bumped version number to 1.6.3

AppController/lib/helperfunctions.rb

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ class BadConfigurationException < Exception
 module HelperFunctions
 
 
-  VER_NUM = "1.5"
+  VER_NUM = "1.6.3"
 
 
   APPSCALE_HOME = ENV['APPSCALE_HOME']

README

@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ Eucalyptus as well as Xen and KVM. It has been developed and is maintained
 by the RACELab at UC Santa Barbara. It supports the Python, Java, and Go
 Google App Engine platforms.
 
-The latest stable release is AppScale 1.6-rc1, released May 17, 2012. Feature
-requests and pull requests gladly considered.
+The latest stable release is AppScale 1.6.3, released October 30, 2012. 
+Feature requests and pull requests gladly considered.
 
 Join the mailing list for announcements, help, and to discuss 
 cloud research: http://groups.google.com/group/appscale_community

RELEASE

@@ -4,15 +4,46 @@
  / ___ |/ /_/ / /_/ /___/ / /__/ /_/ / //  __/
 /_/  |_/ .___/ .___//____/\___/\__,_/_/ \___/ 
       /_/   /_/                               
-The current release is 1.6, relased XXX, 2012.
-Included in this release (over 1.5) is:
-....
-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
+The current release is 1.6.3, relased October 30, 2012.
+
+Bugs fixed in this release:
+- Autoscaler scales down when --appengine is used (https://github.com/AppScale/appscale/issues/43)
+- AppController crashes in response to failed ZooKeeper operations (https://github.com/AppScale/appscale/issues/47)
+- Python applications should start even if rabbitmq fails to start (https://github.com/AppScale/appscale/issues/62)
+- Bad applications crash appscale (https://github.com/AppScale/appscale/issues/57)
+
+and updated versions of Cassandra and HBase used - more info to come soon!
 
-Included in this release (over 1.4) is:
+Information about previous releases:
 ....
 
-The AppScale version 1.4, released September 7, 2010.
+AppScale version 1.5 was released July 28, 2011. Features include:
+
+	Support for the bulkloader, enabling persistence for your data
+	Upgraded Java and Python AppServers to GAE 1.4.3
+	Support for Go App Engine apps (SDK version 1.5.0), including support for apps that use multiple processes
+	Fault tolerance for almost all services (processes monitored and revived by god)
+	Faster startup and termination of AppScale, especially over larger numbers of nodes
+	Tools and image now verify that all instances used have AppScale installed
+	EC2 and Eucalyptus credentials are now obscured when they are printed to logs
+	Channel API for Python (multiple receivers can also be used) - implemented via Strophe.js
+	Blobstore and Files API for Python
+	XMPP API for Python - implemented via ejabberd
+	Hybrid cloud support - run AppScale over multiple clouds in a single deployment (e.g., Eucalyptus and EC2, EC2 East Coast and EC2 West Coast)
+	Neptune language support
+	Table caching for MySQL, HBase, Hypertable to improve performance
+	Updated interface for Amazon SimpleDB
+	Upgraded Cassandra version used to 0.7.6-2
+	Upgraded HBase version used to 0.89
+	Upgraded Hadoop version used to 0.20.2
+	Upgraded Hypertable version used to 0.9.43
+	Namespacing support
+	Added Loki, a fault tolerance tester along the lines of Netflix's Chaos Monkey
+	User authorization system for MapReduce, EC2, and Neptune APIs
+	Ability to remove transaction overhead via namespaces
+	Various other bug fixes
+
+AppScale version 1.4 was released September 7, 2010.
 
 Included in this release (over version 1.3) is:
 

VERSION

@@ -4,5 +4,5 @@
  / ___ |/ /_/ / /_/ /___/ / /__/ /_/ / //  __/
 /_/  |_/ .___/ .___//____/\___/\__,_/_/ \___/ 
       /_/   /_/                               
-AppScale version 1.6
+AppScale version 1.6.3
 

debian/appscale_install_functions.sh

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ fi
 #if [ -z "$APPSCALE_HOME" ]; then
  #  export APPSCALE_HOME= /root/appscale/
 #fi 
-export APPSCALE_VERSION=1.5
+export APPSCALE_VERSION=1.6.3
 
 increaseconnections()
 {