What's shipped in dbt — May 2026

In May 2026, dbt introduced several updates to enhance its platform's functionality and user experience. Key developments include the preview release of the AI-native dbt Developer Agent, designed to assist analytics engineers by understanding entire dbt projects and automating changes across files, thereby reducing context-switching and build errors. The dbt Agent Skills repository was expanded to better equip generalist coding agents for working with dbt projects. Secure connections to AI tools via OAuth and BYOK support for Anthropic, OpenAI, and Azure OpenAI were introduced, offering users more flexibility and control. The transition to the dbt Fusion engine was made self-serve, offering significant performance improvements and simplifying project upgrades with automated conformance checks. The dbt platform also enhanced its IDE with faster navigation, query history support for additional data warehouses, and a new semantic layer YAML spec for easier maintenance. Security and governance improvements were made with features like global login and self-serve private endpoints. Moreover, dbt Core v1.12 was released in beta, featuring new error handling configurations, selector methods, and expanded UDF support, continuing to evolve the dbt language.

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