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• Anomaly monitors for cost anomalies (Preview)

You can now use CREATE OR ALTER DYNAMIC ICEBERG TABLE to create a dynamic Apache Iceberg™ table if it doesn't exist or alter an existing one in place. The statement represents the complete target state: properties you don't specify reset to their default values, and the command doesn't trigger a refresh by itself.

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

• Improved error handling and validation for RUN: Error handling now covers a broader range of template run failure cases, surfacing clear, actionable error messages, along with faster pre-flight validation. These improvements apply to collaborations created after the June 18, 2026 release.
• Faster API performance: Improvements have been made to reduce latency for GET_STATUS, VIEW_REGISTERED_TEMPLATES, VIEW_REGISTRIES, and GET_CONFIGURATION.
• Fixed freeform SQL view resolution for data providers: Incorrectly formatted freeform SQL view names in the response of VIEW_DATA_OFFERINGS for the data provider have been corrected.

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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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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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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Cortex Agents and MCP servers in Snowflake Native Apps are now generally available.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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• CREATE OR ALTER DYNAMIC TABLE (General availability)

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

• Improved handling for cross-region replication delays: When a collaboration listing is still replicating to your region, REVIEW (for collaborators) and JOIN (for the owner) now return a clear 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.
• Teardown/Leave support for CREATING/INSTALLING collaborations: You can now teardown or leave collaborations that are in the CREATING or INSTALLING state.
• Improved handling for collaboration creation failures: Retry handling has been extended to avoid collaboration creation failures in case of listing metadata synchronization delays.

ADAPTIVE refresh mode for dynamic tables is now generally available.

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The data quality monitoring dashboard is now available in public preview for Enterprise Edition accounts.

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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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CoCo Desktop v1.20.2 fixes a Windows update crash, adds one-click sharing of skills and plugins, and includes a Restart menu item:

• Fixed: crash on Windows after updating to v1.20.0: Windows users who updated from v1.17.0 or earlier to v1.20.0 could be left stuck. Stale modules are now cleaned up after an update and the updater no longer terminates itself mid-run, so affected Windows users can update normally.
• Share skills and plugins with a deep link: A coco:// deep link installs a skill or plugin straight from the Snowflake catalog in one click, always resolving to the latest certified version.
• Restart from the File menu: A proper Restart option, with a guard so it won't interrupt an in-progress update.

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AI code suggestions in Cortex Code are now generally available. This release also includes updated keybindings and bug fixes.

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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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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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Custom incremental dynamic tables are now generally available.

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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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• Notification integrations for cost anomaly alerts (General availability)

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

• End-of-life notice for legacy Provider and Consumer Data Clean Rooms: The legacy Provider and Consumer Data Clean Rooms are being discontinued. Migrate to the Collaboration API using the migration tool before the following dates:
• 2026-10-01: New legacy clean rooms can no longer be created through the web application.
• 2027-02-01: The web application becomes inaccessible, and new legacy clean rooms can no longer be created through the Provider and Consumer API.

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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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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CoCo Desktop v1.20.0 focuses on a smoother, more reliable chat:

• Refreshed update card: The "ready to install" screen now matches the onboarding card design and includes a "What's new" link to the release notes.
• Better prompt caching and token efficiency: Improved prompt caching and tuning make sessions quicker and more cost-efficient on tokens.
• Draft messages are preserved: Unsent messages stick around across model swaps, editor hides, and session switches.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Snowflake now maintains built-in network rules for five additional Microsoft partner applications:

• Microsoft Entra ID
• Microsoft Power Automate
• Microsoft Power Query Online

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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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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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• Session variable size limit increased to 16KB
• Object definition size limit increased to 1MB
• VARIANT and structured types: Support for UUID and DECFLOAT values
• New function: FORMAT_STRING_TEMPLATE

• Apache Iceberg™ tables: Support for the UNKNOWN data type (Preview)

• Java 21 support for Snowpark (Preview)

CoCo Desktop added the following capabilities across releases v1.16.0 through v1.19.1:

• Personalization and Memory: A dedicated Personalization page for custom instructions and built-in tool toggles, plus persistent memory that carries context across conversations. For more information, see personalization and memory.
• Built-in web search and web fetch: The agent can search the web and fetch content from URLs when you enable those tools. For more information, see personalization.
• Semantic code search (tgrep): Find the right files in your codebase from a plain-English description, powered by Snowflake Cortex embeddings. For more information, see semantic code search.

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DCM Projects now supports the following capabilities in preview:

• PLAN DELTA: A faster variant of PLAN that only evaluates definitions that changed since the last deployment, and any downstream definitions that depend on them. Use it during active development for faster feedback on incremental changes, but always run a full PLAN to review all changes before deploying.
• Python and Java functions and procedures: DEFINE FUNCTION and DEFINE PROCEDURE now support Python and Java handlers, in addition to SQL.
• ATTACH TAG: Declaratively assign Snowflake object tags, including to table and view columns, to any DCM Projects-managed entity. DCM Projects reconciles the declared tag assignments on every deployment.

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The following new features and enhancements are now available in Snowflake Data Clean Rooms:

• Improved error handling in 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.
• Improved validation in 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.
• General performance improvements and bug fixes.

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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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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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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You can now use SQL to register, rotate, modify, and remove named key pairs for a user. Each key pair has its own name and supports an optional role restriction and expiration time.

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Consumer-controlled maintenance policies for Snowflake Native Apps are now generally available.

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