dbt-core 1.7.0-rc1 - October 12, 2023

Features

• add log file of installed packages via dbt deps (#6643)
• Add --no-inject-ephemeral-ctes flag for compile command, for usage by linting. (#8480)
• Accept a dbt-cloud config in dbt_project.yml (#8438)
• Support atomic replace in the global replace macro (#8539)
• Use translate_type on data_type in model.columns in templates by default, remove no op TYPE_LABELS (#8007)
• Add an option to generate static documentation (#8614)
• Allow setting "access" as a config in addition to as a property (#8383)
• Loosen typing requirement on renameable/replaceable relations to Iterable to allow adapters more flexibility in registering relation types, include docstrings as suggestions (#8647)
• Add support for optional label in semantic_models, measures, dimensions and entities. (#8595, #8755)
• Allow adapters to include package logs in dbt standard logging (#7859)
• Support storing test failures as views (#6914)
• resolve packages with same git repo and unique subdirectory (#5374)
• Add new ResourceReport event to record memory/cpu/io metrics (#8342)
• Adding date_spine macro (and supporting macros) from dbt-utils to dbt-core (#8172)
• Support fill_nulls_with and join_to_timespine for metric nodes (#8593, #8755)
• Raise a warning when a contracted model has a numeric field without scale defined (#8183)
• Added support for retrieving partial catalog information from a schema (#8521)
• Add meta attribute to SemanticModels config (#8511)
• Selectors with docs generate limits catalog generation (#6014)
• Allow freshness to be determined via DBMS metadata for supported adapters (#8704)
• Add support semantic layer SavedQuery node type (#8594)

Fixes

• If --profile specified with dbt-init, create the project with the specified profile (#6154)
• Add explicit support for integers for the show command (#8153)
• Parse the correct schema version from manifest (#8544)
• make version comparison insensitive to order (#8571)
• Update metric helper functions to work with new semantic layer metrics (#8134)
• Disallow cleaning paths outside current working directory (#8318)
• Warn when --state == --target (#8160)
• update dbt show to include limit in DWH query (#8496,, #8417)
• Support quoted parameter list for MultiOption CLI options. (#8598)
• Support global flags passed in after subcommands (#6497)
• Lower bound of 8.0.2 for click (#8683)
• Fixes test type edges filter (#8692)
• semantic models in graph selection (#8589)
• Support doc blocks in nested semantic model YAML (#8509)
• avoid double-rendering sql_header in dbt show (#8739)
• Fix tag selection for projects with semantic models (#8749)
• Foreign key constraint on incremental model results in Database Error (#8022)
• Support docs blocks on versioned model column descriptions (#8540)
• Enable seeds to be handled from stored manifest data (#6875)
• Override path-like args in dbt retry (#8682)
• Group updates on unmodified nodes are handled gracefully for state:modified (#8371)
• Partial parsing fix for adding groups and updating models at the same time (#8697)

Under the Hood

• Added more type annotations. (#8537)
• Audit potential circular dependencies (#8349)
• Add functional test for advanced ref override (#8566)
• Add typing to init in base.py (#8398)
• Fix untyped functions in task/runnable.py (mypy warning) (#8402)
• add a test for ephemeral cte injection (#8225)
• Fix test_numeric_values to look for more specific strings (#8470)
• Pin types-requests<2.31.0 in dev-requirements.txt (#8789)
• Add warning_tag to UnversionedBreakingChange (#8827)
• Update v10 manifest schema to match 1.6 for testing schema compatibility (#8835)

Dependencies

• Bump docker/build-push-action from 4 to 5 (#8783)
• Upgrade dbt-semantic-interfaces dep to 0.3.0 (#8819)

Contributors

• @benmosher (#8480)
• @dave-connors-3 (#8153, #8589)
• @dylan-murray (#8683)
• @ezraerb (#6154)
• @jusbaldw (#6643)
• @mescanne (#8614)
• @philippeboyd (#5374)
• @renanleme (#8692)