Clerk Changelog

Clerk has gone isomorphic

We refactored our SDKs to allow for isomorphism. This means we can offer more V8 runtimes, such as Cloudflare workers.

You can see the new backend package we are using under the hood in our Github Repository

Deprecated Packages

With the changes described above have deprecated two packages as they are no longer needed to run server-side requests:

@clerk/backend-core
@clerk/edge

Organization details update

The organization details page in the dashboard has been updated to be easier to manage your organization. You can now:

• Change the organization name
• Update membership limits
• Add or update public or private metadata
• Delete unused organization

How to stay up to date with Clerk?

The best way to keep up with Clerk is to subscribe to our newsletter. We send out updates every week. Updates include new features, what we have been working on, and blog posts you may have missed!

Clerk Community Discord

Clerk has a community Discord. When you join, you will find a place:

• Find the latest Clerk news and announcements
• Share your project with the Clerk community, and talk about your experience
• Request features and gets help integrating Clerk from the team and community.

Clerk Twitter

Our Twitter account (@clerkdev) announces the latest features and improvements. We would also be psyched if you tagged us in projects you have built.

New Backend API reference docs

We created new backend API reference documentation that is automatically updated when we release any changes to Production based on the OpenAPI specification.

This upgrade shows successful and unsuccessful payloads and what to expect from a type. It can also run a test request in the browser, allowing you to see a request and response using your API key.

Check it out at https://clerk.com/docs/reference/backend-api

Thanks to the contributors: Mark Pitsilos, James Perkins

useAuth improvements

The useAuth hook now contains orgId, orgSlug, orgRole allowing you to access organization data when you need it on the client.

Italian Language Support

A massive shoutout to nitroin for opening up a pull request into our @clerk/localization package to add Italian translations to all our components.

import { itIT } from '@clerk/localizations';

const App = () => {
  return (
    <ClerkProvider
      localization={itIT}
    >
      {...}
    </ClerkProvider>
  );
}

Bug fixes and Performance improvements

We fixed a few bugs this week that are important to highlight.

Apple OAuth User name

We now return the user name from a sign in when using Apple as the OAuth provider.

Respect JWKS cache

We fixed a bug in our Ruby SDK, which now respects the JWKS cache specified.

Performance improvements to users endpoint

We have improved the performance of the /api/users/ endpoint, you should already notice the difference!

How to stay up to date with Clerk?

The best way to keep up with Clerk is to subscribe to our newsletter. We send out updates every week. Updates include new features, what we have been working on, and blog posts you may have missed!

Clerk Community Discord

Clerk has a community Discord. When you join, you will find a place:

• Find the latest Clerk news and announcements
• Share your project with the Clerk community, and talk about your experience
• Request features and gets help integrating Clerk from the team and community.

Clerk Twitter

Our Twitter account (@clerkdev) announces the latest features and improvements. We would also be psyched if you tagged us in projects you have built.

URL-based session syncing

We have been working on making development no longer require any third-party cookies. This is now out of experimental, and all instances created from now on won't' use them.

Development instances created before December 6, 2022, still communicate to the Clerk frontend API using cookies. You can follow our upgrade guide to migrate to URL-based session syncing.

Thanks to the contributors: Haris Chaniotakis, Agis Anastasopoulos, Nikos Douvlis

Pricing Changes

We updated our pricing and our free plan to serve our users better. You can now have up to 5,000 monthly active users and ten organizations for free with no credit card required.

Our hobby and business plan prices have been reduced to $25 and $99, respectively. We updated our pricing page to make it even easier to figure out what it will cost to run your SaaS.

Thanks to the contributors: Marcel Cruz, Charles Wefso

Launching A YouTube Channel

Clerk is invested in educating people on the modern web alongside authentication and user management. We have launched a dedicated YouTube to cover topics on the modern web and how to use Clerk in complex applications.

Check out the video below on using TRPC and Clerk to create a secure typesafe application. If you are interested in the modern web and Clerk make sure you subscribe.

How to stay up to date with Clerk?

The best way to keep up with Clerk is to subscribe to our newsletter. We send out updates every week. Updates include new features, what we have been working on, and blog posts you may have missed!

Clerk Community Discord

Clerk has a community Discord. When you join, you will find a place:

• Find the latest Clerk news and announcements
• Share your project with the Clerk community, and talk about your experience
• Request features and gets help integrating Clerk from the team and community.

Clerk Twitter

Our Twitter account (@clerkdev) announces the latest features and improvements. We would also be psyched if you tagged us in projects you have built.

$6.2m new funding, led by a16z

On November 30th, we announced $6.2m in new funding led by Martin Casado at Andreessen Horowitz, with continued participation from S28 Capital, Fathom Capital, and South Park Commons. This funding marks a significant milestone for Clerk. For the first time, we've raised based on the traction of our customers, who are simply blowing us away with their continued success.

You can read the full blog post from our CEO Colin.

Support for Cloudflare workers

With the latest release of @clerk/remix we can now support Cloudflare workers, Cloudflare pages, Node, and Deno. This was a long-requested feature, and we are glad we can start supporting the runtime of your choice. To learn how to use experimental support, check out the documentation.

Localization improvements

@clerk/localizations

We introduced a new open-source package this week called @clerk/localizations that allows you to import a language and use it in our components. If you have translated your Clerk components into another language, feel free to open a PR and hope the Clerk community.

import { ClerkProvider } from '@clerk/nextjs'
import { frFR } from '@clerk/localizations'

function MyApp({ Component, pageProps }) {
  return (
    <ClerkProvider localization={frFR} {...pageProps}>
      <Component {...pageProps} />
    </ClerkProvider>
  )
}

export default MyApp

Datetime localization

As part of our localization effort, we also introduced Datetime localization, allowing you to present your user with the correct format based on their location. For example:

dates: {
  previous6Days: "{{ date | weekday('fr-FR','long') | titleize }} dernier à {{ date | timeString('fr-FR') }}",
},

Thanks to the contributors: Nikos Douvlis, Stefanos Anagnostou

Invite your team

The Clerk dashboard now supports organizations in the Dashboard, allowing you to invite team members who need access to the admin panel with a single click. We also give you a personal workspace for all those side projects you've been thinking of.

If you already have an application in your Dashboard that isn't attached to an organization but needs to be transferred, with a few clicks, you can transfer the ownership.

Sign in with Xero and Box.

We now support Box and Xero for social logins bringing our total to 20 supported providers! Check out our integration documentation if you are interested in Box or Xero.

Community shoutout

A massive shoutout to our Discord member David who created a Terraform module that allows hook up your Clerk instance to AWS.

How to keep up to date with Clerk?

The best way to keep up with Clerk is to subscribe to our newsletter. We send out updates every week. Updates include new features, what we have been working on, and blog posts you may have missed!

Clerk Community Discord

Clerk has a community Discord. When you join, you will find a place:

• Find the latest Clerk news and announcements
• Share your project with the Clerk community, and talk about your experience
• Request features and gets help integrating Clerk from the team and community.

Clerk Twitter

Our Twitter account (@clerkdev) announces the latest features and improvements. We would also be psyched if you tagged us in projects you have built.

This week Clerk has been focusing on improvements to our documentation, bug fixes, and iterating on our Organization components.

Organization Components improvements

Our organization components were released just last week, and we received a lot of great feedback from our users. We fixed some bugs and made improvements to the appearance and localization props.

Next.js app directory beta updates

Clerk has been working hard on our app directory beta. One of the most significant changes this week is it is now rolled into the latest production package. We also updated our documentation to reflect this, which you can read here.

TRPC + Clerk

We introduced documentation for alternative backends, starting with TRPC. I am a massive fan of TRPC and its end-to-end type safety.

If you are thinking about checking out Clerk and love TRPC, we now have documentation on how to integrate them.

If you want to see everything in action, check out the clerk-trpc-minimal repository.

Community highlight

A special thanks to Molo Tech Lab for their amazing project JSON translator that allowed the team to translate our components into French and German. This project is open source, free, and under the MIT license.

Thanks to our customer Finary for showing us this cool project.

This week, Clerk launched a new suite of components to help B2B SaaS companies manage their business customers. They are built in the same declarative style as our user-focused <SignUp/>, <SignIn/>, <UserProfile/>, and <UserButton/> components.

The new B2B SaaS components are 100% opt-in, and do not change anything about using Clerk for User management.

<CreateOrganization/>

The <CreateOrganization/> component allow users to create an Organization within your application. It starts by asking for a name and logo, then proceeds to prompt for which other users should be invited.

<OrganizationProfile/>

After an organization is created, the <OrganizationProfile/> component allows users to manage member roles, invite new members, remove members, and maintain profile information.

<OrganizationSwitcher/>

The <OrganizationSwitcher/> is a corollary to the <UserButton/>. Intended to go in an application's header, it allows users with multiple organizations to select which organization is active, or to create a new organization.

useOrganization()

The useOrganization() hook allows developers to retrieve the active organization from anywhere in the React application.

JWT updates

Tying it all together, the Auth object available in your backend is now populated with the active organization ID, and the current user's role in that organization.

To ensure security, this information is passed to your backend via the same cryptographically signed JWT that contains the current user's ID.

Demo at Modern Frontends Live

This week, I will be demoing the new B2B SaaS features at Modern Frontends Live in London. I hope to see you there!

Can't make it but still want to tune in? The talk will also be available to virtual attendees.