Simon Willison on releasenotes

11 items tagged “releasenotes”

2022

Writing better release notes

Release notes are an important part of the open source process. I’ve been thinking about these a lot recently, and I’ve assembled some thoughts on how to do a better job with them.

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8:13 pm / 31st January 2022 / opensource, releasenotes, writing

2021

Datasette 0.59: The annotated release notes

Datasette 0.59 is out, with a miscellaneous grab-bag of improvements. Here are the annotated release notes.

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4:59 am / 19th October 2021 / releasenotes, datasette, weeknotes, annotatedreleasenotes

Datasette Desktop 0.2.0: The annotated release notes

Datasette Desktop is a new macOS desktop application version of Datasette, an “open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data” built on top of SQLite. I released the first version last week—I’ve just released version 0.2.0 (and a 0.2.1 bug fix) with a whole bunch of critical improvements.

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11:30 pm / 13th September 2021 / projects, releasenotes, datasette, annotatedreleasenotes, electron, datasettedesktop

Datasette 0.58: The annotated release notes

I released Datasette 0.58 last night, with new plugin hooks, Unix domain socket support, a major faceting performance fix and a few other improvements. Here are the annotated release notes.

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2:21 am / 16th July 2021 / csrf, releasenotes, sqlite, datasette, annotatedreleasenotes, drichardhipp

Datasette 0.54: The annotated release notes

Datasette 0.54 is out today, with a number of foundational new features. As I’ve done for previous releases, here are the annotated release notes with some additional commentary.

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5:31 pm / 25th January 2021 / releasenotes, datasette, annotatedreleasenotes, smalldata

2020

Datasette 0.50: The annotated release notes

I released Datasette 0.50 this morning, with a new user-facing column actions menu feature and a way for plugins to make internal HTTP requests to consume the JSON API of their parent Datasette instance.

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8:23 pm / 9th October 2020 / projects, releasenotes, datasette, annotatedreleasenotes, httpx

Datasette 0.49: The annotated release notes

Datasette 0.49 is out. Some notes on what’s new.

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11:45 pm / 15th September 2020 / projects, releasenotes, datasette, annotatedreleasenotes

Datasette 0.45: The annotated release notes

Datasette 0.45, out today, features magic parameters for canned queries, a log out feature, improved plugin documentation and four new plugin hooks.

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10:33 pm / 1st July 2020 / plugins, projects, releasenotes, datasette, weeknotes, annotatedreleasenotes

Datasette 0.44: The annotated release notes

I just released Datasette 0.44 to PyPI. With 128 commits since 0.43 this is the biggest release in a long time—and likely the last major release of new features before Datasette 1.0.

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3:11 am / 12th June 2020 / authentication, permissions, plugins, projects, releasenotes, datasette, weeknotes, annotatedreleasenotes

2010

jQuery 1.4 Released. With comprehensive release notes. Huge performance improvements and a ton of very sensible enhancements to the API—far too many to summarise. # 14th January 2010, 10:37 pm

2008

Django 1.0 release notes. What’s new in Django 1.0. Short answer: one heck of a lot. # 4th September 2008, 1:10 am