Snowflake feature history: renamed, deprecated, and new
Every Snowflake product and feature, tracked from launch through rename, preview, GA, and retirement - sourced, dated, and linked. 20 entries.
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Renamed3 of 20 - Superseded names still in runbooksDeprecated3 of 20 - Gone, going, or officially legacyCurrent names14 of 20 - What to call these things todayRandom nameRoulette, Snowflake edition
Every tracked name
| Name | Category | Status | Last tracked change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legacy Worksheets | Developer experience | retired | June 2026 |
| Cortex Code | Developer experience | active | February 2026 |
| SnowSQL | Developer experience | legacy | January 2026 |
| WORM snapshots | Data governance | renamed | November 2025 |
| Backups | Data governance | active | November 2025 |
| Workspaces | Developer experience | active | June 2025 |
| Classic Console | Developer experience | retired | June 2025 |
| Snowflake Openflow | Data engineering | active | May 2025 |
| Generation 2 standard warehouses | Compute / BI | active | May 2025 |
| Semantic views | Data governance | active | January 2025 |
| Cortex Agents | AI / ML | active | January 2025 |
| Snowflake Open Catalog | Data governance | active | October 2024 |
| Polaris Catalog | Data governance | renamed | October 2024 |
| Cortex Analyst | AI / ML | active | August 2024 |
| Cortex Search | AI / ML | active | July 2024 |
| Snowflake Notebooks | Developer experience | active | June 2024 |
| Snowflake CLI | Developer experience | active | March 2024 |
| Materialized Tables | Data engineering | renamed | June 2023 |
| Dynamic Tables | Data engineering | active | June 2023 |
| Snowsight | Developer experience | active | January 2021 |
No Snowflake name matches that filter yet.