dbt Core Changelog

This file provides a full account of all changes to dbt-core and dbt-postgres
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dbt-core 1.4.0-b1 - December 15, 2022

Added favor-state flag to optionally favor state nodes even if unselected node exists (#2968)
Update structured logging. Convert to using protobuf messages. Ensure events are enriched with node_info. (#5610)
Friendlier error messages when packages.yml is malformed (#5486)
Migrate dbt-utils current_timestamp macros into core + adapters (#5521)
Allow partitions in external tables to be supplied as a list (#5929)
extend -f flag shorthand for seed command (#5990)
This pulls the profile name from args when constructing a RuntimeConfig in lib.py, enabling the dbt-server to override the value that's in the dbt_project.yml (#6201)
Adding tarball install method for packages. Allowing package tarball to be specified via url in the packages.yaml. (#4205)
Added an md5 function to the base context (#6246)
Exposures support metrics in lineage (#6057)
Add support for Python 3.11 (#6147)
incremental predicates (#5680)

Account for disabled flags on models in schema files more completely (#3992)
Add validation of enabled config for metrics, exposures and sources (#6030)
check length of args of python model function before accessing it (#6041)
Add functors to ensure event types with str-type attributes are initialized to spec, even when provided non-str type params. (#5436)
Allow hooks to fail without halting execution flow (#5625)
Clarify Error Message for how many models are allowed in a Python file (#6245)
After this, will be possible to use default values for dbt.config.get (#6309)
Use full path for writing manifest (#6055)
[CT-1284] Change Python model default materialization to table (#6345)
Repair a regression which prevented basic logging before the logging subsystem is completely configured. (#6434)

Put black config in explicit config (#5946)
Added flat_graph attribute the Manifest class's deepcopy() coverage (#5809)
Add mypy configs so mypy passes from CLI (#5983)
Exception message cleanup. (#6023)
Add dmypy cache to gitignore (#6028)
Provide useful errors when the value of 'materialized' is invalid (#5229)
Clean up string formatting (#6068)
Fixed extra whitespace in strings introduced by black. (#1350)
Remove the 'root_path' field from most nodes (#6171)
Combine certain logging events with different levels (#6173)
Convert threading tests to pytest (#5942)
Convert postgres index tests to pytest (#5770)
Convert use color tests to pytest (#5771)
Add github actions workflow to generate high level CLI API docs (#5942)
Functionality-neutral refactor of event logging system to improve encapsulation and modularity. (#6139)
Consolidate ParsedNode and CompiledNode classes (#6383)
Prevent doc gen workflow from running on forks (#6386)
Fix intermittent database connection failure in Windows CI test (#6394)
Refactor and clean up manifest nodes (#6426)
Restore important legacy logging behaviors, following refactor which removed them (#6437)

Update pathspec requirement from ~=0.9.0 to >=0.9,<0.11 in /core (#5917)
Bump black from 22.8.0 to 22.10.0 (#6019)
Bump mashumaro[msgpack] from 3.0.4 to 3.1.1 in /core (#6108)
Update colorama requirement from <0.4.6,>=0.3.9 to >=0.3.9,<0.4.7 in /core (#6144)
Bump mashumaro[msgpack] from 3.1.1 to 3.2 in /core (#4904)

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