2025_03 Bundle (Preview)

Bundle History

Attention

The current status of this bundle is dependent on the completion of the 9.12 release (early May 2025, subject to change). Behavior changes described in this page might not become available in your account(s) until the completion of the release.

To determine the current version for your account, see CURRENT_VERSION.

To determine the current status of bundles in your account, see SYSTEM$SHOW_ACTIVE_BEHAVIOR_CHANGE_BUNDLES.

  1. Planned to be introduced in the 9.12 release (early May 2025) as Disabled by Default; however, account admins can enable for testing.

  2. Status planned to change in June 2025 to Enabled by Default; however, this schedule is subject to change.

  3. Status planned to change in July 2025 to Generally Enabled; however, this schedule is subject to change.

List of Changes

Important

This change list has been compiled using reasonable efforts. We are not always able to determine the full customer impact of a behavior change beforehand. The change list may not include all changes in a release, for example, last minute or emergency changes. In addition, behavior changes that are determined to have minimal to no user impact may not be pre-announced.

If you have any questions about the changes in this bundle, please contact Snowflake Support.

For differences between the in-advance and final versions of these notes, see Behavior Change Bundle change log.

For information and definitions of impact scores, see Impact score.

Security Changes

Impact Score

Additional Notes

Rename the CREATE DATA EXCHANGE LISTING privilege to CREATE LISTING (Preview)

Low

SQL Changes — Commands & Functions

Impact Score

Additional Notes

DML and CTAS commands: Potential for wrong results when the RELY property is set (Preview)

High

DROP TABLE command: Changes to CASCADE behavior for hybrid tables (Preview)

High

CREATE ORGANIZATION LISTING and ALTER LISTING organization_targets field cannot be empty (Preview)

Medium

SHOW FUNCTIONS and SHOW PROCEDURES commands: Output displays complete data type for arguments (Preview)

Medium

SHOW GIT REPOSITORIES and DESC GIT REPOSITORY commands: LAST_OPERATION_STATUS column removed from output (Preview)

Medium

SHOW USERS and DESCRIBE USER commands: Changes to output (Preview)

Low

SQL Changes — Usage Views & Information Schema Views / Table Functions

Impact Score

Additional Notes

Account Usage and Information Schema views: Changes to DATA_TYPE output for string columns (Preview)

Medium

Data Pipeline Changes

Impact Score

Additional Notes

Dynamic tables: New behavior for cloned dynamic tables (Preview)

High

Data Lake Changes

Impact Score

Additional Notes

Apache Iceberg™ tables: ABFS write paths for Azure external volumes (Preview)

High

Developer / Extensibility Changes

Impact Score

Additional Notes

Java and Python UDFs and stored procedures: Changes to handling of // when resolving file paths in file access APIs (Preview)

High

Snowpark Container Services: Ingress and web app security updates for Azure (Preview)

High

Python UDFs and stored procedures: Stop implicit auto-injection of the psutil package (Preview)

Medium

Telemetry: Python telemetry library automatically installed (Preview)

Medium

New column in view or command

Impact Score

Additional Notes

DESCRIBE AVAILABLE LISTING and DESCRIBE LISTING commands: New column in output (Preview)

Low

SHOW CHANNELS command: New columns in output (Preview)

Low

SHOW SNAPSHOTS and DESCRIBE SNAPSHOT commands: New column in output (Preview)

Low

SHOW WAREHOUSES command: New columns in output (Preview)

Low

Behavior Change Bundle change log

Announcement

Update

Date

Added impact scores

BCRs in Bundle 2025_03 have been rated according to the definitions in Impact score.

30-Apr-2025

Released as preview

Bundle 2025_03 announcements released as preview.

25-Apr-2025