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

• App Engine out of Preview
• SSL access on custom domains
• Full-text search over Datastore
• Support for Python 2.7
• Support for running MapReduce jobs across App Engine datasets
• Bulk Datastore Import and Export tool
• Improved monitoring and alerting of application serving
• Logging system improvements to remove limits on size and storage
• Integration with Google Storage for Developers

Major Features That Have Been Implemented

• 2011-05-10 - Raised HTTP request and response size limits to 32MB, Support for Backends which have configurable memory and no request time limits
• 2011-03-30 - Programmatic Blob creation API for the Blobstore
• 2011-01-05 - High Replication Datastore
• 2010-12-02 - New, major feature releases including:
• Always On
• Raise request/response size limits for some APIs
• Support for Browser Push (Comet) communication via the Channel API
• Application Source Download with Opt-out
• 2010-10-14 - Instances Console and Built-in Configuration Directives
• 2010-08-17 - Support for Multi-tenant applications with Namespaces, new High-performance Image Serving API, and custom error pages
• 2010-05-19 - New experimental versions of Open ID and OAuth support, new version of bulkloader tool for bulk import and export
• 2010-03-25 - Denial of Service blocking system released for blocking abusive visitors
• 2010-02-10 - Cursors for continuing results of Datastore queries past the 1000 entity limit, as well as new AppStats performance analysis tool
• 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.