Preview — 9.2 Release Notes (with behavior changes)

Attention

Content in this page is available in advance of the completion of the 9.2 release, which is currently either pending or in progress.

The release is scheduled to complete on January 22 (subject to change).

Features, updates, or behavior changes described in this page might not become available in your account(s) until the completion of the release.

For updates to these release notes, see Release notes change log.

Behavior change bundles

This release contains the following behavior change bundles:

Bundle Name

Status in this Release

Previous Status

2025_01

Disabled by default; admins can enable for testing

N/A (introduced in this release)

2024_08

Enabled by default; admins can disable for opt-out

Disabled by default

2024_07

Generally enabled; admins can no longer enable/disable

Enabled by default

The status for each bundle will change in the next behavior change release, planned for January 2025; however, this schedule is subject to change.

For more information about bundle statuses and how they may impact your accounts, see About Behavior Changes.

Non-bundled behavior changes

The following changes aren’t part of a bundle, and therefore can’t be disabled:

New features

Triggered tasks now support Data Shares — General availability

You can now trigger tasks to run when new data arrives from streams on Data Shares. This can help optimize resource usage and automate pipeline execution.

Trust Center: Manage individual scanners

Trust Center scanners are scheduled background processes that check your account for security risks based on how you configured your account. With this release, you can manage individual scanners in a scanner package. When a scanner package is enabled, you can manage the scanners in the scanner package in the following ways:

  • Enable or disable individual scanners

  • Change the schedule of individual scanners

  • Manually start individual scanners

Security updates

Outbound private connectivity for Microsoft Azure Government regions

You can use Azure Private Link for outbound network traffic originating from Microsoft Azure Government regions. This allows you to harden your security posture for Snowflake features like Snowpark Container Services and external volumes for Apache Iceberg™ tables.

SQL updates

New SQL functions

The following function is now available with this release:

Function category

New function

Description

System (Information)

SYSTEM$SHOW_BUDGETS_FOR_RESOURCE

Returns a string containing a list of the budgets that track a specified resource (for example, a table or a schema).

Data lake updates

Apache Iceberg™ tables: Support for writing Apache Iceberg metadata for Delta-based tables

With this release, we are pleased to announce support for writing metadata for Delta-based Iceberg tables to your external cloud storage.

Note

In order to write Iceberg metadata for Delta-based tables, you must enable the 2025_01 bundle in your account.

To enable this bundle in your account, execute the following statement:

SELECT SYSTEM$ENABLE_BEHAVIOR_CHANGE_BUNDLE('2025_01');
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Release notes change log

Announcement

Update

Date

Release notes

Initial publication (preview)

17-Jan-25