July 01-03, 2024 — 8.24 Release Notes

Attention

The release has completed.

For differences between the in-advance and final versions of these release notes, see Release notes change log.

Security updates

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:

Note

If your network administrator enables these parameters, any installed clients, drivers, and the Snowflake CLI must have their connection settings reconfigured to enable MFA.

Virtual warehouse updates

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.

Release notes change log

Announcement

Update

Date

Release notes

Initial publication (preview)

Note that, at the time of publication, the 8.23 release was still in progress.

24-Jun-24

Trust Center: CIS Benchmarks scanner package — General availability

Added to Security updates section

02-Jul-24

Hybrid tables: changes to capacity quotas — Preview

Added to Virtual warehouse updates section

08-Jul-24