boto v2.23.0

date:2014/01/10

This release adds new pagination & date range filtering to Amazon Glacier, more support for selecting specific attributes within Amazon DynamoDB, security tokens from environment/config variables & many bugfixes/small improvements.

Features

• Added pagination & date range filtering to Glacier inventory options. (issue 1977, commit 402a305)
• Added the ability to select the specific attributes to fetch in the scan & get_item calls within DynamoDB v2. (issue 1945, issue 1972, commit f6451fb & commit 96cd413)
• Allow getting a security token from either an environment or configuration variable. (:issue:, :sha:)
• Ported the has_item call from the original DynamoDB (v1) module to DynamoDB v2. (issue 1973, issue 1822, commit f96e9e3)
• Added an associate_address_object method to EC2. (issue 1967, issue 1874, issue 1893, commit dd6180c)
• Added a download_to_fileobj method to Glacier,similar to the S3 call of the same name. (issue 1960, issue 1941, commit 67266e5)
• Added support for arbitrary dict inputs to MWS. (issue 1966, commit 46f193f)

Bugfixes

• Made the usage of is/is not more consistent. (issue 1930, commit 8597c54)

• Imported with_statement for old Python versions (issue 1975, commit a53a574)

• Changed the Binary data object within DynamoDB to throw an error if an invalid data type is used. (issue 1963, issue 1956, commit e5d30c8)

• Altered the integration tests to avoid connection errors to certain regions. (commit 2555b8a)

• Changed the GCS resumable upload handler to save tracker files with protection 0600. (commit 7cb344c)

• Documentation:

  • Clarified documentation around the list_metrics call in CloudFormation. (issue 1962, commit c996a72)
  • Added Tag to the Autoscale API docs. (issue 1964, commit 31118d9)
  • Updated the AWS Support documentation to the latest. (commit 29f9264)