Highlights of features/bugs in this release:
- Better error messages for AppScale tools
- Moved to package installation of most installed software (faster build)
- Cleanup of instances on "appscale down"
- Ability to support more dynamic code layout of Java applications
- Upgraded Cassandra to 2.0.7
- Use ntp service for clock sync
- Have AppScale catch when there are not enough resources on start
- Using openjdk instead of Oracle's JVM
- Fixed issue where monit thought ZooKeeper was not running
- Made build process more resilient
- Dead code elimination
- Wheezy support
- Updated bootstrap script
- Batching for datastore queries (better memory management and stability)
- Support for list composite indexes
- Support for distinct queries
- Projection queries no longer fetch from the entity table (faster queries)
- ZigZag Merge Join optimization
- Taskqueue statistics now reports number of tasks pending in a queue
- Fixed critical bug where a failed slave node would come up as master
- Fixed critical bug with nginx failing to be reloaded
- Experimental OpenStack agent (auto scaling)