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September 10, 2026
Slim CI, defer to production, failed-execution recovery, and concurrent execution are now generally available for dbt Projects on Snowflake. Reuse dbt artifacts from recent production executions to accelerate development, streamline CI/CD workflows, and recover from failed production runs without maintaining a separate artifact store.
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September 10, 2026
The following updates are now available in Snowflake Data Clean Rooms:
September 10, 2026
External secret providers are now in preview. If your organization already keeps API keys, database passwords, and similar values in AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, or Google Cloud Secret Manager, Snowflake can read those values when a query needs them, so you don't have to maintain a second copy in a Snowflake secret.
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September 8, 2026
CoCo Desktop v1.21.3 isolates the Snowflake session that agent SQL runs in, adds full-text search across past sessions, and makes the redesigned dbt workspace the standard dbt experience:
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September 8, 2026
With this release, you can add and drop UNIQUE and FOREIGN KEY constraints on an existing hybrid table by using alter table. Previously, you had to define these constraints when you created the table, so adding a foreign key to a table that was already serving a workload meant recreating and reloading the table.
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September 8, 2026
With this preview release, you can use a shadow traffic gateway to send all production requests to a primary service endpoint while mirroring a percentage of those requests to one or more shadow endpoints. Responses from shadow endpoints aren't returned to clients.
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September 8, 2026
Secure by default is available only for accounts on Business Critical Edition or Virtual Private Snowflake (VPS) with a capacity contract.
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September 4, 2026
Prompt injection guardrails in Cortex AI Guardrails are now available when the CORTEX_ENABLED_CROSS_REGION account parameter is set to AWS_EU, AWS_JP, or AWS_APJ. Previously, prompt injection guardrails required ANY_REGION, AWS_US, or AWS_GLOBAL.
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September 4, 2026
The Snowflake AIM Agent for Data Warehouses now supports migrating SAS workloads to Snowflake. This capability covers AI-assisted assessment of SAS codebases and AI-based code conversion of SAS programs to Snowflake SQL, including loading SAS dataset files (.sas7bdat) into Snowflake tables.
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September 3, 2026
The following updates are now available in Snowflake Data Clean Rooms:
September 3, 2026
With this release, Restricted Session Scope (RSS) is generally available. An RSS is a privilege ceiling that limits what an agent can do on behalf of a user. It intersects with RBAC and never grants privileges the user doesn't already have through their roles.
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September 2, 2026
You can now use data lineage to see which data a Cortex Agent can reach through the tools declared in its specification. A semantic view that a Cortex Analyst tool references, and a Cortex Search service that a Cortex Search tool references, both appear upstream of the agent. Because a semantic view is itself downstream of the tables it references, you can trace the whole path from a table, through the semantic view, to the agent that consumes it.
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August 31, 2026
CoCo Desktop v1.21.2 adds new ways to visualize query results and create automations, and fixes reliability problems in long-running sessions and at startup on managed machines:
table and data_frame for tabular output, horizontal_bar_chart for ranked lists and long category names, and vega_lite_spec for charts the built-in types don't cover, such as heatmaps, box plots, and layered or faceted charts....
August 31, 2026
With this preview release, Snowflake-provided tags are available in every account. These out of the box tags in the SNOWFLAKE.TAGS schema give you a consistent vocabulary for common governance use cases, including cost center, certification status, sensitivity, environment, and project, without creating and maintaining equivalent tags in each account.
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August 30, 2026
The Cortex Agents asynchronous API is now generally available on AWS and Microsoft Azure.
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August 28, 2026
Snowflake recommends transitioning to Cortex Agents, which supports every Cortex Analyst capability with higher answer quality. Snowflake adds new natural language analytics capabilities to Cortex Agents.
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August 27, 2026
CoCo in the Snowflake Extension for Visual Studio Code is now generally available. CoCo runs in a side panel next to the extension's existing SQL and Snowpark Python workflows, so you can work locally while you stay connected to your Snowflake account.
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August 27, 2026
A dbt project object on Snowflake can now include up to 100,000 files (up from 20,000). This limit counts every file in the project directory and its subdirectories, including the models/ folder and generated folders such as target/, dbt_packages/, and logs/.
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August 27, 2026
The following updates are now available in Snowflake Data Clean Rooms:
image_tag default now resolves to the latest available runtime version: When you register a code spec without an explicit image_tag, the collaboration resolves to the latest available runtime image when the code spec is added to a collaboration. Previously the default was the static 2.8.1 tag. To pick up a newer default image on an existing code spec, re-add the code spec to the collaboration. To pin a specific version, set image_tag explicitly. For details, see the ML Jobs code spec field reference.VIEW_UPDATE_REQUESTS, a requestor's own entry now correctly shows the REQUESTED status until the request is processed, instead of prematurely showing APPROVED.August 26, 2026
Referencing a Cortex Extension from an agent skill is now generally available. Set the skill source type to CORTEX_EXTENSION and path to the extension's fully qualified name, and Snowflake expands the reference into the extension's member skills at request time, so you don't list each skill individually. Updates to the extension flow to every agent that references it, and access is controlled by the READ privilege on the extension object.
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August 26, 2026
The Cortex Agents Coding Agent is now generally available. Add the code_toolset_all tool type to a Cortex Agent, and Snowflake provisions and manages a sandbox backed by the same runtime that powers Snowflake CoCo: bash, file read/write/edit, grep, glob, web search, SQL execution, and skills. Snowflake executes the tools and streams results back to your application, so you don't build or host an agent loop yourself.
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August 26, 2026
With this release, you can specify whether an organization user represents a person or a service. Set the TYPE property to SERVICE for a service or application that interacts with Snowflake without human interaction. If you don't specify a type, the organization user is a PERSON user, which matches the previous behavior.
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August 26, 2026
Semantic Studio is now available in public preview for all accounts. Semantic Studio is the authoring environment for semantic views in Workspaces, combining conversational authoring with CoCo, direct YAML editing, and deployment to the live Snowflake object in a single surface.
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August 25, 2026
With this release, multi-value tags are generally available. You can assign more than one string value to the same tag.
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August 25, 2026
Remote app operations are now available in public preview for Snowflake Native Apps. Providers can perform on-demand operations on consumer apps, including running SQL statements (run_sql), retrying a failed upgrade (retry_upgrade), and disabling/enabling the app (disable/enable), all through a new system function SYSTEM$REMOTE_APP_OPERATION.
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August 25, 2026
Remote Development with the Snowflake Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available in public preview.
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August 25, 2026
Stable egress IP addresses are now available in preview on Azure. You can generate Snowflake egress IP address ranges (as CIDR addresses) and add them to an external server's allowlist so that Snowflake can make requests to that server.
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August 24, 2026
CoCo Desktop v1.21.1 is a stability and polish release that focuses on automation schedules, native HTML report publishing, and reliability:
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August 24, 2026
With this release, Snowflake has improved data freshness for most premium views in the ORGANIZATION_USAGE schema. Typical data latency is now under 3 hours. Many of these views previously had a latency of up to 24 hours.
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August 21, 2026
Cortex Agent and Cortex Analyst evaluations now let you control the versioned configuration used for scoring:
agent_version key in the evaluation YAML agent_params block runs an evaluation against a specific agent version, alias, or shortcut, so a scheduled or CI/CD evaluation stays reproducible instead of tracking a mutable live version. You can also pick the version from a dropdown in Snowsight or through Cortex Code.version key: answer_correctness, logical_consistency, tool_selection_accuracy, and tool_execution_accuracy for Cortex Agent evaluations, and sql_correctness for Cortex Analyst evaluations. A version pins the judge model along with the prompt, rubric, and thresholds behind a score. Versions v2 and v3 add GPT judges for accounts that don't allow Anthropic models, and v3 uses a 1M-token (claude-sonnet-4-6) or 1.05M-token (openai-gpt-5.4) context window, which reduces the odds of context window overload on long traces. Unversioned metrics use v1 today and roll forward when that version is deprecated.model key that names the LLM judge for that metric. If you omit model, Snowflake uses claude-4-sonnet today and rolls forward when that model is deprecated....
August 21, 2026
CoCo automations in the CoCo CLI and CoCo in Snowsight are now available in public preview. Automations let you schedule recurring, unattended CoCo runs that execute in a Snowflake-managed sandbox. Each run creates a Cortex thread that you can inspect and continue in CoCo. Automations created from one surface can be monitored and managed from the other.
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August 20, 2026
AI_EXTRACT and AI_PARSE_DOCUMENT now support documents stored on stages that use client-side or server-side encryption, including in accounts that use PrivateLink or other network policies that restrict public network access to stages.
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August 20, 2026
The Cortex Agent code execution tool is now in public preview. When you enable the tool on an agent, the agent can generate and run Python in a secure, isolated sandbox to process data, perform calculations, and produce visualizations. The sandbox includes the Python standard library along with preinstalled data-processing and plotting libraries such as numpy, pandas, scipy, pyarrow, matplotlib, and plotly. You can install additional PyPI packages through the Artifact Repository.
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August 20, 2026
The following updates are now available in Snowflake Data Clean Rooms:
preset_tables block. The template logic can use this dataset and the analysis runner doesn't need to supply it at run time. Learn more.August 19, 2026
With this release, data movement policies are now generally available for Enterprise Edition (or higher). Data movement policies are part of Snowflake's data exfiltration protection controls. These SQL-style conditional policies can help you limit, alert on, or block data movement operations based on specific movement types.
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August 18, 2026
You can now use the Horizon Iceberg REST Catalog (IRC) API to access externally managed Apache Iceberg™ tables in a catalog-linked database from external engines such as Apache Spark™, Trino, DuckDB, or PyIceberg. This extends existing Horizon IRC support for Snowflake-managed Iceberg tables so you can use a single catalog endpoint for both Snowflake-managed and externally managed tables, with Snowflake RBAC enforced consistently.
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August 18, 2026
Power BI ingestion for Semantic View Autopilot is now generally available. You can upload a .pbit or .pbix file to Semantic View Autopilot and have a semantic view created automatically from your existing data model, preserving the DAX measures, table relationships, and column descriptions you've already built in Power BI and making them available to Cortex Analyst.
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August 18, 2026
User skills are now available in public preview in Snowflake CoWork. Business users can create reusable workflows conversationally, from the UI (+ menu > Skills > Create new), or by uploading a skill folder on Capabilities > Skills, then run them explicitly with / or from the Skills menus, or implicitly when a conversation matches the skill.
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August 17, 2026
Sensitive data classification now supports AI mode in public preview. When you enable AI mode on a classification profile, Snowflake uses the OpenAI GPT-5 Mini model to identify additional semantic categories beyond those detected by standard classification, which can improve accuracy.
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August 17, 2026
The SNOWFLAKE_COCO_USAGE_HISTORY view is now generally available in the ACCOUNT_USAGE and ORGANIZATION_USAGE schemas. It provides a unified view of usage history for CoCo across the CLI, Desktop, and Snowsight interfaces.
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August 16, 2026
With this release, we are pleased to announce the general availability of feature policy rules. A feature policy can carry a YAML body that conditionally blocks object creation based on attributes of the request. For example, you can permit tables in general but block temporary tables, or permit tasks but block serverless (no-warehouse) tasks.
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August 14, 2026
CoCo Desktop v1.21.0 adds enterprise device-management enforcement on macOS, more in-app file previews in agent mode, and fixes a sign-in loop that could open browser tabs indefinitely:
.pdf, .csv, .pptx, .docx, .html, and .ipynb files directly in the app while working with the agent....
August 14, 2026
The following Trust Center findings remediation capabilities are now generally available:
August 13, 2026
You can now use CREATE OR ALTER DYNAMIC ICEBERG TABLE to create a dynamic Apache Iceberg™ table if it doesn't exist or alter an existing one in place. The statement represents the complete target state: properties you don't specify reset to their default values, and the command doesn't trigger a refresh by itself.
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August 13, 2026
The following updates are now available in Snowflake Data Clean Rooms:
RUN: Error handling now covers a broader range of template run failure cases, surfacing clear, actionable error messages, along with faster pre-flight validation. These improvements apply to collaborations created after the June 18, 2026 release.GET_STATUS, VIEW_REGISTERED_TEMPLATES, VIEW_REGISTRIES, and GET_CONFIGURATION.VIEW_DATA_OFFERINGS for the data provider have been corrected.August 12, 2026
The ACCOUNT_USAGE and ORGANIZATION_USAGE schemas now include a new POSTGRES_COMPUTE_USAGE_HISTORY view that provides visibility into the hourly compute credit usage for Postgres instances.
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