# dbt Core v0.17.1 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** dbt Core (https://www.getdbt.com)
- **Version:** v0.17.1
- **Released:** Jul 20, 2020
- **Impact Score:** 7/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Source flagged
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/dbt-core/updates/v0.17.1/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
dbt Core v0.17.1. Source highlight: dbt 0.17.1 (July 20, 2020)

## Breaking Changes & Deprecations
- This is a bugfix release with one breaking change and one enhancement of an existing feature.
- Breaking changes - dbt native rendering is no longer enabled by default, as it was in v0.17.0. It requires the use of opt-in filters: `as_native`, `as_bool`, and `as_number`. ([#2612](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/issues/2612), [#2618](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/pull/2618))

## New Features
- On BigQuery, `persist_docs` persists descriptions for nested columns (#2549, #2550)

## Bug Fixes
- Hash names of local packages (#2600)
- Handle too-long file paths on Windows (#2591, #2558, #2566, #2603)
- Fix a bug where `persist_docs` ignored seeds on BigQuery (#2598, #2601)
- Fix a bug where dbt `config-version: 2` rendered `+pre-hook` and `+post-hook` fields too eagerly (#2583, #2854)
- Fix a bug where `dbt compile` and `dbt ls` would create schemas if they didn't already exist (#2525, #2528)
- Fix a bug where `dbt deps` ignored the `--project-dir` flag (#2519, #2534)