# Supabase Alpha July 2020

[Supabase](https://yomu.fyi/company/supabase) · Paul Copplestone · Aug 2, 2020

**Type:** Announcement

## Summary

Supabase announced the release of Supabase Auth following five months of development, providing resources and a video tutorial on implementing authentication with PostgreSQL Row Level Security. The Table Editor now allows users to drill multiple levels deep into table relationships as well as add, delete, and download rows directly. Newly created projects also include access to additional Postgres extensions, including pgsql-http, pgjwt, plpgsql\_check, and pljava. Further platform updates include an or filter in the client library, expanded capabilities for the postgres-meta REST management server, and persistence for open tabs in the Table View. Additionally, the auto-generated documentation now integrates authentication guides, and visual page transition glitches have been resolved.

## Context

After five months of building, Supabase sought to streamline application authentication setup and enhance database data manipulation tools for users.

## Approach / What changed

The release introduces Supabase Auth with Row Level Security guidance, updates the Table Editor to support multi-level relationship drilling and row manipulation, and adds extensions like pgsql-http and pgjwt to new projects.

## Takeaways

- Supabase Auth allows developers to implement authentication systems utilizing PostgreSQL Row Level Security.
- The Table Editor supports multi-level relationship drill-downs along with capabilities to add, delete, and download table rows.
- New Supabase projects include PostgreSQL extensions pgsql-http for in-database HTTP requests, pgjwt for JSON Web Tokens, plpgsql\_check for linting, and pljava for Java stored procedures.

**Tags:** [Authentication](https://yomu.fyi/topic/authentication), [Developer Experience](https://yomu.fyi/topic/developer-experience), [Postgres](https://yomu.fyi/topic/postgres)

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