# dbt Core v1.6.1 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** dbt Core (https://www.getdbt.com)
- **Version:** v1.6.1
- **Released:** Aug 23, 2023
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/dbt-core/updates/v1.6.1/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
dbt Core v1.6.1. Source highlight: dbt-core 1.6.1 - August 23, 2023

## New Features
- 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
- 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)