Snowflake Connector for Kafka release notes for 2025

This article contains the release notes for the Snowflake Connector for Kafka, including the following when applicable:

  • Behavior changes

  • New features

  • Customer-facing bug fixes

Snowflake uses semantic versioning for Snowflake Connector for Kafka updates.

See Snowflake Connector for Kafka for documentation.

Version 3.1.0 (January 21, 2025)

Important

If the snowflake.topic2table.map parameter is configured, Snowflake recommends using this version. We strongly recommend upgrading the connector if you are on earlier versions 2.x, 1.9.x, and 1.8.x.

Behavior changes

Not applicable

New features

  • The connector now supports external OAuth authentication.

  • The connector has been updated to improve offset logging for Snowpipe.

  • The connector is updated to support Confluent 7.8.0.

Bug fixes

  • The connector no longer throws the IndexOutOfBoundException when offsets are not continuous during schema evolution.

  • For the Snowpipe ingestion method, when the snowflake.topic2table.map parameter is configured to map multiple topics to a single table, the connector adds the topic’s salt hashCode to the stage file prefixes to avoid file collision and load data from all specified topics.

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