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18th March 2026

Release datasette 1.0a26 — An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data

Datasette now has a mechanism for assigning semantic column types. Built-in column types include urlemail, and json, and plugins can register additional types using the new register_column_types() plugin hook.

This is a beat by Simon Willison, posted on 18th March 2026.

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