Snowpark Library for Scala and Java release notes for 2024¶

New features¶

• Support the Geometry data type.

• New function: sum(String).

• Support setting an app name when creating a new session.

Improvements¶

Added code examples for the split function in the API document.

Bug fixes¶

None.

New features¶

• Support Java 17 stored procedure

  • When registering a stored procedure, Snowpark automatically sets runtime_version to 17 if the client is running with JVM 17.

Improvements¶

None.

Bug fixes¶

None.

New features¶

• Support Java 17.

  • Compatible with JVM 17.

  • When registering a UDF or UDTF, Snowpark automatically sets the runtime_version to 17 if the client is running with JVM 17.

• Support Dataframe alias.

  • You can use the DataFrame.alias function to assign DataFrames an alias for future reference.

    For example, you could use code such as the following:

    val df1 = df.alias("A")
    df1.join(df2).select(col("A.col"))
    

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    This is equivalent to df1.join(df2).select(df1("col")).

• Support for the explode function.

• You can invoke table functions in the DataFrame.select method.

• You can use table functions to read function arguments through the TableFunction.apply method.

• New session constructor Session.getOrCreate.

Improvements¶

• Upgraded JDBC to version 3.14.4.

• New wrapper for is_null function.

• Upgrade Scala to version 2.12.18.

Bug fixes¶

• Updated wrong license information.