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boto v2.25.0

date:2014/02/07

This release includes Amazon Route53 service and documentation updates, preliminary log file support for Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), as well as various other small fixes. Also included is an opt-in to use signature version 4 with Amazon EC2.

IMPORTANT - This release also include a SIGNIFICANT underlying change to the Amazon S3 get_bucket method, to addresses the blog post by AppNeta. We’ve altered the default behavior to now perform a HEAD on the bucket, in place of the old GET behavior (which would fetch a zero-length list of keys).

This should reduce all users costs & should also be mostly backward-compatible. HOWEVER, if you were previously parsing the exception message from S3Connection.get_bucket, you will have to change your code (see the S3 tutorial for details). HEAD does not return as detailed of error messages & while we’ve attempted to patch over as much of the differences as we can, there may still be edge-cases over the prior behavior.

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