# dbt Core v2.0.0-beta.1

- Product: dbt Core (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/dbt-core)
- Vendor: dbt Labs
- Date: 2026-08-10
- Version: v2.0.0-beta.1
- Original notes: https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/releases/tag/v2.0.0-beta.1
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/dbt-core/releases/v2.0.0-beta.1
- Labels: Pre-release

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- **added** — Provide option of using default profile.yml during init
- **added** — Allow continue running children on parent error
- **added** — Implement selector selector method
- **added** — Support overloaded UDFs via overrides block in function YAML
- **added** — Implement dbt state explain in Fusion
- **added** — Test optimization to skip provably redundant tests
- **added** — Add cargo xtask apply-ci-goldies to fetch CI logs via gh and apply golden-file patches onto the current worktree
- **added** — Support Databricks Azure service principal (Microsoft Entra ID) authentication via azure_client_id/azure_client_secret (auth_type azure-client-secret)
- **added** — Add Docker and docker compose support for self-hosting the dbt docs server (dbt docs serve)
- **added** — Add missing configurations for ClickHouse table materialization
- **added** — Add --infer-schemas, --skip-type-checking, and --show-sources flags for catalog-free binding to bind SQL without introspection
- **added** — Support pseudocolumns (e.g. BigQuery's _FILE_NAME) in unit tests
- **added** — Add machine-readable JSON output for dbt --format json --version
- **added** — Add the dbt.import_ctes (DBT01) lint rule, requiring every ref()/source() to be imported through a top-level CTE
- **added** — Add opt-in Redshift grants support for groups and roles
- **added** — Support dbt node selection (--select/--exclude/--selector) for lint and format in both symbolic and rendered render modes
- **added** — Add unit tests to the Jinja graph object
- **added** — Add error_code and error_message fields to the dbt login Vortex telemetry event
- **added** — Add undocumented dbt internal get-distribution-info command for resolving dbt release-channel and distribution info
- **fixed** — Fix stale sourced_remote schema cache for DuckDB adapter causing unit test fixture column mismatches after model schema changes
- **fixed** — Fixed file-system reserved characters in FQNs from being included in paths by replacing them with double underscores

##### 2.0.0-beta.1

Released August 10, 2026

###### Features

- Provide option of using default profile.yml during init
- Allow continue running children on parent error
- Implement selector selector method
- Support overloaded UDFs via overrides block in function YAML
- Implement dbt state explain in Fusion
- Test optimization to skip provably redundant tests
- Add `cargo xtask apply-ci-goldies` to fetch CI logs via `gh` and apply golden-file patches onto the current worktree.
- Support Databricks Azure service principal (Microsoft Entra ID) authentication via `azure_client_id`/`azure_client_secret` (auth_type `azure-client-secret`), matching dbt-core/dbt-databricks
- Add Docker and docker compose support for self-hosting the dbt docs server (dbt docs serve)
- Clickhouse: Add missing configurations for ClickHouse table materialization ([#14585](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/14585))
- Add --infer-schemas, --skip-type-checking, and --show-sources flags for catalog-free binding to bind SQL without introspection.
- Support pseudocolumns (e.g. BigQuery's _FILE_NAME) in unit tests
- Add machine-readable JSON output for dbt --format json --version
- Add the dbt.import_ctes (DBT01) lint rule, requiring every ref()/source() to be imported through a top-level CTE
- Add opt-in Redshift grants support for groups and roles
- Support dbt node selection (--select/--exclude/--selector) for lint and format in both symbolic and rendered render modes
- Add unit tests to the Jinja graph object
- Add error_code and error_message fields to the dbt login Vortex telemetry event
- dbt State: speculatively submit models, snapshots, and data tests while the dependency last-modified prefetch is still in flight, so nodes no longer block on the full prefetch before a cache decision
- Report the dbt invocation ID (and dbt platform run ID when present) with dbt State telemetry so runs can be correlated end to end
- Skip provably redundant accepted-values data tests
- Add undocumented `dbt internal get-distribution-info` command for resolving dbt release-channel and distribution info, falling back to `<dbt> --version` to infer generation and distribution when a target `dbt` doesn't support the command itself. `--all` now discovers every `dbt` on `PATH` concurrently and skips the doomed `internal` probe for non-native (script) installs, cutting multi-install discovery time substantially. Each probe is now bounded by a wait/graceful-terminate/forceful-kill timeout so a hung or badly-behaved `dbt` on `PATH` can't stall or block discovery indefinitely. When a Homebrew-tap conflict identifies an already-installed dbt Cloud CLI, `get-distribution-info` now also reports its uninstall command
- When a Snowflake metadata warehouse is configured, dbt State now fetches table last-modified freshness metadata with one query per schema in parallel (bounded by the configured thread count), instead of running the per-schema dumps sequentially
- Support dbt State configs on snapshots and data tests
- [BigQuery] Link to docs for Storage API errors ([#15544](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/15544), [#13600](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/13600))

###### Fixes

- Fix stale sourced_remote schema cache for DuckDB adapter causing unit test fixture column mismatches after model schema changes
- Fixed file-system reserved characters in FQNs from being included in paths by replacing them with double underscores.
- Always show a fallback line in the Test Failures summary for failed tests, even when no diff table or stored failures relation is available
- fix: explicitly set default empty variable for $SHELL so that the script will not end while setting the $SHELL.
- Treat unresolvable Snowflake views as stale for dbt State reuse decisions.
- Fix typo in the `try_or_compiler_error` type-check warning message ("a optional argument argument" -> "an optional argument") ([#15323](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/15323))
- Allow state-org-id

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