---
number: 20346
slug: 20346-platform-updates-december-2023
published: 2024-01-11
discussion: https://github.com/orgs/supabase/discussions/20346
labels:
  - infra
page: https://supabase.com/changelog/20346-platform-updates-december-2023
---

# Platform Updates December 2023

A rundown of everything we shipped during [Launch Week X](https://supabase.com/launch-week)

## Day 1 - Supabase Studio: AI Assistant and User Impersonation

![l Day 1 - Supabase Studio: AI Assistant and User Impersonation](https://github.com/supabase/supabase/assets/20600542/c7b96692-20ba-4ae9-966b-c697e1886445)

Supabase Studio received a major update that reflects our commitment to a SQL-first approach and user-centric development. Awesome features like easy RLS policies with an AI assistant, Postgres Roles, User Impersonation, and much more.

- [Blog post](https://supabase.com/blog/studio-introducing-assistant)
- [Video announcement](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hu2SQjvCXIw)

## Day 2 - Edge Functions: Node and native npm compatibility

![Day 2 - Edge Functions: Node and native npm compatibility)](https://github.com/supabase/supabase/assets/20600542/33eb95db-b764-4cff-afad-9a10b8fb9ef1)

Edge Functions now natively supports npm modules and Node built-in APIs. You can directly import millions of popular, commonly used npm modules into your Edge Functions.

- [Blog post](https://supabase.com/blog/edge-functions-node-npm)
- [Video announcement](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCbiywoDORw)

## Day 3 - Supabase Branching

![Day 3 - Supabase Branching](https://github.com/supabase/supabase/assets/20600542/727fc0e9-8739-44ea-9226-0fabb565ab38)

A Postgres database for every GitHub branch. Database branching means you can have separate database instances for each feature of your application. 

- [Blog post](https://supabase.com/blog/supabase-branching)
- [Video announcement](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peXKxavGnBo)

## Day 4 - Supabase Auth: Identity Linking, Hooks, and HaveIBeenPwned integration

![Day 4 - Supabase Auth: Identity Linking, Hooks, and HaveIBeenPwned integration](https://github.com/supabase/supabase/assets/20600542/40799e0c-e629-4a01-b838-7caef53ca15b)

We announced several new features for Supabase Auth: Identity Linking, Session Control, Leaked Password Protection, and Auth Hooks with Postgres functions.

- [Blog post](https://supabase.com/blog/supabase-auth-identity-linking-hooks)
- [Video announcement](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF8GABnAFyE)

## Day 5 - Introducing Read Replicas

![Introducing Read Replicas](https://github.com/supabase/supabase/assets/20600542/e192b715-e8a9-4fb2-b866-60c909820aaa)

This is a huge one for anyone wanting to serve data closer to the users or distribute loads across multiple databases. Learn how we implemented Read Replicas and how to use them in your projects.

- [Blog post](https://supabase.com/blog/introducing-read-replicas)
- [Video announcement](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX3R1fXjJ2M)

## More announcements from Launch Week X

As if all that wasn't enough, we shipped even more cool stuff:

- [Fly Postgres, managed by Supabase](https://supabase.com/blog/postgres-on-fly-by-supabase)
- [Supabase Libraries V2: Python, Swift, Kotlin, Flutter, and Typescript](https://supabase.com/blog/client-libraries-v2)
- [Supavisor 1.0: a scalable connection pooler for Postgres](https://supabase.com/blog/supavisor-postgres-connection-pooler)
- [Postgres Language Server: implementing the Parser](https://supabase.com/blog/postgres-language-server-implementing-parser)
- [Supabase Grafana](https://github.com/supabase/supabase-grafana)
- [Supabase Wrappers v0.2: Query Pushdown & Remote Subqueries](https://supabase.com/blog/supabase-wrappers-v02)
- [PostgREST 12](https://supabase.com/blog/postgrest-12)
- [pg_graphql: Postgres functions now supported](https://supabase.com/blog/pg-graphql-postgres-functions)