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With this release, you can read and write Apache Iceberg™ tables managed by another Snowflake account without creating, storing, or rotating secrets. This capability is generally available through catalog integrations for Snowflake Horizon Catalog. The accounts access the same table data without copying it.
Horizon Iceberg REST Catalog telemetry is generally available, logging external query engine HTTP API calls to Snowflake account event tables.
The new COPY = ( ... ) parameter for CREATE OR REPLACE statements allows users to automatically carry over comments, tags, and privileges from an existing object to its replacement.
With this preview release, Autopilot is available for sensitive data classification. Autopilot lets Snowflake manage classification timing, reclassification schedules, and minimum object age to optimize performance and cost.
With this release, Snowflake-provided tags are generally available. These out-of-the-box tags in the SNOWFLAKE.TAGS schema give you a consistent vocabulary for common governance use cases, including cost center, certification status, sensitivity, environment, and project, without creating and maintaining equivalent tags in each account.
With this release, sensitive data classification provides more specific error messages when automatic classification fails.
We're introducing Horizon Context in preview. Horizon Context extends Horizon Catalog with metadata from external systems and new ways to curate descriptions and preserve lineage, helping people and AI agents discover and understand data across your organization.
With this release, the Snowsight interface for tags and data protection policies is generally available. These areas require Enterprise Edition or higher .
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.
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.
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.
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.
Public Preview release of Iceberg Scan Plan API in Horizon Catalog to enforce data protection policies.
Secure by default is available only for accounts on Business Critical Edition or Virtual Private Snowflake (VPS) with a capacity contract.
External lineage is now generally available and is no longer in Preview .
You can now see streams on Snowflake data lineage graphs.
With this preview release, Snowflake-provided tags are available in every account. These out of the box tags in the SNOWFLAKE.TAGS schema give you a consistent vocabulary for common governance use cases, including cost center, certification status, sensitivity, environment, and project, without creating and maintaining equivalent tags in each account.
With this release, multi-value tags are generally available. You can assign more than one string value to the same tag.
You can now use the Horizon Iceberg REST Catalog (IRC) API to access externally managed Apache Iceberg™ tables in a catalog-linked database from external engines such as Apache Spark™, Trino, DuckDB, or PyIceberg.
Sensitive data classification now supports AI mode in public preview. When you enable AI mode on a classification profile, Snowflake uses the OpenAI GPT-5 Mini model to identify additional semantic categories beyond those detected by standard classification, which can improve accuracy.
The following Trust Center findings remediation capabilities are now generally available:
The AI Security scanner package and the AI Security tab in the Trust Center are now generally available. Use them to monitor AI-related configurations and usage in your account, and to review the security posture of AI workloads that use Cortex Agents, Snowflake CoWork, or Cortex Code from a single dashboard.
Tag-based policy support is now available in public preview for aggregation policies, row access policies, projection policies, and join policies. This feature allows you to assign data protection policies to tags, automatically protecting any objects that have the tag assigned to them.
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.
Governance, tags, policies, lineage and the Trust Center.
Other Snowflake products: Cortex Code, Snowflake, Snowflake Cortex AI, Snowflake Native Apps and Marketplace, Snowflake Openflow
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