Releasing SAM v1.6.1

What's New in SAM v1.6.1?

NOTE: Although v1.7.0 has since been released, we're posting these release notes retroactively for awareness of v1.6.1 features.

SQS as an Event Source

#451 You can now define an SQS Queue as an event source in your SAM template, and trigger lambda functions by sending messages to an Amazon SQS queue. Check out more information in the documentation as well as in an example application that uses this new feature.

Inline Code

#447 You can now (optionally) write your lambda function code inside of your SAM yaml template. An example of this is included below:

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: '2010-09-09'
Transform: 'AWS::Serverless-2016-10-31'
Description: A hello world lambda function with inline code.
Resources:
  helloworld:
    Type: 'AWS::Serverless::Function'
    Properties:
      Handler: index.handler
      Runtime: nodejs8.10
      MemorySize: 128
      Timeout: 3
      InlineCode: |
        exports.handler = async () => ‘Hello World!'

Thanks to @tylersouthwick, one of our community contributors, for this new feature!

Other updates

#408 Add MobileAnalyticsWriteOnlyAccessPolicy and PinpointEndpointAccessPolicy to Policy Templates
#449 Fix ANY method ARN generation to use a wildcard (*)
#477 Fix references to AWSLambdaSQSQueueExecutionRole
Commit Add SSE to SimpleTable
#397 Add FirehoseWritePolicy and FirehoseCrudPolicy to Policy Templates
#490 #491 Add support for Python3 (AWS internal transform still uses Python2.7 for backwards compatibility)
Also, updates to the documentation and example applications.