datasette 1.0a40

Release: datasette 1.0a40 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…

Release: datasette 1.0a40 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. Tags: security, datasette

Source: Simon Willison — Published September 16, 2026 at 23:51 UTC — Category: Tools