August 19-21, 2024 — 8.31 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.

Data lake updates

Polaris Catalog: New system function for troubleshooting issues with syncing Snowflake-managed Apache Iceberg™ tables - Preview

With this release, we are pleased to announce the public preview of the system function SYSTEM$SEND_NOTIFICATIONS_TO_CATALOG. This function sends a notification to a Polaris Catalog, and if the send fails it returns an error message explaining why. This error message is helpful for diagnosing why a Snowflake-managed Apache Iceberg™ table isn’t syncing to a Polaris Catalog.

Apache Iceberg™ tables: Support for time travel queries using third-party engines — General availability

With this release, we are pleased to announce the general availability of support for time travel queries on Snowflake-managed Apache Iceberg™ tables when you use a third-party compute engine like Apache Spark.

For more information, see Time travel for Iceberg tables.

Release notes change log

Announcement

Update

Date

Release notes

Initial publication (preview)

16-Aug-24

Iceberg tables: Support for time travel queries using third-party engines

Added to Data lake updates section

23-Aug-24