Changelog

New updates and product improvements

Supavisor 1.0

Dec 13, 2023

Supavisor 1.0 is released. Rollout to Supabase hosted projects planned for next week.

Notable changes include:

  • Added support for named prepared statements
  • Added support for read replicas and query load balancing
  • Added a client_idle_timeout option
  • New docs build process and website (Github hosted)
  • Docs for migrating from PgBouncer
  • auth_query with md5 support
  • native pool_mode to proxy direct connections to Postgres
  • New metric for unique connected tenants
  • Cache metadata database queries for faster tenant info lookups
  • Bug fixes

See the full changelog:

https://github.com/supabase/supavisor/releases/tag/v1.0.0

We've improved insights into usage, billing and costs.

Vastly improved usage summary#

We previously had a slightly hidden usage summary in the "Upcoming Invoice" section. This section has been revamped and moved to the organization's usage page.

The improved usage summary features:

  • Per-project breakdown for usage
  • Displays costs for over-usage on usage-based plans (pro with spend cap off, team, enterprise)
  • Displays usage in percent for usage-capped plans (free/pro with spend cap on)
  • Metrics with higher usage/costs will be sorted to the top
  • Insights into compute usage in summary
  • Usage can now be retrieved for a custom period and not just the current billing cycle
  • Usage summary can be filtered by project
  • Indicators if you're exceeding/approaching limits which could lead to restrictions

The new usage summary section (usage-capped plan):

New usage summary with a usage-based plan (Pro with spend cap off, Team, Enterprise):

When hovering over the circular progress bars, you get per-project breakdowns of usage and some further information:

We now also allow you to filter the total usage by a single project or a different period than the current billing cycle. Simply change the timeframe at the top of the usage page.

Usage filtered with a custom timeframe (not relative to billing cycle):

Daily Stats for Compute Usage#

The organization's usage page shows daily stats for all sorts of usage-based metrics and was still missing insights for compute hours. Compute Usage insights have been added to the usage page.

New section on the usage page:

Sample usage with a single project:

When running multiple projects or projects on different compute sizes:

Better insights for upcoming invoice#

The "Upcoming invoice" section on the organization billing page has been vastly improved and now offers per-project breakdown of metrics and project add-ons. Additionally, there is a simple projection of your cost at the end of the month.

Here's an overview of the new section with all project breakdowns collapsed:

You can expand any usage-based item or project add-on to get a per-project breakdown:

The line items have also been improved to show included quotas and costs for over-usage:

Quickly see if you're exceeding your plans limit#

On usage-capped plans (Free Plan or Pro Plan with Spend Cap toggled on), you will now also see a warning on the top of the subscription page, in case you're exceeding your plan's limits. A more detailed breakdown is available on the organization's usage page.

Project breakdown for subscription preview#

When you are about to upgrade your organization's subscription plan from free to paid or between paid plans, we show you a confirmation screen. That confirmation screen has been improved to show a per-project breakdown for compute costs. Additionally, some useful information about usage-billing for compute and links to related docs have been added.

New confirmation modal:

Break down add-ons on a per-project basis:

Education about usage-billing for compute, mixing paid/non-paid plans and links to related docs:

Table Editor row edit side panel fix boolean fields rendering stale value#

There was issue in the Table Editor when you're editing rows in the side panel, specifically for column types that are rendering the Listbox component, whereby the data rendered in that input field is stale (from the previous row that you opened). This was caused by the Listbox component not re-rendering correctly when the value passed to it has changed and is now fixed.

PR: https://github.com/supabase/supabase/pull/19264 Link: https://supabase.com/dashboard/project/_/editor

Added recommendation to enable PITR when enabling branching#

We strongly recommend enabling point in time recovery for your project if you're planning to enable branching. This is to ensure that you can always recover data if you make a "bad migration". For example, if you accidentally delete a column or some of your production data.

PR: https://github.com/supabase/supabase/pull/19324 Link: https://supabase.com/dashboard/project/_/

Previously, it was possible to directly insert/update rows on the pg_cron extension's cron.job table. This bypasses security checks that would've been asserted when jobs are scheduled/modified via pg_cron functions.

You can see how to schedule/modify cron jobs using the examples in our docs.

Allow access to backups page while project is restoring to download scheduled backups#

PR: https://github.com/supabase/supabase/pull/19126 Link: https://supabase.com/dashboard/project/_/database/backups/scheduled

Show if a member has MFA enabled or not in organization settings page#

PR: https://github.com/supabase/supabase/pull/19012 Link: https://supabase.com/dashboard/org/_/team

Show which email support will reach out to after submitting a ticket#

PR: https://github.com/supabase/supabase/pull/19095 Link: https://supabase.com/dashboard/support/new

Added wildcard hints for bucket allowed MIME types in create/edit modal#

PR: https://github.com/supabase/supabase/pull/19062 Link: https://supabase.com/dashboard/project/_/storage/buckets

SQL Editor support downloading snippet as a migration, a seed file or a SQL file#

PR: https://github.com/supabase/supabase/pull/17341 Link: https://supabase.com/dashboard/project/_/sql/new

Table Editor fix freezing a column causes UI to crash#

Shout out to @tranhoangvuit for this one! 🙏 PR: https://github.com/supabase/supabase/pull/19127 Link: https://supabase.com/dashboard/project/_/editor

LinkedIn has modified the required scopes for their API and OAuth Applications created prior to 1st Aug 2023 do not contain the appropriate scopes. This could cause errors when attempting to sign in with OAuth via LinkedIn. If you have LinkedIn provider enabled on your project a follow up notification will be sent to your email as you could potentially have a LinkedIn OAuth application created before 1st Aug 2023 and be affected. As we don't have access to LinkedIn OAuth configuration we cannot tell with certainty when your OAuth application was created and have to reach out to all users with LinkedIn enabled.

To adjust to this change, we have introduced a new LinkedIn (OIDC) provider which contains the new required scopes and we have deprecated the existing LinkedIn provider.

If you are using a LinkedIn OAuth Application created before 1st August 2023 we ask that you create a new LinkedIn application and migrate your Dashboard credentials from the deprecated LinkedIn provider to the new LinkedIn (OIDC) provider as shown in the screenshot below. Please do so before 4th Jan 2024 as we will be removing the provider from the dashboard then.

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Edge Functions has some predefined secrets: SUPABASE_DB_URL, SUPABASE_ANON_KEY, SUPABASE_SERVICE_ROLE_KEY. Previously, if you reset your DB password or JWT secret, these secrets will become stale. Now, these changes should be propagated into Edge Functions secrets. This fixes https://github.com/supabase/supabase/issues/12415.

If you've previously had this issue, you can reset your DB password using the old value to avoid downtime for your app. If you're resetting the JWT secret, you need to update your app to use the new API keys, which incurs some downtime.

June Beta 2021

Jul 4, 2021

Supabase is gearing up for another Launch Week on July the 26th. Until then, here's a few new things to try.

This is also available as a blog post and a video demo.

Vercel integration#

Vercel just released their new integrations, which means you can now deploy a Postgres database on Supabase directly from your Vercel account. Check it out! vercel.com/integrations/supabase

Discord logins are now available#

Building a community? There's almost no better tool than Discord (we're even trialling it ourselves). If you're building a community product, Discord logins are the perfect option.

New Guides#

We spent the month building up a new Guides section in our Docs. Here are a few highlights:

Ever wanted to build a Search Engine? We just released a guide which shows you how to implement Full Text Search using Postgres.

OAuth Guides#

We released step-by-step guides to help you set up OAuth with Apple, Bitbucket, Facebook, GitHub, GitLab, Google, and Twitter.

Javascript + Postgres#

Did you know that you can use Javascript inside your Postgres database? Here's how, with the plv8 extension.

Public Storage Buckets#

Want to share all your favourite memes? Now it's even easier with Public Storage Buckets. Simply mark a bucket as "Public" and the content will be accessible without a login.

Storage upserts#

Supabase Storage now supports upsert. Shoutout to @ankitjena for this Pull Request.

Server restarts#

When things go wrong, sometime the best thing you can do is reboot. We released a restart button in the Dashboard, the first of many debugging tools we'll be releasing over the next few months.

Policy editor#

We added a new Table Policy Editor which makes Row Level Security even easier. We even included a few templates to get you started.

Build in Public#

We run a weekly 1-hour live stream where we build in public.

Community#

If you want to keep up to date, make sure you subscribe to our YouTube channel or follow us on Twitter.

External contributions#

PostgREST#

  • Primarily for Prisma users, we patched PostgREST openapi-mode to ignore anon privileges for the OpenAPI output. Credit to @steve-chavez.

April Beta 2021

May 5, 2021

This month was a "gardening" month for Supabase. The team focused on stability, security, and community support. Check out what we were working on below, as well as some incredible Community contributions.

This is also available as a blog post and a video demo.

Light Mode#

We're a developer tool, which means that Dark Mode is extremely popular.

While Dark mode is great, for some people it's not an option. Dark Mode is difficult to use for developers with astigmatisms, or even just working in brightly-lit environments.

So today we're shipping Light Mode. Access it in the settings of your Dashboard.

Translations#

With the help of the community, we started internationalizing our main repository:

OpenAPI spec for Storage#

We released Storage Api docs built using OpenAPI (swagger).

Stripe Sync Engine (Experimental)#

We open-sourced a server which keeps any Postgres database in sync with Stripe. This is experimental only. We're evaluating other tools such as Singer, which provide a more general solution (but are less "realtime"), and we're opening it up here to gather feedback.

Community spotlight: Threaded comments#

One of the most powerful Postgres features is "recursive CTEs" which can be used for nested items (comments, pages, friend-graphs). @lawrencecchen has built a full Threaded Comments demo which you can Deploy with a single click. Want to add comments to your blog with Full Text Search? Just use Postgres.

Community spotlight: SupaScript#

It looks like @burggraf2 got tired of waiting for us to ship Functions, and decided to build a whole JS ecosystem within his Supabase database. If you want to write PG functions in JS, import remote libraries from the web, and console log to your browser, check out this SupaScript repo.


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// After installing:
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// https://github.com/burggraf/SupaScript#installation
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/**
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* Get all users who logged in this week.
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* Use in the database: select * from users_this_week();
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* Use in the browser: supabase.rpc('users_this_week');
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*/
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create or replace function users_this_week()
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returns json as $$
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const moment = require('https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/moment.js/2.29.1/moment.js', false);
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const lastWeek = moment().subtract(7, 'days');
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const query = 'select * from auth.users where created_at > $1'
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const users = sql(query, lastWeek);
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return users;
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$$ language plv8;

Community#

Supabase Github Star Growth

Source: repository.surf/supabase

If you want to keep up to date, make sure you subscribe to our YouTube channel or follow us on Twitter.

Coming Next#

You might have noticed our Dashboard slowly changing (improving), as we migrate the components out to our open source UI Library. This progression is an important step towards offering a UI for Local Development and Self Hosting.

We're also working on our Workflows engine. This is quite a large task, but we're making progress and aiming to ship sometime in July.

One more thing#

We started hiring.

Get started#

We're now 8 months into building Supabase. We're focused on performance, stability, and reliability but that hasn't prevented us from shipping some great features.

This is also available as a blog post and a video demo.

Supabase.js 1.0#

In the lead-up to our Beta launch, we've released supabase-js version 1.0 and it comes with some major Developer Experience improvements. We received a lot of feedback from the community and we've incorporated it into our client libraries for our 1.0 release.

Check out the blog post to learn more.

More powerful SQL Editor#

Although it was only intended to be a temporary feature, the SQL Editor has become one of the most useful features of Supabase. This month we decided to make give it some attention, adding Tabs and making it full-screen. This is the first of many updates, we've got some exciting things planned for the SQL Editor.

Keyboard shortcuts for Power Users#

For the heavy table editor users, we've gone ahead and added a bunch of key commands and keyboard shortcuts so you can zip around and manipulate your tables faster than ever.

One of the most requested Auth features was the ability to send magic links that your users can use to log in. You can use this with new or existing users, and alongside passwords or stand alone.

Kaizen#

  • We have new and improved docs.
  • We converted realtime-js to TypeScript.
  • Dashboard Performance: we heavily optimised our dashboard routes.
  • With the help of the community, we closed a lot of issues during Hacktoberfest.
  • We have started benchmarking all the open source tools we use. We'll publish the results this month.

This is also available as a blog post.

Third-party logins#

We've released OAuth logins! You can now enable third-party logins on your app for Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab, or Google.

Clone tables#

You can duplicate your tables, just like you would inside a spreadsheet.

Enable and disable extensions#

Extensions are easier to use. You can enable Postgres extensions with the click of a button.

Save your favorite queries#

The SQL editor now stores your query history in your browser. You can also save your favorite queries to run later!

GitHub Discussions#

Supabase was given access to GitHub Discussions! This is the place for you to ask questions or show off what you've built with Supabase.

Kaizen#

This is also available as a blog post.

We're 6 months into building our hosted database platform and we've made some major improvements to our auth system and table view.

Easily create tables#

Set up tables and columns directly from the table view.

Invite your team#

You can now invite team members to your organisation.

Auth: Email Confirmations#

You can now enable Email Confirmations for new users. This can be toggled on or off and the template for this email can be edited via the dashboard.

Typescript support#

The biggest communty contribution to date, @thorwebdev added Typescript support to Supabase. He even live streamed the process.

Kaizen#

We have a number of small improvements:

Alpha July 2020

Aug 5, 2020

Supabase July Alpha Updates#

This is also available as a full blog post with videos.

After 5 months of building, we're releasing one of our most anticipated features: Supabase Auth.

Auth#

This month, we're ecstatic to announce a feature we think you'll love: Supabase Auth. It's too big to fit into a monthly update so look out for a full update in the next few days.

We want to make it easy to get started adding Auth to your app, so we've released a simple example and a video tutorial which shows you how to implement a basic auth system using PostgreSQL's Row Level Security.

Table Editor#

We've made some massive improvements to our Table Editor that we're excited to share.

Relationship drill down#

Last month we made it easy to drill into your table relationships. This month, we make it possible to drill multiple levels deep.

Add, delete, and download rows#

We're making it easier to manipulate your data. Next month, you'll be able to add and remove columns directly from the Table view.

New Postgres Extensions#

If you launch a new Supabase project, you'll have access to several new Postgres extensions:

  • pgsql-http: HTTP client for PostgreSQL, retrieve a web page from inside the database.
  • pgjwt: PostgreSQL implementation of JSON Web Tokens
  • plpgsql_check: a linter tool for language PL/pgSQL
  • pljava: write Java in your stored procedures, triggers, and functions

Kaizen#

We have a number of small improvements:

  • Added Auth documentation to the auto-generated docs in each project
  • Added a new or filter to the client library
  • Table View now remembers which tabs you had open.
  • We have released a lot of new functionality to pg-api, a server for for managing Postgres internals via a REST interface.
  • Performance: the "flash of black" which was appearing on page transition is now gone

Alpha June 2020

Jul 2, 2020

Supabase June Alpha Updates#

This is also available as a full blog post with videos.

We're now 4 months into building Supabase, which means another major update. Here's a few things we think you'll love in this release.

View relational data#

We're sometimes asked how we will make Postgres as simple as Firebase, since Postgres is a relational database. This month we're making our first steps to prove that relational databases can be even easier to use than document stores. We're releasing an excel-like editing interface which can drill down into your relational data.

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Manage JSON data#

Postgres is an amazing database, giving the flexibility of a document store with the power of a RDBMS. If you use JSON data in Postgres, then we want to make that easy too. Supabase detects when your column is JSON or JSONB, and provides an easy way to edit and view your data. More improvements coming soon for this feature!

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Choose your region#

If you noticed a bit of latency on Supabase, it's because your projects were previously set up in Singapore. It was always our intention that you'd be able to choose your database region, and this month we've delivered it. In the next releases we'll even allow you to go multi-region, instantly replicating your database close to your customers.

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Backups#

A guiding principle at Supabase is zero lock-in. So this month we are exposing your daily database backups on the dashboard, giving you a simple way to migrate off Supabase. We have a lot more to build in this space (WAL-G!), so watch this space.

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