Supabase Beta July 2021

Summary

Supabase concluded July 2021 with its second Launch Week event, delivering daily product updates and infrastructure upgrades across its platform. Authentication features expanded to support SMS logins through Twilio, Twitch authentication, and API endpoints for generating custom email authentication links. Storage capabilities were upgraded to include media streaming, public buckets, directory uploads, and speed improvements, alongside dashboard enhancements for usage statistics and database insights. Furthermore, all newly created Supabase projects now run PostgreSQL 13.3 by default, and instances incorporate the updated PostgREST version 8.0 server to generate CRUD APIs. The release also introduced preliminary components for Supabase functions as development continues toward general availability.

Context

Supabase organized Launch Week II: The SQL at the end of July 2021 to release a series of new platform features, infrastructure updates, and community additions.

Approach / What changed

Supabase added Twilio-powered SMS authentication, Twitch login, and API-generated authentication links, upgraded storage to handle media streaming and public buckets, launched new projects with PostgreSQL 13.3, integrated PostgREST v8.0 for CRUD APIs, updated dashboard metrics, and released early components for functions.

Takeaways

• All new Supabase projects launch with PostgreSQL 13.3, with a migration path being developed for older projects.
• Every Supabase instance comes with a dedicated PostgREST server that provides auto-generated CRUD APIs wrapped by supabase-js, updated to PostgREST v8.0.
• Supabase Auth supports SMS mobile logins via Twilio and API-based generation of invite, recovery, confirmation, and magic links for custom email templating.

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