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Posted by Marzia Niccolai, App Engine Team

Update: This morning we released SDK 1.1.7 due to an issue with the 1.1.6 release. SDK 1.1.7 contains the fix for this issue, as well as the fixes and features listed below.

Today we released the 1.1.6 SDK. You can download it on our Google hosting project, and peruse the release notes for more details on the release.

This release contains some notable new features, including several to our datastore:

You can now sort and filter on an entity's key
You can now delete an entity directly using its key, without fetching the Model object.
If you specify a key_name when creating a Model, its key will now be available before you call put()
URLFetch calls made in the SDK now have a 5 second timeout, matching production

Also, it contains a number of issue fixes, including the following:

Google App Engine Camp ShanghaiNovember 18

Posted by Marzia Niccolai, App Engine Team

Join fellow Google App Engine developers in Shanghai for Google App Engine Camp on November 22nd starting at 1pm. We'll be meeting at Google's Shanghai office, where you can come to discuss and develop your App Engine projects. We'll kick off the event with a round of lightening talks, after which you can meet other developers, and even get started coding!

Food and coffee will be provided, so just bring your ideas and your laptop. Full details and registration form can be found on the website.

Attention Bay Area developers: participate in our developer study!November 12

Posted by Donal Mountain, App Engine Team

Starting later this year the App Engine team will be getting out of the office for a series of developer visits.

We want to come to your home or office (or wherever you use App Engine), and look over your shoulder so that we can learn first-hand about how you use our product. Our goal is to see how App Engine fits into your development process. We want to learn what's working for you and what's frustrating you.

The initial round of visits will be to developers in the San Francisco Bay Area, and then in the new year we will visit developers elsewhere in the US. If you would like to participate, please take a few minutes to complete this sign-up form. That link also contains information about exactly what's involved in the field visit. Developers who we end up visiting will receive $150 compensation. For questions and updates check the App Engine discussion group.

We look forward to meeting as many of you as possible!

Google App Engine Hackathon: Atlanta & Ann ArborOctober 31

Please join us in November for a Google App Engine Hackathon in Atlanta and Ann Arbor. Not only can you learn more about App Engine, but you can also share ideas with local developers, look for partners on your latest project, get support, brainstorm, and network.

Learn about Google App Engine
There will be talks on the major features of Google App Engine at different points throughout the day. We will run through developing an app with the SDK and show how to deploy and manage applications on Google App Engine. Google App Engine and Python enthusiasts from the community will be on hand to help and to answer questions throughout the day.

Build With Us, or Build Your Own
You are welcome to bring along anything you can prepare ahead of time (sketches, designs, web page mock ups, etc.) and use the time and information provided to develop your idea into a working application, then share it with the world. Or, you can code along with us in building a Google App Engine application from start to finish.

What Do I Need?
There will be power, refreshments and Python enthusiasts to help you learn to use Google App Engine and write your application. Just bring your laptops, ideas and enthusiasm to complete the mix.

When and Where?

The Atlanta hackathon will take place Saturday November 15,

App Engine Case StudiesOctober 29

Posted by Paul McDonald, App Engine Team

Over the past few months we've heard some amazing stories detailing just how easy it is to create scalable web applications on App Engine. We've invited a few developers to participate in some case study videos and tell you more about their experience with App Engine.

BuddyPoke!
BuddyPoke! is an OpenSocial app running on MySpace, Orkut, and Hi5. It has scaled to nearly 30M daily pageviews on App Engine.

"App Engine has been a godsend in terms of our scalability...we saw a 8x jump in installs overnight and we are now serving 12 million users!" - Dave Westwood, BuddyPoke!

Pixverse (PixChat)
PixChat, recently acquired by Hi5, lets you chat with friends across the web within your Hi5 profile page.

"Running our app on App Engine was really easy...the whole porting effort took only 3 hours." - Charles Ying, Pixverse

Hyperic (CloudStatus)
CloudStatus monitors the health and performance of major cloud computing platforms like App Engine and Amazon Web Services.