Simon Willison

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
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 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
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
6d ago

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
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-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 19

datasette-auth-github 1.0

The article announces the 1.0 release of the datasette-auth-github plugin. The author discovered that the plugin was setting cookies without a Max‑Age parameter, causing sessions to expire at the end of a browser session, especially on Mobile Safari. This issue was fixed in pull request #80, and the plugin is now stable and tested against Datasette 0.65.x and 1.0ax.

Simon Willison
Sep 7

llm 0.35

The article announces the release of llm version 0.35, which introduces a new OpenAI model named gpt-6-astra for GPT-6 Astra. It highlights the addition of this model to the llm library and tags the release with openai, llm, and gpt-6-astra.

Simon Willison
Sep 29

GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price

Simon Willison comments on GPT 6.1‑Sol, describing it as "Near‑Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price." He notes that the model’s pelican illustrations are similar to those of the GPT‑6 family and provides links to the live‑blog of the keynote and to the pelican images. The post is tagged with AI, OpenAI, generative‑AI, LLMs, and playful references to pelican‑riding‑a‑bicycle.

Simon Willison
Aug 24

llm-anthropic 0.27

The release of llm‑anthropic 0.27 updates the Anthropic plugin for LLM to be compatible with the newly released anthropic v1.0.0 Python library, which has switched from httpx to httpx2. This mirrors a similar change made by OpenAI in their v3.0.0 release two weeks prior. The update includes a migration guide and a pull request that ensures tests pass after upgrading to anthropic>=1.