Datasette 1.0a39 and 0.65.4 security patches released after frontier-model audit
Simon Willison announced two security patch releases for Datasette: 1.0a39 for the alpha series and 0.65.4 for the stable 0.65.x family. The patches address issues reported by Sevban Dönmez and follow an extensive audit conducted using frontier models including Claude Fable 5.1, GPT-5.6, and GPT-6 Astra. Willison said the audit helped find subtle bugs and that security audits by frontier models will be incorporated into all development work going forward.
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Simon Willison
Datasette 1.0a39 and 0.65.4 security releases Today we're releasing two new security patch versions of Datasette: 1.0a39 and 0.65.4 - one for the current alpha series and one for the stable 0.65.x family. These are security fixes which you should apply if you are running a Datasette instance on the public web - in particular if that instance mixes both public and private tables. Following issues reported by Sevban Dönmez , Alex Garcia and I ran an extensive audit of Datasette using Claude Fable 5.1, GPT-5.6, and GPT-6 Astra. We then spent almost a week collaborating on and reviewing the fixes. They helped find some very subtle bugs. We'll be incorporating security audits by frontier models into all of our development work going forward. Alex came up with a way of splitting the work which I found extremely productive: Alex Garcia and I worked together running and then responding to the audit, working in a shared private repository. For most of the issues we split the work: one of us wou