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Snowflake releases

September 2026 digest

158 releases

Date	Release	Product	Type
Sep 24	DCM Projects capability updatesunverified SnowflakeGA	Snowflake	GA
Sep 23	Non-deterministic aggregate functions are supported with dynamic table incremental refresh (General availability)unverified SnowflakeGA	Snowflake	GA
Sep 21	Cortex Agents Compact API (Preview) Snowflake Cortex AIPreview	Snowflake Cortex AI	Preview
Sep 21	Cortex AI Function Evaluation for measuring quality (Public Preview) Snowflake Cortex AIPreview	Snowflake Cortex AI	Preview
Sep 21	Cortex AI Function Optimization for more efficient AI implementations (Public Preview) Snowflake Cortex AIPreview	Snowflake Cortex AI	Preview
Sep 18	Apache Iceberg™ tables: Partition evolution (General availability) SnowflakeGA	Snowflake	GA
Sep 18	Database roles in backups SnowflakeUpdate	Snowflake	Update
Sep 17	HTML generation in Snowflake CoWork (Preview) SnowflakePreview	Snowflake	Preview
Sep 17	Snowpark Container Services backup instance types (General availability) Snowflake Native Apps and MarketplaceGA	Snowflake Native Apps and Marketplace	GA
Sep 16	Cortex Agents object enhancements (General availability) Snowflake Cortex AIGA	Snowflake Cortex AI	GA
Sep 16	Include and exclude per-user quota users by name (General availability) SnowflakeGA	Snowflake	GA
Sep 16	Weekly per-user quota limits (General availability) SnowflakeGA	Snowflake	GA
Sep 16	CoCo Desktop v1.21.5 Cortex CodeUpdate	Cortex Code	Update
Sep 15	Cortex AI Gateway (Preview) Snowflake Cortex AIPreview	Snowflake Cortex AI	Preview
Sep 15	Elastic Channels for Snowpipe Streaming (General availability) SnowflakeGA	Snowflake	GA
Sep 15	Embedding Streamlit in Snowflake apps in external pages (General availability) Snowflake Cortex AIGA	Snowflake Cortex AI	GA
Sep 15	Horizon Catalog Explorer UI (Preview) Snowflake Horizon CatalogPreview	Snowflake Horizon Catalog	Preview
Sep 15	Predict dynamic table refresh behavior with EXPLAIN CHANGES (General availability) SnowflakeGA	Snowflake	GA
Sep 14	Catalog-linked databases: Write support for nested namespaces SnowflakeUpdate	Snowflake	Update
Sep 14	Multimodal AI_SUMMARIZE for automatic theme summarization (Public Preview) Snowflake Cortex AIPreview	Snowflake Cortex AI	Preview
Sep 14	Zero-copy support for all table formats in interactive warehouses (General availability) SnowflakeGA	Snowflake	GA
Sep 11	Second generation Openflow deployments and runtimes now available on GCP Snowflake OpenflowGA	Snowflake Openflow	GA
Sep 11	Automations in Snowflake CoWork (General availability) SnowflakeGA	Snowflake	GA
Sep 11	CoCo Desktop v1.21.4 Cortex CodeUpdate	Cortex Code	Update
Sep 10	External secret providers (Preview) SnowflakePreview	Snowflake	Preview
Sep 10	Iceberg Scan Plan API in Horizon Catalog (Public Preview) Snowflake Horizon CatalogPreview	Snowflake Horizon Catalog	Preview
Sep 10	Inherited grants and container-level MANAGE GRANTS (General availability) SnowflakeGA	Snowflake	GA
Sep 10	Snowflake Data Clean Rooms updates SnowflakeUpdate	Snowflake	Update
Sep 10	Using dbt artifacts for Slim CI and defer to production in dbt Projects on Snowflake (General availability) SnowflakeGA	Snowflake	GA
Sep 9	Openflow gen 1 deployment creation retired Snowflake OpenflowDeprecation	Snowflake Openflow	Deprecation
Sep 8	Second generation Openflow deployments and runtimes (General availability) Snowflake OpenflowGA	Snowflake Openflow	GA
Sep 8	Add and drop hybrid table constraints online (General availability) SnowflakeGA	Snowflake	GA
Sep 8	CoCo Desktop v1.21.3 Cortex CodeUpdate	Cortex Code	Update
Sep 8	Shadow traffic for gateways (Preview) SnowflakePreview	Snowflake	Preview
Sep 8	Trust Center, secure by default approach for scanner package enablement Snowflake Horizon CatalogUpdate	Snowflake Horizon Catalog	Update
Sep 4	Prompt injection guardrails now available in AWS_EU, AWS_JP, and AWS_APJ SnowflakeUpdate	Snowflake	Update
Sep 4	SAS to Snowflake migration (Preview) SnowflakePreview	Snowflake	Preview
Sep 3	External lineage (General availability) Snowflake Horizon CatalogGA	Snowflake Horizon Catalog	GA
Sep 3	Restricted Session Scope for agents (General availability) Snowflake Cortex AIGA	Snowflake Cortex AI	GA
Sep 3	Snowflake Data Clean Rooms updates SnowflakeUpdate	Snowflake	Update
Sep 2	Openflow Connector for Jira Cloud: Core flow (General availability) Snowflake OpenflowGA	Snowflake Openflow	GA
Sep 2	Data lineage for streams Snowflake Horizon CatalogUpdate	Snowflake Horizon Catalog	Update
Sep 2	Data lineage for Cortex Agents Snowflake Cortex AIUpdate	Snowflake Cortex AI	Update
Sep 1	Snowflake App Runtime (General availability) SnowflakeGA	Snowflake	GA
Sep 1	Snowflake Native Apps: Code execution tools for Cortex Agents Snowflake Cortex AIUpdate	Snowflake Cortex AI	Update
Aug 31	Second generation Openflow (Preview) Snowflake OpenflowPreview	Snowflake Openflow	Preview
Aug 31	Snowflake-provided tags (Public Preview) Snowflake Horizon CatalogPreview	Snowflake Horizon Catalog	Preview
Aug 31	CoCo Desktop v1.21.2 Cortex CodeUpdate	Cortex Code	Update
Aug 31	app.yml for Snowflake App Runtime (Preview) Snowflake Native Apps and MarketplacePreview	Snowflake Native Apps and Marketplace	Preview
Aug 30	Cortex Agents asynchronous API (General availability) Snowflake Cortex AIGA	Snowflake Cortex AI	GA
Aug 28	Snowflake recommends transitioning from Cortex Analyst to Cortex Agents Snowflake Cortex AIUpdate	Snowflake Cortex AI	Update
Aug 27	Snowflake Data Clean Rooms updates SnowflakeUpdate	Snowflake	Update
Aug 27	CoCo in the Snowflake Extension for Visual Studio Code (General availability) Cortex CodeGA	Cortex Code	GA
Aug 27	Increased file limit for deployed dbt project objects SnowflakeUpdate	Snowflake	Update
Aug 26	Cortex Agents Coding Agent (General availability) Snowflake Cortex AIGA	Snowflake Cortex AI	GA
Aug 26	Cortex Extension references in agent skills (General availability) Snowflake Cortex AIGA	Snowflake Cortex AI	GA
Aug 26	Organization user types (General availability) SnowflakeGA	Snowflake	GA
Aug 26	Semantic Studio (Preview) SnowflakePreview	Snowflake	Preview
Aug 25	Multi-value tags (General availability) Snowflake Horizon CatalogGA	Snowflake Horizon Catalog	GA
Aug 25	Remote Development with the Snowflake Extension for Visual Studio Code (Preview) SnowflakePreview	Snowflake	Preview

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Snowflake Inc. is an American cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI) data platform company founded in San Mateo, California, and headquartered in Menlo Park. It operates a platform that supports data analysis and simultaneous access to data sets with minimal latency.

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