Releasesby GlyphDomain 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.
Also shipped Jul 5, 2026Snowflake in July 2026 →
- Added: Managed Service for Soperator now supports ephemeral nodes
- Added: Managed Service for Soperator now supports ephemeral nodes . You can release specific worker nodes from a Soperator cluster and reuse the same capacity block group for inference workloads in a separate Managed Service for Kubernetes® cluster, without taking down the entire Soperator cluster.
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Deep Research in Snowflake CoWork is now generally available. Deep Research is an investigation mode for complex, open-ended questions that require multi-step reasoning across your data.
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 .
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.
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.
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.
Workload identity federation for Snowflake workloads that access external services (General availability)
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.
Online Feature Store (Public Preview)
Online Feature Store is now available in public preview. Serve the latest feature values with low-latency online retrieval backed by Snowflake Postgres for real-time ML applications such as fraud detection, recommendations, and personalization.
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...