dbt-core v1.11.0rc3

dbt-core 1.11.0-rc3 - December 08, 2025

Features

• Raise jsonschema-based deprecation warnings by default (#12240)
• 🐛 ⛄ Disable unit tests whose model is disabled (#10540)

Fixes

• Fix bug in partial parsing when updating a model with a schema file that is referenced by a singular test (#12223)
• 🐛 ⛄ Improve dbt deps --add-package duplicate detection with better cross-source matching and word boundaries (#12239)
• 🐛 ⛄ Fix false positive deprecation warning of pre/post-hook SQL configs (#12244)

Under the Hood

• Replace setuptools and tox with hatch for build, test, and environment management. (#12151)

Contributors

• @emmyoop (#12239, #12151)
• @mattogburke (#12223)
• @michelleark (#12240, #10540, #12244)

dbt-core v1.11.0rc2

dbt-core 1.11.0-rc2 - December 01, 2025

Features

• Support partial parsing for function nodes (#12072)

Fixes

• Allow dbt deps to run when vars lack defaults in dbt_project.yml (#8913)
• Restore DuplicateResourceNameError for intra-project node name duplication, behind behavior flag require_unique_project_resource_names (#12152)
• Allow the usage of function with --exclude-resource-type flag (#12143)
• Fix bug where schemas of functions weren't guaranteed to exist (#12142)
• 🐛 ⛄ Correctly reference foreign key references when --defer and --state provided (#11885)
• Fix generation of deprecations summary (#12146)
• 🐛 ⛄ Add exception when using --state and referring to a removed test (#10630)
• 🐛 ⛄ Stop emitting NoNodesForSelectionCriteria three times during build command (#11627)
• 🐛 ⛄ Fix long Python stack traces appearing when package dependencies have incompatible version requirements (#12049)
• 🐛 ⛄ Fixed issue where changing data type size/precision/scale (e.g., varchar(3) to varchar(10)) incorrectly triggered a breaking change error fo (#11186)
• 🐛 ⛄ Support unit testing models that depend on sources with the same name (#11975, #10433)
• 🐛 ⛄ Avoid retrying successful run-operation commands (#11850)
• 🐛 ⛄ Fix dbt deps --add-package crash when packages.yml contains warn-unpinned: false (#9104)

Under the Hood

• Update jsonschemas for schema.yml and dbt_project.yml deprecations (#12180)

Contributors

• @asiunov (#12146)
• @michellark (#11885)

dbt-core v1.11.0rc1

dbt-core 1.11.0-rc1 - November 18, 2025

Features

• Allow for defining funciton arguments with default values (#12044)

Fixes

• Fix parse error when build_after.count set to 0 (#12136)
• Stop compiling python udfs like python models (#12153)
• For metric names, fix bug allowing hyphens (not allowed in metricflow already), make validation throw ValidationErrors (not ParsingErrors), and add tests. (#n/a)
• Include macros in unit test parsing (#10157)

Under the Hood

• add dbt/jsonschemas to manifest.in (#12126)
• Move from setup.py to pyproject.toml (#5696)
• Fixes issue where config isn't propagated to metric from measure when set as create_metric:True (#None)
• Support DBT_ENGINE prefix for record-mode env vars (#12149)

Dependencies

• Drop support for python 3.9 (#12118)

Contributors

• @WilliamDee (#None)
• @nathanskone (#10157)
• @theyostalservice (#n/a)

dbt-core v1.10.15

dbt-core 1.10.15 - November 12, 2025

Under the Hood

• add dbt/jsonschemas to manifest.in (#12126)

dbt-core v1.10.14

dbt-core 1.10.14 - November 10, 2025

Fixes

• Fix errors in partial parsing when working with versioned models (#11869)

Under the Hood

• Reorganize jsonschemas directory structure (#12121)

dbt-core v1.11.0b4

dbt-core 1.11.0-b4 - October 28, 2025

Features

• Allow for the specification of function volatility (#QMalcolm)
• Add python UDF parsing support (#12043)

Fixes

• Move function node type into it's config (#12101)
• Support setting function node configs from dbt_project.yml (#12096)

Under the Hood

• Reorganize jsonschemas directory structure (#12121)

Dependencies

• Upgrading dbt-semantic-interfaces to 0.10.x (#None)

Contributors

• @12030 (#QMalcolm)
• @WilliamDee (#None)

dbt-core v1.11.0b3

dbt-core 1.11.0-b3 - October 07, 2025

Features

• Support function nodes for unit tested models (#12024)

Fixes

• Fix case of successful function status in logs (#12075)
• Fix ref support in function nodes (#12076)

dbt-core v1.11.0b2

dbt-core 1.11.0-b2 - October 02, 2025

Fixes

• Fix property names of function nodes (arguments.data_type, returns, returns.data_type) (#12064)
• Exclude functions from being filtered by empty and event_time (#12066)

dbt-core v1.11.0b1

dbt-core 1.11.0-b1 - October 01, 2025

Features

• Add file_format to catalog integration config (#11695)
• 11561 (#deprecate, #--models,--model,, #and, #-m, #flags)
• Update jsonschemas with builtin data test properties and exposure configs in dbt_project.yml for more accurate deprecations (#11335)
• Support loaded_at_query and loaded_at_field on source and table configs (#11659)
• Begin validating configs from model sql files (#11727)
• Deprecate overrides property for sources (#11566)
• Create constrained namespace for dbt engine env vars (#11340)
• Gate jsonschema validations by adapter (#11680)
• Deprecate top-level argument properties in generic tests (#11847)
• Deprecate {{ modules.itertools }} usage (#11725)
• Default require_generic_test_arguments_property flag to True - The 'arguments' property will be parsed as keyword arguments to data tests, if provided (#11911)
• Support Nested Key Traversal in dbt ls json output (#11919)
• No-op when project-level quoting.snowflake_ignore_case is set. (#11882)
• Support UDFs by allowing user definition of function nodes (#11923)
• Support listing functions via list command (#11967)
• Support selecting funciton nodes via: name, file path, and resource type (#11962, #11958, #11961)
• Parse catalogs.yml during parse, seed, and test commands (#12002)
• Handle creation of function nodes during DAG execution (#11965)
• Support configuring model.config.freshness.build_after.updates_on without period or count (#12019)
• Add function macro to jinja context (#11972)
• Adding run_started_at to manifest.json metadata (#12047)
• Validate {{ config }} in SQL for models that don't statically parse (#12046)
• Add type property to function nodes (#12042, #12037)

Fixes

• Don't warn for metricflow_time_spine with non-day grain (#11690)
• Fix source freshness set via config to handle explicit nulls (#11685)
• Ensure build_after is present in model freshness in parsing, otherwise skip freshness definition (#11709)
• Ensure source node .freshness is equal to node's .config.freshness (#11717)
• ignore invalid model freshness configs in inline model configs (#11728)
• Fix store_failures hierarachical config parsing (#10165)
• Remove model freshness property support in favor of config level support (#11713)
• Bump dbt-common to 1.25.0 to access WarnErrorOptionsV2 (#11755)
• ensure consistent casing in column names while processing user unit tests (#11770)
• Update jsonschema definitions with nested config defs, cloud info, and dropping source overrides (#N/A)
• Make GenericJSONSchemaValidationDeprecation a "preview" deprecation (#11814)
• Correct JSONSchema Semantic Layer node issues (#11818)
• Improve SL JSONSchema definitions (#N/A)
• raise MissingPlusPrefixDeprecation instead of GenericJSONSchemaValidationDeprecation when config missing plus prefix in dbt_project.yml (#11826)
• Propagate config.meta and config.tags to top-level on source nodes (#11839)
• Safe handling of malformed config.tags on sources/tables (#11855)
• Quoting the event_time field when the configuration says so (#11858)
• Raise PropertyMovedToConfigDeprecation instead of CustomTopLevelKeyDeprecation when additional attribute is a valid node config (#11879)
• Avoid redundant node patch removal during partial parsing (#11886)
• Comply with strict str type when block.contents is None (#11492)
• Remove duplicative PropertyMovedToConfigDeprecation for source freshness (#11880)
• Add path to MissingArgumentsPropertyInGenericTestDeprecation message (#11940)
• Unhide sample mode CLI flag (#11959)
• Implement checked_agg_time_dimension_for_simple_metric to satisfy dbt-semantic-interfaces>0.9.0 (#11998)
• Propagate column meta/tags from config to tests (#11984)
• Skip initial render of loaded_at_query when specified as source or table config (#11973)
• Guarantee instantiation result and thread_exception prior to access to avoid thread hangs (#12013)
• Fixes a bug in the logic for legacy time spine deprecation warnings. (#11690)
• Fix errors in partial parsing when working with versioned models (#11869)

Under the Hood

• Prevent overcounting PropertyMovedToConfigDeprecation for source freshness (#11660)
• call adapter.add_catalog_integration during parse_manifest (#11889)
• Fix docker os dependency install issue (#11934)
• Ensure dbt-core modules aren't importing versioned artifact resources directly (#11951)
• Update jsonschemas used for schema-based deprecations (#11987)
• Introduce dbt_version-based manifest json upgrade framework to avoid state:modified false positives on minor evolutions (#12006)

Dependencies

• Bump minimum jsonschema version to 4.19.1 (#11740)
• Allow for either pydantic v1 and v2 (#11634)
• Bump dbt-common minimum to 1.25.1 (#11789)
• Upgrade to dbt-semantic-interfaces==0.9.0 for more robust saved query support. (#11809)
• upgrade protobuf to 6.0 (#11916)
• Bump dbt-adapters minimum to 1.16.5 (#11932)
• Bump actions/setup-python from 5 to 6 (#11993)
• Loosen dbt-semantic-interfaces lower pin to >=0.9.0 (#12005)

Contributors

• @aksestok (#11882)
• @aranke (#11660)
• @courtneyholcomb (#11690, #11690, #11809)
• @michellark (#11987)
• @pablomc87 (#11858)
• @peterallenwebb (#11566)
• @trouze (#11919)
• @wircho (#11886, [#11492](#11...

dbt-core v1.10.13

dbt-core 1.10.13 - September 25, 2025

Fixes

• Propagate column meta/tags from config to tests (#11984)
• Skip initial render of loaded_at_query when specified as source or table config (#11973)

Under the Hood

• Introduce dbt_version-based manifest json upgrade framework to avoid state:modified false positives on minor evolutions (#12006)

Dependencies

• Loosen dbt-semantic-interfaces lower pin to >=0.9.0 (#12005)