# dbt Core v2.0.8 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** dbt Core (https://www.getdbt.com)
- **Version:** v2.0.8
- **Released:** Oct 14, 2026
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/dbt-core/updates/v2.0.8/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
dbt Core v2.0.8. Source highlight: Released October 14, 2026

## New Features
- Lower the minimum supported Python version for the dbt and dbt-oss PyPI wheels to 3.10
- Add ProjectEnv::empty, ProjectBuilder::baseline and TaskSeq::from_builder test helpers for programmatic integration test projects

## Bug Fixes
- Fix spurious TableNotFound errors during analyze caused by MapReduce silently dropping a key claimed by a worker whose connection report the driver had not yet observed
- `dbt build --write-catalog` writes `catalog.json` again; since the preview that shipped #13328 (first observed in 2.0.0-preview.218) the implied index default for build/check overrode the explicit flag and the catalog was silently skipped.