Snowflake server release notes and feature updates¶
This topic lists the release notes for the most recent server releases and feature updates. For earlier releases and feature updates, see Server releases and feature updates earlier in 2026.
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Upcoming (or in progress) server releases¶
Recent server releases¶
For earlier server releases, see Server releases earlier in 2026.
Recent feature updates¶
- Feb 24, 2026: Enforcement of privatelink-only access (General availability)
- Feb 24, 2026: User-defined actions for budgets
- Feb 24, 2026: View invoices in Snowsight
- Feb 24, 2026: Snowflake Postgres (General availability)
- Feb 23, 2026: Simplified setup for Data Quality Monitoring
- Feb 23, 2026: Grouped Query History in Snowsight (General availability)
- Feb 20, 2026: Snowflake Native Apps: Configuration (Preview)
- USE AI FUNCTIONS account privilege for Cortex AI Functions
- Feb 19, 2026: Machine learning experiments (General availability)
- Feb 19, 2026: Snowflake Data Clean Rooms updates
- Feb 18, 2026: Snowflake Container Runtime versioning for ML Jobs (Preview)
- Feb 18, 2026: Account Usage New SNOWFLAKE_INTELLIGENCE_USAGE_HISTORY view (Preview)
- Feb 18, 2026: Account Usage New CORTEX_AGENT_USAGE_HISTORY view (Preview)
- Feb 18, 2026: Row timestamps for pipeline latency and event tracking (General availability)
- Feb 18, 2026: Support for changing refresh user and secondary roles
- Feb 17, 2026: Access history improvements
- Feb 16, 2026: Sharing Streamlit in Snowflake apps (Preview)
- Feb 13, 2026: Snowflake Native Apps: Inter-App Communication (Preview)
- Feb 13, 2026: Run Security Essentials scanners on demand
- Feb 12, 2026: Strong Authentication Hub — Preview
- Feb 12, 2026: New checkout experience for private offers with flat-fee pricing (General availability)
- Feb 12, 2026: Snowflake Data Clean Rooms updates
- Feb 10, 2026: Snowflake Native Apps: Shareback (General Availability)
- Feb 09, 2026: Performance Explorer enhancements (Preview)
- Feb 06, 2026: Cortex Code data science and machine learning skill (Preview)
- Feb 06, 2026: External query engine support for Apache Iceberg™ tables with Snowflake Horizon Catalog (General availability)
- Feb 06, 2026: Trust Center Overview tab (Preview)
- Feb 05, 2026: Notebooks in Workspaces (General Availability)
- Feb 05, 2026: Sensitive data classification: Support for semi-structured data (General availability)
- Feb 05, 2026: Snowflake Data Clean Rooms updates
- Feb 04, 2026: Cortex Search Component Scores (General availability)
- Feb 04, 2026: Sensitive data classification: Classify a subset of native semantic categories (Preview)
- Feb 02, 2026: Cortex Code CLI (General availability)
- Feb 02, 2026: Cortex Code in Snowsight (Preview)
- Feb 02, 2026: Support for listing and share observability (General availability)
- Feb 02, 2026: Share Connected Apps in Snowflake Marketplace listings (General availability)
- Feb 02, 2026: Use Snowsight to manage external volumes (Preview)
- Feb 01, 2026: New ORGANIZATION_USAGE premium views
- Jan 30, 2026: New regions
- Jan 30, 2026: Support for bi-directional data access with Microsoft Fabric (General availability)
- Jan 29, 2026: Apache DataSketches functions (General availability)
- Jan 29, 2026: Snowflake Data Clean Rooms updates
- Jan 28, 2026: Fine-tuning
arctic-extractmodels (Preview) - Jan 28, 2026: Private connectivity for TSS on Google Cloud (General availability)
- Jan 27, 2026: Estimate token usage with AI_COUNT_TOKENS (General availability)
- Jan 27, 2026: Enforce data protection policies when querying Apache Iceberg™ tables from Apache Spark™
- Jan 26, 2026: Extract images from documents using AI_PARSE_DOCUMENT (Preview)
- Jan 26, 2026: Specify a dynamic task configuration with EXECUTE TASK
For earlier feature updates, see Feature updates earlier in 2026.