Releasesby GlyphImproved session consistency for Headless Browser
Headless Browser sessions have been improved to stay more consistent while accessing the targeted sites, instead of regenerating it between requests.
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Access externally managed Apache Iceberg™ tables through Snowflake Horizon Catalog (Preview)
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.
Power BI ingestion for Semantic View Autopilot (General availability)
Power BI ingestion for Semantic View Autopilot is now generally available. You can upload a .pbit or .pbix file to Semantic View Autopilot and have a semantic view created automatically from your existing data model, preserving the DAX measures, table relationships, and column descriptions you’ve already built in Power BI and making them available to Cortex...
User skills in Snowflake CoWork (Preview)
User skills are now available in public preview in Snowflake CoWork. Business users can create reusable workflows conversationally, from the UI ( + menu > Skills > Create new ), or by uploading a skill folder on Capabilities > Skills , then run them explicitly with / or from the Skills menus, or implicitly when a conversation matches the skill.
CodeMender updates (v0.4.0): Model support
This release introduces updates to CodeMender: Gemini 3 Flash removal : Gemini 3 Flash ( gemini-3-flash-preview ) is no longer supported as a model backend for CodeMender. CodeMender supports Gemini 3.5 Flash (default) and Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview. For more information, see Specifying the model .
Gemini Enterprise: Google Sites federated connector (GA)
The Google Sites federated connector is generally available (GA) on Gemini Enterprise. You can use the Gemini Enterprise app assistant to search across internal company websites, team sites, intranets, project hubs, and informational pages hosted on Google Sites, and get answers grounded in that content without needing to ingest the data.
Gemini Enterprise: Gemini 3.6 Flash available in US and EU multi-regions
Gemini 3.6 Flash is generally available in the us and eu multi-regions, and an allowlist is no longer required to use Gemini 3.6 Flash in the us multi-region. To make Gemini 3.6 Flash available to users in the Gemini Enterprise app, administrators must turn on the Gemini 3.6 Flash feature toggle in the Google Cloud console.
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Google Books dedicated parser
A dedicated Google Books parser is now available through the google_search source using the tbm=bks parameter with parse set to true to receive structured book data in JSON format.
Enhanced parsing for Google search news
Parsed output from the google_search source now returns more detailed data for the additional news component by using "parse": true , which appears in searches using the tbm=nws parameter.
Granular parsed results for Google Travel: Hotels
google_travel_hotels source now returns a more detailed offers field when parse is set to true, with additional hotel-offer details in every parsed response.
YouTube Downloader audio parameter
YouTube Downloader now accepts an optional audio_language parameter for selecting the audio track: original – the creator's original audio trackdefault – the audio track YouTube selects (may be dubbed).
New proxy locations
New locations have been added across multiple self-service proxy products: Dedicated Datacenter Proxies: Croatia, Romania, Malaysia, Philippines, BulgariaDatacenter Proxies (pay per GB): FinlandDatacenter Proxies (pay per IP): Croatia, Finland, PhilippinesDedicated ISP Proxies: Belgium, Romania, Brazil, ColombiaISP Proxies: Romania, Brazil, Colombia
Increased prompt limit for Google AI Mode
The maximum prompt length for Google AI Mode source requests has increased from 4,000 to 8,000 characters.
Custom browser instructions for LLM sources
LLM sources now support custom browser instructions, allowing you to define actions (e.g., clicks, scrolls, waits) to control page behavior before content is extracted.
Custom parser for Home Depot data
A dedicated parser for Home Depot product pages is now available through the universal scraping source. Enable parsing on your request to receive structured product data (such as title, price, availability, and specifications) instead of raw HTML.