New release makes Snowflake control plane changes governable and auditable across access, data movement, and execution, and adds support for Couchbase, AWS Keyspaces, DataStax Enterprise, and AlloyDB.

Liquibase, the leader in Database Change Governance, today announced the release of Liquibase Secure 5.1, extending modeled Change Control to Snowflake. With 5.1, enterprises can govern Snowflake control plane changes with the same rigor and automation they already apply to schema evolution, closing a critical gap in data platform security, compliance, and AI readiness. Liquibase Secure 5.1 also expands database platform coverage, including new support for additional cloud and enterprise data stores.

Snowflake has become mission-critical infrastructure for analytics, data products, and AI initiatives. As organizations scale DataOps and internal developer platforms, Snowflake changes are no longer isolated technical updates. They are platform-level changes that impact trust, availability, and every downstream consumer. Yet many of the most consequential changes still happen outside standardized governance, often delivered as scripts with limited visibility, weak enforcement, and evidence that is difficult to assemble when it matters most.

“As enterprises modernize their developer platforms for AI-driven delivery, change control at the database layer has become a prerequisite, not a nice-to-have,” said Mirek Novotny, Sr. Director of Product at Liquibase. “If Snowflake control plane changes aren’t governed and observable, you can’t prove control. Liquibase Secure 5.1 brings predictability and evidence to the changes that matter most, without slowing teams down.”

Modeled Change Control for Snowflake

Liquibase Secure 5.1 treats key Snowflake control plane changes as first-class, modeled change types, rather than opaque scripts. That modeling enables precise policy enforcement, object-aware drift detection, and audit-ready evidence at the level where access, movement, and execution are defined.

With Liquibase Secure 5.1, data platform teams can govern Snowflake changes across access and security configuration, data sharing and movement, platform and cost controls, and automated execution, using standardized workflows across environments and teams.

Key outcomes include:

• Stop risky Snowflake control plane changes before they reach production
• Standardize how Snowflake changes are delivered across environments and teams
• Automatically generate audit-ready evidence for every change
• Detect drift and out-of-band updates to governed Snowflake objects
• Recover faster with traceable, reversible changes and tested rollback procedures

This closes a long-standing gap for organizations that govern schema evolution, yet still struggle with over-permission creep, ungoverned data movement, and control plane drift that can undermine security posture and AI initiatives.

Built for DataOps, data products, and AI readiness

As Snowflake increasingly powers feature engineering, model training, and AI-driven decisioning, the blast radius of ungoverned change grows. A single access change can expose sensitive training data. An unreviewed sharing update can expand compliance scope. An execution change can silently alter business-critical logic. Liquibase Secure 5.1 helps data platform teams keep Snowflake predictable, auditable, and reliable as usage scales, without turning governance into a bottleneck.

Expanding database support across Liquibase’s industry-leading coverage

Liquibase Secure continues to deliver broad database coverage across 60+ platforms, from mainframe DB2 to cloud-native data stores. Liquibase Secure 5.1 expands support for Snowflake, Databricks, and MongoDB, and adds new platform support for Couchbase, AWS Keyspaces, DataStax Enterprise, and AlloyDB for Google Cloud. This breadth helps enterprises standardize change governance across heterogeneous environments using a single platform instead of stitching together siloed tools and processes. Teams can apply consistent workflows and generate unified, audit-ready evidence across their database estate, reducing operational overhead while preserving the flexibility to adopt new technologies without rebuilding governance each time.

Enterprise partnership, not just tooling

Liquibase brings more than a decade of frontline experience helping enterprises govern database change at scale. In addition to the platform, Liquibase provides hands-on professional services, a dedicated customer success organization, and ongoing advisory support to help teams operationalize Change Control across their delivery model.

Availability

Liquibase Secure 5.1 is available now. To learn more about Change Control for Snowflake and Database Change Governance, visit liquibase.com.

About Liquibase

Liquibase empowers teams to deliver mission-critical applications, data products, and AI initiatives by automating and governing database change. We are the company behind Liquibase Community, a project with deep open-source roots that has been downloaded more than 100 million times and is trusted by thousands of teams worldwide.

Liquibase Secure, built on that proven community foundation, is the only enterprise platform that unifies DevOps, security, and compliance at the database layer. It enables organizations to deliver applications and data products with velocity, safety, and confidence. Trusted by the world’s most innovative and highly regulated enterprises, Liquibase Secure powers the last mile of application and data delivery.

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As enterprises modernize developer platforms for AI-driven delivery, database layer change control has become a prerequisite. Snowflake control plane changes must be governed & observable. 5.1 brings predictability & evidence to changes that matter most.