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Snowflake introduced auto-suspend and resume for Cortex Search Services to optimize compute costs. Engineers can set the AUTO_SUSPEND property to a minimum of 1800 seconds. This helps reduce serving costs on idle services without requiring manual intervention. Services resume upon new queries.

Snowflake introduced the SYSTEM$GETSTAGEPRIVATELINKAUTHORIZEDENDPOINTS function to audit private connectivity sources for internal stages. It allows administrators to verify which Microsoft Azure private endpoints or Google Cloud VPC networks have been authorized for secure data access.

Apache Flink 2.1.2 is a maintenance release featuring 45 bug fixes and minor improvements. Key updates address RocksDB shared resources, Python CLI arguments in session mode, and Delta Join logic. We highly recommend all users upgrade to Flink 2.1.2 or higher to ensure stability.

Apache Flink 2.0.2 is a maintenance release featuring 34 bug fixes and security patches. Key updates address state backend errors in ForSt during async execution and SQL job restoration failures. This release includes 34 bug fixes, vulnerability fixes, and minor improvements for Flink 2.0.

Organization administrators can now programmatically change a Snowflake account edition using the ALTER ACCOUNT command. This GA feature supports upgrading or downgrading between Standard, Enterprise, and Business Critical tiers.

Snowflake now offers general availability for listing share restrictions. Providers can block consumers in lower editions or non-HIPAA accounts from accessing data. Providers can enable share restrictions on private external listings to prevent consumers in lower editions or non-HIPAA accounts.

Snowflake now supports tuple values for ingress private endpoint identifiers in network rules. This allows engineers to combine AWS, Azure, or GCP identifiers with specific IP addresses or CIDR ranges.

BigQuery is updating the Data Transfer Service billing label to lowercase to unify cost visibility. This change covers orchestration, loads, and merges. Update your billing exports, dashboards, and reporting queries to include both these labels to ensure continuous tracking.

Snowflake now supports entity-level filters in semantic views. Engineers can define facts or dimensions as filters by specifying LABELS = (FILTER) in the CREATE SEMANTIC VIEW command. These filters resolve to boolean values, enabling more efficient logic within the semantic layer.

The dbc 0.3.0 release transforms the ADBC driver manager into a library for Go applications and CI pipelines. It adds a GitHub Action and a list command for better automation. The agent guessed it and it worked is a design goal, focusing on machine-readable JSON and sharper error handling.

ClickHouse 26.4 introduces 39 new features, including enhanced SQL compatibility and performance optimizations. Key updates include using VALUES as a table expression with column aliasing and PostgreSQL-style units for the EXTRACT operator.

Snowflake now supports Apache Iceberg version 3, enabling features like deletion vectors for faster updates and row lineage for change data capture. Support for version 3 (v3) of the Apache Iceberg table specification is now generally available. The GET_DDL function now tracks table versions.

Snowflake Data Clean Rooms version 15.1 introduces enhanced auditing and data management. Users can now use VIEWACTIVITYHISTORY to audit analysis activity in a collaboration. Additionally, the CLEANROOMPUBLICROLE can now delete records from the activation segment table to clean up data.

BigQuery now supports multi-region sharing listings, enabling the simultaneous distribution of datasets and linked replicas across global geographies. This GA feature streamlines cross-regional data governance. You can configure BigQuery sharing listings for multiple regions.

Snowflake now supports object tagging for semantic views, allowing engineers to assign tags to logical tables, dimensions, facts, and metrics. This update enables better governance and tracking of sensitive data. You can now assign tags to semantic views and the attributes within them.

Snowflake has introduced three new premium views to the ORGANIZATION_USAGE schema for cross-account visibility. These views allow data engineers to audit network policies and rules. These views provide visibility into network policies and network rules across all accounts in your organization.

Snowflake has released four new Snowpark Container Services instance families. The GENX64G2 and MEMX64G2 families replace older generations on AWS and Azure. New GPU options include the L40S and the Blackwell-based RTX PRO 6000, which scales up to 768 GB VRAM.

Snowflake Cortex AI_COMPLETE now supports multimodal analysis for video and audio data in public preview. Data engineers can extract brand sentiment and behavioral insights directly within the platform.

Orchestra released state-aware orchestration for dbt Core, using a Python package to store model states. This allows skipping models if data is unchanged, reducing costs. Models are skipped if there is no new data and no code has changed, enabling near real-time patterns and declarative scheduling.

Snowflake has released metric-based autoscaling policies for Snowpark Container Services. Engineers can now define rules using platform or custom metrics like memory usage and connection rates to automate scaling.

The SAP BDC Zerocopy Connector enables data sharing between SAP and Snowflake without duplication. Engineers can mount SAP data as catalog-linked databases and query SAP data directly in Snowflake, including joins across multiple data products. It also supports bi-directional publishing.

Snowflake Cortex AIPARSEDOCUMENT now features enhanced OCR quality, offering up to 25% better character recognition for low-quality scans. These updates improve multi-column extraction and multilingual accuracy. Up to a 25% improvement in character and word recognition ensures reliable parsing.

Snowflake now allows unquoted identifiers for DDL commands in catalog-linked databases using case-insensitive mode. Snowflake resolves unquoted identifiers in a case-insensitive manner for all SQL statements that target objects inside the catalog-linked database. Names are normalized to lowercase.

BigQuery Data Transfer Service is implementing a breaking change for Google Ads integrations. Starting May 7, 2026, new transfer configurations will require Multi-factor authentication (MFA) for individual user authentication. This update impacts how engineers secure automated data pipelines.

Snowflake introduced the OUTBOUNDPRIVATELINKENDPOINTS view within the ORGANIZATION_USAGE schema. This premium feature allows data engineers to monitor outbound private connectivity endpoints across all accounts in your organization for improved network auditing and centralized security management.