dbt Labs new features in July 2026

Everything dbt Labs shipped in July 2026: 27 releases, grouped by product, each linked to dbt Labs's release notes.

August 2026

GA 1Preview 2Deprecation 1Update 23

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dbt platformJuly 2026

Agent retries transient LLM provider failures with backoff

The agent automatically retries transient LLM provider failures such as timeouts, rate limits, and server errors with exponential backoff.

UpdateAI agentsLLMsSource

dbt platformJuly 2026

Automatic memory-tuning for all dbt v2 runs

Memory-tuning optimizations are applied automatically to all dbt v2 runs, reducing out-of-memory kill rates.

UpdateSource

dbt platformJuly 2026

Catalog search defaults to current environment type

Searching from a project environment route such as a Staging page now defaults the Catalog environment filter to that environment type rather than Production.

UpdateGovernanceObservabilitySource

dbt platformJuly 2026

Catalog supports Warn last-run status

Catalog shows a distinct Warn status for resources whose last run completed with warnings, and it can be used as a filter.

UpdateGovernanceObservabilitySource

dbt platformJuly 2026

Client tool loops no longer capped at 50 iterations

Client tool loops now run until the agent finishes rather than stopping after 50 iterations.

UpdateAI agentsSource

dbt platformJuly 2026

Committed spend card renamed Consumption pool

The Committed spend billing card is now labeled Consumption pool and explains that usage-based features like dbt State draw from it.

UpdatePricingSource

dbt platformJuly 2026

Connection overrides shown read-only in profile details

Credential-level connection overrides such as Databricks catalog or Snowflake warehouse, role, and database appear in a read-only Connection overrides section in profile details.

UpdateSQLGovernanceObservabilitySource

dbt platformJuly 2026

Cost Insights GA for Snowflake, BigQuery and Databricks

Cost Insights is generally available for Snowflake, BigQuery, and Databricks.

GASQLPricingSource

dbt platformJuly 2026

Cost Insights for Amazon Redshift in preview

Cost Insights for Amazon Redshift is in preview.

PreviewPricingSource

dbt platformJuly 2026

Discovery API health filter and warn run status

ModelAppliedFilter includes a health field for filtering applied models by health status, and RunStatus and lastRunStatus now include warn.

UpdateDeveloper toolsSource

dbt platformJuly 2026

Global account discovery setting visible to all entitled accounts

The Enable global account discovery setting on Account settings is visible to all entitled accounts without a feature flag.

UpdateSource

dbt platformJuly 2026

Hybrid jobs to track externally orchestrated runs

Hybrid jobs track runs triggered by an external orchestrator, with a simplified setup and an Externally triggered schedule. They are available only for Hybrid projects.

UpdateSource

dbt platformJuly 2026

Job deactivation banner shows specific reason

When a job is deactivated, the banner shows a specific reason such as repeated run failures or account inactivity, with tailored reactivation instructions.

UpdateSource

dbt platformJuly 2026

MCP get_lineage direction parameter and list_metrics meta_filter

get_lineage accepts a direction parameter (upstream, downstream, or both) and returns node descriptions. list_metrics accepts a meta_filter to restrict results by config.meta key-value pairs.

UpdateMCPStreamingGovernanceSource

dbt platformJuly 2026

Redesigned Catalog search result cards with inline snippets

Search result cards replace tooltip-based match pills with inline expandable snippets for columns, tags, descriptions, and code. Contact your account manager to enable.

UpdateGovernanceObservabilitySource

dbt platformJuly 2026

Redshift development connections support external OAuth

Redshift development connections support external OAuth with Okta or Entra ID through AWS IAM Identity Center.

UpdateSecuritySource

dbt platformJuly 2026

Server-side search and pagination for users and groups

The users table, group member lists, and user edit drawer now search, filter, sort, and paginate server-side, so all users on large accounts are findable.

UpdateDeveloper toolsSource

dbt platformJuly 2026

Service tokens can no longer be created with personal access tokens

Requests to the service tokens endpoint authenticated with an account-scoped personal access token now return a 400 error. Use a service token to create new ones.

UpdateSource

dbt platformJuly 2026

dbt MCP server consolidates into get_node_details tool

The dbt MCP server uses one get_node_details tool for all resource types. The older type-specific tools are deprecated and will be removed.

DeprecationMCPSource

dbt platformJuly 2026

dbt State settings moved to Billing & Usage

dbt State settings, including trial management, enabling on environments and jobs, and spend alerts, are now in Account settings > Billing & Usage.

UpdatePricingSource

dbt platformJuly 2026

dbt State usage page splits daily active target tables into billable and free

The dbt State usage page shows daily active target tables (DATTs) split into Billable and Free, and all DATTs count as free during a trial.

UpdateSource

dbt platformJuly 2026

dbt Wizard home tab in public preview

The dbt Wizard home tab in the dbt platform is in public preview, for building and changing dbt projects through natural language with inline diffs, DAG previews, and validation.

PreviewSource

dbt platformJuly 2026