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alchemy-utils 0.1a0

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Release: alchemy-utils 0. 1a0 I've long pondered what a database agnostic version of my sqlite-utils Python library and CLI utility might look like.

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arXiv AI
Sep 3

Zeta-Lite: A Concurrent, Branchable In-Browser SQL Database for Agentic Memory

Zeta‑Lite is a WebAssembly‑based in‑browser SQL database that brings concurrent, snapshot‑isolated transactions and copy‑on‑write database branching to the client side. It is a compact 2.87 MB gzipped build of the Zeta engine, offering a full PostgreSQL‑compatible feature set—including joins, CTEs, window functions, JSONB, full‑text search, HNSW vector search, and graph queries—while maintaining high read/write throughput across major browsers. The engine’s log‑centric asynchronous MVCC core enables overlapping transactions on a single thread and unique branching capabilities rarely seen even in server‑side databases. whyItMatters":"Zeta‑Lite’s concurrent, branchable design provides a lightweight, privacy‑preserving, and offline‑ready memory layer for in‑browser AI agents, enabling them to explore, test, and commit speculative changes efficiently."

By Gene Zhang
Simon Willison
Sep 11

Datasette 1.0a39 and 0.65.4 security releases

Datasette 1.0a39 and 0.65.4 are new security patch releases for the current alpha series and the stable 0.65.x family. The updates address security fixes that are important for public-facing Datasette instances, especially those that mix public and private tables. The patches were developed after an extensive audit using advanced AI models and collaborative review, and the process will be incorporated into future development work.

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.