v2.4.0-rc0

Backward incompatibility

Deprecations

New additions

• Added the --cascade option to snow app teardown command that drops all application objects owned by the application.
• Add external access integration to snow object commands
• Add aliases for snow object list/describe/drop commands under:
  • snow stage for stages
  • snow git for git repository stages
  • snow streamlit for streamlit apps
  • snow snowpark for procedures and functions
  • snow spcs compute-pool for compute pools
  • snow spcs image-repository for image repositories
  • snow spcs service for services
• snow sql works now with snowflake.yml file. The variables defined in the new env section
  of snowflake.yml will be used to expand templates.
• snow sql support executing multiple files. Users can use -f/--file flag more than once to execute queries
  from many files.
• snow git execute and snow stage execute support passing input variables for SQL execution.
• Added snow cortex commands:
  • complete - Given a prompt, the command generates a response using your choice of language model.
    In the simplest use case, the prompt is a single string. You may also provide a JSON file with conversation history including multiple prompts and responses for interactive chat-style usage.
  • extract-answer - Extracts an answer to a given question from a text document.
    The document may be a plain-English document or a string representation of a semi-structured (JSON) data object.
  • sentiment - Returns sentiment as a score between -1 to 1 (with -1 being the most negative and 1 the most positive, with values around 0 neutral) for the given English-language input text.
  • summarize - Summarizes the given English-language input text.
  • translate - Translates text from the indicated or detected source language to a target language.
  • search - for integration with Cortex Search Service
• When invoked without command help is displayed by default with list of available commands.
• Add tab-completion for snow command.

Fixes and improvements

• Improved support for quoted identifiers.
• Fixed creating patches with snow app version create when there are 2 or more existing patches on a version
• Using --format=json adds trailing new line to avoid % being added by some terminals to signal no new line at the end of output.
• Fixed --interactive flag to be enabled by default in interactive environments and added the --no-interactive flag to be able to turn off prompting.