{
  "id": 7906375,
  "title": "datasette 1.0a40",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/16/datasette-1-0a40",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-16T23:51:43.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Simon Willison",
    "slug": "simon-willison",
    "url": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/16/datasette/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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 . I've migrated Datasette to httpx2 for features like the internal datasette.client.get() method. A whole lot of bug fixes , many of them stemming from a recent effort to…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}