Boto

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The 2.1.1 release fixes one serious issue with the RDS module.

https://github.com/boto/boto/issues/382

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

.. _`PyPI`: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/boto
.. _`Google Code`: http://code.google.com/p/boto/downloads/

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^)


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Highlights
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There have been many, many changes since the 2.0b4 release. This overview highlights some of those changes.

* Fix connection pooling bug: don't close before reading.
* Added AddInstanceGroup and ModifyInstanceGroup to boto.emr
* Merge pull request 246 from chetan/multipart_s3put
* AddInstanceGroupsResponse class to boto.emr.emrobject.
* Removed extra print statement
* Merge pull request 244 from ryansb/master
* Added add_instance_groups function to boto.emr.connection. Built some helper methods for it, and added AddInstanceGroupsResponse class to boto.emr.emrobject.
* Added a new class, InstanceGroup, with just a __init__ and __repr__.
* Adding support for GetLoginProfile request to IAM. Removing commented lines in connection.py. Fixes GoogleCode issue 532.
* Fixed issue 195
* Added correct sax reader for boto.emr.emrobject.BootstrapAction
* Fixed a typo bug in ConsoleOutput sax parsing and some PEP8 cleanup in connection.py.
* Added initial support for generating a registration url for the aws marketplace
* Fix add_record and del_record to support multiple values, like change_record does
* Add support to accept SecurityGroupId as a parameter for ec2 run instances. This is required to create EC2 instances under VPC security groups
* Added support for aliases to the add_change method of ResourceRecordSets.
* Resign each request in a retry situation. Some services are starting to incorporate replay detection algorithms and the boto approach of simply re-trying the original request triggers them. Also a small bug fix to roboto and added a delay in the ec2 test to wait for consistency.
* Fixed a problem with InstanceMonitoring parameter of LaunchConfigurations for autoscale module.
* Route 53 Alias Resource Record Sets
* Fixed App Engine support
* Fixed incorrect host on App Engine
* Fixed issue 199 on github.
* First pass at put_metric_data
* Changed boto.s3.Bucket.set_acl_xml() to ISO-8859-1 encode the Unicode ACL text before sending over HTTP connection.
* Added GetQualificationScore for mturk.
* Added UpdateQualificationScore for mturk
* import_key_pair base64 fix
* Fixes for ses send_email method better handling of exceptions
* Add optional support for SSL server certificate validation.
* Specify a reasonable socket timeout for httplib
* Support for ap-northeast-1 region
* Close issue 153
* Close issue 154
* we must POST autoscale user-data, not GET. otherwise a HTTP 505 error is returned from AWS. see: http://groups.google.com/group/boto-dev/browse_thread/thread/d5eb79c97ea8eecf?pli=1
* autoscale userdata needs to be base64 encoded.
* Use the unversioned streaming jar symlink provided by EMR
* Updated lss3 to allow for prefix based listing (more like actual ls)
* Deal with the groupSet element that appears in the instanceSet element in the DescribeInstances response.
* Add a change_record command to bin/route53
* Incorporating a patch from AWS to allow security groups to be tagged.
* Fixed an issue with extra headers in generated URLs. Fixes http://code.google.com/p/boto/issues/detail?id=499
* Incorporating a patch to handle obscure bug in apache/fastcgi. See http://goo.gl/0Tdax.
* Reorganizing the existing test code. Part of a long-term project to completely revamp and improve boto tests.
* Fixed an invalid parameter bug (ECS) 102
* Adding initial cut at s3 website support.

Stats
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* 465 commits since boto 2.0b4
* 70 authors
* 111 Pull requests from 64 different authors

Contributors (in order of last commits)
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* Mitch Garnaat
* Chris Moyer
* Garrett Holmstrom
* Justin Riley
* Steve Johnson
* Sean Talts
* Brian Beach
* Ryan Brown
* Chetan Sarva
* spenczar
* Jonathan Drosdeck
* garnaat
* Nathaniel Moseley
* Bradley Ayers
* jibs
* Kenneth Falck
* chirag
* Sean O'Connor
* Scott Moser
* Vineeth Pillai
* Greg Taylor
* root
* darktable
* flipkin
* brimcfadden
* Samuel Lucidi
* Terence Honles
* Mike Schwartz
* Waldemar Kornewald
* Lucas Hrabovsky
* thaDude
* Vinicius Ruan Cainelli
* David Marin
* Stanislav Ievlev
* Victor Trac
* Dan Fairs
* David Pisoni
* Matt Robenolt
* Matt Billenstein
* rgrp
* vikalp
* Christoph Kern
* Gabriel Monroy
* Ben Burry
* Hinnerk
* Jann Kleen
* Louis R. Marascio
* Matt Singleton
* David Park
* Nick Tarleton
* Cory Mintz
* Robert Mela
* rlotun
* John Walsh
* Keith Fitzgerald
* Pierre Riteau
* ryancustommade
* Fabian Topfstedt
* Michael Thompson
* sanbornm
* Seth Golub
* Jon Colverson
* Steve Howard
* Roberto Gaiser
* James Downs
* Gleicon Moraes
* Blake Maltby
* Mac Morgan
* Rytis Sileika
* winhamwr


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* Support for versioning in S3
* Support for MFA Delete in S3
* Support for Elastic Map Reduce
* Support for Simple Notification Service
* Support for Google Storage
* Support for Consistent Reads and Conditional Puts in SimpleDB
* Significant updates and improvements to Mechanical Turk (mturk) module
* Support for Windows Bundle Tasks in EC2
* Support for Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS) in S3
* Support for Cluster Computing instances and Placement Groups in EC2