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29th May 2026

Release datasette 1.0a31 — An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data

Another significant alpha release, with two new headline features.

Datasette now offers users with the necessary permissions the ability to both execute write queries against their database and to save stored queries (renamed from "canned queries") both privately and for use by other members of their Datasette instance.

There's more detail in SQL write queries and stored queries in Datasette 1.0a31 on the Datasette blog, which now has three posts introducing new features since the blog launched two weeks ago.

Here's an animated demo from the blog post showing how the new execute query interface lets people get started with templated insert/update/delete queries from tables they have permission to edit:

The user starts on the data database page, selects actions and "Execute write SQL", then selects the insert document template on the next page and executes it with a title of "My document!". Also demonstrates that a create table statement cannot be executed because the user does not have create-table permission.

Posted 29th May 2026 at 3:32 am

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