Simon Willison’s Weblog

14th July 2026

Release datasette 1.0a37 — An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data

A minor release. Performance and documentation improvements to the permissions system, plus I reverted a cosmetic API change which caused almost every existing plugin test suite to break.

Posted 14th July 2026 at 4:31 pm

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