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datasette 1.0a40.

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Datasette 1.0a40 was released with the same security fix as version 0.65.5, plus new features and bug fixes. Plugins can now launch and manage background tasks using the new datasette.add_background_task() method, and Datasette has been migrated to httpx2.

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“Release: datasette 1.0a40 Same security fix as 0.65.5 , plus some neat new features and bug fixes: Plugins can now launch and manage background tasks using the new datasette.add_background_task() method. Thanks, Alex Garcia .”
Simon Willison's Weblog, 16 Sept 2026, 23:51.

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