dbt-labs/dbt v1.12.6 on GitHub

dbt-core 1.12.6 - October 14, 2026

Announce dbt v2 availability as an INFO message on dbt --version, with a link to the v2 install docs (#)

Relay the v2 (Fusion) parser's log output via --log-format otel instead of json-compat, dropping span noise, keeping fusion's error/warning codes, and fixing a latent bug where a stray fusion stderr line could abort the run under --warn-error (#)
Bare wildcard FQN selectors (e.g. -s "f_*") now match nested models regardless of subfolder depth (#)
Fix cumulative metrics with an input_metric and a top-level window field (v2 metric spec) incorrectly failing to parse with a legacy nested-type_params error (#N/A)
Fix compiled_code not persisted to manifest.json when using --use-v2-parser (#)
Include semantic_manifest.json in the artifact set uploaded by --upload-to-artifacts-ingest-api, matching other run artifacts (#N/A)
Validate that tarball package download locations stay within the dbt downloads directory (#)

Rename internal "Fusion" naming to "v2" for the v2 parser integration (exceptions, module, and test names); no user-facing behavior change (#N/A)