July 15-17, 2024 — 8.26 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.

New features

Estimate the cost of Automatic Clustering — Preview

With this release, we are pleased to announce a new system function, SYSTEM$ESTIMATE_AUTOMATIC_CLUSTERING_COSTS, that estimates the cost of enabling Automatic Clustering for a table and maintaining the table in a well-clustered state. It can also estimate the cost of changing the clustering key for a clustered table.

For more information, see SYSTEM$ESTIMATE_AUTOMATIC_CLUSTERING_COSTS.

SQL updates

New TYPE property for USER —— General availability

With this release, we are pleased to announce the new TYPE property for USER. The TYPE property lets you differentiate between service and human users.

For more information, see CREATE USER.

Extensibility updates

Access to external network locations on AWS in the Gov region — General availability

With this release, Snowflake is pleased to announce the general availability of access to external network locations from function and procedure handlers for code deployed in the AWS Gov region. External network access in the Azure Gov region is not supported.

When setting up external network access, you create a network rule that represents the external network location. If your handler code will need to authenticate with the external location, you create a secret containing the credentials needed. In handler code, you can use APIs to retrieve credential values from the secret.

For more information, see External network access overview.

Cost management updates

Support for Snowpark Container Services in custom budgets — General availability

With this release, we are pleased to announce that custom budgets can now be used to monitor the cost of compute pools associated with Snowpark Container Services.

Release notes change log

Announcement

Update

Date

Release notes

Initial publication (preview)

Note that, at the time of publication, the 8.25 release was still in progress.

12-Jul-24

Support for Snowpark Container Services in custom budgets — General availability

Added to Cost Management Updates section

16-Jul-24