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November 13, 2026
Snowflake Cortex AI_TRANSCRIBE has been upgraded to deliver improved transcription accuracy across multiple languages, including English and French. The update improves speech recognition quality, helping produce more accurate transcripts of meetings, conversations, and recorded audio. These improvements are available automatically, without requiring any changes to existing SQL queries or transcription workflows.
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November 13, 2026
Many-to-many relationships are now in preview for semantic views. You can model a many-to-many relationship between two logical tables in either of the following ways:
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November 12, 2026
The following updates are now available in Snowflake Data Clean Rooms:
save_mode and name fields to the analysis specification that you pass to RUN. Saved results are stored in the clean room and aren't visible to other collaborators. Learn more.VIEW_UPDATE_REQUESTS now shows the specific reason that the scan rejected the code spec. Use the reason to fix the code and resubmit the request.November 10, 2026
With this preview release, the ACCOUNT_USAGE schema includes a new INTEGRATIONS view that returns a row for each integration in your account. The view includes metadata for API, catalog, external access, notification, security, and storage integrations, such as the integration type, category, enabled status, owner, lifecycle timestamps, and allowed or blocked locations and network rules.
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November 10, 2026
CoCo Desktop v1.25.4 includes these changes:
dbt.redesign setting are removed....
November 10, 2026
Geospatial maps are now available in preview in Snowflake CoWork. When a question returns locations, regions, or density over geography, the agent can plot the result on an interactive map: latitude and longitude points, H3 hexagons, or GEOGRAPHY and GEOMETRY shapes. You can pan and zoom the map in chat, open Explore on a query-backed map, and save or share it as an artifact. Query-backed maps re-run under the viewer's credentials. Maps use a dedicated map specification rather than Vega-Lite, so <chart_customization> and vega_template don't apply.
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November 10, 2026
AI_EXTRACT and AI_PARSE_DOCUMENT now support selecting document pages with FL_FILTER_PAGES. Process the pages relevant to your task directly in SQL, without creating separate files for each document section.
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November 10, 2026
You can now grant an account role to a user temporarily. When you run grant role to grant a role to a user, use the FOR INTERVAL clause to specify how long the grant lasts, or the UNTIL clause to specify when it expires. When the grant expires, the user automatically loses access through that grant, so you don't need to revoke it yourself.
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November 9, 2026
CoCo now helps you find, create, and share skills as you work. These capabilities are rolling out gradually, so you might not see them in your CoCo sessions yet. They include the following:
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November 6, 2026
The following models are now generally available:
claude-opus-5-5claude-sonnet-5-5openai-gpt-6-astra...
November 5, 2026
CoCo Desktop v1.25.0 makes dbt work faster and steadier:
dbt.executionTimeout setting, which defaults to four hours. Local runs previously stopped after five minutes....
November 5, 2026
The following updates are now available in Snowflake Data Clean Rooms:
November 5, 2026
Organization users and user groups is now available in preview in Organization Command Center.
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November 4, 2026
HTML reports are now available in public preview. Create a self-contained HTML report with CoCo in Snowsight Workspaces or CoCo Desktop, or generate one in Snowflake CoWork with an agent that has code execution enabled. Publish it as a Report artifact to share a snapshot of its content with users or roles in your account. Recipients can open the artifact in Snowsight or CoWork without access to the source workspace or data tables.
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November 4, 2026
With this release, we're pleased to announce the general availability of backups for Snowflake Storage for Apache Iceberg™ tables and dynamic Apache Iceberg™ tables that use Snowflake Storage on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
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November 4, 2026
In the Snowflake-managed MCP server, CORTEX_AGENT_RUN and CODING_AGENT tools now have a "background" boolean argument; if set to true, the tool returns immediately with a handle that can be polled.
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November 3, 2026
November 3, 2026
CoCo Desktop v1.24.0 brings Artifacts and Cloud automations to preview:
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November 3, 2026
Snowflake CoCo for Microsoft Excel and Snowflake CoCo for Google Sheets are now available in preview. Each one adds CoCo as a chat pane inside your spreadsheet, connected to your live Snowflake data. From the pane, you can query data with natural language or SQL; build pivot tables, charts, and formulas; and use the semantic views your role can access. Queries run under your own role, so access control, masking, and row access policies apply to the data that reaches your spreadsheet. CoCo previews every change before it writes to the spreadsheet, and it records a citation to the source of each written value.
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November 3, 2026
Inference, observability, and cost management for Cortex AI Gateway are now generally available. The gateway gives AI clients in your organization one governed endpoint to reach models, records a trace of every request, and attributes spend to the users who made it.
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November 3, 2026
With this release, Delta Direct tables reconcile changes to the structure of OBJECT, ARRAY, and MAP columns during refresh. Previously, a change to a structured column in the source Delta table, such as adding a subfield, caused the refresh to fail with error 091989, and the only workaround was to drop and recreate the table.
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November 3, 2026
The Streamlit in Snowflake container runtime is now generally available in the following AWS government regions:
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November 2, 2026
AI_EXTRACT now delivers a 12.8% relative improvement in average extraction accuracy compared with the previous version in our evaluations. Extract fields, lists, and tables more accurately from complex documents, including forms, handwritten content, dense tables, and charts.
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November 2, 2026
CoCo automations are now generally available and are no longer in 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 open to inspect the agent's messages, tool calls, and results.
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November 2, 2026
With this release, you can assign tags to secrets when you create or alter a secret. You can use tags on secrets to track sensitive objects, manage governance workflows, and organize secrets consistently with other tagged Snowflake objects.
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November 2, 2026
Level of detail (LOD) expressions are now in preview for semantic views. An LOD expression calculates a value at a grain that's different from the query grain. You can use LOD expressions to:
FIXED DIMENSIONS).INCLUDE DIMENSIONS).EXCLUDE DIMENSIONS)....
November 1, 2026
With this release, you can read and write Apache Iceberg™ tables managed by another Snowflake account without creating, storing, or rotating secrets. This capability is generally available through catalog integrations for Snowflake Horizon Catalog. The accounts access the same table data without copying it.
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October 30, 2026
Cortex Training is now available in preview. Cortex Training is a serverless service for customizing open-weight large language models. You run your training loop from your own workspace, and Snowflake runs the GPU work: forward and backward passes, optimizer steps, and generation. You don't need to provision GPU clusters or manage training infrastructure, and your training data stays in Snowflake.
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October 30, 2026
With this Public Preview release, you can use DEFINE SECRET in DCM Projects definition files to declaratively manage secrets. You can also declare environment variables and secrets in the DCM project manifest to supply values that stay out of your definition files, repository, and deployment artifacts. DCM Projects masks secret values in PLAN and DEPLOY changesets, deployment history artifacts, and logs. You can supply the values in Workspaces, from Snowflake CLI, or from SQL.
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October 30, 2026
With this preview release, hybrid tables are supported in all Google Cloud commercial regions. Hybrid tables remain generally available in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure commercial regions.
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October 30, 2026
Tri-Secret Secure for Snowflake storage for Iceberg tables is now generally available for accounts hosted on AWS or Microsoft Azure. You can encrypt the data that Snowflake storage for Iceberg tables writes to your account's Snowflake-managed storage volume by using a customer-managed key (CMK) that you create in AWS Key Management Service (KMS) or in Azure Key Vault.
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October 30, 2026
Deep Research in Snowflake CoWork now researches the web as part of an investigation when the agent has web search enabled. Web findings are cited in the report alongside findings from your data. The web research has no access to your data. Without web search, investigations use only your data.
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October 30, 2026
External OAuth for Snowflake Postgres is now generally available. You can authenticate connections to a Snowflake Postgres instance with access tokens from an external identity provider.
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October 30, 2026
With this release, you can use the UUID data type in hybrid tables. A UUID column can be a primary key, a foreign key, or a secondary index.
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October 29, 2026
CoCo Desktop v1.23.1 gives agent settings their own page and reduces approval prompts:
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October 29, 2026
The following updates are now available in Snowflake Data Clean Rooms:
October 29, 2026
Access to externally managed Apache Iceberg™ tables through Snowflake Horizon Catalog is now generally available.
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October 29, 2026
With this release, Horizon Iceberg REST Catalog telemetry is generally available. Snowflake can capture the HTTP requests that external query engines make against the Horizon Iceberg REST Catalog APIs and write them to your account event table. Use these events to monitor catalog traffic, troubleshoot integrations with external engines, and correlate catalog activity with access history.
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October 28, 2026
Snowflake Cortex AI_PARSE_DOCUMENT introduces AGENTIC mode in Public Preview, turning complex enterprise documents—from financial reports to technical manuals—into actionable information for AI applications, analytics, and automation. Go beyond text extraction to unlock information in charts, diagrams, tables, and other visuals with a single SQL call, without building or managing complex document-processing pipelines.
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October 28, 2026
The Cortex Agents Coding Agent agent:run API now accepts three additional public controls on a request that includes the code_toolset_all tool:
thinking_effort sets the orchestration model's reasoning effort. Accepted values are minimal, low, medium, high, xhigh, and max. Each model uses a subset of those values, and a request above that subset is lowered to the highest level the model accepts. Omit the field to keep the default for the model.instructions.system appends extra system instructions to the managed coding-agent prompt. The text does not replace the sandbox, tool, or skill instructions.stage_mounts, on the code_toolset_all entry in tool_resources, mounts a Snowflake stage or versioned stage into the sandbox. Versioned stages include notebooks, Streamlit apps, workspaces, and agents. workspace_mounts is unchanged and still mounts a persistent, writable workspace at version live....
October 28, 2026
With this release, the my budget summary snowflake local table function is generally available. You can now use it to check your limits, usage, and block status for the per-user quotas that apply to you:
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October 28, 2026
You can now use the SNOWFLAKE.ACCOUNT_USAGE.APPLICATION_DAILY_USAGE_HISTORY view to track supported Cortex AI credits attributed to a Snowflake Native App. This includes Cortex Agent token usage, Cortex Search serving and embedding usage, and Cortex AI Function token usage on application-owned warehouses.
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October 28, 2026
The following OpenAI models are now in public preview in AI Functions:
openai-gpt-5.6-lunaopenai-gpt-5.6-terraopenai-gpt-6-luna...
October 28, 2026
The Streamlit in Snowflake container runtime is now generally available in the People's Republic of China. Container runtimes run your Streamlit in Snowflake apps on Snowpark Container Services compute pools.
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October 27, 2026
The COPY = ( ... ) parameter for CREATE OR REPLACE statements names the kinds of metadata to carry over from the object being replaced onto its replacement, so you don't need to restate it.
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October 27, 2026
With this Public Preview release, you can use DEFINE TASK GRAPH in DCM Projects definition files to declaratively manage a task graph and its member tasks. A task graph provides one place for graph-wide settings, including the schedule, overlap policy, retry behavior, and member-task defaults. DCM Projects manages the task graph throughout its deployment lifecycle.
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October 27, 2026
Describe the files that you want to load, and CoCo builds the load for you: a Snowpipe pipeline that loads new files from cloud storage within minutes of their arrival, or a one-time COPY INTO for files that are already in place. Both capabilities load into standard Snowflake tables or Snowflake-managed Apache Iceberg™ tables. They're now generally available in CoCo CLI, CoCo Desktop, and CoCo in Snowsight.
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October 27, 2026
Two Cortex Code skills now help you work with interactive analytics:
snowflake-interactive: Helps you start using interactive warehouses, evaluate whether a query is a good fit, choose clustering keys, manage warehouses, and troubleshoot issues. The skill is available in Cortex Code CLI, Cortex Code Desktop, and Snowsight.interactive-benchmark: Load tests a query on an interactive warehouse to check whether it meets a latency goal, such as a P95 target, under concurrency. The skill is available in Cortex Code CLI and Cortex Code Desktop....
October 27, 2026
The openai-gpt-6.1-terra model is now in public preview in Cortex Inference (REST API) and AI Functions.
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October 26, 2026
CoCo Desktop v1.23.0 makes sessions easier to organize and brings Snowflake Managed MCP servers to all accounts:
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October 26, 2026
With this release, a feature policy rule can include an error_message that explains why a statement was blocked. When the rule blocks a statement, Snowflake adds the message to the error that the user sees, so you can tell users what's allowed instead.
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October 26, 2026
Cloning databases that contain hybrid tables is now generally available in the same Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud commercial regions where hybrid tables are available.
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October 26, 2026
With this preview release, Autopilot is available for sensitive data classification. Autopilot lets Snowflake manage classification timing, reclassification schedules, and minimum object age to optimize performance and cost.
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October 23, 2026
CoCo Desktop v1.22.1 brings Defer to Production to Snowflake-managed dbt runs and makes sessions and apps easier to manage:
snowflake-object-discovery subagent is now on by default for all users....
October 23, 2026
You can now call OpenAI models through the OpenAI-compatible Responses API, in preview. Send requests to /api/v2/cortex/v1/responses on the Cortex REST API, or to /v1/responses on the Cortex AI Gateway, with the OpenAI SDK or any other client that uses the Responses API.
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October 23, 2026
Retrieve Cortex Search is now available in Public Preview. The CORTEX_SEARCH_RETRIEVE table function lets you run low-latency Cortex Search queries directly from SQL, either one query at a time or one query per input row with a LATERAL join.
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October 23, 2026
Snowflake-managed MCP servers can expose a coding agent that does not require a stored agent object. Add a tool with type CODING_AGENT to the MCP server specification. The specification holds the agent configuration, and each call sends the user message. Snowflake adds the code_toolset_all tool on every run, which gives the agent a managed coding sandbox attached to the conversation thread. That tool defaults to always_ask. A later call passes the returned thread_id and message_id as thread_id and parent_message_id to continue the same conversation. parent_message_id is required whenever thread_id is set.
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October 23, 2026
With this release, the GEN_ARM_G1 and GEN_X64_G1 instance families are generally available for Snowpark Container Services on Google Cloud. Each family provides general-purpose compute in five sizes, from 1 vCPU to 28 vCPU.
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October 23, 2026
With this preview release, you can manage task graph settings centrally, update pipelines without suspending them, and control when tasks run based on upstream outcomes.
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October 22, 2026
Custom runtime images for ML Jobs are now generally available. You can build, validate, and register your own custom container images as Custom Runtime Environments (CREs), and then reference them when you submit ML Jobs on Container Runtime by using the runtime_environment="cre@<name>" format. Custom runtime images let you include specific packages, meet compliance and security requirements, integrate with existing CI/CD pipelines, and ensure reproducibility across environments.
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October 22, 2026
The following updates are now available in Snowflake Data Clean Rooms:
REMOVE_TEMPLATE, the template's associated code specs were left behind, which could cause security scans to time out. REMOVE_TEMPLATE now also removes code specs that are no longer used by any remaining template in the collaboration.October 22, 2026
We are introducing ingress policies in preview. An ingress policy admits or blocks a request by combining several conditions in one policy. This preview includes the following capabilities:
AND, OR, and NOT, then allow or block the request. For example, allow drivers from the corporate network and block a specific application, or allow single sign-on only from approved countries....
October 22, 2026
Pipeline Builder is now available in public preview. Pipeline Builder is a visual designer in Workspaces for orchestrating Snowflake Notebooks, Python files, ML Jobs, and SQL as task graphs. Each pipeline is a DCM project, so you can plan every change before you deploy it and keep the pipeline in Git.
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October 21, 2026
The Declarative Feature Store workflow is now generally available. Define your feature store resources (entities, data sources, feature views, and feature groups) as version-controlled YAML or Python specs, then preview and deploy them with the snow feature CLI using a plan-and-apply workflow.
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October 21, 2026
Snowflake Postgres now offers expanded insights through the insights extension. After you create the extension in a database, it continuously collects performance and health metrics from your instance and stores them in the insights schema. You can view hourly and daily history, expected-range baselines, and metric trend forecasts on the Insights tab in Snowsight, or query the data directly with SQL.
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October 20, 2026
Starting October 20, 2026, Cortex Fine-tuning will no longer support the creation of new fine-tuned models in AWS US East 1 (N. Virginia).
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October 20, 2026
The following improvements are now available for dbt Projects on Snowflake:
env.yml secret and an external access integration. For setup, supported dbt versions, and billing, see dbt projects on snowflake dbt state integration....
October 20, 2026
When you increase TARGET_FILE_SIZE on a Snowflake-managed Iceberg table, data compaction recompacts older files that were written under the smaller target and compacts new files using the larger setting. For example, if files were compacted at 64 MB and the new target file size is 128 MB, data compaction recompacts older files from 64 MB to 128 MB. For more information, see Set a target file size.
October 20, 2026
With this release, the following Trust Center reports are generally available. These reports require Enterprise Edition or higher.
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October 20, 2026
With this release, Snowflake-provided tags are generally available. 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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October 19, 2026
We are pleased to announce the preview of Tools for Cortex AI Gateway, which connects AI clients to the business tools your organization already uses through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Supported clients include CoCo Desktop, CoCo CLI, Claude, and Cursor.
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October 19, 2026
With this release, we're pleased to announce the general availability of schema variables.
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October 16, 2026
Cortex AI Gateway is now available to accounts in Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) commercial regions, and in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Asia Pacific (New Zealand) region.
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October 16, 2026
The grok-4.7 and glm-5.3 models are now available in Public Preview in AI Functions, Cortex Inference, Cortex Agents, Snowflake CoWork, and Snowflake CoCo.
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October 16, 2026
October 16, 2026
We're introducing Parquet Direct in preview. With Parquet Direct, you can create read-only Apache Iceberg™ tables in Snowflake from Apache Parquet™ files in your cloud object storage. Snowflake registers your existing files in place, so you can query your data without copying it or rewriting it, and with better query performance than external tables.
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October 15, 2026
The following updates are now available in Snowflake Data Clean Rooms:
October 15, 2026
Data mirroring for Snowflake Postgres is now generally available. Data mirroring continuously replicates tables from a Snowflake Postgres instance into a Snowflake database with minimal lag. Inserts, updates, deletes, and schema changes on the source appear on the target automatically, without ETL pipelines, batch jobs, or third-party connectors. This feature is currently supported on AWS and Azure.
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October 14, 2026
Document generation in Snowflake CoWork is now generally available and is no longer in Preview. You can ask Snowflake CoWork to generate a PDF, a Word document (.docx), a PowerPoint presentation, or an HTML file from your analysis. Generation requires the Cortex Agent code execution tool on the associated agent. When the file is ready, you can view it inline in Snowflake CoWork.
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