• v3.17.0(August 16,2025)
  • Added in-band HTTP exception telemetry.
  • Added an unsafe_skip_file_permissions_check flag to skip file permission checks on the cache and configuration.
  • Added APPLICATION_PATH within CLIENT_ENVIRONMENT to distinguish between multiple scripts using the Python Connector in the same environment.
  • Added basic JSON support for Interval types.
  • Added in-band OCSP exception telemetry.
  • Added support for new authentication methods with Workload Identity Federation (WIF).
    • Added the WORKLOAD_IDENTITY value for the authenticator type.
    • Added the workload_identity_provider and workload_identity_entra_resource parameters.
  • Added support for the use_vectorized_scanner parameter in the write_pandas function.
  • Added support of proxy setup using connection parameters without emitting environment variables.
  • Added populating of type_code in ResultMetadata for interval types.
  • Introduced the snowflake_version property to the connection.
  • Moved OAUTH_TYPE to CLIENT_ENVIROMENT.
  • Relaxed the pyarrow version constrain; versions >= 19 can now be used.
  • Disabled token caching for OAuth Client Credentials authentication.
  • Fixed OAuth authenticator values.
  • Fixed a bug where a PAT with an external session authenticator was used while external_session_id was not provided in SnowflakeRestful.fetch.
  • Fixed the case-sensitivity of Oauth and programmatic_access_token authenticator values.
  • Fixed unclear error messages for incorrect authenticator values.
  • Fixed GCS staging by ensuring the endpoint has a scheme.
  • Fixed a bug where time-zoned timestamps fetched as a pandas.DataFrame or pyarrow.Table would overflow due to unnecessary precision. A clear error will now be raised if an overflow cannot be prevented.