Further to earlier discussions, the threshold for transitioning large databases to use physical backups for their daily backups is being lowered to 15GB in the next few days.

Physical backups are more performant, have lower impact on the db, and avoid holding locks for long periods of time. Restores continue to work as expected, but backups taken using this method can no longer be downloaded from the dashboard.

Over the next few months, we'll be introducing functionality to restore to a separate, new database, allowing for the perusal of the backed up data without disruption to the original project.

Please refer to supabase.com/docs/guides/platform/backups#daily-backups-process for additional details.

Claim your ticket for Launch Week 12 kicking off August 12 and read on to learn about a number of new features we have to share with you for the month.

Launch Week 12#

Join us August 12-16 for our next Launch Week event. We will be announcing a number of new features and giving away some great swag!

Claim Your Ticket

Disable Data API for Your Project#

You can now disable the Data API when creating a new project with a setting under "Advanced Options". This option bolsters the security of your data by preventing unintentional access from clients. You can change this behavior on an existing project via the project's API Settings.

Custom Schema for Data API#

Your project's Data API exposes the public schema by default, the most commonly used schema, and can lead to unintentional access to your data. Now, you can dictate which custom schema to expose via the Data API for better security and granular control.

Save Money With Hourly Storage Billing#

On August 20, 2024, Supabase is changing billing for Storage from daily to hourly for new customers and gradually rolling it out for existing customers shortly thereafter. There are no billing changes for projects who continue to use Storage for the entire month while projects using Branching or Storage for partial months will see a reduction in their bill.

Deploy More Functions at No Extra Cost#

We have increased the number of Edge Functions across all plans at no extra cost and removed usage-based billing to simplify your bill.

Quick product announcements#

• [Database] Postgres 13 Deprecation Notice [Github Discussion]
• [Auth] Migrate from Auth0 to Supabase Auth [Docs]
• [Branching] You can customize the public environment variable prefix to use any framework [Pull Request]
• [Docs] Supabase docs now feature global navigation bar [Docs]

Made with Supabase#

• Krea - Realtime and interactive image generation in the browser, the easiest way to generate with AI [Website]
• Cheat Layer - The most powerful no-code agent editor on the planet. Learn new RPA concepts to build future-proof agents that are impossible in other RPA tools [Website]
• Udio - Generative music, you can even edit segments of the tracks using AI [Website]
• Pika - The idea-to-video AI platform that sets your creativity in motion. [Website]
• MakePodcast - Effortlessly craft professional podcasts in minutes using AI [Website]

Community Highlights#

• Using Pre-commit Hook to Upload Local Media to Supabase Bucket [blog]
• Build Library Management System Using React, Shadcn/ui, Supabase and React Query From Scratch [Youtube]
• Instagram Clone in React Native: Video, Backend with Supabase & Push Notifications [YouTube]
• It all starts with Postgres (Interview to Paul Copplestone) [YouTube]
• GraphQL Quickstart with Supabase [YouTube]
• 13min High Intensity Postgres Workout (NO REPEATS) [YouTube]

Some Custom Domain project endpoints are currently signed by Let's Encrypt's cross-signed chain.

These endpoints will start being signed by Let's Encrypt self-signed chain starting the 9th of September, 2024. For additional details, please refer to Cloudflare's documentation for this change.

The primary impact of this will be to disrupt traffic from extremely old systems (e.g. Android =< 7.0) that trust the cross-signed chain, but not the self-signed one.

If you are impacted by this, please reach out to https://supabase.help and we can help you migrate to an alternative CA.

Currently, usage data on the invoice breakdown and organization usage page has a 24-hour delay. Starting from August 26th, the usage data will have no more of 1 hour delay for new customers. Afterwards, the changes will be rolled out to existing customer gradually. We're also working on additional improvements to provide better usage insights.

Additionally, we are revamping invoices to provide more detailed breakdowns of usage for enhanced transparency. Due to our new proration of project add-ons and storage down to the hour, you may notice slight variances in your monthly bill. For the majority of line items, you’ll see the project reference and usage on the invoice, which should make it clearer which project allocated the usage/costs.

A few examples:

Compute Hours is broken down per project and the compute credits ($10) is displayed as discount for the compute line item.

Egress is broken down to each project and displays included quota (250GB) and over-age pricing ($0.09/GB)

Realtime Messages line item shows package-based pricing with $2.50 per million.

Moving to hourly usage-based billing for IPv4, Custom Domain and Point-in-time recovery#

We’re moving to billing all project add-ons usage-based and prorated down to the hour at the end of your billing cycle. We're not altering the monthly prices.

Timeline#

This change will be rolled out to new customers on August 26th, 2024 and will be gradually rolled out to existing customers shortly after.

Changes#

Details#

We're updating how we bill project add-ons (IPv4, Point-in-time recovery, Custom Domain) without changing their monthly prices. This change will be rolled out on August 26th, 2024 for new customers and shortly after for existing customers.

Previously, when you added a project add-on, like IPv4 or PITR, you were immediately invoiced and charged for the remaining billing cycle period. At the start of a new cycle, you paid upfront for the entire month. If you removed an add-on mid-cycle, you received a credit for unused time.

Starting August 26th, you will be billed retrospectively for these add-ons, similar to Compute Hours. There are no more upfront charges, prorated invoices, or credits. You simply pay for the exact hours you use the project add-ons.

Plans (Pro/Team/Enterprise) are still charged upfront and there are no changes to how they are billed.

Hourly Billing for Storage#

We’re moving to more granular billing periods. We're not altering the prices or storage quotas. Every customer will benefit from this change, especially short-lived projects and customers using Branching.

Timeline#

This change will be rolled out to new customers on August 26th, 2024 and will be gradually rolled out to existing customers shortly after.

Changes#

The price will move to "GB per hour" instead of "Total storage GB":

Let's step through 2 scenarios to explain how this change will benefit developers:

Example 1: Pro Plan Org, active for the full month#

In this scenario, an Organization is on the Pro Plan with 3 active projects.

Usage#

The projects are running for the entire month:

Billing#

After the billing changes on August 26th there would be no change in pricing:

Example 2: Pro Plan Org, active for part of the month#

In this scenario, an Organization is on the Pro Plan with 3 active projects.

Usage

In this scenario, some of the projects are only active for a few days in the month:

Billing

Currently we charge you for the full 4,200 GB, even though Project A and B weren’t active for the entire month. After August 26th, this scenario will be 22.87% cheaper:

Feedback#

This change should be universally beneficial, but if there is anything that we have missed just let us know and we will make sure we consider it before rolling out this change.

WebAssembly Foreign Data Wrapper (Wasm FDW) is now on public alpha from Wrappers version >= 0.4.1. This release also contains two new Wasm FDWs: Snowflake and Paddle.

What is Wasm FDW?#

In previous versions of Wrappers, all the foreign data wrappers need to be built into wrappers extension. The develop/test/release cycle is time consuming and fully on Supabase teams. To speed up this process and give more flexibility to community, we're adding Wasm to the Wrappers framework. With this new feature, users can build their own FDW using Wasm and use it instantly on Supabase platform.

Another benefit is because of the improved modularity, each FDW can be updated and loaded individually. New FDWs release will be quicker than before. Also, wrappers extension size won't be bloated as more FDWs added in.

What are the changes?#

There is no changes from end-users' perspective, all existing native FDWs are still same. The Wasm FDW only brings a new way of developing and distributing FDW.

How to use it?#

Visit Database -> Platform -> Wrappers on Supabase Studio, enable Wrappers and choose Snowflake or Paddle, then create foreign tables.

Visit Snowflake Wasm FDW docs or Paddle Wasm FDW docs for more details.

How to develop my own Wasm FDW?#

To build your own Wasm FDW, visit the example project to get started.

We have several updates and new features to share with you this month. Dive in to see what’s new from Supabase.

Edge Runtime Inspector Feature (CLI)#

We’ve introduced the Edge Runtime Inspector, a powerful new feature in the CLI that helps you inspect and debug edge functions more efficiently. Pull Request

View and Abort Running Queries (Supabase Studio)#

You can now view and abort queries currently running on your database (primary or replica) in the Supabase Studio SQL Editor. This feature gives you greater control and flexibility in managing your queries. Pull Request

Logging Integration With The ELK Stack#

The Logflare to Elastic filebeat backend has been merged. This integration enables log drains to ELK stacks, providing more robust logging and monitoring capabilities. Documentation

Interpreting Supabase Grafana I/O Charts#

We have published a guide on how to use the Supabase I/O charts to identify when you may need to scale your database, optimize your queries, or spin up a read replica. Github Discussion

Breaking Change to Supabase Platform Access Control#

On July 26, 2024, Supabase will be making breaking changes to our platform’s access control system. Developer and Read-Only roles will no longer have write access to an organization’s GitHub and Vercel integrations. These changes will not affect existing integrations that are in place. Github Discussion

Change to Retention of Paused Free Tier Projects#

Starting June 24, 2024, paused Free Tier projects are restorable for 90 days. There is a grace period where all paused projects will continue to be restorable until September 22, 2024. Github Discussion

Billing Improvements#

We’ve made significant improvements to our billing system to help you better understand compute pricing. These changes aim to prevent unexpected charges and provide clarity on “Compute Hours.” Github Discussion

Quick product announcements#

[Edge Functions] We’ve implemented some key updates to Edge Functions, including adding Deno 1.43 support [Github Discussion]

New Engineering and Troubleshooting Guides#

• How Postgres chooses which index to use
• Using SQLAlchemy with Supabase
• Supabase & Your Network: IPv4 and IPv6 compatibility
• Understanding the Usage Summary on the Dashboard
• Supavisor and Connection Terminology Explained
• Prisma Error Management
• How to change max database connections
• Inspecting edge function environment variables

Made with Supabase#

• Dribble - Flutter NBA name guess game available for iOS and Android [Website]
• EvalHub - an open-source platform for researchers to discover AI evaluation metrics [Website]
• SVGPS - Removes the burden of working with a cluster of SVG files by converting your icons into a single JSON file [Website]
• CleanCoffee - Lean coffee discussion utility where you can create boards and share with friends [Website]
• Rewritebar - Improve your writing in any macOS application with AI assistance. Quickly correct grammar mistakes, change writing styles or translate text [Website]

Community highlights#

• Building a Basic Social Network with Remix and Supabase [YouTube]
• Next Level Supabase Techniques For Your Production App! [YouTube]
• Building a Local-First React Native App with PowerSync and Supabase [YouTube]
• Build a Fullstack Job Portal App with Next.js 14, Tailwind, Supabase, Stripe, Clerk [YouTube]
• Generate Vector Tiles with PostGIS [Blog] [YouTube]

Supabase HTTP APIs are no longer using DigiCert as the root CA. This should have no impact on the vast majority of environments, as the other CAs in use are essentially universally trusted.

If your client environment only trusts certificates signed by DigiCert, you could be impacted. We're currently using Cloudflare to serve our HTTP APIs, and recommend ensuring that any client environment that only trusts a specific subset of CAs trusts all of the CAs Cloudflare uses.

In an effort to simplify pricing, we are going to remove usage-based billing for the number of Edge Functions in your projects. Instead, we are going for a bigger quota across all plans at no extra costs. We picked the limits to ensure all customers are benefiting from this change.

Free Plan customers can now create 25 instead of 10 functions without the need to upgrade to a paid Plan.

This change is effective immediately and in case you were previously exceeding the number of included functions on a paid Plan, you will no longer be charged for it.

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.

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.

Magic Links#

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#

• Our dashboard now uses Next.js automatic static optimization - so it should be noticeably more responsive.
• We created an Isomorphic gotrue-js TypeScript library for interacting with Netlify's GoTrue server. This will soon be bundled into supabase-js
• We migrated our postgrest-js library to TypeScript, and it will soon be bundled into supabase-js

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:

• supabase-js now has UMD support
• We significantly improved our docs. Try out the new search!
• All of our awesome sponsors are now listed on our OSS page.

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

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.

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!

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.

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.