dbt Core: dbt 0.20.1

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✨ Features 2 🔧 Bug Fixes 6

⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)

dbt Core v0.20.1. Source highlight: Adds `install-prerelease` parameter to hub packages in `packages.yml`. When set to `True`, allows prerelease packages to be installed. By default, this parameter is False unless explicitly set to True.

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✨ New Features & Capabilities (2)

Adds `install-prerelease` parameter to hub packages in `packages.yml`. When set to `True`, allows prerelease packages to be installed. By default, this parameter is False unless explicitly set to True.
Add tracking for determine why `dbt` needs to re-parse entire project when partial parsing is enabled (#3572, #3652)

🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (6)

Fix config merge behavior with experimental parser 3637
Fix exception on yml files with all comments 3568
Fix `store_failures` config when defined as a modifier for `unique` and `not_null` tests (#3575, #3577)
Fix `where` config with `relationships` test by refactoring test SQL. Note: The default `relationships` test now includes CTEs, and may need reimplementing on adapters that don't support CTEs nested inside subqueries. (#3579, #3583)
Partial parsing: don't reprocess SQL file already scheduled (#3589, #3620)
Handle interator functions in model config (#3573)

📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)

### Features - Adds `install-prerelease` parameter to hub packages in `packages.yml`. When set to `True`, allows prerelease packages to be installed. By default, this parameter is False unless explicitly set to True. ### Fixes - Fix config merge behavior with experimental parser [3637](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt/pull/3637) - Fix exception on yml files with all comments [3568](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt/issues/3568) - Fix `store_failures` config when defined as a modifier for `unique` and `not_null` tests ([#3575](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/issues/3575), [#3577](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/pull/3577)) - Fix `where` config with `relationships` test by refactoring test SQL. Note: The default `relationships` test now includes CTEs, and may need reimplementing on adapters that don't support CTEs nested inside subqueries. ([#3579](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/issues/3579), [#3583](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/pull/3583)) - Partial parsing: don't reprocess SQL file already scheduled ([#3589](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt/issues/3589), [#3620](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt/pull/3620)) - Handle interator functions in model config ([#3573](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt/issues/3573)) - Partial parsing: fix error after changing empty yaml file ([#3567](https://gith7ub.com/dbt-labs/dbt/issues/3567), [#3618](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt/pull/3618)) - Partial parsing: handle source tests when changing test macro ([#3584](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt/issues/3584), [#3620](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt/pull/3620)) - Fix `dbt deps` version comparison logic which was causing incorrect pre-release package versions to be installed. ([#3578](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt/issues/3578), [#3609](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt/issues/3609)) - Partial parsing: schedule new macro file for parsing when macro patching ([#3627](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt/issues/3627), [#3627](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt/pull/3627)) - Use `SchemaParser`'s render context to render test configs in order to support `var()` configured at the project level and passed in from the cli ([#3564](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt/issues/3564). [#3646](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt/pull/3646)) - Partial parsing: check unique_ids when recursively removing macros ([#3636](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt/issues/3636)) ### Under the hood - Add tracking for determine why `dbt` needs to re-parse entire project when partial parsing is enabled ([#3572](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt/issues/3572), [#3652](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt/pull/3652)) ### Docs - Fix docs site crash if `relationships` test has one dependency instead of two ([docs#207](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-docs/issues/207), ([docs#208](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-docs/issues/208))) ### Under the hood - Handle exceptions from anonymous usage tracking for users of `dbt-snowflake` on Apple M1 chips ([#3162](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt/issues/3162), [#3661](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt/issues/3661)) Contributors: - [@NiallRees](https://github.com/NiallRees) ([#3624](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt/pull/3624))

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