JDBC Driver release notes for 2024

This article contains the release notes for the JDBC Driver, including the following when applicable:

  • Behavior changes

  • New features

  • Customer-facing bug fixes

Snowflake uses semantic versioning for JDBC Driver updates.

Version 3.16.0 (April 29, 2024)

New features and updates

  • Added support for structured types.

  • Added support for vector types.

  • Improved support for encrypted private keys.

  • Updated the security policy notice.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed an issue with native OKTA retry logic.

  • Fixed an issue with unsupported reserved keywords.

  • Fixed an issue with retry attempts for GET query metadata requests.

Version 3.15.1 (April 05, 2024)

New features and updates

  • Added support for missing proxy and user password JVM parameters: http.proxyUser, http.proxyPassword, https.proxyUser, https.proxyPassword.

  • Bumped the nimbus-jose-jwt dependency to version 9.37.3.

Bug fixes

  • Moved the public suffix list to an internal package when shading.

  • Fixed an issue with ignoring default GCS credentials.

  • Fixed an issue with returning decimal or integer values in ARROW format.

  • Fixed an issue where the driver returned java.util.ConcurrentModificationException while calling SFAsyncResultSet.next.

  • Fixed an InvalidPathException issue on Windows due to nested file paths.

Version 3.15.0 (February 20, 2024)

New features and updates

  • Added a marker annotation for the internal API.

  • Added two new java properties, net.snowflake.jdbc.http_client_connection_timeout_in_ms and net.snowflake.jdbc.http_client_socket_timeout_in_ms, to let you configure connection and socket timeouts.

  • Added a new enablePatternSearch connection parameter to enable or disable pattern search for getCrossReference, getExportedKeys, getImportedKeys, and getPrimaryKeys metadata operations that should not use their parameters as patterns. Default: true.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed an issue with multi-release jar entries.

  • Made dependency optional on com.amazonaws.Protocol in HttpClientSettingsKey.

  • Deprecated com.snowflake.client.jdbc.SnowflakeDriver.

  • Fixed an issue with parsing large responses (greater than 16MB).

  • Updated the JDBC specification to version 4.2.

Version 3.14.5 (January 24, 2024)

New features and updates

  • Added support for AIX 7.2.

  • Added support for multiple SAML integrations.

  • Updated the grpc-netty-shaded dependency to 1.60.0.

  • Created a thin jar as a separate maven artifact snowflake-jdbc-thin (JDBC thin jar is an experimental feature).

  • Implemented toString() in SnowflakePreparedStatementV1.

  • Added getQueryStatusV2 as replacement for deprecated getQueryStatus.

Bug fixes

  • Set the last query ID for failed statements.

  • Fixed OOB telemetry initialization when using connectionless mode.

  • Fixed an issue with handling GCP token expiration correctly when using connectionless mode.

  • Fixed arrow format on AIX.

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