10.5 Release Notes: Preview

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Security updates

SAML2 federated authentication: Support for metadata URL

You can now specify the identity provider’s (IdP’s) metadata URL when creating a SAML2 security integration, instead of providing four separate parameters for IdP information. Snowflake obtains the information directly from the metadata URL, which is less error-prone and allows IdP changes to be dynamically updated without changing any parameter values.

Data governance updates

DUPLICATE_COUNT DMF: Ability to specify multiple columns

You can now associate the DUPLICATE_COUNT data metric function (DMF) with a table to find the number of rows where a combination of specified columns is duplicated. Previously, you could only return the number of duplicates in a single column.

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Initial publication (preview)

Feb 13, 2026
Language: English