Version 0.12.0

This release contains three large API additions or changes:

• Adds official support for the Google Cloud Bigtable API.
• Adds offficial support of the Google Cloud Logging API.
• Upgrades Google Cloud Datastore from v1beta2 to v1beta3 (see release notes for the new backend)

BigQuery

• Add a template_suffix parameter to BigQuery Table.insert_data (#1562).
• Expand/clarify synchronous query usage docs (#1674).
• Cache job constructed for a synchronous query (#1675).

Storage

• Pass mutated properties through to Bucket.create API call (#1579).
• Allow predefined ACL names from either XML or JSON APIs (#1664).

Pub/Sub

• Add Topic.list_subscriptions (#1580).
• Fix topic subscription path patterns (#1592).
• Add Message.service_timestamp property (#1627).
• Add support for IAM permissions on topics (#1640, #1641, #1642, #1652)
  and subscriptions (#1644, #1645, #1646)

Datastore

• Upgrade the API from v1beta2 to v1beta3 (see #1288). In particular
• Rename the Query.group_by property to Query.distinct_on
• Add explicit support for null values in entities (#1464)
• Add explicit support for Geo Point values in entities (#1464)
• Remove custom GCLOUD_DATASET_ID environment variable, relying instead on GCLOUD_PROJECT (#1465)
• Fix broken docs for Query.add_filter (#1622).
• Documentation: Support filtering Query by key (#1632).
• Allow bytes or string as project value in datastore clients (#1638).

DNS

• Rename type -> record_type in DNS doc (#1663).

Logging

• Add support for the Cloud Logging API. See: #1567, #1568, #1569, #1574, #1578, #1581, #1584, #1585, #1586, #1587, #1588, #1589, #1590, #1596, #1597, #1598, #1599, #1600, #1601, #1609, #1610, #1611, #1612, #1613, #1616, #1628, #1658, #1661, #1665, #1666, #1668, #1669, #1677, #1678, #1680