id,page,ref,title,content,breadcrumbs,references changelog:id1,changelog,id1,Changelog,,[],[] changelog:v1-0-a9,changelog,v1-0-a9,1.0a9 (2024-02-16),This alpha release adds basic alter table support to the Datasette Write API and fixes a permissions bug relating to the /upsert API endpoint.,"[""Changelog""]",[] changelog:id24,changelog,id24,0.60 (2022-01-13),,"[""Changelog""]",[] changelog:id47,changelog,id47,0.51.1 (2020-10-31),Improvements to the new Binary data documentation page.,"[""Changelog""]",[] changelog:id48,changelog,id48,0.51 (2020-10-31),"A new visual design, plugin hooks for adding navigation options, better handling of binary data, URL building utility methods and better support for running Datasette behind a proxy.","[""Changelog""]",[] changelog:signed-values-and-secrets,changelog,signed-values-and-secrets,Signed values and secrets,"Both flash messages and user authentication needed a way to sign values and set signed cookies. Two new methods are now available for plugins to take advantage of this mechanism: .sign(value, namespace=""default"") and .unsign(value, namespace=""default"") . Datasette will generate a secret automatically when it starts up, but to avoid resetting the secret (and hence invalidating any cookies) every time the server restarts you should set your own secret. You can pass a secret to Datasette using the new --secret option or with a DATASETTE_SECRET environment variable. See Configuring the secret for more details. You can also set a secret when you deploy Datasette using datasette publish or datasette package - see Using secrets with datasette publish . Plugins can now sign values and verify their signatures using the datasette.sign() and datasette.unsign() methods.","[""Changelog"", ""0.44 (2020-06-11)""]",[] changelog:cookie-methods,changelog,cookie-methods,Cookie methods,"Plugins can now use the new response.set_cookie() method to set cookies. A new request.cookies method on the :ref:internals_request` can be used to read incoming cookies.","[""Changelog"", ""0.44 (2020-06-11)""]",[] changelog:id87,changelog,id87,0.29 (2019-07-07),"ASGI, new plugin hooks, facet by date and much, much more...","[""Changelog""]",[] changelog:v0-29-medium-changes,changelog,v0-29-medium-changes,Easier custom templates for table rows,"If you want to customize the display of individual table rows, you can do so using a _table.html template include that looks something like this: {% for row in display_rows %}

{{ row[""title""] }}

{{ row[""description""] }}

Category: {{ row.display(""category_id"") }}

{% endfor %} This is a backwards incompatible change . If you previously had a custom template called _rows_and_columns.html you need to rename it to _table.html . See Custom templates for full details.","[""Changelog"", ""0.29 (2019-07-07)""]",[] changelog:id90,changelog,id90,0.27.1 (2019-05-09),"Tiny bugfix release: don't install tests/ in the wrong place. Thanks, Veit Heller.","[""Changelog""]",[] changelog:id94,changelog,id94,0.25.2 (2018-12-16),"datasette publish heroku now uses the python-3.6.7 runtime Added documentation on how to build the documentation Added documentation covering our release process Upgraded to pytest 4.0.2","[""Changelog""]",[] changelog:foreign-key-expansions,changelog,foreign-key-expansions,Foreign key expansions,"When Datasette detects a foreign key reference it attempts to resolve a label for that reference (automatically or using the Specifying the label column for a table metadata option) so it can display a link to the associated row. This expansion is now also available for JSON and CSV representations of the table, using the new _labels=on query string option. See Expanding foreign key references for more details.","[""Changelog"", ""0.23 (2018-06-18)""]",[] changelog:id157,changelog,id157,0.17 (2018-04-13),Release 0.17 to fix issues with PyPI,"[""Changelog""]",[] changelog:id211,changelog,id211,0.11 (2017-11-14),"Added datasette publish now --force option. This calls now with --force - useful as it means you get a fresh copy of datasette even if Now has already cached that docker layer. Enable --cors by default when running in a container.","[""Changelog""]",[] changelog:id214,changelog,id214,0.9 (2017-11-13),"Added --sql_time_limit_ms and --extra-options . The serve command now accepts --sql_time_limit_ms for customizing the SQL time limit. The publish and package commands now accept --extra-options which can be used to specify additional options to be passed to the datasite serve command when it executes inside the resulting Docker containers.","[""Changelog""]",[] changelog:id91,changelog,id91,0.27 (2019-01-31),"New command: datasette plugins ( documentation ) shows you the currently installed list of plugins. Datasette can now output newline-delimited JSON using the new ?_shape=array&_nl=on query string option. Added documentation on The Datasette Ecosystem . Now using Python 3.7.2 as the base for the official Datasette Docker image .","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""http://ndjson.org/"", ""label"": ""newline-delimited JSON""}, {""href"": ""https://hub.docker.com/r/datasetteproject/datasette/"", ""label"": ""Datasette Docker image""}]" changelog:id88,changelog,id88,0.28 (2019-05-19),A salmagundi of new features!,"[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://adamj.eu/tech/2019/01/18/a-salmagundi-of-django-alpha-announcements/"", ""label"": ""salmagundi""}]" changelog:asgi,changelog,asgi,ASGI,"ASGI is the Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface standard. I've been wanting to convert Datasette into an ASGI application for over a year - Port Datasette to ASGI #272 tracks thirteen months of intermittent development - but with Datasette 0.29 the change is finally released. This also means Datasette now runs on top of Uvicorn and no longer depends on Sanic . I wrote about the significance of this change in Porting Datasette to ASGI, and Turtles all the way down . The most exciting consequence of this change is that Datasette plugins can now take advantage of the ASGI standard.","[""Changelog"", ""0.29 (2019-07-07)""]","[{""href"": ""https://asgi.readthedocs.io/"", ""label"": ""ASGI""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/272"", ""label"": ""Port Datasette to ASGI #272""}, {""href"": ""https://www.uvicorn.org/"", ""label"": ""Uvicorn""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/huge-success/sanic"", ""label"": ""Sanic""}, {""href"": ""https://simonwillison.net/2019/Jun/23/datasette-asgi/"", ""label"": ""Porting Datasette to ASGI, and Turtles all the way down""}]" changelog:v0-28-publish-cloudrun,changelog,v0-28-publish-cloudrun,datasette publish cloudrun,"Google Cloud Run is a brand new serverless hosting platform from Google, which allows you to build a Docker container which will run only when HTTP traffic is received and will shut down (and hence cost you nothing) the rest of the time. It's similar to Zeit's Now v1 Docker hosting platform which sadly is no longer accepting signups from new users. The new datasette publish cloudrun command was contributed by Romain Primet ( #434 ) and publishes selected databases to a new Datasette instance running on Google Cloud Run. See Publishing to Google Cloud Run for full documentation.","[""Changelog"", ""0.28 (2019-05-19)""]","[{""href"": ""https://cloud.google.com/run/"", ""label"": ""Google Cloud Run""}, {""href"": ""https://hyperion.alpha.spectrum.chat/zeit/now/cannot-create-now-v1-deployments~d206a0d4-5835-4af5-bb5c-a17f0171fb25?m=MTU0Njk2NzgwODM3OA=="", ""label"": ""no longer accepting signups""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/pull/434"", ""label"": ""#434""}]" changelog:id26,changelog,id26,0.59.3 (2021-11-20),"Fixed numerous bugs when running Datasette behind a proxy with a prefix URL path using the base_url setting. A live demo of this mode is now available at datasette-apache-proxy-demo.datasette.io/prefix/ . ( #1519 , #838 ) ?column__arraycontains= and ?column__arraynotcontains= table parameters now also work against SQL views. ( #448 ) ?_facet_array=column no longer returns incorrect counts if columns contain the same value more than once.","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://datasette-apache-proxy-demo.datasette.io/prefix/"", ""label"": ""datasette-apache-proxy-demo.datasette.io/prefix/""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1519"", ""label"": ""#1519""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/838"", ""label"": ""#838""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/448"", ""label"": ""#448""}]" changelog:id40,changelog,id40,0.53 (2020-12-10),"Datasette has an official project website now, at https://datasette.io/ . This release mainly updates the documentation to reflect the new site. New ?column__arraynotcontains= table filter. ( #1132 ) datasette serve has a new --create option, which will create blank database files if they do not already exist rather than exiting with an error. ( #1135 ) New ?_header=off option for CSV export which omits the CSV header row, documented here . ( #1133 ) ""Powered by Datasette"" link in the footer now links to https://datasette.io/ . ( #1138 ) Project news no longer lives in the README - it can now be found at https://datasette.io/news . ( #1137 )","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://datasette.io/"", ""label"": ""https://datasette.io/""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1132"", ""label"": ""#1132""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1135"", ""label"": ""#1135""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1133"", ""label"": ""#1133""}, {""href"": ""https://datasette.io/"", ""label"": ""https://datasette.io/""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1138"", ""label"": ""#1138""}, {""href"": ""https://datasette.io/news"", ""label"": ""https://datasette.io/news""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1137"", ""label"": ""#1137""}]" changelog:v1-0-a4,changelog,v1-0-a4,1.0a4 (2023-08-21),"This alpha fixes a security issue with the /-/api API explorer. On authenticated Datasette instances (instances protected using plugins such as datasette-auth-passwords ) the API explorer interface could reveal the names of databases and tables within the protected instance. The data stored in those tables was not revealed. For more information and workarounds, read the security advisory . The issue has been present in every previous alpha version of Datasette 1.0: versions 1.0a0, 1.0a1, 1.0a2 and 1.0a3. Also in this alpha: The new datasette plugins --requirements option outputs a list of currently installed plugins in Python requirements.txt format, useful for duplicating that installation elsewhere. ( #2133 ) Writable canned queries can now define a on_success_message_sql field in their configuration, containing a SQL query that should be executed upon successful completion of the write operation in order to generate a message to be shown to the user. ( #2138 ) The automatically generated border color for a database is now shown in more places around the application. ( #2119 ) Every instance of example shell script code in the documentation should now include a working copy button, free from additional syntax. ( #2140 )","[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://datasette.io/plugins/datasette-auth-passwords"", ""label"": ""datasette-auth-passwords""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/security/advisories/GHSA-7ch3-7pp7-7cpq"", ""label"": ""the security advisory""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2133"", ""label"": ""#2133""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2138"", ""label"": ""#2138""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2119"", ""label"": ""#2119""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/2140"", ""label"": ""#2140""}]" changelog:id20,changelog,id20,0.61.1 (2022-03-23),Fixed a bug where databases with a different route from their name (as used by the datasette-hashed-urls plugin ) returned errors when executing custom SQL queries. ( #1682 ),"[""Changelog""]","[{""href"": ""https://datasette.io/plugins/datasette-hashed-urls"", ""label"": ""datasette-hashed-urls plugin""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1682"", ""label"": ""#1682""}]" changelog:id15,changelog,id15,Documentation,"New tutorial: Cleaning data with sqlite-utils and Datasette . Screenshots in the documentation are now maintained using shot-scraper , as described in Automating screenshots for the Datasette documentation using shot-scraper . ( #1844 ) More detailed command descriptions on the CLI reference page. ( #1787 ) New documentation on Running Datasette using OpenRC - thanks, Adam Simpson. ( #1825 )","[""Changelog"", ""0.63 (2022-10-27)""]","[{""href"": ""https://datasette.io/tutorials/clean-data"", ""label"": ""Cleaning data with sqlite-utils and Datasette""}, {""href"": ""https://shot-scraper.datasette.io/"", ""label"": ""shot-scraper""}, {""href"": ""https://simonwillison.net/2022/Oct/14/automating-screenshots/"", ""label"": ""Automating screenshots for the Datasette documentation using shot-scraper""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1844"", ""label"": ""#1844""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1787"", ""label"": ""#1787""}, {""href"": ""https://github.com/simonw/datasette/pull/1825"", ""label"": ""#1825""}]" changelog:javascript-modules,changelog,javascript-modules,JavaScript modules,"JavaScript modules were introduced in ECMAScript 2015 and provide native browser support for the import and export keywords. To use modules, JavaScript needs to be included in