10.5 Release Notes: Feb 16, 2026-Feb 19, 2026¶

Security updates¶

SAML2 federated authentication: Support for metadata URL¶

You can now specify the identity provider’s (IdP’s) metadata URL when creating a SAML2 security integration, instead of providing four separate parameters for IdP information. Snowflake obtains the information directly from the metadata URL, which is less error-prone and allows IdP changes to be dynamically updated without changing any parameter values.

For more information, see Configuring Snowflake to use federated authentication.

Tri-Secret Secure supports secure share area accounts¶

When you publish a listing and enable auto-fulfillment, Snowflake manages the provisioning for secure share area (SSA) accounts in consumer regions. With this release, you can now protect your SSA accounts with Tri-Secret Secure (TSS). This feature allows you to register a customer-managed key (CMK) for use with TSS and activate TSS for your SSA accounts. You can also optionally pass in the account name when calling the SYSTEM$GET_CMK_INFO function or the SYSTEM$VERIFY_CMK_INFO function to get or verify CMK information.

For more information, see Tri-Secret Secure with secure share area accounts in Snowflake.

Data governance updates¶

DUPLICATE_COUNT DMF: Ability to specify multiple columns¶

You can now associate the DUPLICATE_COUNT data metric function (DMF) with a table to find the number of rows where a combination of specified columns is duplicated. Previously, you could only return the number of duplicates in a single column.

For more information, see DUPLICATE_COUNT (system data metric function).

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