# Supabase Beta December 2021

[Supabase](https://yomu.fyi/company/supabase) · Paul Copplestone · Jan 20, 2022

**Type:** Announcement

## Summary

Supabase announced a series of platform updates, educational content, and community milestones for December 2021. PostgreSQL instances now include the pg\_sodium extension, enabling users to perform encryption, decryption, hashing, and cryptographic signing directly within database queries and functions through the Supabase Dashboard. The release details educational video guides demonstrating remote procedure calls from JavaScript, invoking external HTTP endpoints from database functions, and setting up triggers to run SQL on table modifications. In addition to ecosystem updates featuring new Python library releases and integrations with Divjoy and n8n, the project surpassed 26,000 GitHub stars and opened fully remote job positions across engineering, marketing, and human resources.

## Approach / What changed

Supabase added the pg\_sodium extension across all Postgres instances, introduced capabilities to call external HTTP endpoints from Postgres functions, and updated community tooling and third-party integrations.

## Takeaways

- The pg\_sodium extension is available inside all Supabase PostgreSQL instances, supporting encryption, decryption, hashing, and cryptographic signing via the dashboard extensions tab.
- PostgreSQL functions in Supabase support invoking external HTTP endpoints and can be called from JavaScript using remote procedure calls.
- The ecosystem expanded with updated community Python libraries (supabase v0.0.4, gotrue v0.3.0, realtime v0.0.4, storage3 v0.1.0) and new integrations with Divjoy and n8n.

**Tags:** [Open Source](https://yomu.fyi/topic/open-source), [Postgres](https://yomu.fyi/topic/postgres), [Python](https://yomu.fyi/topic/python), [Remote Work](https://yomu.fyi/topic/remote-work)

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