Developer Update - August 2026
- Supabase Pipelines is now in public alpha, streaming Postgres changes to BigQuery in near real time on all paid plans
- Sign in with ChatGPT is now in beta for Supabase authentication on desktop, web, and mobile
- Unified Logs is now in open beta, providing a searchable view across every Supabase service with live tail, filtering, and a timeline
- Connect any Supabase project to Grafana Cloud in one click for a pre-built dashboard, alerting, and metrics on every plan
- Supabase Evals is now open source, a benchmark that runs AI coding agents against real Supabase tasks
- Edge Functions overview page now shows each function's error rates, execution time, and CPU and memory use
- Management API analytics/endpoints/logs.all endpoint is migrating to the new logs endpoint
- Supabase now blocks all changes to the realtime schema with permission errors
- Row Level Security policy fix gives more than 100x improvement on large tables
- Extension version pinning is deprecated: from August 5, an explicit version in CREATE or ALTER EXTENSION is ignored and the default version installs with a warning
Here’s everything that happened with Supabase in the last month:
Supabase Select SF 2026
Supabase Select returns to San Francisco on October 2, a curated day of talks, feature deep dives, and more activations. Tickets are now available by application.
Supabase Pipelines is now in public alpha
Supabase Pipelines streams Postgres changes to BigQuery in near real time, a managed CDC service you configure in the Dashboard, now available on all paid plans.
Sign in with ChatGPT is now in beta
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Sign in to Supabase with your ChatGPT account, or connect Supabase to ChatGPT on desktop, web, and mobile through the ChatGPT plugins directory.
Unified Logs is now in open beta
Unified Logs gives you one searchable view across every Supabase service, with live tail, filtering, and a timeline.
Observability for every project with Grafana Cloud
Connect any Supabase project to Grafana Cloud in one click for a pre-built dashboard, alerting, and metrics, available on every plan including Free.
Introducing Supabase Evals
Supabase Evals is now open source, a benchmark that runs AI coding agents like Claude Code and Codex against real Supabase tasks and publishes the scores.
Searchable field-level encryption with CipherStash
CipherStash adds field-level encryption to Supabase with queryable ciphertext, zero-knowledge key management, and no schema changes.
Quick Product Announcements
- The Edge Functions overview page now shows each function's error rates, execution time, and CPU and memory use in one place. [Twitter]
- Extension version pinning is deprecated: from August 5, an explicit version in
CREATEorALTER EXTENSIONis ignored and the default version installs with a warning. [Changelog] - The Management API
analytics/endpoints/logs.allendpoint is migrating to the new logs endpoint, so update any clients that query project logs. [Changelog] - Supabase now blocks all changes to the
realtimeschema: creating, altering, or dropping objects fails with a permission error, and RLS policies onrealtime.messageskeep working. [Changelog]
Made with Supabase
- byTheLab GEO Score measures how visible your brand is across AI search engines like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini, and returns a score in about 30 seconds. [Website]
- Huevsite is a profile platform where indie builders show their projects, code, and stack and earn a Builder Score to get discovered. [Website]
- TripMaster keeps a group trip's flights, stays, and tickets on one shared timeline, texts the group when a gate or time changes, and connects to ChatGPT or Claude to fill in the plan. [Website]
- FutureNerds is a management platform for Montessori schools that tracks each child's progress, keeps parents updated, and runs day-to-day school operations. [Website]
Community Highlights
- A no-code introduction to Supabase covering how the database, auth, and free tier work for builders who are not writing backend code. [Read]
- A production-readiness review of Supabase, covering the Row Level Security policy fix that gives more than 100x improvement on large tables. [Read]
- A step-by-step Supabase starter guide covering migrations, typed clients, Row Level Security, auth, and a production-safe local workflow. [Read]
- A production Row Level Security walkthrough covering multi-tenant isolation, role-based access patterns, policy performance, and the mistakes that silently break apps. [Read]
- A founder's assessment of why Postgres-based backends are winning for small teams, including an honest list of where Supabase is not the right pick. [Read]