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16th September 2026

Release datasette 1.0a40 — An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data

Same security fix as 0.65.5, plus some neat new features and bug fixes:

  • Plugins can now launch and manage background tasks using the new datasette.add_background_task() method. Thanks, Alex Garcia.
  • I've migrated Datasette to httpx2 for features like the internal datasette.client.get() method.
  • A whole lot of bug fixes, many of them stemming from a recent effort to triage issues for a 1.0 stable release.

This is a beat by Simon Willison, posted on 16th September 2026.

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