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Anypoint Connector for Snowflake (Snowflake Connector) enables you to connect with your Snowflake instance to load data, run queries in Snowflake tables, and sync data with external business applications.

Guide: Snowflake Connector User Guide

1.4.0

December 20, 2025

What’s New

  • FIPS 140-3 Compliance Support:
    This release introduces comprehensive FIPS 140-3 compliance support, including:

    • Automatic FIPS mode detection via the mule.security.model system property

    • Smart BouncyCastle FIPS (BCFIPS) security provider registration with safety controls

    • Support for FIPS-certified Snowflake JDBC driver

    • Prevention of unauthorized JVM security configuration modifications in FIPS mode

    • Two configuration options: Configure BCFIPS in java.security (recommended) or enable auto-registration with explicit authorization

  • TLS 1.3 Support:
    Enhanced security with modern TLS 1.3 protocol support for Snowflake connections

  • Security Provider Management:
    Improved security provider registration logic with validation-first approach to prevent conflicts in regulated environments

For detailed FIPS configuration instructions, see Configuring FIPS 140-3 for Snowflake Connector.

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule runtime engine

4.3.0 and later

OpenJDK

8, 11, and 17

Snowflake JDBC

3.18.0 (Standard) or FIPS-certified driver (for FIPS environments)

BouncyCastle FIPS

2.1.2 (bc-fips) and 2.1.10 (bcpkix-fips)

Fixed Issues

Issue Resolution ID

Security provider registration now validates whether BCFIPS already exists before attempting modifications, preventing conflicts in production environments.

W-20533642

In FIPS-enabled environments, automatic BCFIPS registration is disabled by default and requires explicit authorization via the mule.snowflake.fips.bcfips.autoregister system property.

W-20533642

Enhanced error handling and logging for cryptographic operations during private key authentication.

W-20533642

1.3.2

May 17, 2025

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule Runtime

4.3.0 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.5 and later

OpenJDK

8, 11, and 17

Snowflake JDBC

3.18.0

Fixed Issues

Issue Resolution ID

The mule-db-client dependency is upgraded to version 1.6.18.

W-18449673

1.3.1

April 21, 2025

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule Runtime

4.3.0 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.5 and later

OpenJDK

8, 11, and 17

Snowflake JDBC

3.18.0

Fixed Issues

Issue Resolution ID

The mule-db-client dependency now uses the latest GA version (1.6.17) instead of a SNAPSHOT version.

W-14218425

The connection tag is now in the Company_Product format.

W-17999498

Basic Snowflake Connection now includes a message stating it will be deprecated soon.

W-18115315

1.3.0

February 24, 2025

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule Runtime

4.3.0 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.5 and later

OpenJDK

8, 11, and 17

Snowflake JDBC

3.18.0

Fixed Issues

Issue Resolution ID

This release includes general security fixes.

W-17796452

The BCFIPS provider is now added internally and is no longer a provided dependency.

If you added the BCFIPS provider in previous versions of Snowflake Connector, you must now remove bcprov-jdk18on-1.8.0.jar and bcpkix-jdk18on-1.8.0.jar from the JAVA_VM_FOLDER/jre/lib/ext folder. Then, remove the corresponding security provider entry from the java.security configuration file.

W-17796452

Bouncy Castle security provider is now registered while running MUnit test cases in Anypoint Studio.

W-17670180

1.2.1

September 11, 2024

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule Runtime

4.3.0 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.5 and later

OpenJDK

8, 11, and 17

Snowflake JDBC

3.18.0

Fixed Issues

Issue Resolution ID

The Copy into table operation now processes the PARSE_HEADER parameter correctly.

W-15961512

1.2.0

March 5, 2024

What’s New

  • This connector now supports Key-pair authentication.

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule Runtime

4.3.0 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.5 and later

OpenJDK

8, 11, and 17

Snowflake JDBC

3.14.4

1.1.3

January 31, 2024

What’s New

  • This connector is now compatible with Java 17.

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule Runtime

4.3.0 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.5 and later

OpenJDK

8, 11, and 17

Snowflake JDBC

3.14.2

1.1.2

June 30, 2022

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule Runtime

4.3.0 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.5 and later

OpenJDK

8 or 11

Snowflake JDBC

3.14.2

Fixed Issues

Issue ID

Optimized the connector to improve its overall stability and performance.

W-11244962

1.1.1

June 6, 2022

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule Runtime

4.3.0 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.5 and later

OpenJDK

8 or 11

Fixed Issues

Issue ID

The Max Idle Time field in the Snowflake Db Pooling Profile type now has the default value of 10800 instead of 0 to match the conditions set by Snowflake.

W-11235605

1.1.0

January 11, 2022

What’s New

Compatibility

Software Version

Mule Runtime

4.3.0 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.5 and later

OpenJDK

8 or 11

1.0.1

June 11, 2021

Compatibility

Snowflake Connector is compatible with these software versions:

Software Version

Mule Runtime

4.3.0 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.5 and later

OpenJDK

8 or 11

Fixed Issues

  • Fixed an issue with some exported packages from the mule-db-client library to avoid potential conflicts with other connectors.

1.0.0

June 8, 2021

Compatibility

Snowflake Connector is compatible with these software versions:

Software Version

Mule Runtime

4.3.0 and later

Anypoint Studio

7.5 and later

OpenJDK

8 or 11

Features

New connector.

For a list of supported configurations and operations, see the Snowflake Connector Reference Guide.

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