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 -ooption 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 herokunow deploys using Python 3.8.6.- New
datasette publish heroku --tar=option. (#969) OPTIONSrequests against HTML pages no longer return a 500 error. (#1001)- Datasette now supports Python 3.9.