# Supabase — Supabase Realtime: Broadcast and Presence Authorization

- Company: Supabase (supabase.com)
- Announced: 2024-08-13
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://supabase.com/blog/supabase-realtime-broadcast-and-presence-authorization
- Record: https://forck.live/items/21415-supabase-realtime-broadcast-and-presence-authorization
- Subject: Supabase

Supabase released authorization for Realtime's Broadcast and Presence features using Row Level Security policies. Developers can create RLS policies on a new `realtime.messages` table to control which authenticated clients can send or receive messages on specific channels. The feature is available in Public Beta.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://supabase.com/blog/supabase-realtime-broadcast-and-presence-authorization:

> Today we're releasing Authorization for Realtime's Broadcast and Presence. ... To facilitate this, Realtime creates and manages a messages table in your Database's realtime schema: You can then write RLS Policies for this table and Realtime will then allow or deny clients' access to your Broadcast and Presence Channels:

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