Major changes: X-AppEngine-country is created for each user request, Channel API - presence support, Images API - WebP format added, ProtoRPC - new framework for creating RPC web services (only for Python), High Replication Datastore emulation consistency model. Details below ...
Geolocation Header : App Engine now creates a “X-AppEngine-country” header for each client request. The header contains the result of an attempt to determine the country from which the request came.
Java and Python API extensions
Channel API (presence support): Now you can configure the inbound service of an application to detect user presence. Thus, the application can respond to the connection / disconnection of the user from the channel.
Images API (WebP support): Added support for WebP images. WebP is a new image format, which Google opened the code at the beginning of this year. The format provides lossy compression for images, while the size may be 39% smaller than the JPEG image of the same quality.
New API for Python
ProtoRPC : ProtoRPC is an open source framework for creating well-defined and easy-to-use RPC web services.
Data store
High Replication Datastore (HRD) in the SDK : SDK 1.5.1 for Java and Python can now emulate the consistency model HRD. This means that query results will not always reflect the latest data changes.