5 

     6 Version 1.2.5 - August 13, 2009

     7 ===============================

     8   - The Windows Python SDK now includes a GUI launcher, similar to the Mac SDK.

     9   - Added XMPP support.

    10     http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/xmpp

    11     http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=231

    12   - Datastore now supports multiple writes to the same entity within a 

    13     transaction.

    14   - Datastore entity key names can now start with a digit.

    15       http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1352

    16   - Datastore now supports ancestor + kind queries without a composite index

    17       http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1003

    18   - Bulkloader now supports configurationless dump and restore with new

    19     --dump and --restore options.

    20   - Bulkloader now supports a --dry_run flag to testing data prior to uploading.

    21   - Appcfg.py now allows specifying any end date for request_logs.

    22   - Urlfetch now allows setting the Referer header.

    23       http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=445

    24   - Urlfetch stub now correctly handles HEAD requests.

    25       http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=866

    26   - New remote_api_shell tool for interactive remote_api operations.

    27   - New google.ext.ereporter module to collect and email exception reports.

    28   - New google.ext.deferred module to execute ad-hoc tasks on the Task Queue.

    29 

    30 Version 1.2.4 - July 16, 2009

    31 =============================

    32   - Added support for kindless queries, ie. transaction descendant queries.

    33       http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=913

    34   - Composite indexes no longer required for certain types of key queries.

    35   - Improved exception reporting in the bulkloader.

    36   - Datastore transaction RPC sent at beginning of transaction rather than

    37     upon first Datastore request.

    38   - PolyModel supports keys_only query.

    39       http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1630

    40   - Remote API supports more API's (Images, Memcache and URLFetch).

    41       http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=1596

    42   - Remote API shell.

    43   - Support for multiple inheritance for Model and PolyModel.

    44   - Enhancement to SearchableModel allowing multiple properties to be

    45     indexed.

    46   - Various code quality improvements.