dbt-core v1.9.0b4

dbt-core 1.9.0-b4 - November 06, 2024

Features

• Emit debug logging event whenever artifacts are written (#10937)
• Support --empty for snapshots (#10372)

Fixes

• Ensure KeyboardInterrupt/SystemExit halts microbatch model execution (#10862)
• Handle exceptions in get_execution_status more broadly to better ensure run_results.json gets written (#10934)

Under the Hood

• Behavior change for mf timespine without yaml configuration (#10959)
• Behavior change for cumulative metric type param (#10960)

Contributors

• @DevonFulcher (#10959, #10960)

dbt-core v1.9.0b3

dbt-core 1.9.0-b3 - October 30, 2024

Features

• Add order_by and limit fields to saved queries. (#10531)
• Enable specification of dbt_valid_to for current records (#10187)
• Enable use of multi-column unique key in snapshots (#9992)
• Ensure --event-time-start is before --event-time-end (#10786)
• Ensure microbatch models use same current_time value (#10819)
• Emit warning when microbatch model has no input with event_time config (#10926)

Fixes

• Pass test user config to adapter pre_hook by explicitly adding test builder config to node (#10484)
• Handle edge cases when a specified --event-time-end is equivalent to the batch size truncated batch start time (#10824)
• Begin tracking execution time of microbatch model batches (#10825)
• Allow instances of generic data tests to be documented (#2578)
• Fix warnings for models referring to a deprecated model (#10833)
• Change lookback default from 0 to 1 to ensure better data completeness (#10867)
• Make --event-time-start and --event-time-end mutually required (#10874)
• Exclude hook result from results in on-run-end context (#7387)
• Implement partial parsing for all-yaml snapshots (#10903)
• Restore source quoting behaviour when quoting config provided in dbt_project.yml (#10892)
• Fix bug when referencing deprecated models (#10915)
• Fix 'model' jinja context variable type to dict (#10927)
• Take end_time for batches to the ceiling to handle edge case where event_time column is a date (#10868)

Under the Hood

• Remove support and testing for Python 3.8, which is now EOL. (#10861)

Dependencies

• Bump minimnum allowed dbt-adapters version to 1.8.0 (#N/A)

Contributors

• @danlsn (#10915)
• @plypaul (#10531)

dbt-core v1.8.8

dbt-core 1.8.8 - October 23, 2024

Fixes

• Fix unit tests for incremental model with alias (#10754)

Under the Hood

• Remove support and testing for Python 3.8, which is now EOL. (#10861)

Dependencies

• Pin dbt-common and dbt-adapters with upper bound. (#10895)

Contributors

• @katsugeneration (#10754)

dbt-core v1.9.0b2

dbt-core 1.9.0-b2 - October 07, 2024

dbt-core v1.9.0b1

dbt-core 1.9.0-b1 - October 01, 2024

Breaking Changes

• Fix changing the current working directory when using dpt deps, clean and init. (#8997)

Features

• serialize inferred primary key (#9824)
• Add unit_test: selection method (#10053)
• Maximally parallelize dbt clone in clone command" (#7914)
• Add --host flag to dbt docs serve, defaulting to '127.0.0.1' (#10229)
• Update data_test to accept arbitrary config options (#10197)
• add pre_model and post_model hook calls to data and unit tests to be able to provide extra config options (#10198)
• add --empty value to jinja context as flags.EMPTY (#10317)
• Warning message for snapshot timestamp data types (#10234)
• Support cumulative_type_params & sub-daily granularities in semantic manifest. (#10360)
• Add time_granularity to metric spec. (#10376)
• Support standard schema/database fields for snapshots (#10301)
• Support ref and source in foreign key constraint expressions, bump dbt-common minimum to 1.6 (#8062)
• Support new semantic layer time spine configs to enable sub-daily granularity. (#10475)
• Include models that depend on changed vars in state:modified, add state:modified.vars selection method (#4304)
• Add support for behavior flags (#10618)
• Enable --resource-type and --exclude-resource-type CLI flags and environment variables for dbt test (#10656)
• Allow configuring snapshot column names (#10185)
• Add custom_granularities to YAML spec for time spines. (#9265)
• Add basic functionality for creating microbatch incremental models (#9490, #10635, #10637, #10638, #10636, #10662, #10639)
• Execute microbatch models in batches (#10700)
• Create 'skip_nodes_if_on_run_start_fails' behavior change flag (#7387)
• Allow snapshots to be defined in YAML. (#10246)
• Write microbatch compiled/run targets to separate files, one per batch (#10714)
• Track incremental_strategy as part of model_run tracking event (#10761)
• Support required 'begin' config for microbatch models (#10701)
• Parse-time validation of microbatch configs: require event_time, batch_size, lookback and validate input event_time (#10709)
• Added the --inline-direct parameter to 'dbt show' (#10770)
• Enable retry support for microbatch models (#10715, #10729)
• Use unrendered database and schema source properties during state:modified, behind state_modified_compare_more_unrendered_values behavoiur flag (#9573)
• Ensure microbatch models respect full_refresh model config (#10785)
• Adds validations for custom_granularities to ensure unique naming. (#9265)

Fixes

• Remove unused check_new method (#7586)
• Test case for merge_exclude_columns (#8267)
• Convert "Skipping model due to fail_fast" message to DEBUG level (#8774)
• 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)
• Fix json format log and --quiet for ls and jinja print by converting print call to fire events (#8756)
• Add resource type to saved_query (#10168)
• Fix: Order-insensitive unit test equality assertion for expected/actual with multiple nulls (#10167)
• Renaming or removing a contracted model should raise a BreakingChange warning/error (#10116)
• prefer disabled project nodes to external node (#10224)
• Fix issues with selectors and inline nodes (#8943, #9269)
• Fix snapshot config to work in yaml files (#4000)
• Improve handling of error when loading schema file list (#10284)
• Use model alias for the CTE identifier generated during ephemeral materialization (#5273)
• Implement state:modified for saved queries (#10294)
• Saved Query node fail during skip (#10029)
• DOn't warn on unit_test config paths that are properly used (#10311)
• Fix setting silence of warn_error_options via dbt_project.yaml flags (#10160)
• Attempt to provide test fixture tables with all values to set types correctly for comparisong with source tables (#10365)
• Limit data_tests deprecation to root_project (#9835)
• CLI flags should take precedence over env var flags (#10304)
• Fix typing for artifact schemas (#10442)
• Fix over deletion of generated_metrics in partial parsing (#10450)
• Fix error constructing warn_error_options (#10452)
• Do not update varchar column definitions if a contract exists (#10362)
• fix all_constraints access, disabled node parsing of non-uniquely named resources (#10509)
• respect --quiet and --warn-error-options for flag deprecations (#10105)
• Propagate measure label when using create_metrics (#10536)
• Fix state:modified check for exports (#10138)
• Filter out empty nodes after graph selection to support consistent selection of nodes that depend on upstream public models (#8987)
• Late render pre- and post-hooks configs in properties / schema YAML files (#10603)
• Allow the use of env_var function in certain macros in which it was previously unavailable. (#10609)
• Remove deprecation for tests: to data_tests: change (#10564)
• Fix --resource-type test for dbt list and dbt build (#10730)
• Fix unit tests for incremental model with alias (#10754)
• Allow singular tests to be documented in properties.yml (#9005)
• Ignore --empty in unit test ref/source rendering (#10516)
• Ignore rendered jinja in configs for state:modified, behind state_modified_compare_more_unrendered_values behaviour flag (#9564)
• Improve performance of infer primary key (#10781)
• Attempt to skip saved query processing when no semantic manifest changes (#10563)
• Ensure dbt retry of microbatch models doesn't lose prior successful state (#10800)

Docs

• Enable display of unit tests (dbt-docs/#501)
• Unit tests not rendering ([dbt-docs/...

dbt-core v1.8.7

dbt-core 1.8.7 - September 24, 2024

Features

• Add support for behavior flags (#10618)

dbt-core v1.8.6

dbt-core 1.8.6 - August 29, 2024

Fixes

• Late render pre- and post-hooks configs in properties / schema YAML files (#10603)

Under the Hood

• Improve speed of tree traversal when finding children, increasing build speed for some selectors (#10434)

Contributors

• @ttusing (#10434)

dbt-core v1.8.5

dbt-core 1.8.5 - August 07, 2024

Fixes

• respect --quiet and --warn-error-options for flag deprecations (#10105)

dbt-core v1.7.18

dbt-core 1.7.18 - August 07, 2024

Fixes

• respect --quiet and --warn-error-options for flag deprecations (#10105)

dbt-core v1.6.18

dbt-core 1.6.18 - August 07, 2024

Fixes

• respect --quiet and --warn-error-options for flag deprecations (#10105)