dbt Labs Release notes and new features

dbt Core dbt v1.11.17

This release updates dbt Core to use git credential helpers for package installation, improving compatibility with redirecting repositories and subdirectories.

dbt Core 2.0.11

2.0.11 Released November 03, 2026 Features - Add support for BigQuery query reservation configuration at model and connection levels - Report whether each node ran remotely, locally, or on Lake Compute in anonymous usage telemetry.

dbt Core 2.0.8

2.0.8 Released October 14, 2026 Features Lower the minimum supported Python version for the dbt and dbt-oss PyPI wheels to 3.10 Fixes Fix spurious TableNotFound errors during analyze caused by MapReduce silently dropping a key claimed by a worker whose connection report the driver had not yet observed dbt build --write-catalog writes catalog.json again...

• dbt Core 2.0.8
• dbt Core dbt v1.11.16
• dbt Core dbt v1.12.6

dbt Core 2.0.0-dev.41-test-pypi

2.0.0-dev.41 Released September 23, 2026 Features [Lake Compute] Read AWS Databricks Unity Catalog tables using Databricks profile PAT/OAuth M2M credentials, declaration-aware validation, and dbt debug attach parity. Existing fs catalogs.yml entries continue to use type: unity .

dbt Core 2.0.5

2.0.5 Released September 18, 2026 Fixes Both Legacy/Foundry BigQuery drivers now continue on ADBC.GetObjects 404/403. This fixes a possible usage of "REPLACE TABLE" instead of "MERGE" for incremental tables ( #16331 ) Contributors @serramatutu ( #16331 )

dbt Core dbt v2.0.0

dbt 2.0.0 - Benjamin Franklin (September 14, 2026) Features Install agent skills (AgentSkills-format SKILL.md directories) from installed packages and the project's own skill-paths when packages are installed, gated on the new ai_provider flag.

• dbt Core dbt v2.0.0
• dbt Core 2.0.3
• dbt Core 2.0.4

dbt Core

2.0.0-dev.38 Released September 09, 2026 Features [ClickHouse] Connection-level settings (profile custom_settings plus v1-parity synchronous-operation defaults), default database wired to the profile schema, literal '?' in SQL, and dbt identified as dbt/<version> in the HTTP User-Agent ( system.query_log.http_user_agent ), via the new adbc_clickhouse driver...

• dbt Core 2.0.0-dev.38-test-pypi
• dbt Core 2.0.0-dev.39-test-pypi

Apache Ossie semantic layer support, osi_document.json artifact

Open Semantic Interchange was renamed Apache Ossie. dbt writes an osi_document.json to target/ at parse time and parses Ossie-format .json files from an osi/ directory into the manifest. Ossie 0.1.0 and 0.1.1 are supported.