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We’ve come a long way since our first update email in April 2020. We’ve gone from 6 hosted databases on our platform to over 650,000 (and that doesn’t even include database branches. As always we’ve had another hectic month of shipping fast, and community involvement in our open source repos, meaning we can iterate on Supabase faster than ever. Here’s a small sample of some of the things we shipped during September…
You can now broadcast Realtime messages to all your connected users by simply using a REST API call, removing the need to connect to a WebSocket. This will be especially useful with our Edge Functions!
Less than two months ago, we announced Supavisor, our own Postgres connection pooler that handles millions of connections. It’s now available in all new projects. You can continue using pgbouncer alongside Supavisor, however, it will be deprecated effective January 15th, 2024.
With IPv4 addresses becoming increasingly scarce and cloud providers starting to charge for it, we won’t be assigning IPv4 addresses to Supabase projects from January 15th, 2024. [db.projectref.supabase.co](http://db.projectref.supabase.co) will start resolving to a IPv6 address instead. If you plan on connecting to your database directly, you must ensure that your network can communicate over IPv6. Supavisor will continue to return IPv4 addresses, so you can update your applications to connect to Supavisor instead.
Introducing the latest addition to our Wrappers lineup: Airtable! You can use it to query data from your Airtable bases and tables directly from Postgres:
select * from my_airtable_table;
# data from Airtable
Read the Airtable Wrapper docs Learn about Wrappers
Supabase Studio is under constant improvement, here is what’s new:
Added HNSW support inside Vecs, our Python library for pgvector. Vecs automatically creates schemas and collections inside your database, making it one of the easiest ways to get started with pgvector.
supabase-js in these environments to fall back to use this default storage mechanism now. Upgrade to supabase-js v2.36.0 or gotrue-js v2.54.0 for the latest changes. [PR]Deno.serve(req => new Response("ok")). No http standard library dependency needed. (Thanks eifr for contributing with updated CLI templates. [PR]We’re sponsoring a conference for the first time. We'll be participating in the keynote and hosting a workshop on pgvector. Our team of AI experts will be on hand at booth D2 to introduce you to Supabase Vector (and handing out exclusive swag 🛍️).
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