Releasesby GlyphAccess externally managed Apache Iceberg™ tables through Snowflake Horizon Catalog (General availability)
Access to externally managed Apache Iceberg™ tables through Snowflake Horizon Catalog is now generally available.
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Monte Carlo's Terraform provider is now on the OpenTofu registry
Monte Carlo has published its Terraform provider and agent modules to the OpenTofu registry, enabling users to manage Monte Carlo infrastructure as code using OpenTofu.
REST API v2 (Public preview): onboard Monte Carlo from your AI tool, Terraform or a script
Monte Carlo's REST API v2 is now in public preview, enabling automated onboarding and deployment of collection agents via scripts, Terraform, or AI tools.
Gemini-powered Explore summaries in Looker are generally available
The ability to generate summaries of Looker Explores using Gemini assistance is now generally available.
Dashboard relationships are now generally available
Dashboard relationships, which enable multi-fact data models in AI/BI dashboards, are now generally available.
Looker bullet chart visualization is generally available
The bullet chart visualization type is now generally available in Looker, allowing users to evaluate metric performance against targets and thresholds.
Xero connector is available in Beta
The managed Xero connector is now available in beta for Databricks Lakeflow Connect, supporting incremental ingestion of accounting data.
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Horizon Iceberg REST Catalog telemetry (General availability)
With this release, Horizon Iceberg REST Catalog telemetry is generally available. Snowflake can capture the HTTP requests that external query engines make against the Horizon Iceberg REST Catalog APIs and write them to your account event table.
Carry over comments, tags, and privileges with COPY = ( ... )
The COPY = ( ... ) parameter for CREATE OR REPLACE statements names the kinds of metadata to carry over from the object being replaced onto its replacement, so you don't need to restate it.
Trust Center, Data Security scanner package (General availability)
Snowflake's Data Security scanner package is now generally available, providing insights into unauthorized or anomalous data movement.
Snowflake-provided tags (General availability)
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.
Sensitive data classification error and retry updates
With this release, sensitive data classification provides more specific error messages when automatic classification fails.
Horizon Context (Preview)
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.
Snowsight interface for tags and data protection policies (General availability)
With this release, the Snowsight interface for tags and data protection policies is generally available. These areas require Enterprise Edition or higher .
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.