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Same security fix as 0.65.5 , plus some neat new features and bug fixes:
Plugins can now launch and manage background tasks using the new datasette.add_background_task() method. Thanks, Alex Garcia .
I've migrated Datasette to httpx2 for features like the internal datasette.client.get() method.
A whole lot of bug fixes , many of them stemming from a recent effort to triage issues for a 1.0 stable release.
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