# dbt Core v1.5.3 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** dbt Core (https://www.getdbt.com)
- **Version:** v1.5.3
- **Released:** Jul 17, 2023
- **Impact Score:** 7/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Source flagged
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/dbt-core/updates/v1.5.3/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
dbt Core v1.5.3. Source highlight: dbt-core 1.5.3 - July 17, 2023

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

## Bug Fixes
- 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)