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datasette 1.0a40

Datasette, an open-source tool for exploring and publishing data, released version 1.0a40 — a pre-stable alpha update delivering a backported security fix, background task support for plugins, migration to httpx2, and numerous bug fixes as part of its path toward 1.0.

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Simon Willison's Weblog

Published Sep 16, 2026 · Analyzed Sep 19, 2026

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commit-rewriter 0.1

A developer released a lightweight Python tool called commit-rewriter 0.1 to clean up AI-generated and internal-only commit messages before public release, specifically for Datasette security patches.

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Simon Willison's Weblog

Sep 14, 2026

Related Claims

01 The initial commits were full of coding agent cruft and references to issue IDs from our private repository, so they weren't fit for publication.

02 Datasette 1.0a40 includes the same security fix as 0.65.5

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