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Recently shipped dbt Core v1.12 GA and pushed the v2.0 beta to beta.2, with deprecation warnings now reaching every maintained branch.

dbt Core v1.12 is GA. The stable release removes the experimental dbt login command and bundled dbt-state plugin; flags introduced in 1.9 and 1.10 now default to true. The dbt Snowflake Native App retires in November 2026. The open semantic layer spec entered the Apache Incubator as Apache Ossie.

The v2.0 beta keeps expanding adapter and auth coverage. Beta.2 added ClickHouse Dictionary materialization, index definitions, and a relation-scoped catalog macro fixing --write-catalog fetch failures. Fabric now authenticates with a pre-minted Entra bearer token (authentication: ActiveDirectoryAccessToken). Beta.1 added Azure Databricks service principal auth via Microsoft Entra ID, overloaded UDF support in function YAML, and a --infer-schemas flag for catalog-free binding.

Deprecation warnings now ship across all maintained branches. Patches for versions 1.1 through 1.8 warn when a deprecated dbt version is in use. The oldest patches also dropped Python 3.8 support, now EOL, and backported fixes for JSON-format logs and semver comparisons.

Stable branches picked up Azure artifact fixes and a parser security patch. v1.12.3 sends the x-ms-blob-type: BlockBlob header when uploading to Azure Blob Storage signed URLs, fixing 400 MissingRequiredHeader failures. v1.12.3 and v1.11.14 require sqlparse>=0.5.5,<0.7.0, the fixed release for four parser denial-of-service CVEs.