# Supabase — Supabase Beta December 2023

- Company: Supabase (supabase.com)
- Announced: 2024-01-05
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://supabase.com/blog/beta-update-december-2023
- Record: https://forck.live/items/21458-supabase-beta-december-2023
- Subject: Supabase

Supabase announced several new features during Launch Week X, including an AI assistant and user impersonation in Supabase Studio, native npm and Node.js support for Edge Functions, database branching linked to GitHub branches, and new Auth features such as identity linking, session control, leaked password protection, and auth hooks. The company also introduced Read Replicas for serving data closer to users or distributing loads across multiple databases.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://supabase.com/blog/beta-update-december-2023:

> Supabase Studio received a major update that reflects our commitment to a SQL-first approach and user-centric development. Awesome features like easy RLS policies with an AI assistant, Postgres Roles, User Impersonation, and much more.

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