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

Improved usage insights and transparency

Dec 5, 2023

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:

Platform updates: 30 Nov 2021

Nov 30, 2021

System updates

All projects

New projects

  • PostgreSQL updated to v14.1

Manual Changes Required

Update custom auth functions

Details

The PostgREST release notes document some changes to the way GUC variables are handled here.

Supabase has created a config flag in the Dashboard to ensure that this will not be a breaking change. These changes are required before you can upgrade to PostgreSQL 14+, or use Realtime RLS.

Supabase has already updated all the default auth functions (auth.uid(), auth.role() and auth.email()), however we have no way of updating functions which we have not written ourselves.

Affected

  • Any project that have custom auth functions or generally any function that use legacy GUC naming convention to access JWT claims (eg current_setting('request.jwt.claims.XXX', true).
    • This change is required for PostgreSQL 14+.
    • This change is required for Realtime row level security

Unaffected

  • New projects
  • Existing projects who haven't written custom auth functions.

How to update

You need to update all functions that are using the legacy GUC naming convention (current_setting('request.jwt.claims.XXX', true)) to use the new convention (current_setting('request.jwt.claims', true)::json->>'XXX').

After you have made this change, you can safely

Example

For example, Supabase rewrote the auth.role() functions like this, to handle both legacy and new:


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-- PREVIOUSLY
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create or replace function auth.role()
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returns text
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language sql stable
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as $$
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select current_setting('request.jwt.claim.role', true)::text;
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$$;
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-- UPDATED FUNCTION TO HANDLE NEW GUC NAMING SCHEME
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create or replace function auth.role()
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returns text
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language sql stable
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as $$
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select
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\tcoalesce(
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\t\tcurrent_setting('request.jwt.claim.role', true),
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\t\t(current_setting('request.jwt.claims', true)::jsonb ->> 'role')
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\t)::text
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$$;

October Beta 2021

Nov 8, 2021

Three new Auth providers, multi-schema support, and we're gearing up for another Launch Week. Let's dive into what's been happening at Supabase during the month of October.

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

Slack, Spotify, and MessageBird logins

Thanks to @HarryET and our friends at MessageBird we have 3 new Auth providers this month: Slack, Spotify, and MessageBird phone logins.

supabase-auth-slack

Multi-schema support

Dashboard

Browse data in any database schema using the Schema switcher in the Dashbaord.

multi-schema

API

You can access any schema with your API, after enabling access in the Dashboard. Docs.

supabase-multi-schema-support

Fresh Docs and Guides

We have a TON of new guides, with videos too.

Database Functions

Learn about PostgreSQL Functions. Docs.

https://youtu.be/MJZCCpCYEqk

Auth Overview

Learn about all the exciting feature of Auth within Supabase. Docs.

https://youtu.be/6ow_jW4epf8

API Features

Learn more about the power of PostgREST for RESTful APIs. Docs.

https://youtu.be/rPAJJFdtPw0

And more

Community

There was a lot of activity this month.

Supabase at Jamstack conf

Supabase attended the Jamstack conf. Watch us catch up with Matt, the cofounder of Netlify (minute 8).

https://youtu.be/phC14xfwvjc

Supabase at Next.js conf

And Jon made a guest appearance at this year's amazing Next.js Conf.

https://youtu.be/GpXEMB1pDRE

Community Highlights

  • Vue 3 | Workout Tracker App - John Komarnicki video
  • Adalo + Supabase - Flywheel Media video
  • Nuxt 3 Beta + Supabase - BenCodeZen video
  • Made With Supabase (now on Nuxt 3) - Zernonia site
  • Nuxt 3 + Tailwind + Supabase - Ekene Eze video
  • SQL Functions - Răzvan Stătescu article
  • supabase-py v0.0.3 released - repo
  • nuxt-supabase v2.2.1 released - repo
  • vue-supabase v2.2.3 released - repo

GitHub

We hit 20K stars!! 21,268 to be exact: github.com/supabase/supabase

stars

Source: repository.surf/supabase

Check out some of our other community stats in our latest Series A Blog Post.

Coming Next: Launch Week III

We had Launch Week numero uno in March, and the sequel "Launch Week II: the SQL" in July.

Now we're going even bigger with the third installment: Launch Week III: The Trilogy. Join us on 29th November on our Discord.

September Beta 2021

Oct 4, 2021

Did you know it's been 2 years since the first commit to Realtime, our real-time engine for Postgres? Before we even existed as a company!

We spent this month improving docs and content content, improving UX, and onboarding Developer Advocates!

Hackathon v2

To kick off Hacktoberfest, another Supabase Hackathon is happening right now. You've got another 7 days to be in to win a limited edition t-shirt.

Abort Requests

We added support for AbortController in our Javascript library so that you can abort long-running queries. [Docs]

Improved table management

We've made a number of changes to the Dashboard to expose some great features of PostgreSQL including:

Column types

We've improved the column Type field so that it supports your custom types.

Is Unique

We've made it simple to add a unique constraint.

Edit columns

By popular request, you can now view all columns in a table at a glance and edit them in bulk.

Cross-schema relationships

We updated our grid to support relationships across multiple schemas.

Improved Auth Docs

We've revamped the Auth docs - The docs are now broken down into Authentication and Authorization, and organized alongside our Deep Dive series.

Low Code demo

Low Code demo, Using Supabase with Clutch.io - @_dijonmusters ran a session at General Assembly showing how to use these two tools together to create apps using a low code approach. https://youtu.be/5fsKMTeBKKY

Community

There was a lot of new content this month.

Videos

Twitter

We hit 16.5k followers. Follow us there for advance frontend tips and 👁️⚡👁️

GitHub

Not far from 20K stars: github.com/supabase/supabase Source: repository.surf/supabase

Discord

Our Discord is growing fast. Come hangout with 3500+ developers building on Supabase today: discord.supabase.com

Hiring

We're Hiring SREs. We're fully remote and we love Open Source. See open roles.

Coming Next

We're warming up for another Launch Week! Last time was "Launch Week II: the SQL". We're going to need another month to come up with a good pun again, so we'll aim for November.

Get started

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

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

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.

Get started

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 

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

Coming Next

Security, stability, performance ... and Functions.

Get started

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:

Postgres Full Text Search

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

March Beta 2021

Apr 6, 2021

Launch week, Storage, Supabase CLI, Connection Pooling, Supabase UI, and Pricing. Here's what we released last month.

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

Supabase Storage

Need to store images, audio, and video clips? Well now you can do it on Supabase Storage. It's backed by S3 and our new OSS storage API written in Fastify and Typescript. Read the full blog post.

Connection Pooling

The Supabase API already handles Connection Pooling, but if you're connecting to your database directly (for example, with Prisma) we now bundle PgBouncer. Read the full blog post.

React UI Component Library

We open sourced our internal UI component library, so that anyone can use and contribute to the Supabase aesthetic. It lives at ui.supabase.io . It was also the #1 Product of the Day on Product Hunt.

CLI

Now you can run Supabase locally in the terminal with supabase start. We have done some preliminary work on diff-based schema migrations, and added some new tooling for self-hosting Supabase with Docker. Blog post here.

OAuth Scopes

Thanks to a comunity contribution (@_mateomorris and @Beamanator), Supabase Auth now includes OAuth scopes. These allow you to request elevated access during login. For example, you may want to request access to a list of Repositories when users log in with GitHub. Check out the Documentation.

Kaizen

  • You can now manage your PostgREST configuration inside the Dashboard.
  • Our website has been redesigned. Check out our new Homepage and Blog, and our new Database, Auth, and Storage product pages.
  • We refactored some of our Filter methods to make them even easier to use. Check out the Full Text Search refactor.
  • We have added several new sections to our Docs including: Local Dev, Self Hosting, and Postgres Reference docs (all still under development).

February Beta 2021

Mar 1, 2021

Supabase is an open source Firebase alternative. We've now been building for one year. Here's what we released last month.

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

Dashboard Sidebars

We've improved the UX of our Dashboard with sidebars in every section, including the Table view, the Auth section, and the SQL Editor.

SQL Autocomplete

Writing SQL just got 10x easier. We added autocomplete to the SQL editor, including table & column suggestions.

Auth Redirects

Redirect your users to specific route within your site on signIn() and signUp().

Redirect your users after sign up

Learning Resources

We've released a new Resources section in our docs, as well as two new Auth modules: GoTrue Overview and Google OAuth.

New Region

Launch your database in South Africa.

Kaizen

January Beta 2021

Feb 2, 2021

New year, new features. We've been busy at Supabase during January and our community has been even busier. Here's a few things you'll find interesting.

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

Count functionality

Anyone who has worked with Firebase long enough has become frustrated over the lack of count functionality. This isn't a problem with PostgreSQL! Our libraries now have support for PostgREST's exact, planned, and estimated counts. A massive thanks to @dshukertjr for this adding support to our client library.

New Auth Providers

We enabled 2 new Auth providers - Facebook and Azure. Thanks to @Levet for the Azure plugin, and once again to Netlify's amazing work with GoTrue to implement Facebook.

Auth Audit Trail

We have exposed the audit trail directly in the dashboard, as well as the GoTrue logs. Great for security and debugging.

Auth UI widget

In case our Auth endpoints aren't easy enough already, we've built a React Auth Widget for you to drop into your app and to get up-and-running in minutes.

New auth.email() function

We added a helper function for extracting the logged in user's email address.

New Regions

Launch your database in London or Sydney!

Launch your database in London or Sydney

Copy rows as Markdown

You can now copy SQL results as Markdown - super useful for adding to blogs and issues.

React server components

If you're excited by React Server components then check out the Supabase + Server Components experimental repo. https://github.com/supabase/next-server-components

Learn

We know that Auth can be a bit daunting when you're just starting out, so we have created some intro videos to get you up to speed in no time:

Kaizen

  • Performance: We migrated all of our subdomains to Route53, implementing custom Let's Encrypt certs for your APIs. As a result, our read benchmarks are measuring up 12% faster.
  • Performance: We upgrade your databases to the new GP3 storage for faster and more consistent throughput.

December Beta 2020

Jan 3, 2021

After 10 hectic months of building, Supabase is now in Beta.

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

Supabase is now in Beta

We spent months working on Performance, Security, and Reliability. Read more on our Beta Page.

This image shows our Beta Page

Improve your docs inline

Add comments and descriptions to your Tables directly from our auto-generated docs.

Table View now has realtime changes

Any updates that happen to your database are reflected in the Table View immediately.

Table Pagination

Our table view now has pagination - better for working with large data sets.

Supabase raised a Seed Round

We raised $6M from Y Combinator, Mozilla, and Coatue. You can read more on TechCrunch.

Kaizen

  • Supabase is now 26% faster in regions which support Graviton (1460 reqs/s up from 1167 reqs/s)
  • We launched a new region in Sao Paulo.
  • Postgres Array Support. You can now edit Native Postgres array items in the grid editor or the side panel.
  • We added better support for your custom Database Types.
  • Fixed some buggy keyboard commands. We're continuously improving key commands in the Table editor.

Alpha November 2020

Dec 1, 2020

We've been building for 9 months now, are we're getting even closer to Beta.

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

Add users

You can now add users manually from your dashboard.

User admin

You can also perform admin functions on existing users - send password reset emails, magic links, and delete users.

Even more powerful SQL Editor

Last month we announced an improved SQL Editor, and this month we've taken it even further. The SQL Editor is now a full Monaco editor, like you'd find in VS Code. Build your database directly from the browser.

Status page

We added a Status Page which tracks the uptime and latency of the Supabase platform.

Kaizen

  • We completed a security audit by DigitalXRAID.
  • Email confirmations now enabled by default for signups.
  • Updated Benchmarking Suite to include more realistic workloads, on various different servers (results published soon).
  • You can now set/edit/remove Foreign Keys via the table editor.
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