boto v2.9.6

date:2013/06/18

This release adds large payload support to Amazon SNS/SQS (from 32k to 256k bodies), several minor API additions, new regions for Redshift/Cloudsearch & a host of bugfixes.

Features

• Added large body support to SNS/SQS. There’s nothing to change in your application code, but you can now send payloads of up to 256k in size. (commit b64947)
• Added Vault.retrieve_inventory_job to Glacier. (issue 1532, commit 33de29)
• Added Item.get(...) support to DynamoDB v2. (commit 938cb6)
• Added the ap-northeast-1 region to Redshift. (commit d3eb61)
• Added all the current regions to Cloudsearch. (issue 1465, commit 22b3b7)

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where date metadata couldn’t be set on an S3 key. (issue 1519, commit 1efde8)

• Fixed Python 2.5/Jython support in NetworkInterfaceCollection. (issue 1518, commit 0d6af2)

• Fixed a XML parsing error with InstanceStatusSet. (issue 1493, commit 55d4f6)

• Added a test case to try to demonstrate issue 443. (commit 084dd5)

• Exposed the current tree-hash & upload size on Glacier’s Writer. (issue 1520, commit ade462)

• Updated EC2 Autoscale to incorporate new cron-like parameters. (issue 1433, commit 266e25, commit 871588 & commit 473e42)

• Fixed AttributeError being thrown from LoadBalancerZones. (issue 1524, commit 215ffa)

• Fixed a bug with empty facets in Cloudsearch. (issue 1366, commit 7a108e)

• Fixed an S3 timeout/retry bug where HTTP 400s weren’t being honored. (issue 1528, commit efd9af & commit 16ae74)

• Fixed get_path when suppress_consec_slashes=False. (issue 1522, commit c5dffc)

• Factored out how some of S3’s query_args are constructed. (commit 9f73de)

• Added the generation query param to gs.Key.open_read. (commit cb4427)

• Fixed a bug with the canonicalization of URLs with trailing slashes in the SigV4 signer. (issue 1541, commit dec541, commit 3f2b33)

• Several documentation improvements/fixes:

  • Updated the release notes slightly. (commit 7b6079)
  • Corrected the num_cb param on set_contents_from_filename. (issue 1523, commit 44be69)
  • Fixed some example code in the DDB migration guide. (issue 1525, commit 6210ca)
  • Fixed a typo in one of the DynamoDB v2 examples. (issue 1551, commit b0df3e)