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changelog:id52	changelog	id52	0.50 (2020-10-09)	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. 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 ) New Deploying Datasette documentation with guides for deploying Datasette on a Linux server using systemd or to hosting providers that support buildpacks . ( #514 , #997 ) Other improvements in this release: Publishing to Google Cloud Run documentation now covers Google Cloud SDK options. Thanks, Geoffrey Hing. ( #995 ) New datasette -o option which opens your browser as soon as Datasette starts up. ( #970 ) Datasette now sets sqlite3.enable_callback_tracebacks(True) so that errors in custom SQL functions will display tracebacks. ( #891 ) Fixed two rendering bugs with column headers in portrait mobile view. ( #978 , #980 ) New db.table_column_details(table) introspection method for retrieving full details of the columns in a specific table, see Database introspection . Fixed a routing bug with custom page wildcard templates. ( #996 ) datasette publish heroku now deploys using Python 3.8.6. New datasette publish heroku --tar= option. ( #969 ) OPTIONS requests against HTML pages no longer return a 500 error. ( #1001 ) Datasette now supports Python 3.9. See also Datasette 0.50: The annotated release notes .	["Changelog"]	[{"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"}]