dbt Core: dbt-core v1.11.8

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✨ Features 3 🔧 Bug Fixes 6

⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)

dbt Core v1.11.8. Source highlight: dbt-core 1.11.8 - April 08, 2026

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✨ New Features & Capabilities (3)

Add support for Saved Query node (dbt-docs/#486)
Add support for UDF (function) resource type in lineage graph (dbt-docs/#574)
Unpin sqlparse dependency, and introduce --sqlparse CLI option for configuring sqlparse limits (#12329)

🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (6)

Add @requires.catalogs decorator to compile command to fix REST Catalog-Linked database compilation (#12353)
Improve logic for detecting config with missing plus prefix in dbt_project.yml (#12371)
Add config and allow meta and docs to exist under it for macros (#12383, #9447)
`DBT_ENGINE` prefixed env vars picked up by CLI (#12583)
Allow deferral for UDFs (#12080)
Resolve full node description while running udfs for better logging (#12600)

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## dbt-core 1.11.8 - April 08, 2026 ### Fixes - Add @requires.catalogs decorator to compile command to fix REST Catalog-Linked database compilation ([#12353](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/12353)) - Improve logic for detecting config with missing plus prefix in dbt_project.yml ([#12371](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/12371)) - Add config and allow meta and docs to exist under it for macros ([#12383](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/12383), [#9447](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9447)) - `DBT_ENGINE` prefixed env vars picked up by CLI ([#12583](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/12583)) - Allow deferral for UDFs ([#12080](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/12080)) - Resolve full node description while running udfs for better logging ([#12600](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/12600)) - Raise PropertyMovedToConfigDeprecation instead of MissingArgumentsPropertyInGenericTestDeprecation ([#12572](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/12572)) - Add @requires.catalogs decorator to test command to fix custom catalog integration support ([#12662](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/12662)) - Raise custom key in config deprecation warning for invalid config keys in dbt_project.yml ([#12542](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/12542)) - Ensure MAX_GROUPING_TOKENS and MAX_GROUPING_DEPTH default to None independently ([#12694](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/12694)) - Ensure property depr checks check for aliases with plus prefix ([#12327](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/12327)) ### Docs - Enable display of unit tests ([dbt-docs/#501](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-docs/issues/501)) - Unit tests not rendering ([dbt-docs/#506](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-docs/issues/506)) - Add support for Saved Query node ([dbt-docs/#486](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-docs/issues/486)) - Fix npm security vulnerabilities as of June 2024 ([dbt-docs/#513](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-docs/issues/513)) - Bump form-data from 3.0.1 to 3.0.4 ([dbt-docs/#554](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-docs/issues/554)) - Add support for UDF (function) resource type in lineage graph ([dbt-docs/#574](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-docs/issues/574)) ### Under the Hood - Unpin sqlparse dependency, and introduce --sqlparse CLI option for configuring sqlparse limits ([#12329](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/12329)) ### Contributors - [@ChenyuLInx](https://github.com/ChenyuLInx) ([#486](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/486)) - [@QMalcolm](https://github.com/QMalcolm) ([#12583](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/12583)) - [@aahel](https://github.com/aahel) ([#574](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/574)) - [@aranke](https://github.com/aranke) ([#506](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/506), [#513](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/513)) - [@ash2shukla](https://github.com/ash2shukla) ([#12371](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/12371), [#12383](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/12383), [#9447](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9447), [#12080](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/12080), [#12600](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/12600), [#12542](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/12542), [#12327](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/12327)) - [@gshank](https://github.com/gshank) ([#501](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/501)) - [@kalluripradeep](https://github.com/kalluripradeep) ([#12353](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/12353), [#12572](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/12572)) - [@michelleark](https://github.com/michelleark) ([#12694](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/12694), [#554](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/554), [#12329](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/12329)) - [@rrittsteiger](https://github.com/rrittsteiger) ([#12662](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/12662))

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