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• PERIOD data type (Preview)

Prompt injection guardrails in Cortex AI Guardrails are now available when the CORTEX_ENABLED_CROSS_REGION account parameter is set to AWS_EU, AWS_JP, or AWS_APJ. Previously, prompt injection guardrails required ANY_REGION, AWS_US, or AWS_GLOBAL.

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The Snowflake AIM Agent for Data Warehouses now supports migrating SAS workloads to Snowflake. This capability covers AI-assisted assessment of SAS codebases and AI-based code conversion of SAS programs to Snowflake SQL, including loading SAS dataset files (.sas7bdat) into Snowflake tables.

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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.

External lineage is now generally available and is no longer in Preview.

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With this release, Restricted Session Scope (RSS) is generally available. An RSS is a privilege ceiling that limits what an agent can do on behalf of a user. It intersects with RBAC and never grants privileges the user doesn't already have through their roles.

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You can now use data lineage to see which data a Cortex Agent can reach through the tools declared in its specification. A semantic view that a Cortex Analyst tool references, and a Cortex Search service that a Cortex Search tool references, both appear upstream of the agent. Because a semantic view is itself downstream of the tables it references, you can trace the whole path from a table, through the semantic view, to the agent that consumes it.

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Snowflake App Runtime is now generally available and is no longer in Preview.

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Snowflake App Runtime projects use a single app.yml file to describe both deployment and the remote build. Include version: 2 at the top of the file. snow app setup writes this file for new projects.

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CoCo Desktop v1.21.2 adds new ways to visualize query results and create automations, and fixes reliability problems in long-running sessions and at startup on managed machines:

• Four new chart types: table and data_frame for tabular output, horizontal_bar_chart for ranked lists and long category names, and vega_lite_spec for charts the built-in types don't cover, such as heatmaps, box plots, and layered or faceted charts.
• Choose local or cloud when creating an automation: + New asks which kind of automation you want instead of following the active tab, and cloud automation titles are validated as you type.
• Redesigned restricted session scope dialog: Read-only and named scopes share one selection flow that matches Snowsight, with role search matches highlighted and cancellable creation.

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With this preview release, Snowflake-provided tags are available in every account. 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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The Cortex Agents asynchronous API is now generally available on AWS and Microsoft Azure.

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Snowflake recommends transitioning to Cortex Agents, which supports every Cortex Analyst capability with higher answer quality. Snowflake adds new natural language analytics capabilities to Cortex Agents.

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CoCo in the Snowflake Extension for Visual Studio Code is now generally available. CoCo runs in a side panel next to the extension's existing SQL and Snowpark Python workflows, so you can work locally while you stay connected to your Snowflake account.

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A dbt project object on Snowflake can now include up to 100,000 files (up from 20,000). This limit counts every file in the project directory and its subdirectories, including the models/ folder and generated folders such as target/, dbt_packages/, and logs/.

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

• ML Jobs image_tag default now resolves to the latest available runtime version: When you register a code spec without an explicit image_tag, the collaboration resolves to the latest available runtime image when the code spec is added to a collaboration. Previously the default was the static 2.8.1 tag. To pick up a newer default image on an existing code spec, re-add the code spec to the collaboration. To pin a specific version, set image_tag explicitly. For details, see the ML Jobs code spec field reference.
• Corrected update request status for requestors: In VIEW_UPDATE_REQUESTS, a requestor's own entry now correctly shows the REQUESTED status until the request is processed, instead of prematurely showing APPROVED.
• General performance improvements and bug fixes.

Referencing a Cortex Extension from an agent skill is now generally available. Set the skill source type to CORTEX_EXTENSION and path to the extension's fully qualified name, and Snowflake expands the reference into the extension's member skills at request time, so you don't list each skill individually. Updates to the extension flow to every agent that references it, and access is controlled by the READ privilege on the extension object.

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The Cortex Agents Coding Agent is now generally available. Add the code_toolset_all tool type to a Cortex Agent, and Snowflake provisions and manages a sandbox backed by the same runtime that powers Snowflake CoCo: bash, file read/write/edit, grep, glob, web search, SQL execution, and skills. Snowflake executes the tools and streams results back to your application, so you don't build or host an agent loop yourself.

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With this release, you can specify whether an organization user represents a person or a service. Set the TYPE property to SERVICE for a service or application that interacts with Snowflake without human interaction. If you don't specify a type, the organization user is a PERSON user, which matches the previous behavior.

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Semantic Studio is now available in public preview for all accounts. Semantic Studio is the authoring environment for semantic views in Workspaces, combining conversational authoring with CoCo, direct YAML editing, and deployment to the live Snowflake object in a single surface.

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With this release, multi-value tags are generally available. You can assign more than one string value to the same tag.

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Remote app operations are now available in public preview for Snowflake Native Apps. Providers can perform on-demand operations on consumer apps, including running SQL statements (run_sql), retrying a failed upgrade (retry_upgrade), and disabling/enabling the app (disable/enable), all through a new system function SYSTEM$REMOTE_APP_OPERATION.

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Remote Development with the Snowflake Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available in public preview.

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Stable egress IP addresses are now available in preview on Azure. 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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CoCo Desktop v1.21.1 is a stability and polish release that focuses on automation schedules, native HTML report publishing, and reliability:

• Monthly automation schedules: Schedule an automation on a specific day of the month (1 through 31).
• Publish HTML reports from Desktop: The publish-report flow now runs natively, so publishing an HTML report no longer requires the cortex command-line binary.
• Right-click menu for chat sessions: Conversations in the Agent Manager sidebar offer Pin, Rename, and Delete from a right-click context menu.

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With this release, Snowflake has improved data freshness for most premium views in the ORGANIZATION_USAGE schema. Typical data latency is now under 3 hours. Many of these views previously had a latency of up to 24 hours.

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Cortex Agent and Cortex Analyst evaluations now let you control the versioned configuration used for scoring:

• Cortex Agent version targeting – The new agent_version key in the evaluation YAML agent_params block runs an evaluation against a specific agent version, alias, or shortcut, so a scheduled or CI/CD evaluation stays reproducible instead of tracking a mutable live version. You can also pick the version from a dropdown in Snowsight or through Cortex Code.
• System metric versions – All five system metrics accept a version key: answer_correctness, logical_consistency, tool_selection_accuracy, and tool_execution_accuracy for Cortex Agent evaluations, and sql_correctness for Cortex Analyst evaluations. A version pins the judge model along with the prompt, rubric, and thresholds behind a score. Versions v2 and v3 add GPT judges for accounts that don't allow Anthropic models, and v3 uses a 1M-token (claude-sonnet-4-6) or 1.05M-token (openai-gpt-5.4) context window, which reduces the odds of context window overload on long traces. Unversioned metrics use v1 today and roll forward when that version is deprecated.
• Cortex Agent custom metric judge models – Custom metric definitions accept a model key that names the LLM judge for that metric. If you omit model, Snowflake uses claude-4-sonnet today and rolls forward when that model is deprecated.

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CoCo automations in the CoCo CLI and CoCo in Snowsight are now available in public preview. Automations let you schedule recurring, unattended CoCo runs that execute in a Snowflake-managed sandbox. Each run creates a Cortex thread that you can inspect and continue in CoCo. Automations created from one surface can be monitored and managed from the other.

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AI_EXTRACT and AI_PARSE_DOCUMENT now 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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The Cortex Agent code execution tool is now in public preview. When you enable the tool on an agent, the agent can generate and run Python in a secure, isolated sandbox to process data, perform calculations, and produce visualizations. The sandbox includes the Python standard library along with preinstalled data-processing and plotting libraries such as numpy, pandas, scipy, pyarrow, matplotlib, and plotly. You can install additional PyPI packages through the Artifact Repository.

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

• External and Apache Iceberg™ tables in cross-region collaborations: Collaborators can now share data offerings that reference external or Iceberg tables with parties in the same region as the collaboration owner, even when the collaboration itself is leveraging Cross-Cloud Auto-Fulfillment. These offerings can't be shared with collaborators in other clouds or regions, because replication isn't supported for these object types in Data Clean Rooms.
• Preset tables in clean room templates (public preview): A template author can now preset a specific provider dataset in a template with a preset_tables block. The template logic can use this dataset and the analysis runner doesn't need to supply it at run time. Learn more.
• Legacy identity connectors removed from the web application: As part of the ongoing deprecation of the legacy Data Clean Rooms web application, the LiveRamp, Acxiom, Merkury, and PAIR third-party identity connectors have been removed. TransUnion remains available. Available identity connectors are listed in the connectors documentation.

With this release, data movement policies are now generally available for Enterprise Edition (or higher). Data movement policies are part of Snowflake's data exfiltration protection controls. These SQL-style conditional policies can help you limit, alert on, or block data movement operations based on specific movement types.

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Organization Features is now in preview in Organization Command Center.

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3rd party access configuration is now in preview in Organization Command Center.

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You can now use the Horizon Iceberg REST Catalog (IRC) API to access externally managed Apache Iceberg™ tables in a catalog-linked database from external engines such as Apache Spark™, Trino, DuckDB, or PyIceberg. This extends existing Horizon IRC support for Snowflake-managed Iceberg tables so you can use a single catalog endpoint for both Snowflake-managed and externally managed tables, with Snowflake RBAC enforced consistently.

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Power BI ingestion for Semantic View Autopilot is now generally available. You can upload a .pbit or .pbix file to Semantic View Autopilot and have a semantic view created automatically from your existing data model, preserving the DAX measures, table relationships, and column descriptions you've already built in Power BI and making them available to Cortex Analyst.

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User skills are now available in public preview in Snowflake CoWork. Business users can create reusable workflows conversationally, from the UI (+ menu > Skills > Create new), or by uploading a skill folder on Capabilities > Skills, then run them explicitly with / or from the Skills menus, or implicitly when a conversation matches the skill.

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Sensitive data classification now supports AI mode in public preview. When you enable AI mode on a classification profile, Snowflake uses the OpenAI GPT-5 Mini model to identify additional semantic categories beyond those detected by standard classification, which can improve accuracy.

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The SNOWFLAKE_COCO_USAGE_HISTORY view is now generally available in the ACCOUNT_USAGE and ORGANIZATION_USAGE schemas. It provides a unified view of usage history for CoCo across the CLI, Desktop, and Snowsight interfaces.

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With this release, we are pleased to announce the general availability of feature policy rules. A feature policy can carry a YAML body that conditionally blocks object creation based on attributes of the request. For example, you can permit tables in general but block temporary tables, or permit tasks but block serverless (no-warehouse) tasks.

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• Per-user quotas (General availability)
• Anomaly monitors for cost anomalies (Preview)

CoCo Desktop v1.21.0 adds enterprise device-management enforcement on macOS, more in-app file previews in agent mode, and fixes a sign-in loop that could open browser tabs indefinitely:

• Enterprise device-management enforcement (macOS): On managed macOS devices, CoCo Desktop enforces your organization's MDM policy at the app-version, connect, and inference gates, including the per-account allowed authentication methods. Unmanaged devices are unaffected.
• More file previews in agent mode: Preview .pdf, .csv, .pptx, .docx, .html, and .ipynb files directly in the app while working with the agent.
• Fixed: repeated SSO sign-in tabs: With external-browser or OAuth authorization-code sign-in, leaving CoCo Desktop open no longer opens browser sign-in tabs indefinitely.

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The following Trust Center findings remediation capabilities are now generally available:

• One-click remediation: for supported CIS Benchmarks violation findings, the Trust Center generates the SQL statements that remediate the violation findings, shows you the plan, and runs it after you approve it. For more information, see using the trust center#label trust center remediate violations programmatically.
• Remediation with CoCo: CoCo explains a violation finding in the context of your account, recommends remediation steps, and can run them with your approval. For more information, see using the trust center#label trust center remediate with cortex code.

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.

The ACCOUNT_USAGE and ORGANIZATION_USAGE schemas now include a new POSTGRES_COMPUTE_USAGE_HISTORY view that provides visibility into the hourly compute credit usage for Postgres instances.

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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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With this preview release, you can resolve access-related SQL errors in Workspaces by submitting access requests directly from Snowsight. When a query fails because of missing privileges and the user can't self-resolve the issue by switching roles, the user can submit a request with a reason. Users with the ACCOUNTADMIN or SECURITYADMIN role receive notifications and can review, approve, reject, or mark requests as approved externally on the Requests & Approvals page.

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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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