dbt Core: dbt-core v1.5.3

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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.

Breaking-change evidence from the source

- Detect breaking contract changes to versioned models ([#8030](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8030))

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🔧 Bug Fixes 6 ⚠️ Breaking & Deprecations 1

⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)

dbt Core v1.5.3. Source highlight: dbt-core 1.5.3 - July 17, 2023

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💻 Software Engineers & Devs

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⚙️ DevOps & Security

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⚠️ Breaking Changes & Deprecations (1)

- Detect breaking contract changes to versioned models ([#8030](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8030))

🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (6)

Add --target-path to more CLI subcommands (#7646)
Remove limitation on use of sqlparse 0.4.4 (#7515)
Move project_root contextvar into events.contextvars (#7937)
Inline query emit proper error message (#7940)
Allow on_schema_change = fail for contracted incremental models (#7975)
Nicer error message if model with enforced contract is missing 'columns' specification (#7943)

📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)

## dbt-core 1.5.3 - July 17, 2023 ### Fixes - Add --target-path to more CLI subcommands ([#7646](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7646)) - Remove limitation on use of sqlparse 0.4.4 ([#7515](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7515)) - Move project_root contextvar into events.contextvars ([#7937](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7937)) - Inline query emit proper error message ([#7940](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7940)) - Allow on_schema_change = fail for contracted incremental models ([#7975](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7975)) - Nicer error message if model with enforced contract is missing 'columns' specification ([#7943](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7943)) - Detect breaking contract changes to versioned models ([#8030](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8030)) ### Dependencies - Pin click>=7.0,<8.1.4 ([#8050](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/pull/8050)) ### Contributors - [@dwreeves](https://github.com/dwreeves) ([#7646](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7646))

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