Impact Score: 5/10
dbt Core: dbt-core v1.11.13
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Component: dbt-core · Channel: stable. Automated analysis, not a compatibility certification. How this works.
Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
dbt Core v1.11.13. Source highlight: dbt-core 1.11.13 - August 12, 2026
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
💻 Software Engineers & Devs
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📊 Product & Engineering Leads
Use the documented changes to assess relevance to your product; release frequency alone is not a quality measure.
⚙️ DevOps & Security
Verify the target version, runtime requirements and rollback procedure in the official documentation.
✨ New Features & Capabilities (1)
- Warn users if they are using a deprecated dbt version (#15964)
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (4)
- Fix intermittent "references a model that does not exist" parsing error when unit testing versioned models, caused by non-deterministic filesystem parse order (#11139)
- Fix partial parsing ghost-duplicate that raised a false "found two data_tests" error by cleaning up disabled generic and singular test nodes on schema re-parse (#)
- Stop resolving a unit test's tested model eagerly at parse time; resolve it only in the single deterministic post-parse pass so resolution no longer depends on filesystem parse order at all (deeper fix for (#11139)
- Bump ca-certificates, libpq-dev, and openssh-client in Docker image to current bullseye versions to fix Docker release build failure caused by superseded package versions (#NA)
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
## dbt-core 1.11.13 - August 12, 2026
### Features
- Warn users if they are using a deprecated dbt version ([#15964](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/15964))
### Fixes
- Fix intermittent "references a model that does not exist" parsing error when unit testing versioned models, caused by non-deterministic filesystem parse order ([#11139](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/11139))
- Fix partial parsing ghost-duplicate that raised a false "found two data_tests" error by cleaning up disabled generic and singular test nodes on schema re-parse ([#](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/))
- Stop resolving a unit test's tested model eagerly at parse time; resolve it only in the single deterministic post-parse pass so resolution no longer depends on filesystem parse order at all (deeper fix for ([#11139](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/11139))
### Dependencies
- Bump ca-certificates, libpq-dev, and openssh-client in Docker image to current bullseye versions to fix Docker release build failure caused by superseded package versions ([#NA](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/NA))
### Contributors
- [@ajnovice](https://github.com/ajnovice) ([#NA](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/NA))
- [@ash2shukla](https://github.com/ash2shukla) ([#15964](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/15964))
- [@itsnamangoyal](https://github.com/itsnamangoyal) ([#11139](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/11139), [#](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/), [#11139](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/11139))