# dbt Core v0.17.2 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** dbt Core (https://www.getdbt.com)
- **Version:** v0.17.2
- **Released:** Jul 29, 2020
- **Impact Score:** 7/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Source flagged
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/dbt-core/updates/v0.17.2/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
dbt Core v0.17.2. Source highlight: dbt 0.17.2 (July 29, 2020)

## Breaking Changes & Deprecations
- This is a bugfix release with one breaking change, which may be relevant to users of community-supported plugins.
- Breaking changes (for plugins) - The `release` argument to `adapter.execute_macro` no longer has any effect. It will be removed in a future release of dbt, likely v0.18.0. ([#2650](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/pull/2650))

## Bug Fixes
- Added environment variables for debug-level logging (#2633, #2635)
- When using the `--fast-fail` option with adapters that don't support cancelling queries (e.g. BigQuery), dbt will include the original database error in its log messages (#2644, #2646)
- `dbt clean` does not require a profile (#2620, #2649)
- On Redshift, the catalog contains information for all schemas in a project, rather than just the default (#2653, #2654)
- On Snowflake, close all connections so keepalive thread will exit (#2645, #2650)
- Fix background appearance of markdown ` ``` ` code blocks (docs#114, docs#115)