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October 13, 2026
The Cortex Agent SDK is now available in Public Preview for Python and TypeScript. Use the SDK to build applications that run Cortex Agents and Cortex Code, maintain conversations and threads, observe durable turns, and reconnect to long-running work.
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October 13, 2026
With this release, sensitive data classification provides more specific error messages when automatic classification fails.
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October 12, 2026
We're introducing Horizon Context in preview. Horizon Context extends Horizon Catalog beyond Snowflake. This preview includes the following capabilities:
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October 12, 2026
Predicate-level detail and query types in the LISTING_ACCESS_HISTORY view are now generally available. These improvements help listing providers understand how consumers query their shared data:
QUERY_TYPE column identifies supported consumer query types, including data unloads.SHARE_OBJECTS_ACCESSED column includes groupByObjects, aggregateObjects, and filterObjects arrays that identify columns used for grouping, aggregation, and filtering. For date and timestamp columns, filter details also include predicate values so providers can analyze how far back consumers query their data....
October 12, 2026
You can now use SQL to register, modify, and remove named workload identities for a service user. Each workload identity has its own name and provider settings. A user can have up to 10 workload identities by default.
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October 9, 2026
Agentic Marketplace Discovery is now available in public preview. On the public Snowflake Marketplace Discover page in Snowsight, you can switch between Agentic discovery and Marketplace search. Describe what you need to CoCo to find and compare matching listings, or search for providers and listings directly.
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October 9, 2026
With this release, the Snowsight interface for tags and data protection policies is generally available. These areas require Enterprise Edition or higher.
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October 8, 2026
The following updates are now available in Snowflake Data Clean Rooms:
REGISTER_DATA_OFFERING, Snowflake validates that any hashed columns in the data offering specification are in the declared format by sampling rows from the source table or view. If the specification doesn't declare any hashed column_type values, Snowflake skips the sampling step.UNREGISTER_TEMPLATE and UNREGISTER_DATA_OFFERING on resources in that registry. Previously, the privilege let the role register resources but not remove them. For the full list of privileges that each procedure requires, see DCR privilege requirements for Collaboration API procedures.October 7, 2026
With this release, we introduce the private preview of Snowflake Decision, a model available through AI_COMPLETE that evaluates text and structured data against user-defined questions. The snowflake-decision model supports classification, rubric-based scoring, and true-or-false assessment, returning structured answers with probabilities for downstream application logic.
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October 7, 2026
The zero-copy integration between Workday Data Cloud and Snowflake is now generally available. You can query Workday Data Cloud tables directly from your existing Snowflake account, without ETL pipelines, data replication, or moving data out of Workday.
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October 6, 2026
The kimi-k3 model is now available in Public Preview in AI Functions and the Cortex REST API.
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October 6, 2026
Data lineage now includes the following relationships:
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October 5, 2026
With this release, you can change the type of an existing organization user. Use the alter organization user command to set the TYPE property to PERSON or SERVICE, or unset the property to make the organization user a PERSON user, which is the default type. Previously, you could only set the type when you created the organization user.
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October 5, 2026
Enforcing CoCo policy with Mobile Device Management (MDM) is now available in preview. Administrators can deliver account restrictions, allowed authentication methods, and minimum version requirements for CoCo CLI and CoCo Desktop through a macOS configuration profile, Windows Group Policy or Intune, or managed-settings.json. Policy delivered through MDM can't be changed or removed by standard users.
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October 5, 2026
The Cortex Agent code execution tool is now generally available. The code execution tool is a built-in tool that enables an agent to execute code during a conversation, so your agents can run scripts to process data, perform calculations, and produce visualizations. By default, the tool runs in a sandboxed, isolated environment that can only access data in the current agent session.
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October 5, 2026
You can now grant an account role, a database role, or an application role to another role with WITH GRANT OPTION. The recipient role can grant that role to other roles, including with WITH GRANT OPTION.
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October 2, 2026
Observability for Cortex Agents in a Snowflake Native App now includes the following capabilities:
agent:run API or SQL DATA_AGENT_RUN, Snowflake redacts orchestrator-authored content before writing the consumer event-table record.AI_METADATA sharing level by default or at the AI_CONTENT sharing level after the consumer approves the SHARE_AI_OBSERVABILITY_CONTENT app specification....
October 1, 2026
The following updates are now available in Snowflake Data Clean Rooms:
distribution: external field in the collaboration's specification. For more information, see iterating quickly in a same-organization collaboration.September 30, 2026
With this Public Preview release, you can use ATTACH MASKING POLICY in DCM Projects definition files to declaratively assign a masking policy to one or more columns in tables, Apache Iceberg™ tables, views, or dynamic tables. DCM Projects manages the masking policy attachment throughout its deployment lifecycle.
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September 30, 2026
With this release, DEFINE SEMANTIC VIEW in DCM Projects is generally available. You can declaratively manage semantic view definitions, including tables, relationships, facts, dimensions, metrics, AI instructions, and verified queries.
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September 30, 2026
A dynamic table configured for INCREMENTAL or ADAPTIVE refresh can now refresh incrementally after a failover group promotes a secondary to primary. Dynamic Iceberg tables, and dynamic tables with Apache Iceberg™ base tables, don't yet support continuing incremental refresh after failover.
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September 30, 2026
Semantic Studio is now generally available. Semantic Studio is the authoring environment for semantic views in Workspaces, combining conversational authoring with CoCo, direct YAML editing, and deploying YAML files to Snowflake objects. You can also use Git-backed version control to collaborate on semantic view definitions and track changes.
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September 30, 2026
With this preview release, you can monitor and troubleshoot Snowpark Connect for Spark batch jobs and sessions in Snowsight. The Spark Monitoring UI lists snowpark-submit and EXECUTE CODE BUNDLE runs under Batch Jobs, and Snowpark Connect sessions under Spark Sessions.
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September 29, 2026
Snowflake Cortex AI Functions now automatically caches and reuses the results of AI_COMPLETE calls. When a query makes an identical AI_COMPLETE call more than once, Snowflake can return the stored result instead of running inference again, which lowers cost and speeds up query execution.
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September 28, 2026
The claude-sonnet-5-5 model is now available in Public Preview in Cortex AI Functions and the Cortex REST API.
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September 28, 2026
CoCo Desktop v1.21.6 refines everyday chat controls and shores up connectivity:
cortex memory recall accepts --query-type=FUZZY|REGEX....
September 28, 2026
With this release, Inline Stored Procedures for hybrid tables are generally available. Inline Stored Procedures are a 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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September 25, 2026
The following OpenAI models are now generally available in the Cortex REST API:
openai-gpt-5.6-lunaopenai-gpt-5.6-solopenai-gpt-5.6-terra...
September 24, 2026
Code Bundles let you package non-SQL code, like Python, and run it directly on Snowflake compute with a single command, without wrapping it in a stored procedure. This release expands Code Bundles with three new ways to run, in preview:
compute_type: warehouse, in addition to compute pools.type: spark. Spark support is built on Snowpark Connect, so you can run existing Spark code on Snowflake without re-platforming it.type: ml. The job runs in the Snowflake Container Runtime, the same execution environment as the snowflake-ml-python job APIs, but the job definition is versioned in Snowflake and submitted with SQL....
September 24, 2026
The following updates are now available in Snowflake Data Clean Rooms:
September 24, 2026
With this release, hybrid tables support CHECK constraints. Previously, CHECK constraints were limited to standard tables and Snowflake-managed Iceberg tables, so a hybrid table workload had to enforce value-level rules in application code.
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September 24, 2026
You can now monitor Snowpipe Streaming ingestion with event tables to check that data is arriving, identify processing delays, and investigate failures across your pipelines. Query ingestion events with SQL to track row counts, server-side latency, row and channel errors, and channel activity. Use these records to build dashboards and configure alerts.
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September 24, 2026
With this release, we're pleased to announce the general availability of Snowpipe Streaming support for partitioned Snowflake-managed Iceberg tables. You can now ingest data into both partitioned and non-partitioned Snowflake-managed Iceberg tables, including Iceberg v2 and Iceberg v3 tables.
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September 24, 2026
You can send Trust Center findings to enterprise ticketing and monitoring systems without waiting in Snowsight or email. Configure a notification integration for a webhook or queue, such as PagerDuty, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Amazon SNS, Azure Event Grid, or Google Pub/Sub, and Snowflake delivers findings that meet your severity threshold to that endpoint.
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September 24, 2026
The VALUES clause is now supported with dynamic table incremental refresh in INCREMENTAL, AUTO, and ADAPTIVE refresh modes. You can use VALUES in the FROM clause to supply a constant set of rows, for example as a small lookup table that you join to a base table.
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September 23, 2026
Non-deterministic aggregate functions such as approx count distinct, approx percentile, and approx top k are now supported with dynamic table incremental refresh in INCREMENTAL, AUTO, and ADAPTIVE refresh modes. For incremental refresh, these functions are supported only in the SELECT clause. any value remains unsupported.
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September 23, 2026
Providers can now run a Streamlit app inside a Snowflake Native App on a container runtime, in preview. The Streamlit app runs as a Snowpark Container Services service on a compute pool that the app creates and owns in the consumer account rather than on a virtual warehouse.
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September 23, 2026
With this preview release, the Overview tab in the Trust Center includes an Account posture section. This section aggregates Trust Center monitoring activity for your account over a period that you select, showing scanning status, open findings, and at-risk entities. You can also generate a PDF posture report that covers scanner enablement, configuration changes, and violation and detection activity for the period.
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September 22, 2026
With this release, Snowflake has improved data freshness for the following premium views in the ORGANIZATION_USAGE schema. Typical data latency for these views is now under 15 minutes:
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September 21, 2026
Snowflake Cortex AI Function Evaluation is now available in public preview, enabling customers to measure the output quality, cost, and token usage of custom AI Functions and Cortex AI calls against labeled datasets. Using the AI_FUNCTION_EVALUATION experiment type, customers can establish repeatable baselines and compare prompts, models, or function implementations using consistent datasets and evaluation criteria. Evaluations can be configured directly in SQL or through the guided Cortex AI Function Studio workflow.
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September 21, 2026
Snowflake Cortex AI Function Optimization is now available in public preview, enabling customers to automatically search across prompts and models for improved implementations of custom AI Functions. Using the AI_FUNCTION_OPTIMIZATION experiment type, customers can evaluate multiple model candidates against a consistent dataset and metric, and compare their quality and estimated cost.
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September 21, 2026
The Cortex Agents Compact API is now available in preview. Use the agent:compact endpoint to summarize a conversation and pass the compact representation to subsequent agent:run requests. Compacting conversation history reduces token consumption and helps conversations stay within the model context window.
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September 21, 2026
Preserving data lineage through temporary tables and views is now generally available.
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September 18, 2026
With this release, we're pleased to announce the general availability of partition evolution for Snowflake-managed Iceberg tables. You can now change a table's partition specification after you create the table by adding, dropping, or replacing partition fields, without rewriting existing data.
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September 17, 2026
HTML generation is now available in preview as part of document generation in Snowflake CoWork. You can ask Snowflake CoWork to generate an HTML file from your analysis, the same way you generate a PDF or PowerPoint. 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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September 17, 2026
September 16, 2026
CoCo Desktop v1.21.5 is a small quality release on top of v1.21.4, focused on error messages that tell you what to do next:
cortex memory recall, and set a tighter bar for saving durable memories....
September 16, 2026
The following Cortex Agents object enhancements are now generally available:
CREATE TEMPORARY AGENT or CREATE TEMP AGENT.CREATE OR REPLACE AGENT ... COPY GRANTS....
September 16, 2026
Per-user quotas now accept individual user names, so you can add or remove specific users alongside the quota's tag scope. INCLUDE_USERS is new and takes user names directly, and EXCLUDE_USERS accepts a 'USER' argument alongside its existing 'TAG' form:
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September 16, 2026
Per-user quotas now support a weekly credit limit alongside the existing monthly and daily limits. Pass 'WEEKLY' as the cycle argument to SET_PER_USER_LIMIT:
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September 15, 2026
You can now use EXPLAIN CHANGES to predict a dynamic table's refresh behavior before it happens, either for a manual refresh or as part of a DDL change, without applying the change.
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September 15, 2026
With this release, the Horizon Catalog Explorer is the default experience for browsing Snowflake objects in Snowsight, replacing Database Explorer. The Horizon Catalog Explorer provides consistent navigation and object detail pages while preserving the tabs and actions that you already use.
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September 15, 2026
Embedding Streamlit in Snowflake apps in external pages is now generally available. You can render a container-runtime app inside a page you host, such as a customer portal or an internal dashboard, using a single <iframe> tag.
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September 15, 2026
Elastic Channels for Snowpipe Streaming are now generally available. Elastic Channels provide one implicit, server-scaled ingestion path per pipe, so concurrent producers can stream directly to Snowflake tables and supported Snowflake-managed Iceberg tables without managing channel names, lifecycle, ordering, or offset tokens.
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September 14, 2026
Snowflake Cortex AI_SUMMARIZE is now available in public preview, enabling customers to summarize text and multimodal content, including images and documents, directly in Snowflake. AI_SUMMARIZE automatically identifies and condenses key themes, facts, and relationships from content such as visual workflows, diagrams, reports, research papers, and contracts. Customers can quickly generate concise summaries of complex enterprise content using a single SQL function, without custom prompts, model selection, or document-processing pipelines.
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September 14, 2026
Catalog-linked databases now support creating and writing to tables in nested namespaces when the catalog-linked database uses a catalog integration for a catalog that supports nested namespaces. Previously, creating tables and writing to tables in nested namespaces wasn't supported for any remote catalog.
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September 14, 2026
Support for all table formats in interactive warehouses is now generally available and is no longer in Preview.
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September 14, 2026
With this release, user-managed Restricted Session Scope (RSS) is generally available in CoCo CLI, CoCo Desktop, and CoCo in Snowsight.
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