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dbt-core
- Changes are listed under the (pre)release in which they first appear. Subsequent releases include changes from previous releases.
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- Fix unit tests for incremental model with alias (#10754)
- Remove support and testing for Python 3.8, which is now EOL. (#10861)
- Pin dbt-common and dbt-adapters with upper bound. (#10895)
- Add support for behavior flags (#10618)
- Late render pre- and post-hooks configs in properties / schema YAML files (#10603)
- Improve speed of tree traversal when finding children, increasing build speed for some selectors (#10434)
- respect --quiet and --warn-error-options for flag deprecations (#10105)
- Fix setting
silence
ofwarn_error_options
viadbt_project.yaml
flags (#10160) - Limit data_tests deprecation to root_project (#9835)
- CLI flags should take precedence over env var flags (#10304)
- Fix error constructing warn_error_options (#10452)
- add --empty value to jinja context as flags.EMPTY (#10317)
- DOn't warn on
unit_test
config paths that are properly used (#10311)
- Fix npm security vulnerabilities as of June 2024 (dbt-docs/#513)
- Add --host flag to dbt docs serve, defaulting to '127.0.0.1' (#10229)
- Fix: Order-insensitive unit test equality assertion for expected/actual with multiple nulls (#10167)
- Add resource type to saved_query (#10168)
- Enable display of unit tests (dbt-docs/#501)
- Unit tests not rendering (dbt-docs/#506)
- Add support for Saved Query node (dbt-docs/#486)
- Explicitly bind to localhost in docs serve (#10209)
- Remove adapter.get_compiler interface (#9148)
- Move AdapterLogger to adapters folder (#9151)
- Rm --dry-run flag from 'dbt deps --add-package', in favor of just 'dbt deps --lock' (#9100)
- move event manager setup back to core, remove ref to global EVENT_MANAGER and clean up event manager functions (#9150)
- Remove dbt-tests-adapter and dbt-postgres packages from dbt-core (#9455)
- Update the default behaviour of require_explicit_package_overrides_for_builtin_materializations to True. (#10062)
- Initial implementation of unit testing (#8287)
- Unit test manifest artifacts and selection (#8295)
- Support config with tags & meta for unit tests (#8294)
- Allow adapters to include package logs in dbt standard logging (#7859)
- Enable inline csv fixtures in unit tests (#8626)
- Add drop_schema_named macro (#8025)
- migrate utils to common and adapters folders (#8924)
- Move Agate helper client into common (#8926)
- remove usage of dbt.config.PartialProject from dbt/adapters (#8928)
- Add exports to SavedQuery spec (#8892)
- Support unit testing incremental models (#8422)
- Add support of csv file fixtures to unit testing (#8290)
- Remove legacy logger (#8027)
- Unit tests support --defer and state:modified (#8517)
- Support setting export configs hierarchically via saved query and project configs (#8956)
- Support source inputs in unit tests (#8507)
- Use daff to render diff displayed in stdout when unit test fails (#8558)
- Global config for --target and --profile CLI flags and DBT_TARGET and DBT_PROFILE environment variables. (#7798)
- Move unit testing to test command (#8979)
- Support --empty flag for schema-only dry runs (#8971)
- Support unit tests in non-root packages (#8285)
- Convert the
tests
config todata_tests
in both dbt_project.yml and schema files. in schema files. (#8699) - Make fixture files full-fledged parts of the manifest and enable partial parsing (#9067)
- Adds support for parsing conversion metric related properties for the semantic layer. (#9203)
- Package selector syntax for the current package (#6891)
- In build command run unit tests before models (#9128)
- Move flags from UserConfig in profiles.yml to flags in dbt_project.yml (#9183)
- Added hook support for
dbt source freshness
(#5609) - Align with order of unit test output when
actual
differs fromexpected
(#9370) - Added support for external nodes in unit test nodes (#8944)
- Enable unit testing versioned models (#9344)
- Enable list command for unit tests (#8508)
- Integration Test Optimizations (#9498)
- Accelerate integration tests with caching. (#9498)
- Cache environment variables (#9489)
- Support meta at the config level for Metric nodes (#9441)
- Add cache to SavedQuery config (#9540)
- Support scrubbing secret vars (#7247)
- Allow excluding resource types for build, list, and clone commands, and provide env vars (#9237)
- SourceDefinition.meta represents source-level and table-level meta properties, instead of only table-level (#9766)
- Allow metrics in semantic layer filters. (#9804)
- Add wildcard support to the group selector method (#9811)
- source freshness precomputes metadata-based freshness in batch, if possible (#8705)
- Better error message when trying to select a disabled model (#9747)
- Support SQL in unit testing fixtures (#9405)
- Add require_explicit_package_overrides_for_builtin_materializations to dbt_project.yml flags, which can be used to opt-out of overriding built-in materializations from packages (#10007)
- add --empty flag to dbt build command (#10026)
- Ability to
silence
warnings viawarn_error_options
(#9644) - Allow aliases
error
forinclude
andwarn
forexclude
inwarn_error_options
(#9644) - Add unit_test: selection method (#10053)
- For packages installed with tarball method, fetch metadata to resolve nested dependencies (#8621)
- Fix partial parsing not working for semantic model change (#8859)
- Handle unknown
type_code
for model contracts (#8877, #8353) - Rework get_catalog implementation to retain previous adapter interface semantics (#8846)
- Add back contract enforcement for temporary tables on postgres (#8857)
- Add version to fqn when version==0 (#8836)
- Fix cased comparison in catalog-retrieval function. (#8939)
- Catalog queries now assign the correct type to materialized views (#8864)
- Fix compilation exception running empty seed file and support new Integer agate data_type (#8895)
- Make relation filtering None-tolerant for maximal flexibility across adapters. (#8974)
- Update run_results.json from previous versions of dbt to support deferral and rerun from failure (#9010)
- Use MANIFEST.in to recursively include all jinja templates; fixes issue where some templates were not included in the distribution (#9016)
- Fix git repository with subdirectory for Deps (#9000)
- Use seed file from disk for unit testing if rows not specified in YAML config (#8652)
- Fix formatting of tarball information in packages-lock.yml (#9062)
- deps: Lock git packages to commit SHA during resolution (#9050)
- deps: Use PackageRenderer to read package-lock.json (#9127)
- Ensure we produce valid jsonschema schemas for manifest, catalog, run-results, and sources (#8991)
- Get sources working again in dbt docs generate (#9119)
- Fix parsing f-strings in python models (#6976)
- Preserve the value of vars and the --full-refresh flags when using retry. (#9112)
- fix lock-file bad indentation (#9319)
- fix configuration of turning test warnings into failures with WARN_ERROR_OPTIONS (#7761)
- Support reasonably long unit test names (#9015)
- Fix back-compat parsing for model-level 'tests', source table-level 'tests', and 'tests' defined on model versions (#9411)
- Fix retry command run from CLI (#9444)
- Fix seed and source selection in
dbt docs generate
(#9161) - Add TestGenerateCatalogWithExternalNodes, include empty nodes in node selection during docs generate (#9456)
- Fix node type plurals in FoundStats log message (#9464)
- Run manifest upgrade preprocessing on any older manifest version, including v11 (#9487)
- Update 'compiled_code' context member logic to route based on command ('clone' or not). Reimplement 'sql' context member as wrapper of 'compiled_code'. (#9502)
- Fix bug where Semantic Layer filter strings are parsed into lists. (#9507)
- Initialize invocation context before test fixtures are built. (##9489)
- Fix conflict with newer versions of Snowplow tracker (#8719)
- When patching versioned models, set constraints after config (#9364)
- only include unmodified semantic mdodels in state:modified selection (#9548)
- Set query headers when manifest is passed in to dbtRunner (#9546)
- Store node_info in node associated logging events (#9557)
- Fix Semantic Model Compare node relations (#9548)
- Tighten exception handling to avoid worker thread hangs. (#9583)
- Clearer no-op logging in stubbed SavedQueryRunner (#9533)
- Fix node_info contextvar handling so incorrect node_info doesn't persist (#8866)
- Add target-path to retry (#8948)
- Do not add duplicate input_measures (#9360)
- Throw a ParsingError if a primary key constraint is defined on multiple columns or at both the column and model level. (#9581)
- Bug fix: don't parse Jinja in filters for input metrics or measures. (#9582)
- Fix traceback parsing for exceptions raised due to csv fixtures moved into or out of fixture/subfolders. (#9570)
- Fix partial parsing
KeyError
on deleted schema files (#8860) - Support saved queries in
dbt list
(#9532) - include sources in catalog.json when over 100 relations selected for catalog generation (#9755)
- Support overriding macros in packages in unit testing (#9624)
- Handle exceptions for failing on-run-* hooks in source freshness (#9511)
- Validation of unit test parsing for incremental models (#9593)
- Fix use of retry command on command using defer (#9770)
- Make
args
variable to be un-modified bydbt.invoke(args)
(#8938, #9787) - Only create the packages-install-path / dbt_packages folder during dbt deps (#6985, #9584)
- Unit test path outputs (#9608)
- Fix assorted source freshness edgecases so check is run or actionable information is given (#9078)
- "Fix Docker release process to account for both historical and current versions of
dbt-postgres
(#9827) - Exclude password-like fields for considering reparse (#9795)
- Fixed query comments test (#9860)
- Begin warning people about spaces in model names (#9397)
- Add NodeRelation to SavedQuery Export (#9534)
- Disambiguiate FreshnessConfigProblem error message (#9891)
- Use consistent secret scrubbing with the log function. (#9987)
- Validate against empty strings in package definitions (#9985)
- Fix default value for indirect selection in selector cannot overwritten by CLI flag and env var (#9976, #7673)
- Simplify error message if test severity isn't 'warn' or 'error' (#9715)
- Support overriding source level loaded_at_field with a null table level definition (#9320)
- Undo conditional agate import to prevent UnresolvedTypeReferenceError during RunResult serialization (#10098)
- Restore previous behavior for --favor-state: only favor defer_relation if not selected in current command" (#10107)
- Unit test fixture (csv) returns null for empty value (#9881)
- Add analytics for dbt.com (dbt-docs/#430)
- fix get_custom_database docstring (dbt-docs/#9003)
- Enable display of unit tests (dbt-docs/#501)
- Unit tests not rendering (dbt-docs/#506)
- Added more type annotations. (#8537)
- Add unit testing functional tests (#8512)
- Remove usage of dbt.include.global_project in dbt/adapters (#8925)
- Add a no-op runner for Saved Qeury (#8893)
- remove dbt.flags.MP_CONTEXT usage in dbt/adapters (#8967)
- Remove usage of dbt.flags.LOG_CACHE_EVENTS in dbt/adapters (#8969)
- Move CatalogRelationTypes test case to the shared test suite to be reused by adapter maintainers (#8952)
- Treat SystemExit as an interrupt if raised during node execution. (#n/a)
- Removing unused 'documentable' (#8871)
- Remove use of dbt/core exceptions in dbt/adapter (#8920)
- Cache dbt plugin modules to improve integration test performance (#9029)
- Consolidate deferral methods & flags (#7965, #8715)
- Fix test_current_timestamp_matches_utc test; allow for MacOS runner system clock variance (#9057)
- Remove usage of dbt.deprecations in dbt/adapters, enable core & adapter-specific event types and protos (#8927, #8918)
- Clean up unused adaptor folders (#9123)
- Move column constraints into common/contracts, removing another dependency of adapters on core. (#9024)
- Move dbt.semver to dbt.common.semver and update references. (#9039)
- Move lowercase utils method to common (#9180)
- Remove usages of dbt.clients.jinja in dbt/adapters (#9205)
- Remove usage of dbt.contracts in dbt/adapters (#9208)
- Remove usage of dbt.contracts.graph.nodes.ResultNode in dbt/adapters (#9214)
- Introduce RelationConfig Protocol, consolidate Relation.create_from (#9215)
- remove manifest from adapter.set_relations_cache signature (#9217)
- remove manifest from adapter catalog method signatures (#9218)
- Move BaseConfig, Metadata and various other contract classes from model_config to common/contracts/config (#8919)
- Add MacroResolverProtocol, remove lazy loading of manifest in adapter.execute_macro (#9244)
- pass query header context to MacroQueryStringSetter (#9249, #9250)
- add macro_context_generator on adapter (#9247)
- pass mp_context to adapter factory as argument instead of import (#9025)
- have dbt-postgres use RelationConfig protocol for materialized views' (#9292)
- move system.py to common as dbt-bigquery relies on it to call gcloud (#9293)
- Reorganizing event definitions to define core events in dbt/events rather than dbt/common (#9152)
- move exceptions used only in dbt/common to dbt/common/exceptions (#9332)
- Remove usage of dbt.adapters.factory in dbt/common (#9334)
- Accept valid_error_names in WarnErrorOptions constructor, remove global usage of event modules (#9337)
- Move result objects to dbt.artifacts (#9193)
- dbt Labs OSS standardization of docs and templates. (#9252)
- Add dbt-common as a dependency and remove dbt/common (#9357)
- move cache exceptions to dbt/adapters (#9362)
- Clean up macro contexts. (#9422)
- Add the @requires.manifest decorator to the retry command. (#9426)
- Move WritableManifest + Documentation to dbt/artifacts (#9378, #9379)
- Define Macro and Group resources in dbt/artifacts (#9381, #9382)
- Move
SavedQuery
data definition todbt/artifacts
(#9386) - Migrate data parts of
Metric
node to dbt/artifacts (#9383) - Move data portion of
SemanticModel
to dbt/artifacts (#9387) - Move data parts of
Exposure
class to dbt/artifacts (#9380) - Split up deferral across parsing (adding 'defer_relation' from state manifest) and runtime ref resolution" (#9199)
- Start using
Mergeable
from dbt-common (#9505) - Move manifest nodes to artifacts (#9388)
- Move data parts of
SourceDefinition
class to dbt/artifacts (#9384) - Remove uses of Replaceable class (#7802)
- Make dbt-core compatible with Python 3.12 (#9007)
- Restrict protobuf to major version 4. (#9566)
- Remove references to dbt.tracking and dbt.flags from dbt/artifacts (#9390)
- Remove unused key
wildcard
from MethodName enum (#9641) - Implement primary key inference for model nodes (#9652)
- Define UnitTestDefinition resource in dbt/artifacts/resources (#9667)
- Use Manifest instead of WritableManifest in PreviousState and _get_deferred_manifest (#9567)
- Improve dbt CLI speed (#4627)
- Include node_info in various Result events (#9619)
- Remove non dbt.artifacts dbt.* imports from dbt/artifacts (#9926)
- Migrate to using
error_tag
provided bydbt-common
(#9914) - Add a test for semantic manifest and move test fixtures needed for it (#9665)
- Raise deprecation warning if installed package overrides built-in materialization (#9971)
- Use the SECRET_ENV_PREFIX from dbt_common instead of duplicating it in dbt-core (#10018)
- Enable use of record mode via environment variable (#10045)
- Consistent naming + deprecation warnings for "legacy behavior" flags (#10062)
- Enable use of context in serialization (#10093)
- Bump actions/checkout from 3 to 4 (#8781)
- Begin using DSI 0.4.x (#8892)
- Update typing-extensions version to >=4.4 (#9012)
- Bump ddtrace from 2.1.7 to 2.3.0 (#9132)
- Bump freezegun from 0.3.12 to 1.3.0 (#9197)
- Bump actions/setup-python from 4 to 5 (#9267)
- Bump actions/download-artifact from 3 to 4 (#9374)
- Relax pathspec upper bound version restriction (#9373)
- remove dbt/adapters and add dependency on dbt-adapters (#9430)
- Bump actions/upload-artifact from 3 to 4 (#9470)
- Bump actions/cache from 3 to 4 (#9471)
- Bump peter-evans/create-pull-request from 5 to 6 (#9552)
- Restrict protobuf to 4.* versions (#9566)
- Bump codecov/codecov-action from 3 to 4 (#9659)
- Cap dbt-semantic-interfaces version range to <0.6 (#9671)
- Bump python from 3.10.7-slim-nullseye to 3.11.2-slim-bullseye in /docker (#9687)
- bump dbt-common to accept major version 1 (#9690)
- Remove duplicate dependency of protobuf in dev-requirements (#9830)
- Bump black from 23.3.0 to >=24.3.0,<25.0 (#8074)
- Update the agate pin to "agate>=1.7.0,<1.10" (#9934)
- Update Jinja2 to >= 3.1.3 to address CVE-2024-22195 (#9638)
- Bump sqlparse to >=0.5.0, <0.6.0 to address GHSA-2m57-hf25-phgg (#9951)
- @LeoTheGriff (#9003)
- @SamuelBFavarin (#9747)
- @WilliamDee (#9203)
- @adamlopez (#8621)
- @akurdyukov (#8719)
- @aliceliu (#9652)
- @asweet (#9641)
- @b-per (#430)
- @barton996 (#7798, #6891)
- @benmosher (#n/a)
- @colin-rorgers-dbt (#8919)
- @courtneyholcomb (#9804, #9507, #9582)
- @damian3031 (#9860)
- @dwreeves (#4627)
- @edgarrmondragon (#8719)
- @emmoop (#9951)
- @heysweet (#9811)
- @jx2lee (#9319, #7761)
- @l1xnan (#9007)
- @mederka (#6976)
- @mjkanji (#9934)
- @nielspardon (#7247)
- @niteshy (#9830)
- @ofek1weiss (#5609)
- @peterallenwebb, (#9112)
- @rzjfr (#9373)
- @slothkong (#9570)
- @tlento (#9012, #9671)
- @tonayya (#9252)
For information on prior major and minor releases, see their changelogs: