# dbt Core v0.16.1 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** dbt Core (https://www.getdbt.com)
- **Version:** v0.16.1
- **Released:** Apr 14, 2020
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/dbt-core/updates/v0.16.1/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
dbt Core v0.16.1. Source highlight: dbt 0.16.1 (April 14, 2020)

## New Features
- 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
- 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)