It's been a while since I covered Appengine, but the team at Google hasn't been idle.
Google App Engine Blog: Python SDK version 1.2.4 released.
Meanwhile, the Appengine blog added an extra article describing the new features:
http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2009/08/new-features-in-124.html

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