# Supabase Beta October 2021

[Supabase](https://yomu.fyi/company/supabase) · Paul Copplestone · Nov 7, 2021

**Type:** Announcement

## Summary

Supabase announced its October 2021 beta release, introducing three new authentication providers for Slack, Spotify, and MessageBird phone logins. The platform rolled out database multi-schema support, enabling users to browse different database schemas directly within the Dashboard interface and query them through the PostgREST API after enabling schema access. Documentation and instructional resources were expanded to cover PostgreSQL functions, authentication server-side functions, RedwoodJS quickstarts, self-hosting architectures, and production readiness checklists. In addition to ecosystem releases such as supabase-py v0.0.3, nuxt-supabase v2.2.1, and vue-supabase v2.2.3, the project reached over 21,268 GitHub stars. The team also announced Launch Week III: The Trilogy, set to begin on November 29th on Discord.

## Context

Supabase released its monthly beta product updates for October 2021 alongside community growth milestones and upcoming launch events.

## Approach / What changed

Added authentication support for Slack, Spotify, and MessageBird phone logins; implemented multi-schema browsing in the Dashboard and API access configuration; published guides for PostgreSQL functions and self-hosting; and released updated client libraries.

## Takeaways

- Supabase added authentication support for Slack, Spotify, and MessageBird phone logins.
- Users can switch schemas within the Supabase Dashboard and access non-default schemas via the PostgREST API once enabled in the Dashboard.
- New official documentation and guides cover PostgreSQL functions, self-hosting, server-side auth functions, and RedwoodJS integration.

**Tags:** [Authentication](https://yomu.fyi/topic/authentication), [Open Source](https://yomu.fyi/topic/open-source), [Postgres](https://yomu.fyi/topic/postgres), [REST APIs](https://yomu.fyi/topic/rest-api)

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