dbt Core: dbt-core v1.6.1

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✨ Features 2 🔧 Bug Fixes 6

⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)

dbt Core v1.6.1. Source highlight: dbt-core 1.6.1 - August 23, 2023

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✨ New Features & Capabilities (2)

add tracking for plugin.get_nodes calls (#8344)
add internal flag: --no-partial-parse-file-diff to inform whether to compute a file diff during partial parsing (#8363)

🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (6)

Add status to Parse Inline Error (#8173)
Fix retry not working with log-file-max-bytes (#8297)
Detect changes to model access, version, or latest_version in state:modified (#8189)
fix fqn-selection for external versioned models (#8374)
Fix: DbtInternalError after model that previously ref'd external model is deleted (#8375)
Fix using list command with path selector and project-dir (#8385)

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## dbt-core 1.6.1 - August 23, 2023 ### Fixes - Add status to Parse Inline Error ([#8173](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8173)) - Fix retry not working with log-file-max-bytes ([#8297](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8297)) - Detect changes to model access, version, or latest_version in state:modified ([#8189](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8189)) - fix fqn-selection for external versioned models ([#8374](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8374)) - Fix: DbtInternalError after model that previously ref'd external model is deleted ([#8375](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8375)) - Fix using list command with path selector and project-dir ([#8385](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8385)) - Remedy performance regression by only writing run_results.json once. ([#8360](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8360)) - Ensure parsing does not break when `window_groupings` is not specified for `non_additive_dimension` ([#8453](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8453)) ### Docs - Display contract and column constraints on the model page ([dbt-docs/#433](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-docs/issues/433)) - Display semantic model details in docs ([dbt-docs/#431](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-docs/issues/431)) ### Under the Hood - Refactor flaky test pp_versioned_models ([#7781](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7781)) - format exception from dbtPlugin.initialize ([#8152](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8152)) - Update manifest v10 ([#8333](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8333)) - add tracking for plugin.get_nodes calls ([#8344](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8344)) - add internal flag: --no-partial-parse-file-diff to inform whether to compute a file diff during partial parsing ([#8363](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8363)) - Use python version 3.10.7 in Docker image. ([#8444](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8444)) - Check for existing_relation immediately prior to renaming ([#7781](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7781))

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