Release

1.11.0 (2023-12-05)

New Features

• Add the conn_error attribute to SnowflakeSQLException that stores the whole underlying exception from snowflake-connector-python.

• Added support for RelationalGroupedDataframe.pivot() to access pivot in the following pattern Dataframe.group_by(...).pivot(...).

• Added experimental feature: Local Testing Mode, which allows you to create and operate on Snowpark Python DataFrames locally without connecting to a Snowflake account. You can use the local testing framework to test your DataFrame operations locally, on your development machine or in a CI (continuous integration) pipeline, before deploying code changes to your account.

• Added support for arrays_to_object new functions in snowflake.snowpark.functions.

• Added support for the vector data type.

Dependency Updates

• Bumped cloudpickle dependency to work with cloudpickle==2.2.1
• Updated snowflake-connector-python to 3.4.0.

Bug Fixes

• DataFrame column names quoting check now supports newline characters.
• Fix a bug where a DataFrame generated by session.read.with_metadata creates inconsistent table when doing df.write.save_as_table.