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datasette-auth-github 1.0

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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.

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Simon Willison
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datasette 1.0a40

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datasette 1.0a39

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Simon Willison
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datasette-explain 0.2.2

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Simon Willison
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Simon Willison
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