# dbt Core v2.0.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** dbt Core (https://www.getdbt.com)
- **Version:** v2.0.0
- **Released:** Sep 14, 2026
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/dbt-core/updates/v2.0.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
dbt Core v2.0.0. Source highlight: dbt 2.0.0 - Benjamin Franklin (September 14, 2026)

## New Features
- Install agent skills (AgentSkills-format `SKILL.md` directories) from installed packages and the project's own `skill-paths` when packages are installed, gated on the new `ai_provider` flag. (#14556)
- Support native Databricks metric view materializations (#15616)
- [ClickHouse] Connection-level settings (profile custom_settings plus v1-parity synchronous-operation defaults), default database wired to the profile schema, literal '?' in SQL, and dbt identified as `dbt/<version>` in the HTTP User-Agent (`system.query_log.http_user_agent`), via the new adbc_clickhouse driver (#14585)

## Bug Fixes
- Preserve compiled SQL output for inline compile commands in quiet mode (#14538)
- Fix the dbt-docs-server Docker image: it now downloads a released dbt binary from the dbt-core GitHub Releases and verifies it against the release's published SHA256SUMS, tracking the newest release carrying a Linux binary instead of pinning a stale version (override with `--build-arg DBT_VERSION=`). The documented `docker build` command now works verbatim from either the repo root or the crate directory, a `.dockerignore` keeps the build context empty, and the image is multi-stage, multi-arch, 
- Rename dbt v2 CLI branding from Fusion/dbt-core to dbt (proprietary) and dbt-oss (OSS), updating --version/--help output and several Fusion-branded warning/error messages to say dbt instead.