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Datasette releases address security flaw and add new features

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Simon Willison has released two updates for his Datasette software: version 1.0a40 and version 0.65.5. The 0.65.5 release addresses a critical security vulnerability where a malformed table name could bypass permissions and expose private data, a flaw reported by dpfkdlemtp and tracked as GHSA-h547-rmjf-5m2m. The 1.0a40 alpha release includes this security fix along with new features such as background task management for plugins and migration to the httpx2 library for improved internal client methods. Both releases also reference recent articles on topics including GPT-6 Astra, ChatGPT, OpenAI's actions on RubyGems, and the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem. AI

IMPACT Minor tooling update; no direct impact on AI operations.

RANK_REASON Software release for a specific tool, not a frontier model or significant industry event.

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  1. Simon Willison TIER_1 Italiano(IT) ·

    datasette 1.0a40

    <p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/datasette/releases/tag/1.0a40">datasette 1.0a40</a></p> <p>Same security fix as <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/16/datasette-2/">0.65.5</a>, plus some neat new features and bug fixes:</p> <ul> <li>Plugins…

  2. Simon Willison TIER_1 Italiano(IT) ·

    datasette 0.65.5

    <p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/datasette/releases/tag/0.65.5">datasette 0.65.5</a></p> <p>Security fix for an issue where a trailing newline in a requested table name could bypass table permissions and expose private rows, reported by <a href="htt…

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