Impact Score: 5/10
dbt Core: dbt-core v1.6.14
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
โก Executive Summary (TL;DR)
dbt Core v1.6.14. Source highlight: dbt-core 1.6.14 - May 02, 2024
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.
โจ New Features & Capabilities (2)
- Move flags from UserConfig in profiles.yml to flags in dbt_project.yml (#9183)
- Add require_explicit_package_overrides_for_builtin_materializations to dbt_project.yml flags, which can be used to opt-out of overriding built-in materializations from packages (#10007)
๐ง Bug Fixes & Patches (1)
- Replace usage of `Set` with `List` to fix issue with index updates intermittently happening out of order (#72)
๐ View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
## dbt-core 1.6.14 - May 02, 2024
### Features
- Move flags from UserConfig in profiles.yml to flags in dbt_project.yml ([#9183](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9183))
- Add require_explicit_package_overrides_for_builtin_materializations to dbt_project.yml flags, which can be used to opt-out of overriding built-in materializations from packages ([#10007](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/10007))
### Fixes
- Replace usage of `Set` with `List` to fix issue with index updates intermittently happening out of order ([#72](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/72))
### Under the Hood
- Raise deprecation warning if installed package overrides built-in materialization ([#9971](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9971))
- Remove the final underscore from secret environment variable constants. ([#10052](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/10052))