Impact Score: 5/10
dbt Core: dbt 0.15.2
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
โก Executive Summary (TL;DR)
dbt Core v0.15.2. Source highlight: dbt 0.15.2 (February 2, 2020)
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
๐ป Software Engineers & Devs
Check the source notes against the package and APIs you use before upgrading.
๐ Product & Engineering Leads
Use the documented changes to assess relevance to your product; release frequency alone is not a quality measure.
โ๏ธ DevOps & Security
Verify the target version, runtime requirements and rollback procedure in the official documentation.
โจ New Features & Capabilities (2)
- Add support for Snowflake OAuth authentication (#2050, #2069)
- Add a -t flag as an alias for `dbt run --target` (#1281, #2057)
๐ง Bug Fixes & Patches (5)
- Fix for UnicodeDecodeError when installing dbt via pip (#1771, #2076)
- Fix for ability to clean "protected" paths in the `dbt clean` command and improve logging (#2059, #2060)
- Fix for dbt server error when `{% docs %}` tags are malformed (#2066, #2067)
- Fix for errant duplicate resource errors when models are disabled and partial parsing is enabled (#2055, #2056)
- Fix for errant duplicate resource errors when a resource is included in multiple source paths (#2064, #2065)
๐ View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
## dbt 0.15.2 (February 2, 2020)
This is a bugfix release.
### Features
- Add support for Snowflake OAuth authentication ([#2050](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/issues/2050), [#2069](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/pull/2069))
- Add a -t flag as an alias for `dbt run --target` ([#1281](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/issues/1281), [#2057](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/pull/2057))
### Fixes
- Fix for UnicodeDecodeError when installing dbt via pip ([#1771](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/issues/1771), [#2076](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/pull/2076))
- Fix for ability to clean "protected" paths in the `dbt clean` command and improve logging ([#2059](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/issues/2059), [#2060](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/pull/2060))
- Fix for dbt server error when `{% docs %}` tags are malformed ([#2066](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/issues/2066), [#2067](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/pull/2067))
- Fix for errant duplicate resource errors when models are disabled and partial parsing is enabled ([#2055](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/issues/2055), [#2056](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/pull/2056))
- Fix for errant duplicate resource errors when a resource is included in multiple source paths ([#2064](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/issues/2064), [#2065](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/pull/2065/files))
### Contributors
- [@aescay](https://github.com/aescay) ([#2057](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/pull/2057))
- [@markberger](https://github.com/markberger) ([#2076](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/pull/2076))
- [@emilieschario](https://github.com/emilieschario) ([#2060](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/pull/2060))