App Engine 1.7.2 Released

In addition to the usual crop of new features and improvements, the App Engine team spent a week this summer fixing bugs reported through our issue tracker. We fixed or closed out more than 130 bugs. Many of the fixes are included in this release.

App Admin

• Paid applications can now upload more than 1GB of code and static files for their applications. Storage above the free quota of 1GB will be billed at $0.13/GB per month.

Runtimes

• PyCrypto 2.6 is now fully supported as an option for third party libraries in Python 2.7.

• Java Threads is now a fully supported feature of the Java runtime.

Task Queue Statistics
We’ve added the ability to fetch Task Queue Statistics. This allows you to fetch statistics and information about your task queue from within your application. Statistics include information such as the number of tasks in a queue, how many tasks were executed in the last minute and enforced rate.


App Engine Sockets Trusted Tester Program
We are looking for trusted testers for outbound socket functionality in App Engine. Please fill out our signup form to tell us more about your use-case if you’re interested.


Wait! But what about those bug fixes?
The complete list of features and (a long list of) bug fixes for 1.7.2 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.


- Posted by the Google App Engine Team

Announcing new pricing for Virtual IP based SSL

We are delighted to make Virtual IP (VIP) based SSL more widely available to developers by announcing a reduction in price. From the 25th of September, VIPs will be $39/month - down from the previous price of $99/month. For those applications already using VIP based SSL, the pricing change will be applied to your bill starting on the 25th. 

Google App Engine SSL for Custom Domains goes above and beyond the basics of SSL by offering globally distributed SSL endpoints and built-in load balancing. Like App Engine in general, there is no need for ongoing system administration and maintenance. For more details on how to setup SSL for Custom Domains for your applications, see the App Engine documentation.

- Posted by the Google App Engine Team