# dbt Core v1.11.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** dbt Core (https://www.getdbt.com)
- **Version:** v1.11.0
- **Released:** Dec 19, 2025
- **Impact Score:** 7/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Source flagged
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/dbt-core/updates/v1.11.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
dbt Core v1.11.0. Source highlight: dbt-core 1.11.0 - Juan R. Torruella (December 19, 2025)

## Breaking Changes & Deprecations
- - :bug: :snowman: Fixed issue where changing data type size/precision/scale (e.g., varchar(3) to varchar(10)) incorrectly triggered a breaking change error fo ([#11186](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/11186))

## New Features
- Add file_format to catalog integration config (#11695)
- 11561 (#deprecate, #--models,--model,, #and, #-m, #flags)
- Update jsonschemas with builtin data test properties and exposure configs in dbt_project.yml for more accurate deprecations (#11335)
- Support loaded_at_query and loaded_at_field on source and table configs (#11659)
- Begin validating configs from model sql files (#11727)
- Deprecate `overrides` property for sources (#11566)

## Bug Fixes
- :bug: :snowman: Disable unit tests whose model is disabled (#10540)
- Don't warn for metricflow_time_spine with non-day grain (#11690)
- Fix source freshness set via config to handle explicit nulls (#11685)
- Ensure build_after is present in model freshness in parsing, otherwise skip freshness definition (#11709)
- Ensure source node `.freshness` is equal to node's `.config.freshness` (#11717)
- ignore invalid model freshness configs in inline model configs (#11728)