Release Datasette 0.40

README.md

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 ## News
 
+ * 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.
  * 25th February 2020: [Datasette 0.37](http://datasette.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changelog.html#v0-37) - new internal APIs enabling plugins to safely write to databases. Read more here: [Datasette Writes](https://simonwillison.net/2020/Feb/26/weeknotes-datasette-writes/).

docs/changelog.rst

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 Changelog
 =========
 
+.. _v0_40:
+
+0.40 (2020-04-21)
+-----------------
+
+* Datasette :ref:`metadata` can now be provided as a YAML file as an optional alternative to JSON. See :ref:`metadata_yaml`. (`#713 <https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/713>`__)
+* Removed support for ``datasette publish now``, which used the the now-retired Zeit Now v1 hosting platform. A new plugin, `datasette-publish-now <https://github.com/simonw/datasette-publish-now>`__, can be installed to publish data to Zeit (`now Vercel <https://vercel.com/blog/zeit-is-now-vercel>`__) Now v2. (`#710 <https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/710>`__)
+* Fixed a bug where the ``extra_template_vars(request, view_name)`` plugin hook was not recieving the correct ``view_name``. (`#716 <https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/716>`__)
+* Variables added to the template context by the ``extra_template_vars()`` plugin hook are now shown in the ``?_contex=1`` debugging mode (see :ref:`config_template_debug`). (`#693 <https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/693>`__)
+* Fixed a bug where the "templates considered" HTML comment was no longer being displayed. (`#689 <https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/689>`__)
+* Fixed a ``datasette publish`` bug where ``--plugin-secret`` would over-ride plugin configuration in the provided ``metadat.json`` file. (`#724 <https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/724>`__)
+* Added a new CSS class for customizing the canned query page. (`#727 <https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/727>`__)
+
 .. _v0_39:
 
 0.39 (2020-03-24)