Release

• v2.1.0 (Oct 26, 2026)
  • Support SQLAlchemy 2.0.44 through 2.1.x (SQLAlchemy>=2.0.44,<2.2).
    • The dialect feature-detects SQLAlchemy 2.1 API changes at import time; no user action is needed beyond upgrading.
    • URL database/schema slots now follow Snowflake quoted-identifier rules on both 2.0 and 2.1: slashes inside "..." are part of the name, not a delimiter. For hand-written URLs, a + in the path is no longer read as a space, and an encoded %2F outside quotes now separates the database from the schema (previously it stayed in the database name). See the migration guide.
    • Database/schema names built with snowflake.sqlalchemy.URL round-trip unchanged on SQLAlchemy 2.0 and 2.1, including a database-only quoted name with special characters (previously left percent-encoded). On SQLAlchemy 2.1, URL.create(...) values are no longer percent-decoded; on 2.0, a database or schema name containing % and no raw " is still decoded. See Special characters in database and schema names.
    • Reflected NUMBER(..., 0) / INTEGER columns report SQLAlchemy's generic Integer type affinity.
    • Window ROWS/RANGE bounds are compiled as integer literals (no bind-parameter conflicts).
    • Snowflake custom types declare SQLAlchemy 2.1 operator_classes, so expressions on them no longer emit SADeprecationWarning ("does not refer to an OperatorClass").
    • timedelta literals render as Snowflake INTERVAL '...' constants, so SQLAlchemy 2.1 FrameClause RANGE bounds such as timedelta(days=7) compile to RANGE BETWEEN INTERVAL '7 DAYS' PRECEDING; literal_binds date arithmetic no longer raises CompileError. Negative intervals raise a CompileError (Snowflake interval constants are unsigned). Bound (non-literal) timedelta parameters are unchanged.
    • SQLAlchemy 2.1 Delete.using() joins that contain the DELETE target table raise a CompileError with guidance (Snowflake rejects them as "duplicate alias"); join an alias of the target or use a subquery instead.
  • Async is opt-in: install snowflake-sqlalchemy[async] (or sqlalchemy[asyncio]) for create_async_engine(). SQLAlchemy 2.1 no longer bundles greenlet; without the extra the install succeeds but async engine creation raises an ImportError with the install command.
  • Set version bounds for snowflake-connector-python >=5.1.0,<6.0