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24th May 2026

Release datasette 1.0a30 — An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data

The big new feature in this alpha is a new customizable "Jump to..." menu, described in detail in The extensible "Jump to" menu in Datasette 1.0a30 on the Datasette blog. You can try it out by hitting / on latest.datasette.io - it looks like this:

Animated demo - the Jump to menu appears, and as the user types it filters to specific databases and tables and debug options

The new jump_items_sql() plugin hook allows plugins to add their own items to the set that's searched by the plugin.

Posted 24th May 2026 at 11:52 pm

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