Releasesby GlyphAnthropic Claude Sonnet 5.5 model (Preview)
The claude-sonnet-5-5 model is now available in Public Preview in Cortex AI Functions and the Cortex REST API.
DCM Projects ATTACH MASKING POLICY (Preview)
With this Public Preview release, you can use ATTACH MASKING POLICY in DCM Projects definition files to declaratively assign a masking policy to one or more columns in tables, Apache Iceberg™ tables, views, or dynamic tables. DCM Projects manages the masking policy attachment throughout its deployment lifecycle.
DCM Projects DEFINE SEMANTIC VIEW (General availability)
With this release, DEFINE SEMANTIC VIEW in DCM Projects is generally available. You can declaratively manage semantic view definitions, including tables, relationships, facts, dimensions, metrics, AI instructions, and verified queries.
Response caching for Cortex AI Functions
Snowflake Cortex AI Functions now automatically caches and reuses the results of AI_COMPLETE calls. When a query makes an identical AI_COMPLETE call more than once, Snowflake can return the stored result instead of running inference again, which lowers cost and speeds up query execution.
Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5.5 model (Preview)
The claude-sonnet-5-5 model is now available in Public Preview in Cortex AI Functions and the Cortex REST API.
CoCo Desktop v1.21.6
CoCo Desktop v1.21.6 refines everyday chat controls and shores up connectivity:
OpenAI GPT-5.6 and GPT-6 Astra models (General availability)
The following OpenAI models are now generally available in Cortex Inference:
CHECK constraints on hybrid tables (General availability)
With this release, hybrid tables support CHECK constraints . Previously, CHECK constraints were limited to standard tables and Snowflake-managed Iceberg tables, so a hybrid table workload had to enforce value-level rules in application code.
Programmatic notifications for Trust Center findings (Preview)
You can send Trust Center findings to enterprise ticketing and monitoring systems without waiting in Snowsight or email. Configure a notification integration for a webhook or queue, such as PagerDuty, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Amazon SNS, Azure Event Grid, or Google Pub/Sub, and Snowflake delivers findings that meet your severity threshold to that endpoint.
Account posture reporting in the Trust Center (Preview)
With this preview release, the Overview tab in the Trust Center includes an Account posture section. This section aggregates Trust Center monitoring activity for your account over a period that you select, showing scanning status, open findings, and at-risk entities.
Container runtime for Streamlit apps in Snowflake Native Apps (Preview)
Providers can now run a Streamlit app inside a Snowflake Native App on a container runtime, in preview. The Streamlit app runs as a Snowpark Container Services service on a compute pool that the app creates and owns in the consumer account rather than on a virtual warehouse.
Non-deterministic aggregate functions are supported with dynamic table incremental refresh (General availability)
Non-deterministic aggregate functions such as approx count distinct , approx percentile , and approx top k are now supported with dynamic table incremental refresh in INCREMENTAL, AUTO, and ADAPTIVE refresh modes. For incremental refresh, these functions are supported only in the SELECT clause. any value remains unsupported.
Improved data freshness for selected ORGANIZATION_USAGE history views
With this release, Snowflake has improved data freshness for the following premium views in the ORGANIZATION_USAGE schema. Typical data latency for these views is now under 15 minutes:
Cortex AI Function Evaluation for measuring quality (Public Preview)
Snowflake Cortex AI Function Evaluation is now available in public preview, enabling customers to measure the output quality, cost, and token usage of custom AI Functions and Cortex AI calls against labeled datasets.
Apache Iceberg™ tables: Partition evolution (General availability)
With this release, we're pleased to announce the general availability of partition evolution for Snowflake-managed Iceberg tables. You can now change a table's partition specification after you create the table by adding, dropping, or replacing partition fields, without rewriting existing data.
HTML generation in Snowflake CoWork (Preview)
HTML generation is now available in preview as part of document generation in Snowflake CoWork. You can ask Snowflake CoWork to generate an HTML file from your analysis, the same way you generate a PDF or PowerPoint. Generation requires the Cortex Agent code execution tool on the associated agent.
Snowpark Container Services backup instance types (General availability)
Backup instance types for Snowpark Container Services compute pools are now generally available and are no longer in Preview .
Cortex Agents object enhancements (General availability)
The following Cortex Agents object enhancements are now generally available:
Include and exclude per-user quota users by name (General availability)
Per-user quotas now accept individual user names, so you can add or remove specific users alongside the quota's tag scope. INCLUDE_USERS is new and takes user names directly, and EXCLUDE_USERS accepts a 'USER' argument alongside its existing 'TAG' form:
CoCo Desktop v1.21.5
CoCo Desktop v1.21.5 is a small quality release on top of v1.21.4, focused on error messages that tell you what to do next:
Cortex AI Gateway (Preview)
We are pleased to announce the preview of Cortex AI Gateway, the control plane where you govern how AI applications and third-party agents in your organization reach models.
Elastic Channels for Snowpipe Streaming (General availability)
Elastic Channels for Snowpipe Streaming are now generally available. Elastic Channels provide one implicit, server-scaled ingestion path per pipe, so concurrent producers can stream directly to Snowflake tables and supported Snowflake-managed Iceberg tables without managing channel names, lifecycle, ordering, or offset tokens.
Horizon Catalog Explorer UI (Preview)
With this release, the Horizon Catalog Explorer is the default experience for browsing Snowflake objects in Snowsight, replacing Database Explorer. The Horizon Catalog Explorer provides consistent navigation and object detail pages while preserving the tabs and actions that you already use.
Zero-copy support for all table formats in interactive warehouses (General availability)
Support for all table formats in interactive warehouses is now generally available and is no longer in Preview .
Multimodal AI_SUMMARIZE for automatic theme summarization (Public Preview)
Snowflake Cortex AI_SUMMARIZE is now available in public preview, enabling customers to summarize text and multimodal content, including images and documents, directly in Snowflake.
Automations in Snowflake CoWork (General availability)
Automations in Snowflake CoWork are now generally available. An automation turns a one-time report into a recurring one: Snowflake CoWork re-runs your question with fresh data on the schedule you choose and emails you the results, including a summary and key metrics, along with a link that opens the full report so you can ask follow-up questions.
Second generation Openflow deployments and runtimes now available on GCP
Second generation (gen 2) Openflow deployment and runtime SQL objects are now available on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), in addition to AWS and Azure. Previously, gen 2 deployment and runtime SQL objects were generally available only on AWS and Azure.
CoCo Desktop v1.21.4
CoCo Desktop v1.21.4 is a polish and reliability release on top of v1.21.3:
External secret providers (Preview)
External secret providers are now in preview. If your organization already keeps API keys, database passwords, and similar values in AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, or Google Cloud Secret Manager, Snowflake can read those values when a query needs them, so you don't have to maintain a second copy in a Snowflake secret .
Iceberg Scan Plan API in Horizon Catalog (Public Preview)
Public Preview release of Iceberg Scan Plan API in Horizon Catalog to enforce data protection policies.
Openflow gen 1 deployment creation retired
You can no longer create new first generation (gen 1) Openflow deployments (BYOC or Snowflake). All new deployments are second generation (gen 2), created with CREATE OPENFLOW DEPLOYMENT or the Openflow UI. Existing gen 1 deployments continue to work unchanged, and you can still create new gen 1 runtimes on an existing gen 1 deployment.
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Add and drop hybrid table constraints online (General availability)
With this release, you can add and drop UNIQUE and FOREIGN KEY constraints on an existing hybrid table by using alter table . Previously, you had to define these constraints when you created the table, so adding a foreign key to a table that was already serving a workload meant recreating and reloading the table.
SAS to Snowflake migration (Preview)
The Snowflake AIM Agent for Data Warehouses now supports migrating SAS workloads to Snowflake. This capability covers AI-assisted assessment of SAS codebases and AI-based code conversion of SAS programs to Snowflake SQL, including loading SAS dataset files ( .sas7bdat ) into Snowflake tables.
External lineage (General availability)
External lineage is now generally available and is no longer in Preview .
Restricted Session Scope for agents (General availability)
With this release, Restricted Session Scope (RSS) is generally available. An RSS is a privilege ceiling that limits what an agent can do on behalf of a user. It intersects with RBAC and never grants privileges the user doesn't already have through their roles.
Snowflake Data Clean Rooms updates
The following updates are now available in Snowflake Data Clean Rooms:
Openflow Connector for Jira Cloud: Core flow (General availability)
The Atlassian Jira Cloud (Core) flow is now generally available. The flow ingests Jira Cloud issues, projects, users, and related data into dedicated Snowflake tables with explicit schemas. It supports optional deletion tracking and parallel ingestion across projects. The Atlassian Jira Cloud (Agile) flow remains in Public Preview .
Data lineage for Cortex Agents
You can now use data lineage to see which data a Cortex Agent can reach through the tools declared in its specification. A semantic view that a Cortex Analyst tool references, and a Cortex Search service that a Cortex Search tool references, both appear upstream of the agent.
Data lineage for streams
You can now see streams on Snowflake data lineage graphs.
Snowflake App Runtime (General availability)
Snowflake App Runtime is now generally available and is no longer in Preview .
Snowflake Native Apps: Code execution tools for Cortex Agents
Providers can now add the code_execution and code_toolset_all sandbox tools to Cortex Agents created by a Snowflake Native App.