Snowflake Cortex AI_TRANSCRIBE now supports M4A audio files and MOV (QuickTime) video files, including M4A audio encoded with Apple Lossless (ALAC). M4A and MOV are common across Apple devices, screen and video recording tools, and media production workflows, so you can now transcribe more of your existing recordings directly in Snowflake without converting...
With this release, Snowflake Notebooks in Workspaces gives you more visibility and control over the compute that runs your notebooks, both while you develop interactively and when you troubleshoot scheduled runs.
ADAPTIVE refresh mode for dynamic tables is now generally available. ADAPTIVE refresh uses incremental refresh by default but automatically reinitializes the dynamic table when internal heuristics detect that the volume of upstream changes makes an incremental refresh significantly more expensive than a full refresh.
The data quality monitoring dashboard is now available in public preview for Enterprise Edition accounts. The dashboard provides an account-wide view of data quality health in Snowsight.
AI code suggestions in Cortex Code are now generally available. This release also includes updated keybindings and bug fixes. Notebook Python cells , no changes to keybindings.
Snowflake Native App with Snowpark Container Services now support Virtual Private Snowflake (VPS) on Amazon Web Services. Apps with containers can be distributed to Snowflake customers in VPS deployments. Apps running in VPS can use the functionality of Snowpark Container Services, including compute pools, services, jobs, and external access integrations.
CoCo Desktop v1.20.2 fixes a Windows update crash, adds one-click sharing of skills and plugins, and includes a Restart menu item: This release also adds a clearer error when an app-launch command is missing. For more information, see Cortex Code Desktop v1.20.2 release notes .
With this preview release, AI_EXTRACT and AI_PARSE_DOCUMENT support documents stored on stages that use client-side or server-side encryption, including in accounts that use PrivateLink or other network policies that restrict public network access to stages. For more information, see the following topics:
Custom incremental dynamic tables are now generally available. For more information, see Custom incrementalization .
Skill and plugin sharing is now available in public preview. Share, discover, and govern CoCo skills and plugins across your Snowflake account. Publish them as Cortex Extension objects that teammates can find and install, with administrator certification, access control, and usage telemetry. For more information, see Share skills and plugins .
With this release, the SERVICE_AGENT user type is generally available. Use this user type for automated AI agents that interact with Snowflake using their own identity and privileges.
With this release, we are pleased to announce the general availability of the SHOW CORTEX BASE MODELS command. Use this command to list the Cortex Base Models available in your account, along with each model’s lifecycle status, regional availability, legacy date, and end-of-life date.
Two new hierarchical parameters let you bind MCP servers to your organization’s existing identity provider (IdP) and control which OAuth scopes MCP clients discover. This enables MCP clients such as Claude, Cursor, and ChatGPT to authenticate against your corporate IdP instead of Snowflake OAuth.
CoCo Desktop v1.20.0 focuses on a smoother, more reliable chat: This release also fixes a chat-memory crash during long editing sessions, stops plan cards from stacking up in the transcript, and corrects the Manage Connections radio buttons in light and dark themes. For more information, see Cortex Code Desktop v1.20.0 release notes .
CoCo Desktop is now generally available. CoCo Desktop is a native Mac and Windows desktop application that brings CoCo’s full agentic capabilities into an IDE-like surface, with a file editor, integrated terminal, agentic AI loop, agentic browser, agentic notebook, and deep Snowflake awareness.
Snowflake builds for interoperability. Horizon Catalog is the metadata hub for your entire data estate, giving every team a single, unified window into every data asset regardless of where it lives or what format it uses. Today we expand that commitment. Consuming Delta Shares as a Catalog Linked Database in Horizon Catalog is now generally available.
You can now set the VENDED_CREDENTIAL_STORAGE_REGION parameter on Google Cloud Storage-backed externally managed Iceberg tables that use catalog-vended credentials. Setting this parameter to your Google Cloud Storage bucket’s region can significantly improve query latency.
You can now use DML statements (INSERT, UPDATE, MERGE, DELETE) to modify rows directly in the frozen region of a dynamic table. This enables use cases such as GDPR-required row deletions or correcting specific records without triggering a full refresh of the active region. For more information, see DML into a frozen region .
CoCo Desktop added the following capabilities across releases v1.16.0 through v1.19.1: For more information, see and the CoCo Desktop release notes .
DCM Projects now supports the following capabilities in preview: For more information, see Supported object types in DCM Projects and Deploy and manage DCM Projects .
Consumer-controlled maintenance policies for Snowflake Native Apps are now generally available. Consumers can define when Snowflake Native App upgrades happen in their accounts by creating a maintenance policy and applying it to an account or an individual app. For more information, see Consumer-controlled maintenance policies .
Select Integrated SaaS listings now let you start a free trial of a provider’s application directly from a Marketplace listing. This experience replaces the trials previously offered through Snowflake Partner Connect and brings these trials into the Marketplace, where discovery, trial, and purchase all happen in one place.
Snowflake Cortex AI_TRANSCRIBE now supports AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) input, both as a standalone audio file and as the audio track inside a supported video file.
CREATE OR ALTER is now generally available for 24 object types. CREATE OR ALTER creates an object if it doesn’t exist, or modifies an existing object to match the statement definition. It’s especially useful in declarative deployment workflows and CI/CD pipelines where the same script must be safe to re-run.
You can now clone a dynamic Iceberg table to a new dynamic Iceberg table or to a Snowflake-managed Iceberg table. In addition, cloning a database or schema now includes any dynamic Iceberg tables it contains. Previously, dynamic Iceberg tables were silently skipped during database and schema clones. For more information, see Clone a dynamic Iceberg table .
Cloud capacity isn’t always guaranteed. When a compute pool’s instance type is unavailable, provisioning fails with an insufficient capacity error (ICE), leaving the pool unable to scale. Previously, resolving an ICE required manually switching the pool to a different instance type.
Online Feature Store is now available in public preview. Serve the latest feature values with low-latency online retrieval backed by Snowflake Postgres for real-time ML applications such as fraud detection, recommendations, and personalization.
Clean room UI users: New updates are applied to the UI automatically when a user starts a new session after a new update is deployed. To ensure new updates are applied, make sure to log out and log back into the UI. Clean room API users: API updates are applied either manually or automatically to an account. Learn how to manage updates for Data Clean Rooms.
Deep Research in Snowflake CoWork is now generally available. Deep Research is an investigation mode for complex, open-ended questions that require multi-step reasoning across your data.
Snowflake Cortex AI_TRANSLATE now supports translation of up to 100,000 input tokens, enabling organizations to translate large documents and long-form text directly in Snowflake.
With this release, we are pleased to announce the general availability of domain verification. Domain verification lets an account administrator prove ownership of an email domain by publishing a DNS TXT record.
Snowflake now supports resource budgets to control credit spending for Cortex Search services. Resource budgets let you define a monthly spending limit and take automated actions, such as revoking access or suspending the service, when spending exceeds your limits. For more information, see Resource budgets for Cortex Search .
Snowflake is rolling out metadata-based sensitive data classification recommendations in Snowsight to help you identify databases that are likely to contain sensitive data and enable classification with one click.
With this release, Snowflake supports the VARIANT data type on Iceberg tables created from Delta table files in object storage (Delta Direct). When your Delta tables include variant columns, Snowflake maps them to the Snowflake VARIANT data type. You can query semi-structured data using VARIANT functions and dot or bracket notation.
Snowflake can now act as the OpenID Connect (OIDC) provider when Snowflake workloads authenticate to external services. To use this capability, create a secret of type WORKLOAD_IDENTITY_FEDERATION and share its issuer URL and subject identifier with the external service to establish trust.
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