April 28-May 02, 2025 — 9.11 Release Notes

Attention

The release has completed. For differences between the in-advance and final versions of these release notes, see Release notes change log.

New features

Snowflake Native Apps session debugging — General availability

Session debugging for Snowflake Native Apps is now generally available. Session debug mode allows providers to view and modify all of the objects within the app and execute statements using the same privileges that the app has when installed in the consumer account.

See Session debug mode for more information.

Writing files from Snowpark Python UDFs and UDTFs — General availability

Snowflake supports writing files from Snowpark Python UDFs and UDTFs.

For more information, see Writing files from Snowpark Python UDFs and UDTFs.

Extensibility updates

Support for allowing requests to all outbound endpoints from functions and procedures — General availability

With this release, we are pleased to announce the general availability of support for allowing requests to all outbound endpoints with external access from a function or procedure. You can do this by specifying 0.0.0.0 as the domain in a value of the CREATE NETWORK RULE command’s VALUE_LIST parameter.

For more information, see the VALUE_LIST parameter of CREATE NETWORK RULE.

Data lake updates

Support for Iceberg tables in the People’s Republic of China — General availability

With this release, we are pleased to announce the general availability of support for Apache Iceberg™ tables in the People’s Republic of China.

For more information, see Apache Iceberg™ tables (https://docs.snowflake.cn/en/user-guide/tables-iceberg).

Decommissioned runtimes

Python 3.8 decommissioned

Snowflake no longer supports Python 3.8. For more information on runtime deprecation and decommission schedules, see Deprecating and decommissioning runtimes (end of support).

Release notes change log

Announcement

Update

Date

Release notes

Initial publication (preview)

18-Apr-25

Writing files from Snowpark Python UDFs and UDTFs — General availability

Added to New features section

23-Apr-25

Python 3.8 decommissioned

Added to Decommissioned runtimes section

23-Apr-25

Support for allowing requests to all outbound endpoints from functions and procedures — General availability

Added to Extensibility updates section

24-Apr-25

Support for Iceberg tables in the People’s Republic of China — General availability

Added to Data lake updates section

1-May-25

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