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title: Basic Usage
description: Getting started with Better Auth
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## v1.0 date=Nov 22, 2024

The first stable release of Better Auth is now available!

[Read the release notes](https://better-auth.com/v1).

## v0.6.0 date=Oct 26, 2024

- Email OTP Plugin
- Optimized Database Queries (huge improvements)
- Manual Account linking
- Dropbox SSO
- LinkedIn SSO
- Improved two-factor flow
- Add search for admin plugin
- Cookie based session Cache
- Support additional fields on user update
- Better Express integration

See [release notes](https://github.com/better-auth/better-auth/releases/tag/v0.6.0) for full list of changes.

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🚧 We are still in beta and we don't recommend using better-auth in production. V1 should be out by November 22.
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## v0.5.0 date=Oct 18, 2024

Multi Session Plugin, JWT & JWKS Plugin, Change Email Flow, SSR support for Nuxt, CF Workers compatibility, and many more.

### Features & Changes

- Multi Session Plugin
- JWT & JWKS Plugin
- Change Email Flow
- CF Workers compatibility
- Add support for custom id
- Support useSession ssr for Nuxt
- Moved the CLI to a separate package `@better-auth/cli`

See [release notes](https://github.com/better-auth/better-auth/releases/tag/v0.5.0) for full list of changes.

## v0.4.0  date=Oct 11, 2024

Admin Plugin, Microsoft SSO, Typed Additional Fields on core tables, Secondary storage and many more.

### Features & Changes

- Admin Plugin
- Generic OAuth Plugin
- Add support for typed additional fields on core tables
- Custom field names for core tables
- Secondary storage
- Add support for Kysely instance as a database
- Microsoft SSO

See [release notes](https://github.com/better-auth/better-auth/releases/tag/v0.4.0) for full list of changes.

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🚧 We are still in beta and we don't recommend using better-auth in production just yet
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## v0.3.0 date=Oct 4, 2024

Database Schema Generation, Phone Number Plugin, Anonymous Plugin, Better type Inference, Custom table names, and many more.

### Features & Changes

- Database Schema Generation
- Phone Number Plugin
- Anonymous Plugin
- Better type Inference
- User Delete API
- Custom table/model names
- Removed flat db config
- New core table for verification use cases
- Moved passkey challenge keys to be stored on db
- Many bug fixes and improvements

See [release notes](https://github.com/better-auth/better-auth/releases/tag/v0.3.0) for full list of changes.

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🚧 We are still in beta and we don't recommend using better-auth in production just yet.
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## v0.2.0 date=Oct 4, 2024

We have added support for database adapters including Prisma, Drizzle, and MongoDB, along with other changes.

### Changes

- Database adapters support including Prisma, Drizzle, and MongoDB
- Database hooks
- Cross-domain cookies
- onRequest and onResponse plugin hooks
- Init interface for plugins

See [Changelog](https://github.com/better-auth/better-auth/releases/tag/v0.2.0) for full list of changes.

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🚧 We are still in beta and we don't recommend using better-auth in production just yet.
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## Beta Release date=Oct 4, 2024

The first beta release of better-auth is now available!

### Features

- Multiple framework support
- Email & Password Authentication
- OAuth Authentication
- Account & Session Management
- Rate Limiting
- Multiple Plugins
- Migration CLI
- And more...