Simon Willison

datasette-publish-fly 1.4

The article announces the release of datasette-publish-fly version 1.4. It highlights new features such as setting force_https=true in fly.toml, a fix for the "Volume could not be found" bug, and compatibility with app‑scoped deploy tokens. The release is tagged under datasette and fly.

Simon Willison
Sep 16

datasette 1.0a40

The article announces the release of Datasette 1.0a40, which includes a security fix identical to that in version 0.65.5, new features such as the ability for plugins to launch and manage background tasks via the datasette.add_background_task() method, and a migration to httpx2 to support features like datasette.client.get(). The update also contains numerous bug fixes, many of which were addressed during a recent triage effort for the upcoming 1.0 stable release.

Simon Willison
Sep 11

datasette 0.65.4

The article announces the release of Datasette version 0.65.4, noting that it includes security updates. It references the Datasette blog for more details on the 1.0a39 and 0.65.4 security releases. The release is tagged as a security update for the Datasette project.

Simon Willison
Sep 11

datasette 1.0a39

The article announces the release of Datasette version 1.0a39, noting that it includes security updates. It references the Datasette blog for details on the 1.0a39 release and the 0.65.4 security releases. The release is tagged with security and datasette.

Simon Willison
Sep 20

datasette-explain 0.2.2

The article announces the release of datasette-explain version 0.2.2, noting that the plugin’s plan explanations now work on read‑only stored‑query pages. The author upgraded the demo site to Datasette 1.0a40, which motivated the new plugin version. The release is tagged for sqlite and datasette users.

Simon Willison
Sep 24

datasette 1.0a41

The article announces the release of Datasette 1.0a41, highlighting new OpenTelemetry support added by Alec Garcia and a refactor that consolidates all modal dialogs into a single Web Component, now documented for plugin use.

Simon Willison
6d ago

datasette-llm 0.1a9

The release of datasette-llm 0.1a9 introduces a small user‑experience improvement: the plugin now automatically detects the default LLM model, eliminating the need for users to manually configure a default model when running Datasette Agent. This change simplifies the setup process for users who previously had to specify a model with the `-s plugins.datasette-agent.default_model` option.

Simon Willison
3d ago

datasette-apps 0.3a0

Release: datasette-apps 0.3a0 Datasette Apps adds support for hosting and editing custom HTML applications inside of Datasette. These can be created by hand, but it's easier to create them usi...

Simon Willison
3d ago

llm 0.37.1

Release: llm 0.37.1 A bugfix release for LLM, with contributions from Steven Huang, Tao An, Arjan Mossel, and XQ. Tags: llm

Simon Willison
2d ago

datasette-llm 0.1a10

The article announces the release of datasette-llm version 0.1a10. It reports a bug fix that corrects the demo site at agent.datasette.io, ensuring that only LLM models specified in the configuration are available. The update addresses a configuration issue affecting model availability.

Simon Willison
Oct 6

datasette-atom 0.11a0

The article announces the release of datasette-atom version 0.11a0, which includes a minor fix to ensure compatibility with the latest Datasette alpha releases. This update enables the datasette.io website to be upgraded to Datasette 1.0a41. The release is tagged under "atom" and "datasette".

Simon Willison
Oct 18

llm-tools-datasette 0.1.1

The article announces the release of llm-tools-datasette version 0.1.1. It explains that updating LLM to use httpx2 caused compatibility issues with plugins that relied on httpx, including llm-tools-datasette, which has now been fixed. The release notes highlight the resolution of this plugin breakage.

Simon Willison
Oct 6

Using Parseable with Datasette for OpenTelemetry traces

The article describes how the author used Parseable, an observability platform, with Datasette to handle OpenTelemetry traces. Parseable offers an open‑source Rust implementation and an enterprise version, while Datasette 1.0a41 added OpenTelemetry support. The author demonstrates the setup and shows a screenshot of a Datasette trace displayed in Parseable’s local web interface.