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• IPADDRESS data type (General availability)

Snowflake CoCo for Excel and Snowflake CoCo for Google Sheets are now available in preview. Each one adds CoCo as a chat pane inside your spreadsheet, connected to your live Snowflake data. From the pane, you can query data with natural language or SQL; build pivot tables, charts, and formulas; and use the semantic views your role can access. Queries run under your own role, so access control, masking, and row access policies apply to the data that reaches your spreadsheet. CoCo previews every change before it writes to the spreadsheet, and it records a citation to the source of each written value.

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Inference, observability, and cost management for Cortex AI Gateway are now generally available. The gateway gives AI clients in your organization one governed endpoint to reach models, records a trace of every request, and attributes spend to the users who made it.

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The gemini-4-argon model is now generally available in AI Functions.

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AI_EXTRACT now delivers a 12.8% relative improvement in average extraction accuracy compared with the previous version in our evaluations. Extract fields, lists, and tables more accurately from complex documents, including forms, handwritten content, dense tables, and charts.

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Open Data Sharing is now generally available and is no longer in Preview.

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Cortex Training is now available in preview. Cortex Training is a serverless service for customizing open-weight large language models. You run your training loop from your own workspace, and Snowflake runs the GPU work: forward and backward passes, optimizer steps, and generation. You don't need to provision GPU clusters or manage training infrastructure, and your training data stays in Snowflake.

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With this Public Preview release, you can use DEFINE SECRET in DCM Projects definition files to declaratively manage secrets. You can also declare environment variables and secrets in the DCM project manifest to supply values that stay out of your definition files, repository, and deployment artifacts. DCM Projects masks secret values in PLAN and DEPLOY changesets, deployment history artifacts, and logs. You can supply the values in Workspaces, from Snowflake CLI, or from SQL.

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With this preview release, hybrid tables are supported in all Google Cloud commercial regions. Hybrid tables remain generally available in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure commercial regions.

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Tri-Secret Secure for Snowflake storage for Iceberg tables is now generally available for accounts hosted on AWS or Microsoft Azure. You can encrypt the data that Snowflake storage for Iceberg tables writes to your account's Snowflake-managed storage volume by using a customer-managed key (CMK) that you create in AWS Key Management Service (KMS) or in Azure Key Vault.

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Deep Research in Snowflake CoWork now researches the web as part of an investigation when the agent has web search enabled. Web findings are cited in the report alongside findings from your data. The web research has no access to your data. Without web search, investigations use only your data.

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External OAuth for Snowflake Postgres is now generally available. You can authenticate connections to a Snowflake Postgres instance with access tokens from an external identity provider.

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With this release, you can use the UUID data type in hybrid tables. A UUID column can be a primary key, a foreign key, or a secondary index.

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CoCo Desktop v1.23.1 gives agent settings their own page and reduces approval prompts:

• Customize page for agent settings: MCP servers, skills, agents, hooks, rules, and plugins have their own Customize page in the Agent view sidebar. The settings button opens App Settings.
• Fewer approval prompts for file edits: With Default Approvals, ordinary file edits no longer ask for approval. Edits to sensitive files still do.
• Upload any file type: The Upload file option in the chat accepts any file type, up to 30 MB.

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The following updates are now available in Snowflake Data Clean Rooms:

• General performance improvements and bug fixes.
• Updates to private preview features.

Access to externally managed Apache Iceberg™ tables through Snowflake Horizon Catalog is now generally available.

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With this release, Horizon Iceberg REST Catalog telemetry is generally available. Snowflake can capture the HTTP requests that external query engines make against the Horizon Iceberg REST Catalog APIs and write them to your account event table. Use these events to monitor catalog traffic, troubleshoot integrations with external engines, and correlate catalog activity with access history.

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Snowflake Cortex AI_PARSE_DOCUMENT introduces AGENTIC mode in Public Preview, turning complex enterprise documents—from financial reports to technical manuals—into actionable information for AI applications, analytics, and automation. Go beyond text extraction to unlock information in charts, diagrams, tables, and other visuals with a single SQL call, without building or managing complex document-processing pipelines.

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The Cortex Agents Coding Agent agent:run API now accepts three additional public controls on a request that includes the code_toolset_all tool:

• thinking_effort sets the orchestration model's reasoning effort. Accepted values are minimal, low, medium, high, xhigh, and max. Each model uses a subset of those values, and a request above that subset is lowered to the highest level the model accepts. Omit the field to keep the default for the model.
• instructions.system appends extra system instructions to the managed coding-agent prompt. The text does not replace the sandbox, tool, or skill instructions.
• stage_mounts, on the code_toolset_all entry in tool_resources, mounts a Snowflake stage or versioned stage into the sandbox. Versioned stages include notebooks, Streamlit apps, workspaces, and agents. workspace_mounts is unchanged and still mounts a persistent, writable workspace at version live.

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With this release, the my budget summary snowflake local table function is generally available. You can now use it to check your limits, usage, and block status for the per-user quotas that apply to you:

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You can now use the SNOWFLAKE.ACCOUNT_USAGE.APPLICATION_DAILY_USAGE_HISTORY view to track supported Cortex AI credits attributed to a Snowflake Native App. This includes Cortex Agent token usage, Cortex Search serving and embedding usage, and Cortex AI Function token usage on application-owned warehouses.

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The following OpenAI models are now in public preview in AI Functions:

• openai-gpt-5.6-luna
• openai-gpt-5.6-terra
• openai-gpt-6-luna

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Request Access in Workspaces is now generally available and is no longer in Preview.

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The Streamlit in Snowflake container runtime is now generally available in the People's Republic of China. Container runtimes run your Streamlit in Snowflake apps on Snowpark Container Services compute pools.

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The COPY = ( ... ) parameter for CREATE OR REPLACE statements names the kinds of metadata to carry over from the object being replaced onto its replacement, so you don't need to restate it.

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With this Public Preview release, you can use DEFINE TASK GRAPH in DCM Projects definition files to declaratively manage a task graph and its member tasks. A task graph provides one place for graph-wide settings, including the schedule, overlap policy, retry behavior, and member-task defaults. DCM Projects manages the task graph throughout its deployment lifecycle.

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Describe the files that you want to load, and CoCo builds the load for you: a Snowpipe pipeline that loads new files from cloud storage within minutes of their arrival, or a one-time COPY INTO for files that are already in place. Both capabilities load into standard Snowflake tables or Snowflake-managed Apache Iceberg™ tables. They're now generally available in CoCo CLI, CoCo Desktop, and CoCo in Snowsight.

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Two Cortex Code skills now help you work with interactive analytics:

• snowflake-interactive: Helps you start using interactive warehouses, evaluate whether a query is a good fit, choose clustering keys, manage warehouses, and troubleshoot issues. The skill is available in Cortex Code CLI, Cortex Code Desktop, and Snowsight.
• interactive-benchmark: Load tests a query on an interactive warehouse to check whether it meets a latency goal, such as a P95 target, under concurrency. The skill is available in Cortex Code CLI and Cortex Code Desktop.

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The openai-gpt-6.1-terra model is now in public preview in Cortex Inference (REST API) and AI Functions.

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CoCo Desktop v1.23.0 makes sessions easier to organize and brings Snowflake Managed MCP servers to all accounts:

• Organize the session list: Group sessions by date or status, sort them by recent activity or status, and see which sections need your attention.
• Copy a session's ID or transcript: Right-click a session to copy its ID or transcript.
• Prompt history for each chat: The Up and Down arrow keys in the message box step through the messages sent in the current chat.

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With this release, a feature policy rule can include an error_message that explains why a statement was blocked. When the rule blocks a statement, Snowflake adds the message to the error that the user sees, so you can tell users what's allowed instead.

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With this release, secondary indexes are generally available.

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With this preview release, Autopilot is available for sensitive data classification. Autopilot lets Snowflake manage classification timing, reclassification schedules, and minimum object age to optimize performance and cost.

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CoCo Desktop v1.22.1 brings Defer to Production to Snowflake-managed dbt runs and makes sessions and apps easier to manage:

• Defer to Production for Snowflake-managed dbt runs: The dbt Run configuration lets you defer to a production dbt project object and choose which of its runs to compare to.
• Agent-named chat sessions: The agent can rename the current chat session, and you confirm each rename.
• Snowflake object discovery for everyone: The snowflake-object-discovery subagent is now on by default for all users.

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You can now call OpenAI models through the OpenAI-compatible Responses API, in preview. Send requests to /api/v2/cortex/v1/responses on the Cortex REST API, or to /v1/responses on the Cortex AI Gateway, with the OpenAI SDK or any other client that uses the Responses API.

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Retrieve Cortex Search is now available in Public Preview. The CORTEX_SEARCH_RETRIEVE table function lets you run low-latency Cortex Search queries directly from SQL, either one query at a time or one query per input row with a LATERAL join.

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Snowflake-managed MCP servers can expose a coding agent that does not require a stored agent object. Add a tool with type CODING_AGENT to the MCP server specification. The specification holds the agent configuration, and each call sends the user message. Snowflake adds the code_toolset_all tool on every run, which gives the agent a managed coding sandbox attached to the conversation thread. A call can pass thread_id to continue the same conversation.

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With this release, the GEN_ARM_G1 and GEN_X64_G1 instance families are generally available for Snowpark Container Services on Google Cloud. Each family provides general-purpose compute in five sizes, from 1 vCPU to 28 vCPU.

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With this preview release, you can manage task graph settings centrally, update pipelines without suspending them, and control when tasks run based on upstream outcomes.

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Custom runtime images for ML Jobs are now generally available. You can build, validate, and register your own custom container images as Custom Runtime Environments (CREs), and then reference them when you submit ML Jobs on Container Runtime by using the runtime_environment="cre@<name>" format. Custom runtime images let you include specific packages, meet compliance and security requirements, integrate with existing CI/CD pipelines, and ensure reproducibility across environments.

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The following updates are now available in Snowflake Data Clean Rooms:

• Collaboration edits are generally available: Collaboration owners can add, remove, or update collaborator roles. Each change takes effect only after the required collaborators approve it based on the type of update being made. Learn more.
• Fixed security scan timeouts after removing templates: Previously, when you removed a template from a collaboration by calling REMOVE_TEMPLATE, the template's associated code specs were left behind, which could cause security scans to time out. REMOVE_TEMPLATE now also removes code specs that are no longer used by any remaining template in the collaboration.
• Upgraded Clean Rooms Python runtime: The Snowflake Data Clean Rooms native app now runs on Python 3.13 (previously 3.10), which brings performance and security improvements.

We are introducing ingress policies in preview. An ingress policy admits or blocks a request by combining several conditions in one policy. This preview includes the following capabilities:

• Combined admission rules. Evaluate network origin, authentication method, client, geolocation, PrivateLink ID, and endpoint path in one policy. Combine the conditions with AND, OR, and NOT, then allow or block the request. For example, allow drivers from the corporate network and block a specific application, or allow single sign-on only from approved countries.
• Difference from network and authentication policies. A network policy controls network locations and private connectivity. An authentication policy controls authentication methods, clients, security integrations, and multi-factor authentication. An ingress policy makes one allow-or-block decision from several of these signals together, including geolocation and endpoint path. Snowflake evaluates each policy on its own. A request is admitted only when every applicable policy allows it.
• Login and subsequent requests. Snowflake evaluates the policy when a user logs in and again on every subsequent authenticated request through drivers and APIs, so a policy change can affect existing sessions.

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Pipeline Builder is now available in public preview. Pipeline Builder is a visual designer in Workspaces for orchestrating Snowflake Notebooks, Python files, ML Jobs, and SQL as task graphs. Each pipeline is a DCM project, so you can plan every change before you deploy it and keep the pipeline in Git.

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Read-only mode for primary failover groups is now generally available.

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Skill and plugin sharing in CoCo is now generally available and is no longer in Preview.

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The Declarative Feature Store workflow is now generally available. Define your feature store resources (entities, data sources, feature views, and feature groups) as version-controlled YAML or Python specs, then preview and deploy them with the snow feature CLI using a plan-and-apply workflow.

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Snowflake Postgres now offers expanded insights through the insights extension. After you create the extension in a database, it continuously collects performance and health metrics from your instance and stores them in the insights schema. You can view hourly and daily history, expected-range baselines, and metric trend forecasts on the Insights tab in Snowsight, or query the data directly with SQL.

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Starting October 20, 2026, Cortex Fine-tuning will no longer support the creation of new fine-tuned models in AWS US East 1 (N. Virginia).

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The following improvements are now available for dbt Projects on Snowflake:

• dbt State integration: Connect dbt project objects and Workspaces to dbt State, a dbt Labs service that decides which models need to be rebuilt and which models can be reused during an execution. Skipping models that don't need to run aims to reduce execution runtime and warehouse compute. You connect your project to your dbt Platform account through an env.yml secret and an external access integration. For setup, supported dbt versions, and billing, see dbt projects on snowflake dbt state integration.

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When you increase TARGET_FILE_SIZE on a Snowflake-managed Iceberg table, data compaction recompacts older files that were written under the smaller target and compacts new files using the larger setting. For example, if files were compacted at 64 MB and the new target file size is 128 MB, data compaction recompacts older files from 64 MB to 128 MB. For more information, see Set a target file size.

Online Feature Store is now generally available and is no longer in Preview.

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With this release, the following Trust Center reports are generally available. These reports require Enterprise Edition or higher.

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With this release, Snowflake-provided tags are generally available. These out-of-the-box tags in the SNOWFLAKE.TAGS schema give you a consistent vocabulary for common governance use cases, including cost center, certification status, sensitivity, environment, and project, without creating and maintaining equivalent tags in each account.

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We are pleased to announce the preview of Tools for Cortex AI Gateway, which connects AI clients to the business tools your organization already uses through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Supported clients include CoCo Desktop, CoCo CLI, Claude, and Cursor.

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With this release, we're pleased to announce the general availability of schema variables.

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• IPADDRESS data type (Preview)

Cortex AI Gateway is now available to accounts in Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) commercial regions, and in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Asia Pacific (New Zealand) region.

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The grok-4.7 and glm-5.3 models are now available in Public Preview in AI Functions, Cortex Inference, Cortex Agents, Snowflake CoWork, and Snowflake CoCo.

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The following Apache Iceberg™ v3 features are now generally available.

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We're introducing Parquet Direct in preview. With Parquet Direct, you can create read-only Apache Iceberg™ tables in Snowflake from Apache Parquet™ files in your cloud object storage. Snowflake registers your existing files in place, so you can query your data without copying it or rewriting it, and with better query performance than external tables.

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The following updates are now available in Snowflake Data Clean Rooms:

• General performance improvements and bug fixes.

Data mirroring for Snowflake Postgres is now generally available. Data mirroring continuously replicates tables from a Snowflake Postgres instance into a Snowflake database with minimal lag. Inserts, updates, deletes, and schema changes on the source appear on the target automatically, without ETL pipelines, batch jobs, or third-party connectors. This feature is currently supported on AWS and Azure.

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Document generation in Snowflake CoWork is now generally available and is no longer in Preview. You can ask Snowflake CoWork to generate a PDF, a Word document (.docx), a PowerPoint presentation, or an HTML file from your analysis. 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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CoCo Desktop v1.21.7 lets the agent manage your automations and makes MCP connections easier to control:

• Manage automations from chat: The agent can list, create, update, delete, and run local automations, and it asks for confirmation before every change.
• Redesigned MCP connection controls: Each MCP server has a single Connect/Disconnect button, and OAuth MCP servers ask you to sign in far less often.
• Stop cancels multi-statement SQL runs: Pressing Stop ends the whole run instead of continuing to the next statement.

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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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The gemini-4-argon model is now available in Public Preview in AI Functions with AI_COMPLETE.

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With this release, sensitive data classification provides more specific error messages when automatic classification fails.

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We're introducing Horizon Context in preview. Horizon Context extends Horizon Catalog beyond Snowflake. This preview includes the following capabilities:

• Metadata connectors. Connect Horizon Catalog to 18 sources, including Power BI, Tableau, dbt, Databricks, BigQuery, SQL Server, Oracle, and PostgreSQL. You can browse and search external assets, trace column-level lineage across platforms, and manage tags and descriptions in Horizon Catalog. For more information, see connectors.
• External metadata management. Manage external metadata natively in Horizon Catalog, such as editing descriptions and applying tags and contacts directly to Power BI and Tableau dashboards.
• Metadata-only editing access. The APPLY COMMENT privilege lets data stewards curate descriptions without MODIFY or OWNERSHIP. External metadata management has its own privileges and doesn't require the ACCOUNTADMIN role. For more information, see access control.

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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:

• The QUERY_TYPE column identifies supported consumer query types, including data unloads.
• The 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.

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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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You can now share a Streamlit in Snowflake app directly with a user, not only with a role. In the Share Streamlit app window, search by username and select a permission level. If the user lacks USAGE on the app's database and schema, you can grant it from the same window. The user is notified in Snowsight, and by email if their email address is verified.

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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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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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The following updates are now available in Snowflake Data Clean Rooms:

• Updated registration validations for data offerings: When you call 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.
• Fixed privileges for unregistering resources from custom registries: For custom registries created after this release, a role that was granted the REGISTER privilege on a custom registry can now call 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.
• General performance improvements and bug fixes.

Stable egress IP addresses are now generally available on Azure and are no longer in Preview. You can generate Snowflake egress IP address ranges (as CIDR addresses) and add them to an external server's allowlist so that Snowflake can make requests to that server.

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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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The claude-haiku-5-5 model is now available in Public Preview in the Cortex REST API.

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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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The kimi-k3 model is now available in Public Preview in AI Functions and the Cortex REST API.

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Data lineage now includes the following relationships:

• A storage integration is upstream of each stage that uses it.
• A stage is upstream of each external table created on it.
• A model version is upstream of each model monitor that observes it.

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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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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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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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The openai-gpt-6.1-sol model is now available in Public Preview in Cortex AI.

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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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