# dbt Core v2.0.11 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** dbt Core (https://www.getdbt.com)
- **Version:** v2.0.11
- **Released:** Nov 03, 2026
- **Impact Score:** 8/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Source flagged
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/dbt-core/updates/v2.0.11/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
dbt Core v2.0.11 introduces advanced state configuration, feature flag registries, and robust BigQuery and Databricks enhancements, alongside critical bug fixes. Teams will benefit from improved terminal progress reporting, secure S3 downloads, and expanded telemetry tracking.

## Breaking Changes & Deprecations
- - [Redshift] Fix issues with external OAuth breaking for multi-threaded execution ([#15555](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/15555))

## New Features
- Add support for BigQuery query reservation configuration at model and connection levels
- Support the allow_jinja_file_extensions project flag for resource files carrying trailing Jinja suffixes
- Add a feature flag registry with --feature NAME[=VALUE] and DBT_ENGINE_FEATURES for setting unstable features
- Add DBT_CLOUD_LOGIN_HOST and DBT_CLOUD_LOGIN_ACCOUNT_ID for SSO authentication support

## Improvements
- Show a determinate progress bar for the parse phase in interactive terminals with named building stages
- Add state configuration to ignore external modifications on model target tables/views
- Support authenticated private S3 downloads for dbt update manifests and binaries
- Harden Databricks logged-SQL credential redaction and upgrade security dependencies

## Bug Fixes
- Fix modules.re functions silently dropping keyword arguments
- Fix BigQuery partition fields matching case-insensitively when inspecting existing tables
- Fix a panic when the project directory is on a Windows network share (UNC path or mapped network drive)
- Allow integer attribute in the sort, join, unique, and groupby Jinja filters