Supabase Beta May 2023

Summary

Supabase’s May 2023 update announces two major product areas: Supabase Vector, an open-source toolkit for storing, indexing, and querying Postgres vector embeddings at scale, and Supabase Vault, a Postgres extension and UI for encrypted secrets and data. Auth Helpers now support client and server use of the Next.js App Router and server-side authentication by default with PKCE. The release also adds Turnstile CAPTCHA support, password reauthentication nonces, Wrappers integrations for Firebase, Stripe, S3, and clickhouse, CLI deployment for all Edge Functions, custom and vanity domains, and generally available Image Transformation. Supabase says it reached 50,000 GitHub stars, while the team solicits Dashboard SQL Editor feedback and reports community projects, AI resources, and a first-ever Flutter Hackathon.

Takeaways

1. 1

   Supabase Vector is being built as a collection of tools for storing, indexing, and querying embeddings in Postgres at scale, while pgvector usage for AI applications is increasing.

2. 2

   Next.js Auth Helpers now support the App Router across client and server environments, with server-side authentication implemented by default using PKCE.

3. 3

   pg_cron 1.5.2 supports schedules below one minute for new projects, and Edge Functions can be deployed through the CLI with custom and vanity domain support.