Pre-release: v0.16.0 (Barbara Gittings)

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dbt v0.16.0-rc2

The second release candidate for dbt v0.16.0 is now available on PyPi, Homebrew, and in dbt Cloud.

Installation

# With Homebrew
brew install dbt@0.16.0-rc2
brew link --overwrite dbt@0.16.0-rc2

# With pip
pip install dbt==0.16.0rc2

Changelog from the last beta:

• Fix an issue with the pip deployment on BigQuery (thanks for the heads up @claus!)
• Pin cffi to <1.14 to avoid a version conflict with snowflake-connector-python
• Remove the requirement to have a passphrase when using Snowflake key pair authentication
• Changes to the docs website (screenshots below)
• Support insert_overwrite materializtion for BigQuery incremental models
• Use show terse schemas on Snowflake to make dbt bootstrapping faster!
• Parallelize filling the Snowflake relation cache (speedup)

Docs changes

Render docs for macros

Render docs for analyses

Render docs for custom data tests

Support hidden models (not shown in file tree, but visible in DAG

Render model meta tags in model details