastore as the default configuration option.  Developers that still wish to
-  use the Master/Slave configuration must explicitly choose this option at
-  application creation time.
-- The Task Queue maximum configurable processing rate has been increased to
-  500/s.
-- Modified Dashboard latency graphs to indicate they only include dynamic
-  requests.
-- We have added two restrictions to the Mail API to improve the reliability
-  of the service for all applications.
-  - Emails must be sent from email accounts managed by Google (either Gmail or
-    a domain signed up for Google Apps).
-  - Reduced the number of free recipients per day from 2000 to 100 for new
-    applications.
-- Fixed an issue where the Javadoc for the File API was not generated.
-- Fixed an issue where the API Deadlines were not being enforced in the SDK.
-- Fixed an issue with Federated Users causing the Admin Console dataviewer to
-  fail.
-    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=384
-- Fixed an issue causing SDK URL Fetch not to work behind proxy.
-    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=544
-- Fixed an issue deploying an app with version set to 0.
-    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=735
-- Improved support for reserving an app id that is a canonicalized version of
-  a user's Gmail address.
-    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1196
-- Added a more useful error message for unavailable App Ids.
-    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1303
-- Added clearer error messaging for invalid transactions in the SDK.
-    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1357
-- Added better error messages for cron.xml parsing.
-    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1490
-- Entity constructors are now consistent with KeyFactory constructors.
-    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1626
-- Task Queue names can now include the "_" character.
-    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1723
-- The sender of an email is no longer BCC'd when they are already included in
-  the email.
-    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1907
-- Added a more helpful error message when trying to send email to a malformed
-  address.
-    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2386
-- The SDK now returns an error if the Content-length header is not included in a
-  post request, matching production.
-    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2512
-- Fixed an issue where the wrong type of error was being thrown on HTTP request
-  timeout.
-    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2464
-- Fixed an issue where the Admin Console didn't keep the app version viewed
-  consistent across actions.
-    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4023
-- Added Javadocs for TaskOptions.taskName().
-    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4316
-- Fixed a typo in the Admin Console on the New App page.
-    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4620
-- Fixed an issue where sending mail from an app registered on the HR datastore
-  required the app id be prefaced with s~.
-    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4671
-- Fixed an issue where HTTP POST was broken in the SDK if the Content-Length
-  header was specified.
-    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4836
-
-Version 1.4.3
-=============
-- Added FileService API that allows writing to and reading from files in
-  blobstore.
-- You can now specify cron execution for a time interval between a start and end
-  time.
-- You can now configure the specific application version to which a task queue
-  or cron job will send requests.
-- The Admin Console Task Queues page now displays a more accurate estimate of
-  queue size for queues containing more than 2000 tasks.
-- Java applications can enable concurrent request support by setting
-  <threadsafe> to True in their appengine-web.xml. This flag indicates that
-  request handlers for your app are thread safe and multiple request handlers
-  may safely run at the same time in the same memory space for your application.
-- Deferred library support now available in Java.
-    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2381
-- Remote API library now available in Java. This can be used in conjunction with
-  apps using either the Java or the Python runtime.
-- The Java SDK now supports kindless and ancestor only queries.
-- Fixed an issue where JAX-WS clients in the SDK could not handle receiving a
-  SOAP fault.
-- Fixed an issue where the SDK did not support fetching HTTPS URLs.
-- Fixed an issue where no link was displayed in the Admin Console blobstore
-  viewer for an unnamed blob.
-- Fixed an issue where the Admin Console data viewer couldn't edit entities
-  with ByteString properties.
-    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2367
-- Fixed an issue where the Admin Console crashed when using a non-ascii
-  key_name.
-    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2451
-- The Disable Application admin function has been button-ized.
-    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4323
-- Fixed a regex validation issue in the queue.xml file that caused some uploads
-  to break.
-    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4365
-- Fixed an issue where the Java SDK Task Queue did not support 10 minute
-  timeouts.
-    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4564
-- Fixed an issue where the Channel API in the SDK didn't properly send messages
-  with unicode characters.
-    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4675
-
-Version 1.4.2
-=============
-- You can now vacuum datastore indexes with the Java SDK.
-- The XMPP API was updated to include presence and allow subscriptions.
-- The Task Queue now supports programmatic deleting of tasks.
-    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2588
-- The maximum rate per queue at which tasks are processed has been increased to
-  100 task per second.
-- The maximum number of concurrent requests for a single queue can be specified
-  in the application's queue.xml. This provides an additional easy-to-use form
-  of rate limiting. The current number of running tasks is also displayed in
-  the Admin Console.
-- Metadata queries in the Datastore now support cursors.
-- Admin Console logs viewer now displays time as YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.mmm.
-- The Mail API added KML and KMZ files as allowed attachments.
-- Added support for verifying the server SSL certificate when making a
-  URLFetch request to an HTTPS URL. This will become the default in a future
-  release.
-- Added a warning when an admin tries to upload a queue.yaml where the number
-  of new queues and the number of disabled queues exceeds 100.
-- Added a putIfUntouched() method to the Memcache API.
-    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2139
-- Added JAX-WS support for writing SOAP clients and SAAJ support for writing
-  SOAP servers. JAX-WS for SOAP servers is not yet supported.
-- Fixed an issue where mail from @appid.appspotmail.com did not work when
-  sending mail to app admins.
-- Fixed an issue where the SDK did not enforce the 100 task limit for the Task
-  Queue.
-    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3296
-- Fixed an issue where the Java SDK URLFetch did not support 32MB response
-  sizes.
-    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4215
-- Fixed an issues where <jsp-file> mappings in web.xml were broken.
-    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4216
-
-Version 1.4.1
-=============
-There were no updates to the Java SDK for the 1.4.1 App Engine release.
-
-Version 1.4.0
-=============
-- The Always On feature allows applications to pay and keep 3 instances of their
-  application always running, which can significantly reduce application
-  latency.
-- Developers can now enable Warmup Requests. By specifying  a handler in an
-  app's appengine-web.xml, App Engine will attempt to send a Warmup Request to
-  initialize new instances before a user interacts with it. This can reduce the
-  latency an end-user sees for initializing your application.
-- The Channel API is now available for all users.
-- Task Queue has been officially released, and is no longer an experimental
-  feature. The API import paths that use 'labs' have been deprecated. Task queue
-  storage will count towards an application's overall storage quota, and will
-  thus be charged for.
-- The deadline for Task Queue and Cron requests has been raised to 10 minutes.
-  Datastore and API deadlines within those requests remain unchanged.
-- For the Task Queue, developers can specify task retry-parameters in their
-  queue.xml.
-- Apps that have enabled billing are allowed up to 100 queues with the Task
-  Queue API.
-- Metadata Queries on the datastore for datastore kinds, namespaces, and entity
-  properties are available.
-- URL Fetch allowed response size has been increased, up to 32 MB. Request size
-  is still limited to 1 MB.
-- The request and response sizes for the Images API have been increased to
-  32 MB.
-- The total size of Memcache batch operations is increased to 32 MB. The 1 MB
-  limit on individual Memcache objects still applies.
-- The attachment size for outgoing emails has been increased from 1 MB to 10 MB.
-  The size limit for incoming emails is still 10 MB.
-- Size and quantity limits on datastore batch get/put/delete operations have
-  been removed. Individual entities are still limited to 1 MB, but your app may
-  batch as many entities together for get/put/delete calls as the overall
-  datastore deadline will allow for.
-- When iterating over query results, the datastore will now asynchronously
-  prefetch results, reducing latency in many cases by 10-15%.
-- The Admin Console Blacklist page lists the top blacklist rejected visitors.
-- The automatic image thumbnailing service supports arbitrary crop sizes up to
-  1600px.
-- Overall average instance latency in the Admin Console is now a weighted
-  average over QPS per instance.
-- Added a low-level AysncDatastoreService for making calls to the datastore
-  asynchronously.
-- Added a getBodyAsBytes() method to QueueStateInfo.TaskStateInfo, this returns
-  the body of the task state as a pure byte-string.
-- The whitelist has been updated to include all classes from javax.xml.soap.
-- Fixed an issue sending email to multiple recipients.
-    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1623
-- Revert the default logging level during GWT hosted mode back to INFO.
-    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4011
-- Fixed an issue with OpenId over SSL.
-  http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3393
-
-Version 1.3.8
-=============
-- You can run task queue tasks immediately from the admin console.
-- Added an OutputSettings class to the Images API to specify the JPEG encoding
-  quality when running in production.
-- Support for login of multiple Google accounts within an app, and longer login
-  sessions. For more information see:
-    http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?answer=181599
-- In queue.xml, the maximum allowed bucket size is now 100.
-- Removed limits on zigzag merge-join queries. Therefore the error "The built-in
-  indices are not efficient enough for this query and your data. Please add a
-  composite index for this query." will no longer be thrown in most cases,
-  enabling more types of queries without indexes.
-- The whitelist has been updated to include java.net.InetAddress and some
-  interfaces and abstract classes in javax.xml.soap, including
-  javax.xml.soap.SOAPMessage.
-- Fixed an issue reserving App Ids by owners of emails containing periods,
-  multiple cases, and googlemail.com address.
-    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1196
-- Fixed an issue where TaskOptions had no public getters, making testing
-  impossible.
-    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3243
-- Fixed an issue on the development server where PNGs were being returned as
-  JPEGs.
-    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3661
-
-Version 1.3.7
-=============
-- Fixed an SDK issue where calling getServingUrl raised an exception.
-    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3598
-
-Version 1.3.6
-=============
-- Multitenancy is now supported in the datastore, allowing better
-  compartmentalization of user data.
-- Automatic image thumbnailing is now available in the Images API using
-  getServingUrl.
-- Users can now serve custom static error pages for over_quota, dos_api_denial
-  and default cases.
-- Results of datastore count() queries and offsets for all datastore queries
-  are no longer capped at 1000.
-- Added a pause queue button to the task queue details page in the Admin
-  Console.
-- Historical graphs have been added to all of the dashboard graphs in the Admin
-  Console.
-- Content-range headers are supported on Blobstore downloads.
-- New method to allocate datastore ids in a given range: allocateIdRange()
-- The app.yaml format is supported with Java applications.
-- Increased several rate limited quotas for free applications.
-- Fixed an issue that did not allow forms of over 200,000 bytes to be submitted.
-   http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1608
-
-Version 1.3.5
-=============
-- Ability to configure the Task Queue storage limit with the
-  total-storage-limit field in the queue.xml file.
-- Task Queues now support up to 50 qps per queue, up from 50 qps per app.
-- Developers can programmatically access Blobs with BlobstoreInputStream, which
-  provides an InputStream view of a blob in Blobstore
-- Bulkloader transform helpers for lists and hierarchical keys were added.
-- remote_api_shell commands can be sent over HTTPS or HTTP.
-- Admin Console logs now include information on request time latency.
-- The datastore now supports end cursors.
-- Fixed an issue where requesting /appstats would not properly direct to
-  /appstats/.
-- Fixed an issue with inconsistent URL mappings between the SDK and production.
-    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2598
-
-Version 1.3.4
-=============
-- Client side bulkloader available with the Python SDK that has a new
-  configuration syntax and wizard for easier import/export with the datastore.
-  Can be used by enabling remote_api in your Java application
-- Applications can now be configured to authenticate with OpenID by selecting
-  the OpenID option when creating your application in the admin console
-    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=248
-    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=56
-- New API to allow App Engine apps to act as OAuth service providers
-    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=919
-- The version update check in the Java SDK now uses https
-- Allow full access to javax.el.*
-    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3157
-- Increased the timeout during deployment to 15 minutes
-- Fixed an issue with JPA where an illegal cast exception was thrown during the
-  fetch of integer fields
-- MemcacheService.setNamespace() is deprecated in favor of
-  MemcacheServiceFactory.getMemcacheManager(namespace)
-- Support in the SDK for Java 1.5 is being deprecated. These warnings now appear
-  when starting the SDK
-
-Version 1.3.3.1
-===============
-- Fixed an issue where servlet filters could cause 404s
-    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3138
-
-Version 1.3.3
-=============
-- Added two new system properties com.google.appengine.application.id and
-  com.google.appengine.application.version
-- DeadlineExceededException is now always thrown before
-  HardDeadlineExceededError
-- Decreased likelihood of "Too many URLMap" deployment errors for complex
-  web apps
-- Fixed an error where QuotaService.getCpuTimeInMegaCycles() was returning
-  cycles instead of megacycles
-- Fixed an issue between differing behavior of jsp in the production and
-  development environments
-    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=3022
-- Fixed an issue uploading webapps with .tag files
-    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2902
-
-Version 1.3.2
-=============
-- 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
-- App Stats is now available for the Java SDK in addition to Python
-- Fix issue with expiration times not being reset on Put on the Memchache API
-    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1284
-- Fix issue preventing static files from being served when a servlet is mapped to root
-    http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1379
-
-Version 1.3.1
-=============
-  - Datastore Query Cursors
-      http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/datastore/queriesandindexes.html#Query_Cursors
-  - Transactional Tasks
-  - Support for Custom Admin Console pages
-  - Java Precompilation is now on by default
-      Developers can opt-out of precompilation by setting the flag in
-      appengine-web.xml:
-      <precompilation-enabled>false</precompilation-enabled>
-  - New built-in support for unit testing (see appengine-testing.jar)
-      http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/tools/localunittesting.html
-      http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=326
-  - net.sf.jsr107 package included as an alternative to the low-level
-    Memcache API
-  - javax.annotation.Resource/Resources added to the package whitelist
-  - New "month" and "synchronized" syntax for Cron configuration
-      http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/config/cron.html
-  - URLFetch supports asynchronous requests
-      http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1899
-  - appcfg.sh uses HTTPS for application deployment
-  - appcfg.sh adds request_logs --append
-  - Changes to the order queries without a specified sort order are returned
-    Only queries that use IN will see different results.
-  - Added support for multiple != filters on the same property
-  - Improved support for keys-only queries when using IN and != filters
-  - Support for ETags, If-matches, If-not-matches HTTP Headers, as well as 304
-    status codes now available on static files (not yet available on the
-    dev_appserver or Blobstore blobs)
-      http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=575
-  - Fixed issue where the maximum transform count was enforced for composite
-    operations
-      http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1656
-  - Fixed issue with whitespace on the end of strings in web.xml
-      http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2242
-  - Fixed web.xml <error-page> entries for 404 error codes
-      http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1477
-  - Added validation prevent welcome-files with absolute paths
-      http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1249
-  - Fixed issue where cancelling a deployment in progress could unintentionally
-    corrupt the SDK
-      http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2255
-  - Fixed issue with QuotaService.getCpuTimeInMegaCycles() returning 0
-      http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2639
-  - Fixed issue where JSP exceptions will be incorrectly cast causing a
-    ClassCastException
-      http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1438
-
-Version 1.3.0
-=============
-  - Support for the new Blobstore API
-  - New com.google.appengine.runtime.{version,environment} system properties
-    (and a SystemProperty accessor class)
-  - New sample applications for GWT 2.0
-  - Optimizations for many reflection operations
-
-Version 1.2.8
-=============
-  - Support for JAXB. JAXB is included in JDK 1.6 (and App Engine's production
-    servers). If you're using JDK 1.5 with your local dev_appserver, you will
-    need to include the JAXB libraries with your application to use it.
-      http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1267
-  - New support for application pre-compilation to reduce the length of
-    loading requests. To enable pre-compilation on your application, add this
-    flag to your appengine-web.xml:
-      <precompilation-enabled>true</precompilation-enabled>
-    If you have trouble deploying your application, you should remove this
-    flag or set it to false.
-  - Added Quota API (com.google.appengine.api.quota) to match Python API.
-  - Low-level Memcache API now supports batchIncrement().
-  - HTTPResponse object now has getFinalUrl() method for 302 redirects.
-    - http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1464
-  - Java Dev Appserver now automatically executes tasks.  If you prefer the
-    old behavior where tasks do not automatically execute you can use the
-    following flag when starting the server:
-      -Dtask_queue.disable_auto_task_execution
-  - Additional file extensions permitted when sending mail.
-    - http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=494
-  - Fixed issue with Java mail handler not processing multipart messages
-    correctly.
-  - Fixed agent code included in appengine-local-runtime.jar results in
-    RuntimeException.
-    - http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2280
-  - Fixed issue with sort orders defined on properties that allow multiple
-    values.
-    - http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2349
-  - Fixed problem with dropped query strings after requiring log-in.
-    - http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2225
-  - Removed limitation preventing multiple parameters with the same name.
-    - http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2090
-  - Fixed issue with local datastore incorrectly sorting results of ancestor
-    queries.
-    - http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2177
-  - New Index building status page in the Admin Console
-  - Task Queue now supports purging queues, and deleting tasks and queues via
-    the Admin Console.
-    - http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2159
-    - http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1740
-  - Over Quota HTTP status code changed from 403 to 503, other to 500.
-    - http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=961
-  - Task Queue now considers all HTTP 2xx status codes to represent success.
-
-For past release notes, visit:
-http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/wiki/SdkForJavaReleaseNotes