v1.11.8

dbt-core 1.11.8 - April 08, 2026

Fixes

• Add @requires.catalogs decorator to compile command to fix REST Catalog-Linked database compilation (#12353)
• Improve logic for detecting config with missing plus prefix in dbt_project.yml (#12371)
• Add config and allow meta and docs to exist under it for macros (#12383, #9447)
• DBT_ENGINE prefixed env vars picked up by CLI (#12583)
• Allow deferral for UDFs (#12080)
• Resolve full node description while running udfs for better logging (#12600)
• Raise PropertyMovedToConfigDeprecation instead of MissingArgumentsPropertyInGenericTestDeprecation (#12572)
• Add @requires.catalogs decorator to test command to fix custom catalog integration support (#12662)
• Raise custom key in config deprecation warning for invalid config keys in dbt_project.yml (#12542)
• Ensure MAX_GROUPING_TOKENS and MAX_GROUPING_DEPTH default to None independently (#12694)
• Ensure property depr checks check for aliases with plus prefix (#12327)

Docs

• Enable display of unit tests (dbt-docs/#501)
• Unit tests not rendering (dbt-docs/#506)
• Add support for Saved Query node (dbt-docs/#486)
• Fix npm security vulnerabilities as of June 2024 (dbt-docs/#513)
• Bump form-data from 3.0.1 to 3.0.4 (dbt-docs/#554)
• Add support for UDF (function) resource type in lineage graph (dbt-docs/#574)

Under the Hood

• Unpin sqlparse dependency, and introduce --sqlparse CLI option for configuring sqlparse limits (#12329)

Contributors

• @ChenyuLInx (#486)
• @QMalcolm (#12583)
• @aahel (#574)
• @aranke (#506, #513)
• @ash2shukla (#12371, #12383, #9447, #12080, #12600, #12542, #12327)
• @gshank (#501)
• @kalluripradeep (#12353, #12572)
• @michelleark (#12694, #554, #12329)
• @rrittsteiger (#12662)