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 [bumpversion]
-current_version = 1.9.0b1
+current_version = 1.10.0a1
 parse = (?P<major>[\d]+) # major version number
 	\.(?P<minor>[\d]+) # minor version number
 	\.(?P<patch>[\d]+) # patch version number
diff --git a/.changes/1.9.0-b1.md b/.changes/1.9.0-b1.md
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-## dbt-snowflake 1.9.0-b1 - October 01, 2024
-
-### Features
-
-- Support refresh_mode and initialize parameters for dynamic tables ([#1076](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/1076))
-- Add tests for cross-database `cast` macro ([#1009](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/1009))
-- Cross-database `date` macro ([#1013](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/1013))
-- Replace underscores with hyphens in account IDs to prevent SSL issues ([#1068](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/1068))
-- Support JWT Authentication ([#1079](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/1079), [#726](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/726))
-- Improve run times for large projects by reusing connections by default ([#1082](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/1082))
-- Improve run times when using key pair auth by caching the private key ([#1082](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/1082))
-- Add support for Iceberg table materializations. ([#321](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/321))
-- Microbatch incremental strategy ([#1182](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/1182))
-- Add support for Iceberg table format in Dynamic Tables ([#1183](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/1183))
-- Add Iceberg format Incremental Models ([#321](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/321))
-- Add support for all on_schema_change incremental model strategies. ([#321](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/321))
-
-### Fixes
-
-- Get catalog metadata for a single relation in the most optimized way using the get_catalog_for_single_relation macro and capability ([#1048](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/1048))
-- Update relation caching to correctly identify dynamic tables, accounting for Snowflake's `2024_03` bundle ([#1016](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/1016))
-- Rename targets for tables and views use fully qualified names ([#1031](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/1031))
-- Surface SSO token expiration in logs ([#851](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/851))
-- return to previous naming convention to return to quoting policy ([#1074](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/1074))
-- Fix scenario where using the `--empty` flag causes metadata queries to contain limit clauses ([#1033](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/1033))
-- Use show ... starts with instead of show ... like in _show_object_metadata ([#1102](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/1102))
-- Fix issue where dbt-snowflake attempts to drop database roles during grants sync ([#1151](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/1151))
-
-### Under the Hood
-
-- Lazy load agate ([#953](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/953))
-- Speedup catalog string comparison by using ilike before equals ([#1035](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/1035))
-- Improve memory efficiency of the process_results() override. ([#1053](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/1053))
-- Automate all manual integration tests for Dynamic Tables ([#1084](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/1084))
-- Add support for experimental record/replay testing. ([#1106](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/1106))
-- Remove `freezegun` as a testing dependency; this package is no longer used ([#1136](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/1136))
-- Add support for Python 3.12 ([#903](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/903))
-- Isolating distribution testing ([#1130](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/1130))
-- Change behavior flag semantics to log iceberg flag warnings.. ([#321](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/321))
-
-### Dependencies
-
-- Update freezegun requirement from ~=1.3 to ~=1.4 ([#869](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/pull/869))
-- Bump actions/upload-artifact from 3 to 4 ([#971](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/pull/971))
-- Bump dbt-labs/actions from 1.1.0 to 1.1.1 ([#1006](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/pull/1006))
-- Bump actions/download-artifact from 3 to 4 ([#1007](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/pull/1007))
-- Bump aurelien-baudet/workflow-dispatch from 2 to 4 ([#1093](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/pull/1093))
-- Update twine requirement from ~=4.0 to ~=5.1 ([#1120](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/pull/1120))
-- Bump pre-commit from 3.7.0 to 3.7.1 ([#1119](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/pull/1119))
-- Update wheel requirement from ~=0.42 to ~=0.43 ([#1121](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/pull/1121))
-- Update pytest-xdist requirement from ~=3.5 to ~=3.6 ([#1122](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/pull/1122))
-- Update tox requirement from ~=4.11 to ~=4.16 ([#1135](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/pull/1135))
-
-### Contributors
-- [@HenkvanDyk,mikealfare](https://github.com/HenkvanDyk,mikealfare) ([#1076](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/1076))
-- [@McKnight-42](https://github.com/McKnight-42) ([#851](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/851), [#1074](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/1074))
-- [@amardatar](https://github.com/amardatar) ([#1082](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/1082))
-- [@dwreeves](https://github.com/dwreeves) ([#953](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/953))
-- [@leahwicz](https://github.com/leahwicz) ([#1130](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/1130))
-- [@llam15](https://github.com/llam15) ([#1079](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/1079), [#726](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/726))
-- [@mikealfare,](https://github.com/mikealfare,) ([#851](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/851))
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-time: 2023-12-19T12:51:52.00000Z
-custom:
-  Author: dependabot[bot]
-  PR: 869
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-time: 2024-04-12T15:59:21.00000Z
-custom:
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-  PR: 971
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-time: 2024-04-29T12:40:38.00000Z
-custom:
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-  PR: 1006
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-custom:
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-time: 2024-06-24T12:25:38.00000Z
-custom:
-  Author: dependabot[bot]
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-time: 2024-07-18T12:08:48.00000Z
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-time: 2024-07-18T12:08:49.00000Z
-custom:
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-time: 2024-07-18T12:08:52.00000Z
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-time: 2024-07-18T12:08:57.00000Z
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-kind: Features
-body: Support refresh_mode and initialize parameters for dynamic tables
-time: 2024-01-31T12:53:18.111616Z
-custom:
-  Author: HenkvanDyk,mikealfare
-  Issue: "1076"
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-kind: Features
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-time: 2024-04-30T18:57:14.753057-06:00
-custom:
-  Author: dbeatty10
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-time: 2024-05-01T15:19:01.141157-06:00
-custom:
-  Author: dbeatty10
-  Issue: 1013
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-time: 2024-06-04T15:48:56.845374-07:00
-custom:
-  Author: colin-rogers-dbt
-  Issue: "1068"
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-kind: Features
-body: Support JWT Authentication
-time: 2024-06-10T17:10:26.421463-04:00
-custom:
-    Author: llam15
-    Issue: 1079 726
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-body: Improve run times for large projects by reusing connections by default
-time: 2024-07-09T19:43:16.489649-04:00
-custom:
-  Author: mikealfare amardatar
-  Issue: "1082"
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-time: 2024-07-10T17:23:45.046905-04:00
-custom:
-  Author: mikealfare aranke
-  Issue: "1082"
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-time: 2024-09-11T00:18:06.780586-07:00
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-time: 2024-09-13T21:54:16.492885-04:00
-custom:
-  Author: michelleark
-  Issue: "1182"
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-custom:
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-body: Add Iceberg format Incremental Models
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-custom:
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-  Author: mikealfare
-  Issue: "1151"
diff --git a/.changes/1.9.0/Under the Hood-20240327-001304.yaml b/.changes/1.9.0/Under the Hood-20240327-001304.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 3e823ec86..000000000
--- a/.changes/1.9.0/Under the Hood-20240327-001304.yaml	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-kind: Under the Hood
-body: Lazy load agate
-time: 2024-03-27T00:13:04.246062-04:00
-custom:
-  Author: dwreeves
-  Issue: "953"
diff --git a/.changes/1.9.0/Under the Hood-20240425-144556.yaml b/.changes/1.9.0/Under the Hood-20240425-144556.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 002da3c1f..000000000
--- a/.changes/1.9.0/Under the Hood-20240425-144556.yaml	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-kind: Under the Hood
-body: Speedup catalog string comparison by using ilike before equals
-time: 2024-04-25T14:45:56.549787+02:00
-custom:
-  Author: aranke
-  Issue: '1035'
diff --git a/.changes/1.9.0/Under the Hood-20240517-143743.yaml b/.changes/1.9.0/Under the Hood-20240517-143743.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 598c60ad4..000000000
--- a/.changes/1.9.0/Under the Hood-20240517-143743.yaml	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-kind: Under the Hood
-body: Improve memory efficiency of the process_results() override.
-time: 2024-05-17T14:37:43.7414-04:00
-custom:
-  Author: peterallenwebb
-  Issue: "1053"
diff --git a/.changes/1.9.0/Under the Hood-20240614-170858.yaml b/.changes/1.9.0/Under the Hood-20240614-170858.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index cc806726b..000000000
--- a/.changes/1.9.0/Under the Hood-20240614-170858.yaml	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-kind: Under the Hood
-body: Automate all manual integration tests for Dynamic Tables
-time: 2024-06-14T17:08:58.231472-04:00
-custom:
-  Author: mikealfare
-  Issue: "1084"
diff --git a/.changes/1.9.0/Under the Hood-20240716-174655.yaml b/.changes/1.9.0/Under the Hood-20240716-174655.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 14c3c8d76..000000000
--- a/.changes/1.9.0/Under the Hood-20240716-174655.yaml	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-kind: Under the Hood
-body: Add support for experimental record/replay testing.
-time: 2024-07-16T17:46:55.11204-04:00
-custom:
-  Author: peterallenwebb
-  Issue: "1106"
diff --git a/.changes/1.9.0/Under the Hood-20240719-125618.yaml b/.changes/1.9.0/Under the Hood-20240719-125618.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 3d90b732c..000000000
--- a/.changes/1.9.0/Under the Hood-20240719-125618.yaml	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-kind: Under the Hood
-body: Remove `freezegun` as a testing dependency; this package is no longer used
-time: 2024-07-19T12:56:18.957049-04:00
-custom:
-  Author: mikealfare
-  Issue: "1136"
diff --git a/.changes/1.9.0/Under the Hood-20240722-143114.yaml b/.changes/1.9.0/Under the Hood-20240722-143114.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index dc5c2dbb1..000000000
--- a/.changes/1.9.0/Under the Hood-20240722-143114.yaml	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-kind: Under the Hood
-body: Add support for Python 3.12
-time: 2024-07-22T14:31:14.024865-07:00
-custom:
-  Author: versusfacit
-  Issue: "903"
diff --git a/.changes/1.9.0/Under the Hood-20240806-215935.yaml b/.changes/1.9.0/Under the Hood-20240806-215935.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 660918350..000000000
--- a/.changes/1.9.0/Under the Hood-20240806-215935.yaml	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-kind: Under the Hood
-body: Isolating distribution testing
-time: 2024-08-06T21:59:35.284641-04:00
-custom:
-    Author: leahwicz
-    Issue: "1130"
diff --git a/.changes/1.9.0/Under the Hood-20240917-181147.yaml b/.changes/1.9.0/Under the Hood-20240917-181147.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 2f52174dd..000000000
--- a/.changes/1.9.0/Under the Hood-20240917-181147.yaml	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-kind: Under the Hood
-body: Change behavior flag semantics to log iceberg flag warnings..
-time: 2024-09-17T18:11:47.525026-07:00
-custom:
-    Author: versusfacit
-    Issue: "321"
diff --git a/.changes/unreleased/Breaking Changes-20241016-183143.yaml b/.changes/unreleased/Breaking Changes-20241016-183143.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 26cc4b6de..000000000
--- a/.changes/unreleased/Breaking Changes-20241016-183143.yaml	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-kind: Breaking Changes
-body: Drop support for Python 3.8
-time: 2024-10-16T18:31:43.4167-04:00
-custom:
-  Author: mikealfare
-  Issue: "1211"
diff --git a/.changes/unreleased/Features-20241107-170307.yaml b/.changes/unreleased/Features-20241107-170307.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 1479c5805..000000000
--- a/.changes/unreleased/Features-20241107-170307.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-kind: Features
-body: 'Allow configurable pagination on list_relations_without_caching to support
-  users with a large number of objects per schema'
-time: 2024-11-07T17:03:07.826352-05:00
-custom:
-  Author: mikealfare
-  Issue: "1234"
diff --git a/.changes/unreleased/Fixes-20231129-124145.yaml b/.changes/unreleased/Fixes-20231129-124145.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 72a889d17..000000000
--- a/.changes/unreleased/Fixes-20231129-124145.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-kind: Fixes
-body: Handle non-English Snowflake error message for non-existing schemas
-time: 2023-11-29T12:41:45.1273-07:00
-custom:
-  Author: pei0804
-  Issue: "834"
diff --git a/.changes/unreleased/Fixes-20241008-122635.yaml b/.changes/unreleased/Fixes-20241008-122635.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index c069283d6..000000000
--- a/.changes/unreleased/Fixes-20241008-122635.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-kind: Fixes
-body: Dynamic Iceberg table base_location_subpath generation fix.
-time: 2024-10-08T12:26:35.521308-07:00
-custom:
-    Author: versusfacit
-    Issue: "1200"
diff --git a/.changes/unreleased/Fixes-20241104-104610.yaml b/.changes/unreleased/Fixes-20241104-104610.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index c512d0bdd..000000000
--- a/.changes/unreleased/Fixes-20241104-104610.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-kind: Fixes
-body: 'Performance fixes for snowflake microbatch strategy: use temp view instead
-  of table, remove unnecessary ''using'' clause'
-time: 2024-11-04T10:46:10.005317-05:00
-custom:
-  Author: michelleark
-  Issue: "1228"
diff --git a/.changes/unreleased/Fixes-20241104-172349.yaml b/.changes/unreleased/Fixes-20241104-172349.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 07c90d93c..000000000
--- a/.changes/unreleased/Fixes-20241104-172349.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-kind: Fixes
-body: Iceberg quoting ignore fix.
-time: 2024-11-04T17:23:49.706297-08:00
-custom:
-    Author: versusfacit
-    Issue: "1227"
diff --git a/.changes/unreleased/Under the Hood-20241016-035544.yaml b/.changes/unreleased/Under the Hood-20241016-035544.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 59e4f70de..000000000
--- a/.changes/unreleased/Under the Hood-20241016-035544.yaml	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-kind: Under the Hood
-body: Add telemetry function
-time: 2024-10-16T03:55:44.144174-07:00
-custom:
-    Author: versusfacit
-    Issue: "301"
diff --git a/.changes/unreleased/Under the Hood-20241106-113249.yaml b/.changes/unreleased/Under the Hood-20241106-113249.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 0437a8c88..000000000
--- a/.changes/unreleased/Under the Hood-20241106-113249.yaml	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-kind: Under the Hood
-body: remove SnowflakeAdapterResponse in favor of updated AdapterResponse in base
-time: 2024-11-06T11:32:49.503467-08:00
-custom:
-  Author: colin-rogers-dbt
-  Issue: "1233"
diff --git a/.changes/unreleased/Under the Hood-20241118-231637.yaml b/.changes/unreleased/Under the Hood-20241118-231637.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index f787a2a79..000000000
--- a/.changes/unreleased/Under the Hood-20241118-231637.yaml	
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-kind: Under the Hood
-body: Add iceberg docs url to behavior flag.
-time: 2024-11-18T23:16:37.926576-08:00
-custom:
-    Author: versusfacit
-    Issue: "210"
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 599c20195..8b6702b8f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,69 +5,6 @@
 - "Breaking changes" listed under a version may require action from end users or external maintainers when upgrading to that version.
 - Do not edit this file directly. This file is auto-generated using [changie](https://github.com/miniscruff/changie). For details on how to document a change, see [the contributing guide](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#adding-changelog-entry)
 
-## dbt-snowflake 1.9.0-b1 - October 01, 2024
-
-### Features
-
-- Support refresh_mode and initialize parameters for dynamic tables ([#1076](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/1076))
-- Add tests for cross-database `cast` macro ([#1009](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/1009))
-- Cross-database `date` macro ([#1013](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/1013))
-- Replace underscores with hyphens in account IDs to prevent SSL issues ([#1068](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/1068))
-- Support JWT Authentication ([#1079](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/1079), [#726](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/726))
-- Improve run times for large projects by reusing connections by default ([#1082](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/1082))
-- Improve run times when using key pair auth by caching the private key ([#1082](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/1082))
-- Add support for Iceberg table materializations. ([#321](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/321))
-- Microbatch incremental strategy ([#1182](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/1182))
-- Add support for Iceberg table format in Dynamic Tables ([#1183](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/1183))
-- Add Iceberg format Incremental Models ([#321](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/321))
-- Add support for all on_schema_change incremental model strategies. ([#321](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/321))
-
-### Fixes
-
-- Get catalog metadata for a single relation in the most optimized way using the get_catalog_for_single_relation macro and capability ([#1048](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/1048))
-- Update relation caching to correctly identify dynamic tables, accounting for Snowflake's `2024_03` bundle ([#1016](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/1016))
-- Rename targets for tables and views use fully qualified names ([#1031](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/1031))
-- Surface SSO token expiration in logs ([#851](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/851))
-- return to previous naming convention to return to quoting policy ([#1074](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/1074))
-- Fix scenario where using the `--empty` flag causes metadata queries to contain limit clauses ([#1033](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/1033))
-- Use show ... starts with instead of show ... like in _show_object_metadata ([#1102](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/1102))
-- Fix issue where dbt-snowflake attempts to drop database roles during grants sync ([#1151](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/1151))
-
-### Under the Hood
-
-- Lazy load agate ([#953](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/953))
-- Speedup catalog string comparison by using ilike before equals ([#1035](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/1035))
-- Improve memory efficiency of the process_results() override. ([#1053](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/1053))
-- Automate all manual integration tests for Dynamic Tables ([#1084](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/1084))
-- Add support for experimental record/replay testing. ([#1106](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/1106))
-- Remove `freezegun` as a testing dependency; this package is no longer used ([#1136](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/1136))
-- Add support for Python 3.12 ([#903](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/903))
-- Isolating distribution testing ([#1130](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/1130))
-- Change behavior flag semantics to log iceberg flag warnings.. ([#321](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/321))
-
-### Dependencies
-
-- Update freezegun requirement from ~=1.3 to ~=1.4 ([#869](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/pull/869))
-- Bump actions/upload-artifact from 3 to 4 ([#971](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/pull/971))
-- Bump dbt-labs/actions from 1.1.0 to 1.1.1 ([#1006](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/pull/1006))
-- Bump actions/download-artifact from 3 to 4 ([#1007](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/pull/1007))
-- Bump aurelien-baudet/workflow-dispatch from 2 to 4 ([#1093](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/pull/1093))
-- Update twine requirement from ~=4.0 to ~=5.1 ([#1120](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/pull/1120))
-- Bump pre-commit from 3.7.0 to 3.7.1 ([#1119](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/pull/1119))
-- Update wheel requirement from ~=0.42 to ~=0.43 ([#1121](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/pull/1121))
-- Update pytest-xdist requirement from ~=3.5 to ~=3.6 ([#1122](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/pull/1122))
-- Update tox requirement from ~=4.11 to ~=4.16 ([#1135](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/pull/1135))
-
-### Contributors
-- [@HenkvanDyk,mikealfare](https://github.com/HenkvanDyk,mikealfare) ([#1076](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/1076))
-- [@McKnight-42](https://github.com/McKnight-42) ([#851](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/851), [#1074](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/1074))
-- [@amardatar](https://github.com/amardatar) ([#1082](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/1082))
-- [@dwreeves](https://github.com/dwreeves) ([#953](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/953))
-- [@leahwicz](https://github.com/leahwicz) ([#1130](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/1130))
-- [@llam15](https://github.com/llam15) ([#1079](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/1079), [#726](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/726))
-- [@mikealfare,](https://github.com/mikealfare,) ([#851](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/issues/851))
-
-
 ## Previous Releases
 For information on prior major and minor releases, see their changelogs:
 - [1.6](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-snowflake/blob/1.6.latest/CHANGELOG.md)
diff --git a/dbt/adapters/snowflake/__version__.py b/dbt/adapters/snowflake/__version__.py
index a4077fff2..1af777a62 100644
--- a/dbt/adapters/snowflake/__version__.py
+++ b/dbt/adapters/snowflake/__version__.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-version = "1.9.0b1"
+version = "1.10.0a1"