Over the past 90 days, dbt-core focused on stabilizing microbatch execution and tightening configuration handling. The team shipped fixes for concurrent microbatch-batch deadlocks and corrected retry logic to preserve original invocation times across batch recomputation. Configuration work included better detection of missing plus prefixes in dbt_project.yml, support for meta and docs blocks under macro config, and suppression of false deprecation warnings around internal python model configs. Support for UDF deferral and REST Catalog-linked database compilation rounded out the patch cycle across 1.11.x and 1.10.x lines.