{"id": "changelog:id49", "page": "changelog", "ref": "id49", "title": "0.50 (2020-10-09)", "content": "The key new feature in this release is the  column actions  menu on the table page ( #891 ). This can be used to sort a column in ascending or descending order, facet data by that column or filter the table to just rows that have a value for that column. \n             Plugin authors can use the new  datasette.client  object to make internal HTTP requests from their plugins, allowing them to make use of Datasette's JSON API. ( #943 ) \n             New  Deploying Datasette  documentation with guides for deploying Datasette on a Linux server  using systemd  or to hosting providers  that support buildpacks . ( #514 ,  #997 ) \n             Other improvements in this release: \n             \n                 \n                     Publishing to Google Cloud Run  documentation now covers Google Cloud SDK options. Thanks, Geoffrey Hing. ( #995 ) \n                 \n                 \n                     New  datasette -o  option which opens your browser as soon as Datasette starts up. ( #970 ) \n                 \n                 \n                     Datasette now sets  sqlite3.enable_callback_tracebacks(True)  so that errors in custom SQL functions will display tracebacks. ( #891 ) \n                 \n                 \n                     Fixed two rendering bugs with column headers in portrait mobile view. ( #978 ,  #980 ) \n                 \n                 \n                     New  db.table_column_details(table)  introspection method for retrieving full details of the columns in a specific table, see  Database introspection . \n                 \n                 \n                     Fixed a routing bug with custom page wildcard templates. ( #996 ) \n                 \n                 \n                     datasette publish heroku  now deploys using Python 3.8.6. \n                 \n                 \n                     New  datasette publish heroku --tar=  option. ( #969 ) \n                 \n                 \n                     OPTIONS  requests against HTML pages no longer return a 500 error. ( #1001 ) \n                 \n                 \n                     Datasette now supports Python 3.9. \n                 \n             \n             See also  Datasette 0.50: The annotated release notes .", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Changelog\"]", "references": "[{\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/891\", \"label\": \"#891\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/943\", \"label\": \"#943\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/514\", \"label\": \"#514\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/997\", \"label\": \"#997\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/pull/995\", \"label\": \"#995\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/970\", \"label\": \"#970\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/891\", \"label\": \"#891\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/978\", \"label\": \"#978\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/980\", \"label\": \"#980\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/996\", \"label\": \"#996\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/969\", \"label\": \"#969\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1001\", \"label\": \"#1001\"}, {\"href\": \"https://simonwillison.net/2020/Oct/9/datasette-0-50/\", \"label\": \"Datasette 0.50: The annotated release notes\"}]"}