Google App Engine 1.8.0

Google App Engine is designed to be a web application hosting platform that gives developers the tools to write web application in one of several programming languages (including Python and Java).

Google App Engine is a Software Development Kit (SDK) that includes all the necessary resources to build Java applications that can be the hosted by App Engine.

The Google App Engine includes the documentation for the current set of App Engine-specific API's, and a development environment that can be used to test your application before deploying.

Using the Launcher, you can create a new project, launch your editor to write code and change configuration, test your application, and upload your application to App Engine.

Here are some key features of "Google App Engine":

· A powerful run-time environment using the Python programming language, and support for web applications frameworks such as Django.
· Persistent storage with a powerful query engine and transactions.
· Services for network access including HTTP and email.
· Google account sign-in: let your users sign in to your application using a Google account and password.
· Hosting on a free subdomain, or your own domain name.

Requirements:

· Python 2.5

Limitations:

· This is a preview of Google App Engine. During this preview period, applications are limited to the free quotas.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

Python SDK changes:
· The Mail API now allows attachments with .zip and .gzip extensions as long as the archives do not contain entries with blacklisted extensions.
· New Billing Enabled apps will no longer default to an email quota of 20,000 per day. Instead, apps will need to file a request through the admin console to get email quotas increased.
· Admin console dashboard charts and reports for all users have been fully migrated to the new, more reliable backend announced in 1.7.6.
· The maximum size of POST requests made through URLfetch has been increased from 5MB to 10MB.
· Fixed an issue with the Mail API to prevent sending mail from a Google Apps mail account that has been suspended.
· Fixed an issue with the admin handler of the new dev_appserver failing to import appengine_config automatically.

Java SDK changes:
· The Mail API now allows attachments with .zip and .gzip extensions as long as the archives do not contain entries with blacklisted extensions.
· New Billing Enabled apps wi...