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August 10, 2026
Snowflake Cortex AI_MULTI_EMBED is now generally available for semantic video search with support for large video files up to 6 GB using the TwelveLabs Marengo Embed 3.0 model, enabling organizations to index and search production-grade video content directly in Snowflake. This makes it easier to retrieve relevant scenes, quotes, actions, and brands from large video libraries using multimodal embeddings instead of relying only on filenames, tags, or manual review.
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August 10, 2026
Snowflake can now connect directly to the Amazon S3 Tables Iceberg REST endpoint, so you don't need to create an AWS Glue integration. This capability is now generally available. You can use an Apache Iceberg™ REST catalog integration with Signature Version 4 (SigV4) authentication, then create a catalog-linked database to discover and query S3 Tables from Snowflake. You can also configure outbound private connectivity so Snowflake accesses the S3 Tables catalog and storage through private endpoints.
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August 7, 2026
DCM Projects are now generally available and are no longer in Preview. DCM Projects enable a declarative approach to managing Snowflake objects as code. You define the desired target state of your databases, tables, tasks, and other Snowflake objects in definition files, and Snowflake determines and applies the necessary changes to reach that state.
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August 7, 2026
August 6, 2026
Automations in Snowflake CoWork are now in Public Preview. An automation turns a one-time report into a recurring one: Snowflake CoWork re-runs your question with fresh data on the schedule you choose and emails you the results, including a summary and key metrics, along with a link that opens the full report so you can ask follow-up questions.
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August 4, 2026
Workspace sharing is now available in public preview for Declarative Native Apps. Providers can share a whole directory of files and folders by declaring a workspace in the application package manifest. Consumers get a read-only workspace when they install the app, and can browse the folder structure and open the files.
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August 4, 2026
Gateway Monitoring & A/B Testing is now generally available. Use gateway model monitors to track drift and performance for inference services behind a Snowflake Gateway, compare baseline and challenger services during live traffic splits, and evaluate results in Snowsight or with SQL.
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August 4, 2026
Multi-party Approval (MPA) is now generally available. When a Multi-party Approval policy is attached to your account, MPA enforces a mandatory second-person ("four-eyes") verification step for critical account operations.
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August 3, 2026
Starting with release 10.27, the ACCESS_HISTORY view (Account Usage) and ACCESS_HISTORY view (Organization Usage) include an agents_info column that provides detailed information about agents that accessed data on behalf of a user.
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August 3, 2026
Inline Stored Procedures for hybrid tables are now available in public preview. Inline Stored Procedures are a new type of Snowflake stored procedure designed for operational workloads on hybrid tables. The entire procedure body runs as a single atomic unit pushed directly to the query processing layer, which reduces per-statement overhead and delivers significantly lower latency for OLTP-style workloads.
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August 3, 2026
With this preview release, the AI Security tab in the Trust Center includes an AI Agents Inventory section. This section provides a consolidated inventory of the Cortex Agents in your account, filtered by one or more categories, so that you can identify which agents to assess or investigate for better governance and security posture.
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August 3, 2026
The AI Security scanner package and the AI Security tab in the Trust Center are now generally available. Use them to monitor AI-related configurations and usage in your account, and to review the security posture of AI workloads that use Cortex Agents, Snowflake CoWork, or Cortex Code from a single dashboard.
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July 31, 2026
Snowflake Cortex AI_TRANSCRIBE now supports M4A audio files and MOV (QuickTime) video files, including M4A audio encoded with Apple Lossless (ALAC). M4A and MOV are common across Apple devices, screen and video recording tools, and media production workflows, so you can now transcribe more of your existing recordings directly in Snowflake without converting them to another format first.
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July 31, 2026
With this release, Snowflake Notebooks in Workspaces gives you more visibility and control over the compute that runs your notebooks, both while you develop interactively and when you troubleshoot scheduled runs.
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July 30, 2026
The following updates are now available in Snowflake Data Clean Rooms:
CollaborationListingReplicationPending error and set your local collaboration status to REPLICATING. Call GET_STATUS to check whether replication has finished: it returns INVITED for collaborators and CREATED for the owner, after which you can retry REVIEW or JOIN. For details, see Cross-region replication delays.CREATING or INSTALLING state.July 29, 2026
The data quality monitoring dashboard is now available in public preview for Enterprise Edition accounts.
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July 29, 2026
You can now register more than one host name on an existing private connectivity endpoint using the new SYSTEM$ADD_PRIVATELINK_ENDPOINT_HOSTNAME and SYSTEM$REMOVE_PRIVATELINK_ENDPOINT_HOSTNAME functions. This is useful for services that expose multiple host names from a single endpoint, such as a Microsoft Fabric workspace, which needs separate host names for the Iceberg REST catalog and OneLake storage.
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July 28, 2026
CoCo Desktop v1.20.2 fixes a Windows update crash, adds one-click sharing of skills and plugins, and includes a Restart menu item:
coco:// deep link installs a skill or plugin straight from the Snowflake catalog in one click, always resolving to the latest certified version....
July 28, 2026
AI code suggestions in Cortex Code are now generally available. This release also includes updated keybindings and bug fixes.
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July 27, 2026
With this preview release, AI_EXTRACT and AI_PARSE_DOCUMENT 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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July 27, 2026
AI_EXTRACT and AI_PARSE_DOCUMENT are now available in the Google Cloud Platform Middle East Central2 (Dammam) region, expanding regional support for customers with in-region requirements for document processing workloads.
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July 27, 2026
The QUERY_HISTORY views and table functions now include a new agent_type column that identifies the type of agent that directly invoked a query. This column helps you audit and monitor agent-initiated queries across your account.
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July 24, 2026
Skill and plugin sharing is now available in public preview. Share, discover, and govern CoCo skills and plugins across your Snowflake account. Publish them as Cortex Extension objects that teammates can find and install, with administrator certification, access control, and usage telemetry.
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July 23, 2026
Environment variable support for dbt Projects on Snowflake is now generally available. Manage per-developer schemas, dynamic runtime values, secrets, and multiple environments in a single, Git-versioned env.yml file that Snowflake resolves before each run.
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July 23, 2026
The following updates are now available in Snowflake Data Clean Rooms:
July 23, 2026
With this release, the SERVICE_AGENT user type is generally available. Use this user type for automated AI agents that interact with Snowflake using their own identity and privileges.
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July 23, 2026
With this release, we are pleased to announce the general availability of the SHOW CORTEX BASE MODELS command. Use this command to list the Cortex Base Models available in your account, along with each model's lifecycle status, regional availability, legacy date, and end-of-life date. The output is filtered based on your model role-based access control (RBAC) grants, so you can quickly determine which models your current role can use.
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July 22, 2026
CoCo Desktop v1.20.0 focuses on a smoother, more reliable chat:
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July 22, 2026
Two new hierarchical parameters let you bind MCP servers to your organization's existing identity provider (IdP) and control which OAuth scopes MCP clients discover. This enables MCP clients such as Claude, Cursor, and ChatGPT to authenticate against your corporate IdP instead of Snowflake OAuth.
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July 22, 2026
You can now refresh multiple dynamic tables in a single ALTER DYNAMIC TABLE ... REFRESH statement by supplying a comma-separated list of table names. Snowflake merges the upstream dependencies of every listed dynamic table into one pipeline and refreshes all of them at a single data timestamp. Shared upstreams refresh exactly once.
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July 21, 2026
CoCo Desktop is now generally available. CoCo Desktop is a native Mac and Windows desktop application that brings CoCo's full agentic capabilities into an IDE-like surface, with a file editor, integrated terminal, agentic AI loop, agentic browser, agentic notebook, and deep Snowflake awareness.
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July 21, 2026
Snowflake builds for interoperability. Horizon Catalog is the metadata hub for your entire data estate, giving every team a single, unified window into every data asset regardless of where it lives or what format it uses.
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July 21, 2026
Tag-based policy support is now available in public preview for aggregation policies, row access policies, projection policies, and join policies. This feature allows you to assign data protection policies to tags, automatically protecting any objects that have the tag assigned to them.
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July 20, 2026
OpenID Connect (OIDC) security integrations for federated single sign-on (SSO) are available in Public Preview. Multiple OIDC integrations, or OIDC alongside an existing SAML2 integration, require identifier-first login. Without identifier-first login, only one SSO integration (SAML2 or OIDC) can be ENABLED=TRUE at a time.
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July 20, 2026
Snowflake now maintains built-in network rules for five additional Microsoft partner applications:
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July 20, 2026
You can now use DML statements (INSERT, UPDATE, MERGE, DELETE) to modify rows directly in the frozen region of a dynamic table. This enables use cases such as GDPR-required row deletions or correcting specific records without triggering a full refresh of the active region.
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July 20, 2026
Dynamic tables that have base tables with arbitrary masking or row access policies can now maintain incremental refresh when the policy is pass-through for the role used during refresh (that is, when the refresh role has unrestricted access to all rows and columns regardless of the policy condition). Previously, only policies using allow-listed functions, such as CURRENT_ROLE() or IS_ROLE_IN_SESSION() were compatible with incremental refresh.
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July 17 - July 22, 2026
July 17, 2026
CoCo Desktop added the following capabilities across releases v1.16.0 through v1.19.1:
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July 16, 2026
DCM Projects now supports the following capabilities in preview:
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July 16, 2026
The following new features and enhancements are now available in Snowflake Data Clean Rooms:
COLLABORATION.RUN: Previously, errors that occurred when using a hardcoded source table in template runs were incorrectly classified as replication lag issues. These errors are now correctly identified and reported.register_code_spec: When registering a Python artifact or ML job, the stage must use SNOWFLAKE_SSE encryption. The system now validates this at registration time and returns a clear error message, avoiding failures at runtime.July 16, 2026
VOLATILE scalar user-defined functions (UDFs) are now supported with dynamic table incremental refresh in INCREMENTAL, AUTO, and ADAPTIVE refresh modes. This applies to scalar UDFs written in Python, Java, Scala, JavaScript, and SQL. For incremental refresh, VOLATILE UDFs are supported only in the SELECT clause.
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July 15, 2026
Snowflake Cortex AI_TRANSCRIBE now supports AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) input, both as a standalone audio file and as the audio track inside a supported video file. Because AAC is one of the most widely used audio codecs across podcasts, streaming, and video pipelines, you can now transcribe a wider range of real-world recordings directly in Snowflake, without first converting them to another format.
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July 15, 2026
Select Integrated SaaS listings now let you start a free trial of a provider's application directly from a Marketplace listing. This experience replaces the trials previously offered through Snowflake Partner Connect and brings these trials into the Marketplace, where discovery, trial, and purchase all happen in one place. Anyone can browse and discover these listings in the Marketplace (no elevated privileges required), and you can return to them at any time to start a trial or purchase the application, including drawing down on your existing Snowflake capacity commitment through Marketplace Capacity Drawdown.
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July 15, 2026
Consumer-controlled maintenance policies for Snowflake Native Apps are now generally available.
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July 14, 2026
CREATE OR ALTER is now generally available for 24 object types. CREATE OR ALTER creates an object if it doesn't exist, or modifies an existing object to match the statement definition. It's especially useful in declarative deployment workflows and CI/CD pipelines where the same script must be safe to re-run.
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