Releasesby GlyphTag-based data protection policies (Public Preview)
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.
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Warehouse-level statement timeouts (Beta)
You can now set a statement timeout on a single SQL warehouse so that different warehouses can apply different timeouts to their queries. Set the timeout with the statement_timeout field in the Create or Update warehouse APIs. This feature is in Beta and is API-only. See Warehouse-level timeout .
Reddit Ads connector is now available in Beta
The managed Reddit Ads connector in Lakeflow Connect is now available in Beta. You can use the connector to ingest advertising campaign data and performance metrics from Reddit Ads into Databricks. See Reddit Ads connector .
Context-based ingress control for workspaces public access is now generally available
Context-based ingress control for workspaces public access is now generally available. Control who can reach your workspace endpoints using allow and deny rules that allow you to combine identities, network sources, and request types. See Context-based ingress control .
Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite are generally available (GA)
Gemini 3.6 Flash and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite are now generally available (GA) and available for production use. These models are designed to improve upon their predecessors' capabilities, including improved token usage and improved document understanding. See the linked model information pages for more information.
CodeMender available in Public Preview
CodeMender is now available in Preview . CodeMender is an AI code security agent that can find, verify, and fix deep vulnerabilities in your codebase. CodeMender wraps a fine-tuned harness around a large language model (LLM), using Google DeepMind-engineered prompts, skills, and orchestration logic to turn the model into an agentic system specialized in...
Open model endpoint deprecations
The following open model endpoints are deprecated and will be retired on October 21, 2026. For more information, see Open model deprecations . deepseek-ocr-maas deepseek-r1-0528-maas deepseek-v3.2-maas deepseek-v3.1-maas glm-5-maas glm-4.7-maas gpt-oss-20b-maas kimi-k2-thinking-maas llama-3.3-70b-instruct-maas minimax-m2-maas...
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Consuming Delta Shares in Horizon Catalog (General availability)
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.
Trust Center AI Security scanner package and tab (General availability)
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.
Metadata-based sensitive data classification recommendations (Public Preview)
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.
Trust Center violation findings remediation (General availability)
The following Trust Center findings remediation capabilities are now generally available:
AI mode for sensitive data classification (Public Preview)
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.
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.
Multi-value tags (General availability)
With this release, multi-value tags are generally available. You can assign more than one string value to the same tag.
Snowflake-provided tags (Public Preview)
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.