Releasesby IbisDocument generation in Snowflake CoWork (General availability)
GA2 days agoUnverifiedAdded Oct 16, 2026
Document generation in Snowflake CoWork is now generally available and is no longer in Preview . You can ask Snowflake CoWork to generate a PDF, a Word document ( .docx ), a PowerPoint presentation, or an HTML file from your analysis. Generation requires the Cortex Agent code execution tool on the associated agent.
Topics: AI agents
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The following updates are now available in Snowflake Data Clean Rooms:
Data mirroring for Snowflake Postgres (General availability)
Data mirroring for Snowflake Postgres is now generally available. Data mirroring continuously replicates tables from a Snowflake Postgres instance into a Snowflake database with minimal lag. Inserts, updates, deletes, and schema changes on the source appear on the target automatically, without ETL pipelines, batch jobs, or third-party connectors.
Named workload identity management for users
You can now use SQL to register, modify, and remove named workload identities for a service user. Each workload identity has its own name and provider settings. A user can have up to 10 workload identities by default.
Snowflake Data Clean Rooms updates
The following updates are now available in Snowflake Data Clean Rooms:
Stable egress IP addresses on Azure (General availability)
Stable egress IP addresses are now generally available on Azure and are no longer in Preview . 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.
Zero-copy integration for Workday Data Cloud (General availability)
The zero-copy integration between Workday Data Cloud and Snowflake is now generally available. You can query Workday Data Cloud tables directly from your existing Snowflake account, without ETL pipelines, data replication, or moving data out of Workday.
Kimi K3 model (Preview)
The kimi-k3 model is now available in Public Preview in AI Functions and the Cortex REST API.
WITH GRANT OPTION for role grants
You can now grant an account role or a database role to another role with WITH GRANT OPTION . The recipient role can grant that role to other roles, including with WITH GRANT OPTION . Use REVOKE GRANT OPTION FOR to remove only the grant option. The role grant stays in place, so the recipient still inherits the granted role’s privileges.
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The Apache Hive catalog endpoint in the Lakehouse runtime catalog is now generally available (GA)
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Metadata migration from Dataproc Metastore to Lakehouse is now generally available (GA)
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