Release Datasette 0.41

Refs #648 #731 #750 #151 #761 #752 #719 #756 #748

README.md

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 ## News
 
+ * 6th May 2020: [Datasette 0.41](http://datasette.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changelog.html#v0-41) - New mechanism for [creating custom pages](https://datasette.readthedocs.io/en/0.41/custom_templates.html#custom-pages), new [configuration directory mode](https://datasette.readthedocs.io/en/0.41/config.html#configuration-directory-mode), new `?column__notlike=` table filter and various other smaller improvements.
  * 21st April 2020: [Datasette 0.40](http://datasette.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changelog.html#v0-40) - Metadata can now be provided as YAML instead of JSON. Publishing to Zeit Now v1 is no longer supported, but Now v2 support is provided by the new [datasette-publish-now](https://github.com/simonw/datasette-publish-now) plugin. Various bug fixes.
  * 24th March 2020: [Datasette 0.39](http://datasette.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changelog.html#v0-39) - New `base_url` configuration option for running Datasette under a different URL prefix, `"sort"` and `"sort_desc"` metadata options for setting a default sort order for a table.
  * 8th March 2020: [Datasette 0.38](http://datasette.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changelog.html#v0-38) - New `--memory` option for `datasete publish cloudrun`, [Docker image](https://hub.docker.com/r/datasetteproject/datasette) upgraded to SQLite 3.31.1.

docs/changelog.rst

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 Changelog
 =========
 
+.. _v0_41:
+
+0.41 (2020-05-06)
+-----------------
+
+You can now create :ref:`custom pages <custom_pages>` within your Datasette instance using a custom template file. For example, adding a template file called ``templates/pages/about.html`` will result in a new page being served at ``/about`` on your instance. See the :ref:`custom pages documentation <custom_pages>` for full details, including how to return custom HTTP headers, redirects and status codes. (`#648 <https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/648>`__)
+
+:ref:`config_dir` (`#731 <https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/731>`__) allows you to define a custom Datasette instance as a directory. So instead of running the following::
+
+    $ datasette one.db two.db \
+      --metadata.json \
+      --template-dir=templates/ \
+      --plugins-dir=plugins \
+      --static css:css
+
+You can instead arrange your files in a single directory called ``my-project`` and run this::
+
+    $ datasette my-project/
+
+Also in this release:
+
+* New ``NOT LIKE`` table filter: ``?colname__notlike=expression``. (`#750 <https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/750>`__)
+* Datasette now has a *pattern portfolio* at ``/-/patterns`` - e.g. https://latest.datasette.io/-/patterns. This is a page that shows every Datasette user interface component in one place, to aid core development and people building custom CSS themes. (`#151 <https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/151>`__)
+* SQLite `PRAGMA functions <https://www.sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragfunc>`__ such as ``pragma_table_info(tablename)`` are now allowed in Datasette SQL queries. (`#761 <https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/761>`__)
+* Datasette pages now consistently return a ``content-type`` of ``text/html; charset=utf-8"``. (`#752 <https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/752>`__)
+* Datasette now handles an ASGI ``raw_path`` value of ``None``, which should allow compatibilty with the `Mangum <https://github.com/erm/mangum>`__ adapter for running ASGI apps on AWS Lambda. Thanks, Colin Dellow. (`#719 <https://github.com/simonw/datasette/pull/719>`__)
+* Installation documentation now covers how to :ref:`installation_pipx`. (`#756 <https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/756>`__)
+* Improved the documentation for :ref:`full_text_search`. (`#748 <https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/748>`__)
+
 .. _v0_40:
 
 0.40 (2020-04-21)