Actually this has been sitting around in my queue for quite a while. Google announced version 8 “sneak peek” release of the AdWords API back in December. For some reason I’ve been kicked off the AdWords API newsgroup. It might just have been a technical problem, but I had also been posting about our shabby treatment at the hands of Google, particularly with respect to the new quota system which is devouring any hope of making a profit. So anyway, it took me quite a while to get back on that list — strangely my subscribe requests just silently didn’t work. So I missed the original announcement, but once I found out about v8, it was only a matter of an hour of work to recompile against Google’s newest WSDL files. Strong typing, see, it really matters.
You probably don’t want to upgrade. The main reason is the “sneak peek” only works in the sandbox, and we don’t know if Google will go and release a “version 9″ when they’re ready to go live. On the other hand it has some potentially useful features. I’ve souped up the command line tools considerably, and this version does the Right Thing when presented with mobile ads and other “new” AdWords features.
So FWIW here is the Merjis AdWords Toolkit 2.8.0.
