Note to people rushing out to try the new version: the development server doesn't work with it yet. You can only deploy to production at the moment.<p>Some very cool features with this upcoming release:<p>- Cross entity-group transactions<p>- Bundled libraries (with multiple version support)<p>- More quotas being increased<p>- Native WSGI support<p>More info here:
<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/gaepython27testing/" rel="nofollow">https://sites.google.com/site/gaepython27testing/</a><p><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-python/browse_thread/thread/7fd615a6502546ce" rel="nofollow">http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-python/brows...</a>
NumPy! Woo! This is a big deal for writing data-intensive backends. There was a great outcry of happiness on the ticket system when this got announced.<p>Now all we need is SciPy and matplotlib and we'll be in business...
FYI, the Python 2.7 runtime is only supported for apps using the High Replication Datastore.<p>This is important to note for any 'older' apps that were created before HRD was enabled.<p><a href="http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/datastore/hr/#Selecting_a_Datastore" rel="nofollow">http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/datastore/hr/#S...</a>
Official docs here:<p><a href="http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/python27/" rel="nofollow">http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/python27/</a>
This is huge news. GAE's making advances that are making it more of a viable prototyping way to get MVPs out in absolutely no time. I'm excited by the possibilities!