July 01-03, 2024 — 8.24 Release Notes¶

Trust Center: CIS Benchmarks scanner package — General availability¶

With this release, we are pleased to announce the general availability of the CIS Benchmarks scanner package in the Trust Center.

For more information, see CIS Benchmarks scanner package.

Authentication policies: New multi-factor authentication parameters¶

With this release, we are pleased to announce the following new parameters for authentication policies:

• MFA_AUTHENTICATION_METHODS: A list of authentication methods that enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) during login.

• MFA_ENROLLMENT: Determines whether a user must enroll in MFA.

For more information, see the following topics:

• Hardening user or account authentication using MFA

• Authentication policy DDL commands reference

Hybrid tables: Changes to capacity quotas — Preview¶

Default capacity quotas for hybrid table storage and requests are now enforced at the database level for all Snowflake accounts. Different databases within the same account are isolated instead of sharing the same quota. This release also introduces a new quota that limits the number of databases within a single Snowflake account that can contain hybrid tables.

For more information, see Quotas and throttling.