Datasette News and Blog

18 Jun 2026

Today we're launching [**Datasette Apps**](https://github.com/datasette/datasette-apps), a way to create and host custom HTML applications inside your Datasette instance. Datasette's JSON API is

11 Jun 2026

The stable release of Datasette 1.0 has been in the pipeline for a *long* time. Today's release of [1.0a33](https://docs.datasette.io/en/latest/changelog.html#a33-2026-06-11) incorporates significant

29 May 2026

With [Datasette 1.0a31](https://docs.datasette.io/en/latest/changelog.html#a31-2026-05-28), Datasette now offers users with the necessary permissions the ability to both **execute write queries**

24 May 2026

Datasette 1.0a30, released today, provides a new "Jump menu" for quickly navigating your Datasette instance, plus mechanisms for plugins to extend and customize that menu to incorporate their own

21 May 2026

Today we are releasing [Datasette Agent](https://agent.datasette.io/), an open source plugin for Datasette that provides an extensible AI assistant for interacting with your SQLite databases.

13 May 2026

It's about time the Datasette project had its own blog. In addition to announcements about Datasette itself, we also plan to include posts from community members highlighting their own projects that

19 Apr 2026

Here's a new TIL on [using SQL functions in Google Sheets to fetch data from Datasette](https://til.simonwillison.net/google-sheets/datasette-sql).

15 Apr 2026

[Datasette 1.0a27](https://docs.datasette.io/en/latest/changelog.html#a27-2026-04-15) changes how CSRF protection works in a way that simplifies form and API integration, and introduces a new

18 Mar 2026

[Datasette 1.0a26](https://docs.datasette.io/en/latest/changelog.html#a26-2026-03-18) adds a `column_types` system allowing columns to carry additional type information such as `email` or `url`, or

25 Feb 2026

[Datasette 1.0a25](https://docs.datasette.io/en/latest/changelog.html#a25-2026-02-25) adds [write\_wrapper()](https://docs.datasette.io/en/latest/plugin_hooks.html#plugin-hook-write-wrapper) and

29 Jan 2026

[Datasette 1.0a24](https://docs.datasette.io/en/latest/changelog.html#a24-2026-01-29) introduces a new `await request.form(files=True)` method for accepting file uploads, plus various other changes.

5 Nov 2025

[Datasette 0.65.2](https://docs.datasette.io/en/stable/changelog.html#v0-65-2) and [Datasette 1.0a21](https://docs.datasette.io/en/latest/changelog.html#a21-2025-11-05) have been released with a

6 Feb 2025

[Datasette 1.0a17](https://docs.datasette.io/en/latest/changelog.html#a17-2025-02-06) is the latest Datasette 1.0 alpha release, with bug fixes and small feature improvements from the last few months.

7 Oct 2024

[Python 3.13](https://docs.python.org/3.13/whatsnew/3.13.html) was released today. [Datasette 1.0a16](https://docs.datasette.io/en/latest/changelog.html#a16-2024-09-05) is compatible with Python

5 Aug 2024

[Datasette 1.0a14](https://docs.datasette.io/en/latest/changelog.html#a14-2024-08-05) includes some breaking changes to how metadata works for plugins, described in detail in the new [upgrade

18 Feb 2024

[Datasette 1.0a10](https://docs.datasette.io/en/latest/changelog.html#a10-2024-02-17) is a focused alpha that changes some internal details about how Datasette handles transactions. The

16 Feb 2024

[Datasette 1.0a9](https://docs.datasette.io/en/latest/changelog.html#a9-2024-02-16) adds basic alter table support to the JSON API, tweaks how permissions works and introduces some new plugin

7 Feb 2024

[Datasette 1.0a8](https://docs.datasette.io/en/1.0a8/changelog.html#a8-2024-02-07) introduces several new plugin hooks, a JavaScript plugin system and moves plugin configuration from `metadata.yaml`

1 Dec 2023

[Datasette Enrichments](https://enrichments.datasette.io/) is a new feature for Datasette that supports enriching data by running custom code against every selected row in a table. Read [Datasette

30 Nov 2023

[datasette-comments](https://datasette.io/plugins/datasette-comments) is a new plugin by Alex Garcia which adds collaborative commenting to Datasette. Alex built the plugin for Datasette Cloud, but