copied in old 1.5 release info

RELEASE

@@ -17,7 +17,33 @@ and updated versions of Cassandra and HBase used - more info to come soon!
 Information about previous releases:
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-The AppScale version 1.4, released September 7, 2010.
+AppScale version 1.5 was released July 28, 2011. Features include:
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+	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: