SQLAlchemy release notes for 2023¶

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

Behavior changes
New features
Customer-facing bug fixes

Snowflake uses semantic versioning for SQLAlchemy updates.

Version 1.5.1 (November 2, 2023)¶

New features and updates¶

None.

Bug fixes¶

Fixed a compatibility issue with restrictions on outer lateral joins. For more details check Table Functions (Except SQL UDTFs): Restrictions With Lateral Table Functions and Outer Lateral Joins.
Fixed credentials with externalbrowser authentication not caching due to incorrect parsing of Boolean query parameters, as well as other Boolean parameters passed to the driver.

Version 1.5.0 (August 24, 2023)¶

New features and updates¶

Added support for the GEOMETRY data type.

Bug fixes¶

Fixed a compatibility issue with standard SQLAlchemy 1.4.49 library.

Version 1.4.7 (March 21, 2023)¶

New features and updates¶

SnowflakeDialect.get_columns now throws a NoSuchTableError exception when the specified table doesn’t exist, instead of the more vague KeyError.
Fixed a bug where dialect can not be created with empty host name.
Fixed a bug where sqlalchemy.func.now did not render correctly.

Bug fixes¶

None.

Version 1.4.6 (February 8, 2023)¶

New features and updates¶

Bumped the snowflake-connector-python dependency to newest version, which supports Python 3.11.
Reverted the change of application name introduced in version 1.4.5 until the feature is supported.

Bug fixes¶

None.