boto v2.1.0

The 2.1.0 release of boto is now available on PyPI and Google Code.

You can view a list of issues that have been closed in this release at https://github.com/boto/boto/issues?milestone=4&state=closed)

You can get a comprehensive list of all commits made between the 2.0 release and the 2.1.0 release at https://github.com/boto/boto/compare/033457f30d...a0a1fd54ef.

Some highlights of this release:

• Server-side encryption now supported in S3.
• Better support for VPC in EC2.
• Support for combiner in StreamingStep for EMR.
• Support for CloudFormations.
• Support for streaming uploads to Google Storage.
• Support for generating signed URL’s in CloudFront.
• MTurk connection now uses HTTPS by default, like all other Connection objects.
• You can now PUT multiple data points to CloudWatch in one call.
• CloudWatch Dimension object now correctly supports multiple values for same dimension name.
• Lots of documentation fixes/additions

There were 235 commits in this release from 35 different authors. The authors are listed below, in no particular order:

• Erick Fejta
• Joel Barciauskas
• Matthew Tai
• Hyunjung Park
• Mitch Garnaat
• Victor Trac
• Andy Grimm
• ZerothAngel
• Dan Lecocq
• jmallen
• Greg Taylor
• Brian Grossman
• Marc Brinkmann
• Hunter Blanks
• Steve Johnson
• Keith Fitzgerald
• Kamil Klimkiewicz
• Eddie Hebert
• garnaat
• Samuel Lucidi
• Kazuhiro Ogura
• David Arthur
• Michael Budde
• Vineeth Pillai
• Trevor Pounds
• Mike Schwartz
• Ryan Brown
• Mark
• Chetan Sarva
• Dan Callahan
• INADA Naoki
• Mitchell Hashimoto
• Chris Moyer
• Riobard
• Ted Romer
• Justin Riley
• Brian Beach
• Simon Ratner

We processed 60 pull requests for this release from 40 different contributors. Here are the github user id’s for all of the pull request authors:

• jtriley
• mbr
• jbarciauskas
• hyunjung
• bugi
• ryansb
• gtaylor
• ehazlett
• secretmike
• riobard
• simonratner
• irskep
• sanbornm
• methane
• jumping
• mansam
• miGlanz
• dlecocq
• fdr
• mitchellh
• ehebert
• memory
• hblanks
• mbudde
• ZerothAngel
• goura
• natedub
• tpounds
• bwbeach
• mumrah
• chetan
• jmallen
• a13m
• mtai
• fejta
• jibs
• callahad
• vineethrp
• JDrosdeck
• gholms

If you are trying to reconcile that data (i.e. 35 different authors and 40 users with pull requests), well so am I. I’m just reporting on the data that I get from the Github api 8^)