Server releases and feature updates earlier in 2025¶

The following sections list the release notes for the server releases and feature updates that occurred earlier in 2025:

Server releases earlier in 2025
Feature updates earlier in 2025

For more recent releases and feature updates, see Snowflake server release notes and feature updates.

Server releases earlier in 2025¶

9.23 Release notes: Aug 11, 2025-Aug 15, 2025
- SQL updates
  - Snowflake Scripting user-defined functions (UDFs)
  - Private facts and metrics in semantic views
- Data loading / unloading updates
  - Apache Arrow library upgrade to version 21.0.0
- Data pipeline updates
  - Dynamic tables: Support for UNION in incremental refresh mode
- Release notes change log
9.22 Release notes (with behavior changes): Aug 04, 2025-Aug 08, 2025
- Behavior change bundles
- New features
  - Data quality: Using expectations to define quality checks (General availability)
- Extensibility updates
  - Tracing SQL statements run from handler code (General availability)
- Data pipeline updates
  - Dynamic tables: Support for immutability constraints
  - Dynamic tables: Support for backfill
- Release notes change log
9.21 Release notes: Jul 29, 2025-Aug 01, 2025
- Security updates
  - GENERATE_SYNTHETIC_DATA: Consistency secret now optional in most cases
- SQL updates
- Data loading / unloading updates
  - Simplified Snowpipe pricing
- Data pipeline updates
  - Snowpark Connect for Spark and Snowpark Submit (Preview)
- Release notes change log
9.20 Release notes: Jul 21, 2025-Jul 25, 2025
- SQL updates
- Data pipeline updates
  - Tasks: New EXECUTE AS USER option and IMPERSONATE privilege for user objects
  - Dynamic tables: Disallowed use of the COPY_SESSION attribute while manually refreshing dynamic tables on a serverless warehouse
- Release notes change log
9.19 Release notes: Jul 14, 2025-Jul 17, 2025
- SQL updates
  - Data types: Structured types support for standard Snowflake tables (General availability)
- Data loading / unloading updates
  - Optimize data ingestion with pre-clustering for Snowpipe Streaming - high-performance architecture (Preview)
  - COPY FILES (General availability)
- Release notes change log
9.18 Release notes: Jul 02, 2025-Jul 08, 2025
- SQL updates
  - Snowflake Scripting output (OUT) arguments (General availability)
- Data pipeline updates
  - Dynamic tables: Support for externally managed Apache Iceberg™ tables (General availability)
- Data governance updates
  - Data Quality: New system data metric function
- Release notes change log
9.17 Release notes (with behavior changes): Jun 24, 2025-Jun 30, 2025
- Behavior change bundles
- SQL updates
  - New maximum size limits for database objects (General availability)
  - Snowflake Scripting supports nested stored procedures (General availability)
- Data pipeline updates
  - Snowsight: Task Overview and Graph Run History updates (General availability)
- Release notes change log
9.16 Release notes (no announcements): Jun 16, 2025-Jun 23, 2025
- Release notes change log
9.15 Release notes: Jun 09, 2025-Jun 11, 2025
- New features
  - Artifact Repository (General availability)
- Security updates
  - Malicious IP Protection
  - Findings Lifecycle Management
- SQL updates
  - UNION BY NAME operator
- Data pipeline updates
  - Support for streams on externally managed Apache Iceberg™ tables with row-level deletes
- Release notes change log
Summit announcements: June 02-05, 2025
- SQL updates
  - Defining semantic views (General availability)
  - Querying semantic views (Preview)
- Data loading / unloading updates
  - Snowpipe Streaming with high-performance architecture (Preview)
- Snowflake Native App Framework
9.14 Release notes: May 23, 2025-May 28, 2025
- New features
  - Trust Center: In-app notifications (Preview)
  - Trust Center: New Abnormal Failure Rate Detection scanners
- Snowpark Python version updates
- SQL updates
- Data pipeline updates
  - Triggered tasks: Support for streams hosted on directory tables and data shares
- Release notes change log
9.13 Release notes: May 19, 2025-May 20, 2025
- Security updates
  - Outbound private connectivity for AWS Government regions
- SQL updates
  - Pipe operator
- Data loading/unloading updates
  - INFER_SCHEMA function: Support for Apache Iceberg™ data types
- Data lake updates
  - Cross-cloud/cross-region support for Snowflake-managed Apache Iceberg™ tables
- Release notes change log
9.12 Release notes (with behavior changes): May 05, 2025-May 12, 2025
- Behavior change bundles
- New features
  - Release channels for Snowflake Native Apps (General availability)
- SQL Updates
  - Improved error messages for Data Manipulation Language (DML) commands
  - New SQL functions
- Extensibility updates
  - Built-in code profiler for Python stored procedures (General availability)
- Data loading / unloading updates
  - Support for internal stage cloning (General availability)
  - Vectorized scanner now available without ON_ERROR restrictions
- Data governance updates
  - Sensitive data classification: New classifiers for India
- Snowpark Container Services updates
  - Using caller’s rights to connect to Snowflake (General availability)
- Release notes change log
9.11 Release notes: Apr 28, 2025-May 02, 2025
- New features
  - Snowflake Native Apps session debugging (General availability)
  - Writing files from Snowpark Python UDFs and UDTFs (General availability)
- Extensibility updates
  - Support for allowing requests to all outbound endpoints from functions and procedures (General availability)
- Data lake updates
  - Support for Iceberg tables in the People’s Republic of China (General availability)
- Decommissioned runtimes
  - Python 3.8 decommissioned
- Release notes change log
9.10 Release notes: Apr 14, 2025-Apr 22, 2025
- Extensibility updates
  - Support for public custom Git repository URLs (General availability)
- Data loading / unloading updates
  - Automated refresh for internal named stages (Preview)
  - Auto-ingest pipes for internal named stages (Preview)
- Data lake updates
  - Apache Iceberg™ tables: Automated refresh table names now appear in the ACCOUNT_USAGE.PIPE_USAGE_HISTORY view
- Privacy updates
  - Synthetic data generation (General availability)
- Release notes change log
9.9 Release notes: Apr 07, 2025-Apr 09, 2025
- SQL updates
  - New Snowflake parameter: DEFAULT_NULL_ORDERING
- Extensibility updates
  - Artifact Repository (Preview)
- Release notes change log
9.8 Release notes: Mar 31, 2025-Apr 04, 2025
- Security updates
  - Trust Center: Risky Human and Service User scanners
- SQL updates
  - Asynchronous refresh for failover groups and replication groups
  - Bind variables in SHOW commands
- Data lake updates
- Snowpark Container Services updates
  - Automatic suspension of a Snowpark Container Services service (Preview)
- Release notes change log
9.7 Release notes (with behavior changes): Mar 17, 2025-Mar 27, 2025
- Behavior change bundles
- New features
  - Grant database roles to a Snowflake Native App — Preview
  - DISABLE_UI_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON object parameter for Snowsight and the Classic Console (General availability)
- Replication updates
  - Schema-level replication for failover groups (General availability)
- SQL updates
- Release notes change log
9.6 Release notes: Mar 10, 2025-Mar 12, 2025
- SQL updates
  - Search optimization: Support for column collations
- Data pipeline updates
  - Dynamic tables: Maximum number of dynamic tables in an account increased to 50,000
- Release notes change log
9.5 Release notes: Mar 03, 2025-Mar 06, 2025
- New features
  - Automatic sensitive data classification (General availability)
- SQL updates
  - Snowflake Scripting: Asynchronous child jobs (General availability)
  - Snowflake Scripting: Improved error messages
- Release notes change log
9.4 Release notes: Feb 24, 2025-Mar 01, 2025
- New features
  - Additional information returned for objects bound to references (General availability)
  - More granular control for log, trace, and metric levels in an app (General availability)
- SQL updates
  - Cloning databases that contain hybrid tables (Preview)
  - New SQL functions
- Extensibility updates
  - Support for associating an event table with a database (General availability)
- Data loading updates
  - Dynamic tables and tasks: Events logged for refreshes and task executions
- Data lake updates
  - CATALOG_NAMESPACE parameter for catalog integrations is now optional
- Release notes change log
9.3 Release notes: Feb 18, 2025-Feb 21, 2025
- New features
  - Tasks now support lower scheduling intervals (General availability)
  - Data lineage (General availability)
- SQL updates
  - SEARCH function: Support for conjunctive semantics
- Extensibility updates
  - Support for a wildcard character in network rule network identifiers (General availability)
  - Support for telemetry metrics and custom spans, with visualizations in Snowsight (General availability)
- Data pipeline updates
  - Dynamic tables: Support for UNION ALL
- Data lake updates
  - Cloning support for Snowflake-managed Apache Iceberg™ tables (General availability)
- Release notes change log
9.2 Release notes (with behavior changes): Jan 22, 2025-Feb 13, 2025
- Behavior change bundles
- Non-bundled behavior changes
- New features
  - Triggered tasks now can operate as Serverless Tasks (General availability)
  - Trust Center: Manage individual scanners
- Security updates
  - Outbound private connectivity for Microsoft Azure Government regions
- SQL updates
  - New SQL functions
  - Additional CREATE OR ALTER commands (Preview)
- Data lake updates
  - Apache Iceberg™ tables: Support for writing Apache Iceberg metadata for Delta-based tables
- Release notes change log
9.1 Release notes: Jan 13, 2025-Jan 16, 2025
- New features
  - Outbound private connectivity for Snowflake features
- SQL updates
  - ARRAY_AGG function support for window frames (General availability)
- Data pipelines updates
  - CREATE DYNAMIC TABLE command: New REQUIRE USER parameter added
  - ALTER DYNAMIC TABLE command: New COPY SESSION parameter added
- Data lake updates
  - External stage and external volume support for Amazon S3 access points (General availability)
  - Apache Iceberg™ tables: Automated refresh (General availability)
- Data governance updates
  - Data metric functions: Support for referential integrity checks
- Privacy updates
  - Join policies (Preview)
- Release notes change log
9.0 Release notes: Jan 07, 2025-Jan 09, 2025
- Security updates
  - External key store integration for Tri-Secret Secure (General availability)
  - Pinning private endpoints (General availability)
- Release notes change log

Feature updates earlier in 2025¶