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Snowflake, September 2026 new features

45 releases · 6 products · 21 GA · 11 Preview · 1 Deprecation

Aug 2026
DateRelease
Sep 24DCM Projects capability updatesunverified
SnowflakeGA
Sep 23Non-deterministic aggregate functions are supported with dynamic table incremental refresh (General availability)unverified
SnowflakeGA
Sep 21Cortex AI Function Evaluation for measuring quality (Public Preview)
Snowflake Cortex AIPreview
Sep 21Cortex AI Function Optimization for more efficient AI implementations (Public Preview)
Snowflake Cortex AIPreview
Sep 21Cortex Agents Compact API (Preview)
Snowflake Cortex AIPreview
Sep 18Apache Iceberg™ tables: Partition evolution (General availability)
SnowflakeGA
Sep 18Database roles in backups
SnowflakeUpdate
Sep 17HTML generation in Snowflake CoWork (Preview)
SnowflakePreview
Sep 17Snowpark Container Services backup instance types (General availability)
Snowflake Native Apps and MarketplaceGA
Sep 16CoCo Desktop v1.21.5
Cortex CodeUpdate
Sep 16Cortex Agents object enhancements (General availability)
Snowflake Cortex AIGA
Sep 16Include and exclude per-user quota users by name (General availability)
SnowflakeGA
Sep 16Weekly per-user quota limits (General availability)
SnowflakeGA
Sep 15Cortex AI Gateway (Preview)
Snowflake Cortex AIPreview
Sep 15Elastic Channels for Snowpipe Streaming (General availability)
SnowflakeGA
Sep 15Embedding Streamlit in Snowflake apps in external pages (General availability)
Snowflake Cortex AIGA
Sep 15Horizon Catalog Explorer UI (Preview)
Snowflake Horizon CatalogPreview
Sep 15Predict dynamic table refresh behavior with EXPLAIN CHANGES (General availability)
SnowflakeGA
Sep 14Catalog-linked databases: Write support for nested namespaces
SnowflakeUpdate
Sep 14Multimodal AI_SUMMARIZE for automatic theme summarization (Public Preview)
Snowflake Cortex AIPreview
Sep 14Zero-copy support for all table formats in interactive warehouses (General availability)
SnowflakeGA
Sep 11Automations in Snowflake CoWork (General availability)
SnowflakeGA
Sep 11CoCo Desktop v1.21.4
Cortex CodeUpdate
Sep 11Second generation Openflow deployments and runtimes now available on GCP
Snowflake OpenflowGA
Sep 10External secret providers (Preview)
SnowflakePreview
Sep 10Iceberg Scan Plan API in Horizon Catalog (Public Preview)
Snowflake Horizon CatalogPreview
Sep 10Inherited grants and container-level MANAGE GRANTS (General availability)
SnowflakeGA
Sep 10Snowflake Data Clean Rooms updates
SnowflakeUpdate
Sep 10Using dbt artifacts for Slim CI and defer to production in dbt Projects on Snowflake (General availability)
SnowflakeGA
Sep 9Openflow gen 1 deployment creation retired
Snowflake OpenflowDeprecation
Sep 8Add and drop hybrid table constraints online (General availability)
SnowflakeGA
Sep 8CoCo Desktop v1.21.3
Cortex CodeUpdate
Sep 8Second generation Openflow deployments and runtimes (General availability)
Snowflake OpenflowGA
Sep 8Shadow traffic for gateways (Preview)
SnowflakePreview
Sep 8Trust Center, secure by default approach for scanner package enablement
Snowflake Horizon CatalogUpdate
Sep 4Prompt injection guardrails now available in AWS_EU, AWS_JP, and AWS_APJ
SnowflakeUpdate
Sep 4SAS to Snowflake migration (Preview)
SnowflakePreview
Sep 3External lineage (General availability)
Snowflake Horizon CatalogGA
Sep 3Restricted Session Scope for agents (General availability)
Snowflake Cortex AIGA
Sep 3Snowflake Data Clean Rooms updates
SnowflakeUpdate
Sep 2Data lineage for Cortex Agents
Snowflake Cortex AIUpdate
Sep 2Data lineage for streams
Snowflake Horizon CatalogUpdate
Sep 2Openflow Connector for Jira Cloud: Core flow (General availability)
Snowflake OpenflowGA
Sep 1Snowflake App Runtime (General availability)
SnowflakeGA
Sep 1Snowflake Native Apps: Code execution tools for Cortex Agents
Snowflake Cortex AIUpdate

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