Snowflake server release notes and feature updates¶
This topic lists the release notes for the most recent server releases and feature updates. For earlier releases and feature updates, see Server releases and feature updates earlier in 2026.
Tip
To view a list of release note announcements, filtered by date and release type, see All release notes.
If you have questions about any of these features, contact Snowflake Support.
Upcoming (or in progress) server releases¶
Recent server releases¶
For earlier server releases, see Server releases earlier in 2026.
Recent feature updates¶
- Apr 30, 2026: AI_PARSE_DOCUMENT increased page limit to 2,000 pages
- Apr 30, 2026: AI_PARSE_DOCUMENT image extraction (General availability)
- Apr 30, 2026: Snowflake Data Clean Rooms updates
- Apr 30, 2026: Create tags and expanded Tags & policies coverage in Snowsight (Preview)
- Apr 29, 2026: Trust Center detections (General availability)
- Apr 28, 2026: Snowflake Native Apps: Configuration (General availability)
- Apr 28, 2026: Snowflake Native Apps: Inter-app communication (General availability)
- Apr 24, 2026: Data Security in the Trust Center (General availability)
- Apr 24, 2026: Storage lifecycle policies: Google Cloud support
- Apr 23, 2026: Snowflake Data Clean Rooms updates
- Apr 23, 2026: Snowpipe Streaming high-performance architecture in China (General availability)
- Apr 20, 2026: Cortex AI Guardrails (General availability)
- Apr 20, 2026: Fine-tuning
arctic-extractmodels (General availability) - Apr 20, 2026: Apache Iceberg™ tables: Table and column description propagation from external catalogs (General availability)
- Apr 20, 2026: Snowflake Connector for Kafka version 4.0 (General availability)
- Apr 17, 2026: Performance Explorer tabs, filter presets, CSV export, and side-panel search
- Apr 16, 2026: Snowflake Data Clean Rooms updates
- Apr 16, 2026: Primary key support in dynamic tables (General availability)
- Apr 16, 2026: Consumer-controlled maintenance policies: Provider support (Preview)
- Apr 15, 2026: Snowflake documentation for AI agents and LLMs
- Apr 15, 2026: Openflow Connector for HubSpot (Preview)
- Apr 14, 2026: Monitor Cortex Search requests (Preview)
- Apr 14, 2026: Cortex Search Service replication (General availability)
- Apr 14, 2026: Snowflake storage for Apache Iceberg™ tables (Preview)
- Apr 13, 2026: Improved SQL generation in Cortex Agents
- April 13, 2026: Dynamic Apache Iceberg™ tables now support PARTITION BY, TARGET_FILE_SIZE, and PATH_LAYOUT (General availability)
- Apr 10, 2026: Budgets for AI features (General availability)
- Apr 9, 2026: Snowflake Data Clean Rooms updates
- Apr 8, 2026: Error logging for Snowpipe Streaming (General availability)
- Apr 7, 2026: Workspaces replication (General availability)
- Apr 6, 2026: AI_SERVICES billing breakout for implemented AI Credits services
- Apr 6, 2026: Apache Iceberg™ tables: Write support for Databricks Unity Catalog on Azure (General availability)
- Apr 05, 2026: Support for verified queries in semantic views
- Apr 3, 2026: Medical and health data classifiers in sensitive data classification (General availability)
- Apr 02, 2026: AI_COMPLETE document intelligence (General availability)
- Apr 02, 2026: AI_FUNCTIONS_USER database role (General availability)
- Apr 02, 2026: AI_PARSE_DOCUMENT now available in AWS Europe West 2 (London)
- Apr 2, 2026: Copy tags when running a CREATE OR REPLACE TABLE command (General availability)
- Apr 2, 2026: Snowflake Data Clean Rooms updates
- Apr 2, 2026: Performance Explorer granular access aligned with your privileges
For earlier feature updates, see Feature updates earlier in 2026.