Merge pull request #2459 from jeanleonov/3.3.0

3.3.0 Release notes

Author: cdonati

RELEASE

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+AppScale version 3.3.0, released June, 2017
+Highlights of features/bugs in this release:
+- Added support for Ubuntu Xenial
+- Improved autoscaling mechanism to rely on resources capacity
+- Removed unnecessary DB request while adding task
+- Fixed a bug that caused a DB request to hang indefinitely
+- Improved log collection command on appscale-tools
+- Simplified the process for enabling the datastore-viewer
+- Fixed ejabberd configuration and installation on Azure
+- Manual scaling with add-instances in cloud
+- Added retry for queue operations to improve reliability
+- Clearer error messages if AppScale is not configured correctly
+- Fixed a bug that could cause inconsistent state of task when it’s deleted
+- Starting only one process per BRServer for easier monitoring
+- Improved task queue leases performance
+- Fixed a bug with single-property cursor queries that have an equality filter on a multi-valued property
+- Improved load balancer configurations
+- Improved handling of datastore timeout
+- Allocating entity IDs in blocks
+- Added base support of Google Admin API
+- Improved monitoring of running AppScale processes
+- Added docs for starting datastore on its own
+- Starting AppScale services in background
+- Fixed a bug with a pillow version used for Images API
+- Improved rabbitmq stability
+- Keep redirect URL after creating a user
+- Added performance profiling
+- Other minor improvements and fixes
+
 AppScale version 3.2.1, released April, 2017
 Highlights of features/bugs in this release:
 - Fixed appscale upgrade from 3.1.0
@@ -95,7 +124,7 @@ Highlights of features/bugs in this release:
 - Removed confusing error about non-existing dir during bootstrap
 - Avoid unsafe disk operations on mount
 - Wait for at most 30 seconds for a monit operation
-- Wait for database quorum for all tokens on start 
+- Wait for database quorum for all tokens on start
 
 AppScale version 2.9.0, released June, 2016
 Highlights of features/bugs in this release:
@@ -563,7 +592,7 @@ Bugs fixed in this release:
 - No longer reporting negative requests per second in AppDashboard for apps
 - Stripping leading and trailing whitespace on username when users log into AppDashboard
 - AppDashboard no longer infinitely retries when talking to AppController
-- Create random keyname and group 
+- Create random keyname and group
 - Link to header in AppDashboard now works again
 - AppController retries requests to AppDashboard that fail b/c of transient errors
 - Updated GCE support to use v1beta15 instead of the now unsupported v1beta14
@@ -794,10 +823,10 @@ Bugs fixed in this release:
 - Python AppServer leaks memory
 - InfrastructureManager is not using given user's credentials
 - AppController crashes if it can't determine its own IP address
-- Failure to delete app data from ZooKeeper prevents app removal 
-- Uploading apps via web UI doesn't work 
-- Removed sisyphus from code base 
-- New builds fail due to Rake error 
+- Failure to delete app data from ZooKeeper prevents app removal
+- Uploading apps via web UI doesn't work
+- Removed sisyphus from code base
+- New builds fail due to Rake error
 - AppScale lite - selectively build one database into AppScale instead of all of them
 
 AppScale version 1.6.3 was released October 30, 2012.
@@ -850,7 +879,7 @@ Included in this release (over version 1.3) is:
     Single node deployments for all databases (previously only Cassandra, Voldemort, MongoDB, and MemcacheDB were supported)
     PBServer is now multi-process and load balanced to improve throughput
     Secure login page for authentication via https
-    Amazon AWS EC2 public image available (ami-044fa56d) 
+    Amazon AWS EC2 public image available (ami-044fa56d)
 
 Supported Databases:
 
@@ -861,24 +890,24 @@ Supported Databases:
     Voldemort - Version 0.80
     MongoDB - Version 1.2.2-1ubuntu1
     MemcacheDB - Version 1.2.0-6
-    Scalaris - Version 0.2.3-1 
+    Scalaris - Version 0.2.3-1
 
 Restrictions:
 
     64 bit systems only (host and virtual machines)
     Specific versions supported (we support only these versions)
         Ubuntu Jaunty, Karmic, and Lucid only
-            x86_64 image kernel/modules/ramdisk 
+            x86_64 image kernel/modules/ramdisk
         Xen v3.3.3
         Eucalyptus v1.6 (KVM and Xen virtualization supported)
         Python App Engine 1.3.2 and Java App Engine 1.3.5
-        HBase, Hypertable, MySQL, Cassandra, Voldemort, MongoDB, MemcacheDB, Scalaris 
+        HBase, Hypertable, MySQL, Cassandra, Voldemort, MongoDB, MemcacheDB, Scalaris
 
 Roadmap
 
     Persistence of instance data via EBS in Eucalyptus and EC2
     Automatic scaling of AppScale deployment in Eucalyptus/EC2
-    Additional robustness and bug fixes 
+    Additional robustness and bug fixes
 
 Prior Releases
 
@@ -887,7 +916,7 @@ Release 1.3, released December 13, 2009.
 Included in this release (over version 1.3 Beta) is:
 
     Critical bug fixes for Cassandra, MongoDB, and MySQL
-    Amazon AWS EC2 public image available (ami-14799b7d) 
+    Amazon AWS EC2 public image available (ami-14799b7d)
 
 Restrictions:
 
@@ -898,11 +927,11 @@ Restrictions:
             for virtualized instances:
                 linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-23-xen
                 linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-23-xen
-                linux-image-2.6.24-23-xen 
+                linux-image-2.6.24-23-xen
         Xen v3.3.3
         Eucalyptus v1.5.2 (KVM and Xen virtualization supported)
         Python App Engine 1.2.7
-        HBase, Hypertable, MySQL, Cassandra, Voldemort, MongoDB, MemcacheDB (versions specified in the scratch install instructions) 
+        HBase, Hypertable, MySQL, Cassandra, Voldemort, MongoDB, MemcacheDB (versions specified in the scratch install instructions)
 
 Release 1.3, Beta, released December 7, 2009:
 
@@ -919,7 +948,7 @@ Release 1.3, Beta, released December 7, 2009:
     Complete rewrite of AppLoadBalancer
     True support for static files via nginx (Python App Engine apps only)
     Numerous security fixes relating to cookies and administrator status on apps
-    Additional robustness and bug fixes 
+    Additional robustness and bug fixes
 
 Restrictions:
 
@@ -930,11 +959,11 @@ Restrictions:
             for virtualized instances:
                 linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-23-xen
                 linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-23-xen
-                linux-image-2.6.24-23-xen 
+                linux-image-2.6.24-23-xen
         Xen v3.3.3
         Eucalyptus v1.5.2 (KVM and Xen virtualization supported)
         Python App Engine 1.2.7
-        HBase, Hypertable, MySQL, Cassandra, Voldemort, MongoDB, MemcacheDB (versions specified in the scratch install instructions) 
+        HBase, Hypertable, MySQL, Cassandra, Voldemort, MongoDB, MemcacheDB (versions specified in the scratch install instructions)
 
 Release 1.2, released September 7, 2009:
 
@@ -950,7 +979,7 @@ Release 1.2, released September 7, 2009:
     Replication is configurable
     Ubuntu 9.04 support and wiki directions
     Wiki directions of sole-KVM use
-    Additional robustness and bug fixes 
+    Additional robustness and bug fixes
 
 Release 1.1, released June 17, 2009:
 
@@ -961,31 +990,31 @@ Release 1.1, released June 17, 2009:
     Instructions for building an AppScale image from scratch
     Support for running on non-virtualized Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) systems
     iptables-based firewall for improved security
-    Additional robustness and bug fixes 
+    Additional robustness and bug fixes
 
     Restrictions:
 
         64 bit systems only (host and virtual machines)
-            32 bit systems for non-virtualized installation 
+            32 bit systems for non-virtualized installation
         Specific versions supported (we support only these versions)
             Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 distribution supported only
                 x86_64 image kernel/modules/ramdisk
                 for virtualized instances:
                     linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-23-xen
                     linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-23-xen
-                    linux-image-2.6.24-23-xen 
+                    linux-image-2.6.24-23-xen
             Xen v3.3.1
             Eucalyptus v1.5 (KVM and Xen virtualization supported)
             Python App Engine 1.2.2
-            HBase, Hypertable, MySQL (versions specified in the scratch install instructions) 
+            HBase, Hypertable, MySQL (versions specified in the scratch install instructions)
 
 Release 1.0.2:
 
     Supported Databases: HBase, Hypertable
     Cluster types supported: Xen, Eucalyptus
-    Bug fixes (1.0, 1.0.1) 
+    Bug fixes (1.0, 1.0.1)
 
 Release 1.0:
 
     Xen-only, image-based AppScale deployment released
-    Supported Database: HBase 
+    Supported Database: HBase

VERSION

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-AppScale version 3.2.1
+AppScale version 3.3.0