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

August Beta 2021

Sep 13, 2021

We've raised $30M and shipped a bunch of features. Let's dive into what's been happening at Supabase during the month of August.

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

We raised $30 million

We raised our Series A. We'll use the funds to do more of the same - ship features and hire open source developers. We'll release more details soon. Read more on TechCrunch.

Realtime Security, codename: WALRUS

If you've been waiting for Row Level Security to land in Postgres subscriptions, then you're going to love our new repo: Write Ahead Log Realtime Unified Security (WALRUS). The name might be a bit forced, but the security design is deliberate. It's not in production yet, but we're making the repo public for comments using an RFC process.

Custom SMS templates

If you're using SMS login in Auth v2, you can now customize the SMS which is sent to your users. Read more in the docs.

Dart and Flutter Docs

Thanks entirely to @dshukertjr, we now have in-depth reference Dart documentation for CRUD, Auth, Realtime and more!

We launched the South Korea region

We added another region for those wanting to host their data and APIs in Seoul. We now have 12 regions to choose from

Table creation is even easier

You can now create columns while creating your table. We've also added improvements for composite primary keys and foreign key creation.

Unbreakable CSV Imports

Our previous importer would choke on CSV files which were too large. Not any more!

Connection strings

We now provide a handy copy utility for various database connection strings because we were so tired of looking them up on Stack Overflow.

We released a primer on Row Level Security

RLS can be a bit foreign for developers getting started with Postgres. This video by @_dijonmusters demystifies it. If you find the video a useful medium for learning, consider subscribing to our channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow_Uzedfohk

Community

We had a community Hackathon

We held a one-week async Hackathon. Check out all the winners - it was truly impressive what people were able to build in just 7 days.

We had a team Hackathon

The Supabase team didn't want to miss out on the fun so we held our own hackathon. It was a good way to dog-food. Some notable projects include

We hit 18,000 stars on GitHub, and got to the top of GitHub trending for Typescript.

repository.surf/supabase

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Dependency contributions

GoTrue (Auth)

PostgREST (APIs)

pg_net (Function Hooks)

Coming Next

Last December we moved from Alpha to Beta, with a focus on Security, Performance, and Reliability. After a couple of Launch Weeks pushing out new and sexy features, we have decided it's time to focus on these again.

By the time we're done, Supabase will be production-ready for all use cases.

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July Beta 2021

Aug 12, 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.

Launch Week II: The SQL

Following the success of our first Launch Week in March, we finished the July with "Launch Week II: The SQL". The community has been sieving through a slew of bad puns and retro memes to discover the new feature announcements.

Auth v2 with Phone Auth

Your users can now log in with SMS based mobile auth! We have a Twilio integration (Guide Here) and will be adding more providers soon.

Other Auth updating include, Twitch logins, and the ability to generate invite, recovery, confirmation, and magic links via the API, for people who want more control over the email templating flow. Read the blog post here.

Storage is now in Beta

Storage updates include Media Streaming, Public Buckets, Directory Uploads, and a Performance Improvements.

Streaming Media in particular opens up a whole new host of potential use cases, learn more about the updates here.

Dashboard v2

We made some major new additions to the dashboard including usage statistics, a new project home, and tons of database insights. Check the post here on what you get and how we built it.

We launched a Discord server

You'll find us hanging out regularly in the #hangout channel. We even "live-fixed" some production errors in there on Monday night (which occurred literally 1 hour before our first announcement of the week! Typical!). We're fast approaching 1,500 members so come and join the action! discord.supabase.com

PostgreSQL 13

All new Supabase projects will be launched with PostgreSQL 13.3, and we're working on a migration path for old projects. This gives you looooaads of new stuff out the box.

PostgREST v8.0

We worked with our friends at PostgREST to make some huge improvements. For those of you who don't know, every Supabase instance comes with a dedicated PostgREST server by default, which provides the auto-generated CRUD API that we wrap with supabase-js.

Flutter/Dart support

Our community driven libs for the fasted growing mobile and web framework are now in beta. Learn more by following the Quickstart guide.

Hackathon

We're running a week long hackathon starting NOW. There are some legit prizes, and you can win in a bunch of different categories. Check the full instructions here on how to participate. Submissions close next Friday at midnight PST.

Hooks & Functions

We made an announcement on the progress of functions, and even shipped a few preliminary components, try them out and give us feedback as we continue to move towards this next major milestone. Read the latest updates here.

Swag Store

Get your hands on some Supabase Swag, hand packed and mailed by our team based in Singapore.

Community

Supabase Github Star Growth 

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Coming Next

Security, stability, performance ... and Functions.

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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

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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

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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.

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