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Placed in Assess: 1 article(s) of evidence from 1 source(s), led by open-source activity, with 1 in the last 30 days. Confidence 24%. Low accumulated evidence, so it defaults conservatively pending more signal.

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3Simon Willison·9/19/2026open_source
datasette-auth-github reaches 1.0
Simon Willison released datasette-auth-github 1.0 after fixing cookie sessions that were expiring at the end of browser sessions due to a missing Max-Age setting. The plugin is used for GitHub login on Datasette demo sites and is tested against both Datasette 0.65.x and 1.0aX.