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Workload identity federation for Snowflake workloads that access external services (General availability)

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Snowflake can now act as the OpenID Connect (OIDC) provider when Snowflake workloads authenticate to external services. To use this capability, create a secret of type WORKLOAD_IDENTITY_FEDERATION and share its issuer URL and subject identifier with the external service to establish trust.

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Veeva Vault connector (Beta)

The Veeva Vault connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta . Workspace admins can control access to this feature from the Previews page. The connector uses Veeva's Direct Data API to ingest all standard objects, custom objects, system tables, and audit trail tables from your Vault instance into Databricks.

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MySQL integrated CDC pipeline is now in Beta

The integrated CDC pipeline for MySQL is now in Beta . An integrated CDC pipeline ingests change data from MySQL into Databricks using a single pipeline, combining extraction and application into one pipeline update. Unlike the standard gateway-based architecture, an integrated CDC pipeline requires no separate ingestion gateway.

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Snowflake Container Runtime version 2.7

Snowflake Container Runtime CPU and GPU version 2.7 is now available. This release includes the following changes: For the full package lists and details, see Snowflake Container Runtime release notes .

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Snowflake Data Clean Rooms updates

Clean room UI users: New updates are applied to the UI automatically when a user starts a new session after a new update is deployed. To ensure new updates are applied, make sure to log out and log back into the UI. Clean room API users: API updates are applied either manually or automatically to an account. Learn how to manage updates for Data Clean Rooms.

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VARIANT data type on Delta Direct tables (General availability)

With this release, Snowflake supports the VARIANT data type on Iceberg tables created from Delta table files in object storage (Delta Direct). When your Delta tables include variant columns, Snowflake maps them to the Snowflake VARIANT data type. You can query semi-structured data using VARIANT functions and dot or bracket notation.

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Analytical search (Public Preview)

Analytical search, an orchestration capability in Cortex Agents that enables analytical queries over large document collections, is now in Public Preview. Traditional retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) approaches retrieve a small number of passages, which limits their ability to answer questions requiring comprehensive analysis, such as counts...

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Dynamic Iceberg table replication (General availability)

Snowflake now supports replication of dynamic Iceberg tables as part of replication and failover groups. Previously, dynamic Iceberg tables were skipped during replication refresh operations. For more information, see Configure replication for Snowflake-managed Iceberg tables .

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Domain verification (General availability)

With this release, we are pleased to announce the general availability of domain verification. Domain verification lets an account administrator prove ownership of an email domain by publishing a DNS TXT record.

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Snowflake Data Clean Rooms updates

Clean room UI users: New updates are applied to the UI automatically when a user starts a new session after a new update is deployed. To ensure new updates are applied, make sure to log out and log back into the UI. Clean room API users: API updates are applied either manually or automatically to an account. Learn how to manage updates for Data Clean Rooms.

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