Impact Score: 5/10
dbt Core: dbt-core v1.4.2
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Component: dbt-core ยท Channel: stable. Automated analysis, not a compatibility certification. How this works.
Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
โก Executive Summary (TL;DR)
dbt Core v1.4.2. Source highlight: dbt-core 1.4.2 - February 23, 2023
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
๐ป Software Engineers & Devs
Check the source notes against the package and APIs you use before upgrading.
๐ Product & Engineering Leads
Use the documented changes to assess relevance to your product; release frequency alone is not a quality measure.
โ๏ธ DevOps & Security
Verify the target version, runtime requirements and rollback procedure in the official documentation.
๐ง Bug Fixes & Patches (6)
- Sort cli vars before hashing for partial parsing (#6710)
- Remove pin on packaging and stop using it for prerelease comparisons (#6834)
- Readd depends_on.macros to SeedNode, to support seeds with hooks calling macros (#6806)
- Fix regression of --quiet cli parameter behavior (#6749)
- Ensure results from hooks contain nodes when processing them (#6796)
- Always flush stdout after logging (#6901)
๐ View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
## dbt-core 1.4.2 - February 23, 2023
### Fixes
- Sort cli vars before hashing for partial parsing ([#6710](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/6710))
- Remove pin on packaging and stop using it for prerelease comparisons ([#6834](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/6834))
- Readd depends_on.macros to SeedNode, to support seeds with hooks calling macros ([#6806](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/6806))
- Fix regression of --quiet cli parameter behavior ([#6749](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/6749))
- Ensure results from hooks contain nodes when processing them ([#6796](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/6796))
- Always flush stdout after logging ([#6901](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/6901))
- Set relation_name in test nodes at compile time ([#6930](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/6930))
- Fix disabled definition in WritableManifest ([#6752](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/6752))
- Fix regression in logbook log output ([#7028](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7028))
### Docs
- Fix JSON path to overview docs ([dbt-docs/#366](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-docs/issues/366))
### Contributors
- [@halvorlu](https://github.com/halvorlu) ([#366](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/366))