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            • Oct 26-29, 2026 - 10.39 (no announcements)
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                  • Nov 03, 2026 - Snowflake CoCo for Excel and Snowflake CoCo for Google Sheets (Preview)
                    • Nov 3, 2026 - Cortex AI Gateway inference, observability, and cost management (General availability)
                      • Nov 03, 2026 - Google Gemini 4 Argon model (General availability)
                        • Nov 02, 2026 - AI_EXTRACT updates
                          • Nov 02, 2026 - Open Data Sharing (General availability)
                            • JDBC Driver (v5.0.0-RC1)
                              • Oct 30, 2026 - Cortex Training (Preview)
                                • Oct 30, 2026 - CREATE OR ALTER SECRET, DCM Projects DEFINE SECRET, and environment variables (Preview)
                                  • Oct 30, 2026 - Hybrid table support for Google Cloud (Preview)
                                    • October 30, 2026 - Tri-Secret Secure for Snowflake storage for Apache Iceberg™ tables (General availability)
                                      • October 30, 2026 - Deep Research in Snowflake CoWork can research the web
                                        • Oct 30, 2026 - External OAuth for Snowflake Postgres (General availability)
                                          • Oct 30, 2026 - UUID data type in hybrid tables (General availability)
                                            • Oct 29, 2026 - CoCo Desktop v1.23.1
                                              • Oct 29, 2026 - Snowflake Data Clean Rooms updates
                                                • Oct 29, 2026 - Access externally managed Apache Iceberg™ tables through Snowflake Horizon Catalog (General availability)
                                                  • Oct 29, 2026 - Horizon Iceberg REST Catalog telemetry (General availability)
                                                    • Snowpark Python (v1.56.0)
                                                      • SnowSQL (v1.4.6)
                                                        • Oct 28, 2026 - AI_PARSE_DOCUMENT introduces AGENTIC mode for intelligent document processing (Public Preview)
                                                          • October 28, 2026 - Cortex Agents Coding Agent thinking effort, system instructions, and stage mounts
                                                            • Oct 28, 2026 - Time Travel for Apache Iceberg™ tables (Preview)
                                                              • Oct 28, 2026 - Check the quotas that apply to you with MY_BUDGET_SUMMARY (General availability)
                                                                • Oct 28, 2026 - Cortex AI usage in Native App usage history
                                                                  • Oct 28, 2026 - OpenAI GPT-5.6 Luna, GPT-5.6 Terra, and GPT-6 Luna in AI Functions (Preview)
                                                                    • Oct 28, 2026 - Request Access in Workspaces (General availability)
                                                                      • Oct 28, 2026 - Streamlit in Snowflake container runtime in China (General availability)
                                                                        • ServiceNow® V2 (v5.29.1)
                                                                          • Oct 27, 2026 - Carry over comments, tags, and privileges with COPY = ( ... )
                                                                            • Oct 27, 2026 - DCM Projects DEFINE TASK GRAPH (Preview)
                                                                              • Oct 27, 2026 - Continuous and bulk file loading with CoCo (General availability)
                                                                                • October 27, 2026 - Cortex Code skills for interactive analytics
                                                                                  • Oct 27, 2026 - OpenAI GPT-6.1 Terra (Preview)
                                                                                    • Oct 26, 2026 - CoCo Desktop v1.23.0
                                                                                      • Oct 26, 2026 - Custom error messages for feature policy rules
                                                                                        • Oct 26, 2026 - Secondary indexes (General availability)
                                                                                          • Oct 26, 2026 - Autopilot for sensitive data classification (Public Preview)
                                                                                            • Oct 26, 2026 - Trust Center, Data Security scanner package (General availability)
                                                                                              • Node.js Driver (v3.4.1)
                                                                                                • Python Connector (v4.8.1)
                                                                                                  • SQLAlchemy (v2.1.0)
                                                                                                    • Oct 23, 2026 - CoCo Desktop v1.22.1
                                                                                                      • Oct 23, 2026 - Responses API for the Cortex REST API (Preview)
                                                                                                        • Oct 23, 2026 - Retrieve Cortex Search (Public Preview)
                                                                                                          • October 23, 2026 - Coding agent MCP tool
                                                                                                            • October 23, 2026 - Snowpark Container Services GEN_ARM_G1 and GEN_X64_G1 instances on Google Cloud (General availability)
                                                                                                              • Oct 23, 2026 - Atomic deployments, centralized configuration, and advanced branching for task graphs (Preview)
                                                                                                                • ODBC Driver (v3.22.0)
                                                                                                                  • Snowflake CLI (v3.31.0)
                                                                                                                    • Snowpipe Streaming SDK (v1.9.1)
                                                                                                                      • Spark Connector (v3.2.3)
                                                                                                                        • October 22, 2026 - Custom runtime images for ML Jobs (General availability)
                                                                                                                          • Oct 22, 2026 - Snowflake Data Clean Rooms updates
                                                                                                                            • Oct 22, 2026 - Ingress policies (Preview)
                                                                                                                              • Oct 22, 2026 - Pipeline Builder (Preview)
                                                                                                                                • Oct 22, 2026 - Quiesce a primary failover group (General availability)
                                                                                                                                  • Oct 22, 2026 - Skill and plugin sharing in CoCo (General availability)
                                                                                                                                    • Snowflake Python API (v1.14.0)
                                                                                                                                      • October 21, 2026 - Declarative Feature Store (General availability)
                                                                                                                                        • Oct 21, 2026 - Expanded insights for Snowflake Postgres
                                                                                                                                          • PHP PDO Driver (v4.3.1)
                                                                                                                                            • Oct 20, 2026 - Cortex Fine-tuning: New model training no longer available in AWS US East 1
                                                                                                                                              • Oct 20, 2026 - dbt Projects on Snowflake updates
                                                                                                                                                • October 20, 2026 - Recompact Iceberg table data after target file size increases
                                                                                                                                                  • October 20, 2026 - Online Feature Store (General availability)
                                                                                                                                                    • Oct 20, 2026 - Sensitive Data Entitlement and Access reports (General availability)
                                                                                                                                                      • Oct 20, 2026 - Snowflake-provided tags (General availability)
                                                                                                                                                        • Snowflake ML Python (v2.6.0)
                                                                                                                                                          • Oct 19, 2026 - Tools for Cortex AI Gateway (Preview)
                                                                                                                                                            • Oct 19, 2026 - Schema variables (General availability)
                                                                                                                                                              • Oct 16, 2026 - Cortex AI Gateway on Azure, Google Cloud, and AWS New Zealand
                                                                                                                                                                • Oct 16, 2026 - Grok 4.7 and GLM 5.3 models (Preview)
                                                                                                                                                                  • October 16, 2026 - Apache Iceberg™ v3 table upgrades and expression defaults (General availability)
                                                                                                                                                                    • Oct 16, 2026 - Openflow Endpoints (General availability)
                                                                                                                                                                      • Oct 16, 2026 - Parquet Direct (Preview)
                                                                                                                                                                        • .NET Driver (v6.4.0)
                                                                                                                                                                          • Oct 15, 2026 - Snowflake Data Clean Rooms updates
                                                                                                                                                                            • Oct 15, 2026 - Data mirroring for Snowflake Postgres (General availability)
                                                                                                                                                                              • Oct 14, 2026 - Document generation in Snowflake CoWork (General availability)
                                                                                                                                                                                • Oct 13, 2026 - CoCo Desktop v1.21.7
                                                                                                                                                                                  • Oct 13, 2026 - Cortex Agent SDK (Public Preview)
                                                                                                                                                                                    • Oct 13, 2026 - Gemini 4 Argon model in AI Functions (Preview)
                                                                                                                                                                                      • Oct 13, 2026 - Sensitive data classification error and retry updates
                                                                                                                                                                                        • Oct 12, 2026 - Horizon Context (Preview)
                                                                                                                                                                                          • Oct 12, 2026 - LISTING_ACCESS_HISTORY improvements (General availability)
                                                                                                                                                                                            • Oct 12, 2026 - Named workload identity management for users
                                                                                                                                                                                              • Oct 12, 2026 - Share Streamlit in Snowflake apps with individual users (General availability)
                                                                                                                                                                                                • Oct 9, 2026 - Agentic Marketplace Discovery (Public preview)
                                                                                                                                                                                                  • Oct 9, 2026 - Snowsight interface for tags and data protection policies (General availability)
                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Oct 8, 2026 - Snowflake Data Clean Rooms updates
                                                                                                                                                                                                      • Oct 8, 2026 - Stable egress IP addresses on Azure (General availability)
                                                                                                                                                                                                        • Oct 7, 2026 - Snowflake Decision with AI_COMPLETE (Private Preview)
                                                                                                                                                                                                          • Oct 07, 2026 - Claude Haiku 5.5 model in the Cortex REST API (Preview)
                                                                                                                                                                                                            • Oct 7, 2026 - Zero-copy integration for Workday Data Cloud (General availability)
                                                                                                                                                                                                              • Oct 06, 2026 - Kimi K3 model (Preview)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Oct 6, 2026 - Data lineage for storage integrations, external tables, model monitors, and Cortex Search services
                                                                                                                                                                                                                  • Oct 5, 2026 - Change the type of an organization user
                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Oct 05, 2026 - Enforce CoCo policy with MDM (Preview)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • October 5, 2026 - Cortex Agent code execution tool (General availability)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • Oct 05, 2026 - OpenAI GPT-6.1 Sol model (Preview)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • Oct 5, 2026 - WITH GRANT OPTION for role grants
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                            • Earlier 2026 server release notes and feature updates
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            • Snowflake Connector for ServiceNow V2
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • Snowflake Connector for MySQL
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  • Snowflake Connector for Sharepoint
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Native SDK for Connectors
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • Native SDK for Connectors Java Test library
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            • Native SDK Example Java GitHub Connector
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • AIM-Virtualization release notes
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            1. 3.176 (Aug 21, 2026)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • 3.175 (Jul 31, 2026)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • 3.174 (Jul 19, 2026)
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Release notesSnowflake server release notes and feature updatesNov 03, 2026 - Google Gemini 4 Argon model (General availability)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Nov 03, 2026: Google Gemini 4 Argon model (General availability)¶

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        The gemini-4-argon model is now generally available in AI Functions.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        For regional and cross-region availability, see Models and regional availability for Cortex AI Functions.

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