App Engine Product Roadmap
The following represents features that are actively under development by the App Engine Team. Most of these features here are intended to be launched within the following six months. We'll do our best to update this roadmap as our engineers continue their work.
Features on Deck
- SSL for third-party domains
- Background servers capable of running for longer than 30s
- Ability to reserve instances to reduce application loading overhead
- Ability to select different availability vs. latency options for Datastore
- Support for mapping operations across datasets
- Datastore dump and restore facility
- Raise request/response size limits for some APIs
- Improved monitoring and alerting of application serving
- Support for Browser Push (Comet) communication
- Built-in support for OAuth & OpenID
Roadmap Features That Have Been Implemented
- 2010-02-10 - Cursors for continuing results of Datastore queries past the 1000 entity limit
- 2009-12-14 - Blobstore, a service for storing and serving large files
- 2009-10-13 - Incoming email support, app deletion
- 2009-09-03 - XMPP Service, Python Launcher app for Windows
- 2009-06-18 - Task queue, asynchronous URL fetch support, and Django 1.0 support
- 2009-04-07 - Early look at Java language support, Eclipse integration, Cron support, Database import, Secure Data Connector
- 2009-02-24 - Billing for App Engine computing resources
- 2009-02-12 - Elimination of "High CPU Requests" limit
- 2008-12-16 - System Status Dashboard, and Quota Details Page
- 2008-10-16 - HTTPS support for *.appspot.com
- 2008-10-14 - Logs for Admin Console usage, and regex filtering for application logs
- 2008-09-16 - CPU usage details added to logs and dashboard, zipimport, zipserve, memcache viewer
- 2008-08-22 - Multi-entity group batch writes and deletes
- 2008-07-24 - Logs export capability, more apps for everyone!
- 2008-05-28 - Memcache and Image Manipulation API, Open Signups
- 2008-05-15 - App Engine Launcher for Mac
- 2008-04-08 - App Engine Limited Preview Release launches!
For a more detailed list of previous changes, see the release notes.
