New attributes have been added to dbSNP to allow searching and 
filtering of human variation by the following characteristics:

	1) Allele Origin
	2) Clinical significance
	3) Global minor allele frequency (MAF) 
	4) Suspect

Please see the online help for examples of web resources, searches, 
and schema changes 
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/SNP/docs/rs_attributes.html)

dbSNP Build 133 for cow (txid 9913)
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This release is based on NCBI genome build 5.2 that included Btau_4.2 and
UMD_3.1 assemblies. A total of 9493419 Reference SNP (rs) are in this release
including more than 5 million new rs added since the last release.

Updates for grape, macaque, and soybean
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Minor updates with no additional new annotations were performed on grape (txid
29760), macaque (txid 9541), and soybean (txid 3847) to include these organisms
in Entrez search and the FTP dumps.

More here.

The New (dbSNP BLAST) page is now available with a new user interface.   
It has been designed to be consistent with other NCBI BLAST Web Pages
and more intuitive to use with easier access to many different organisms.  
Please update your bookmarks as the old site
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/SNP/snp_blastByOrg.cgi) 
will be retired soon from service.  

dbSNP Build 132 is now available (More... ).

VCF format is available on the FTP site (
ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/snp/organisms/human_9606/VCF/v4.0/).
Please see the README file for file descriptions