dbt Core: dbt 0.16.1

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✨ Features 2 🔧 Bug Fixes 6

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dbt Core v0.16.1. Source highlight: dbt 0.16.1 (April 14, 2020)

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✨ New Features & Capabilities (2)

Support for appending query comments to SQL queries. (#2138, #2199) (docs)
Pin google libraries to higher minimum values, add more dependencies as explicit (#2233, #2249)

🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (6)

dbt now renders the `dbt_project.yml` `name` config in the "base" context, giving it access to `var` and `env_var` (#2230, #2251)
Fix an issue with `{% raw %}` blocks where multiple `raw` blocks in the same file resulted in an error (#2241, #2252)
Fix a redshift-only issue that caused an error when `dbt seed` found a seed with an entirely empty column that was set to a `varchar` data type. (#2250, #2254)
Fix a bug where dbt plugins that used the default `list_schemas` and `information_schema_name` macros with database quoting enabled double-quoted the database name in their queries (#2267, #2281)
The BigQuery "partitions" config value can now be used in `dbt_project.yml` (#2256, #2280)
dbt deps no longer require a profile, but if profile-specific fields are accessed users will get an error (#2231, #2290)

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## dbt 0.16.1 (April 14, 2020) This is a bugfix release with no breaking changes and one net-new feature. ### Features - Support for appending query comments to SQL queries. ([#2138](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/issues/2138), [#2199](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/issues/2199)) ([docs](http://docs.getdbt.com/docs/building-a-dbt-project/dbt-projects/configuring-query-comments/#appending-comments)) ### Fixes - dbt now renders the `dbt_project.yml` `name` config in the "base" context, giving it access to `var` and `env_var` ([#2230](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/issues/2230), [#2251](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/pull/2251)) - Fix an issue with `{% raw %}` blocks where multiple `raw` blocks in the same file resulted in an error ([#2241](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/issues/2241), [#2252](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/pull/2252)) - Fix a redshift-only issue that caused an error when `dbt seed` found a seed with an entirely empty column that was set to a `varchar` data type. ([#2250](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/issues/2250), [#2254](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/pull/2254)) - Fix a bug where dbt plugins that used the default `list_schemas` and `information_schema_name` macros with database quoting enabled double-quoted the database name in their queries ([#2267](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/issues/2267), [#2281](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/pull/2281)) - The BigQuery "partitions" config value can now be used in `dbt_project.yml` ([#2256](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/issues/2256), [#2280](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/pull/2280)) - dbt deps no longer require a profile, but if profile-specific fields are accessed users will get an error ([#2231](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/issues/2231), [#2290](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/pull/2290)) - Macro name collisions between dbt and plugins now raise an appropriate exception, instead of an AttributeError ([#2288](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/issues/2288), [#2293](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/pull/2293)) - The create_adapter_plugin.py script has been updated to support 0.16.X adapters ([#2145](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/issues/2145), [#2294](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/pull/2294)) ### Under the hood - Pin google libraries to higher minimum values, add more dependencies as explicit ([#2233](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/issues/2233), [#2249](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/pull/2249)) Contributors: - [@ilkinulas](https://github.com/ilkinulas) [#2199](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/pull/2199)

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