Stable egress IP addresses on Azure (Preview)
Stable egress IP addresses are now available in preview on Azure. You can generate Snowflake egress IP address ranges (as CIDR addresses) and add them to an external server's allowlist so that Snowflake can make requests to that server.
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BigQuery data governance tags are supported in Terraform
BigQuery data governance tags are supported in Terraform. This feature is in Preview .
LTAP Direct Writes accelerates synced table loads (Beta)
LTAP Direct Writes speeds up how synced tables load into Lakebase. When you create a synced table, Lakebase loads a full copy of your Unity Catalog data into your Postgres branch.
The Genie One desktop app for macOS is in Beta
The Genie One desktop app is now in Beta . The native macOS app opens Genie One on your desktop instead of in a browser tab, so business users can chat with data in natural language, work with their threads and documents, and use Genie Agents without a browser. See Use Genie One on desktop .
Anysphere Audit Logs connector (Beta)
The Anysphere Audit Logs connector is now available in Lakeflow Connect in Beta . Workspace admins can control access to this feature from the Previews page. The connector uses the Anysphere (Cursor) Admin API to incrementally ingest team audit-log events into Databricks. Authentication uses a Cursor Admin API key. See Anysphere Audit Logs connector .
ai_prep_search supports plain text and markdown input (Beta)
The ai_prep_search() SQL function now accepts plain text and markdown STRING content in addition to the structured VARIANT output of ai_parse_document . You can now chunk and prepare text that you already have as a string for AI Search indexing and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, without first running it through document parsing.
General availability: Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC)
BYOC is now generally available and recommended for production usage on the Enterprise plan, across AWS, GCP, and Azure. BYOC runs the Pinecone data plane inside your own cloud account, so your vectors, metadata, and queries stay in your environment.
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Remote Development with the Snowflake Extension for Visual Studio Code (Preview)
Remote Development with the Snowflake Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available in public preview.
Organization user types (General availability)
With this release, you can specify whether an organization user represents a person or a service. Set the TYPE property to SERVICE for a service or application that interacts with Snowflake without human interaction. If you don't specify a type, the organization user is a PERSON user, which matches the previous behavior.
Semantic Studio (Preview)
Semantic Studio is now available in public preview for all accounts. Semantic Studio is the authoring environment for semantic views in Workspaces, combining conversational authoring with CoCo, direct YAML editing, and deployment to the live Snowflake object in a single surface.
Improved data freshness for ORGANIZATION_USAGE premium views
With this release, Snowflake has improved data freshness for most premium views in the ORGANIZATION_USAGE schema. Typical data latency is now under 3 hours. Many of these views previously had a latency of up to 24 hours.
Increased file limit for deployed dbt project objects
A dbt project object on Snowflake can now include up to 100,000 files (up from 20,000). This limit counts every file in the project directory and its subdirectories, including the models/ folder and generated folders such as target/ , dbt_packages/ , and logs/ .
Snowflake Data Clean Rooms updates
The following updates are now available in Snowflake Data Clean Rooms:
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.
Data movement policies (General availability)
With this release, data movement policies are now generally available for Enterprise Edition (or higher). Data movement policies are part of Snowflake’s data exfiltration protection controls. These SQL-style conditional policies can help you limit, alert on, or block data movement operations based on specific movement types.