1.7.1 (core) / 0.23.1 (libraries)

New

• [dagster-dbt][experimental] A new cli command dagster-dbt project prepare-for-deployment has been added in conjunction with DbtProject for managing the behavior of rebuilding the manifest during development and preparing a pre-built one for production.

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue with duplicate asset check keys when loading checks from a package.
• A bug with the new build_last_update_freshness_checks and build_time_partition_freshness_checks has been fixed where multi_asset checks passed in would not be executable.
• [dagster-dbt] Fixed some issues with building column lineage for incremental models, models with implicit column aliases, and models with columns that have multiple dependencies on the same upstream column.

Breaking Changes

• [dagster-dbt] The experimental DbtArtifacts class has been replaced by DbtProject.

Documentation

• Added a dedicated concept page for all things metadata and tags
• Moved asset metadata content to a dedicated concept page: Asset metadata
• Added section headings to the Software-defined Assets API reference, which groups APIs by asset type or use
• Added a guide about user settings in the Dagster UI
• Added AssetObservation to the Software-defined Assets API reference
• Renamed Dagster Cloud GitHub workflow files to the new, consolidated dagster-cloud-deploy.yml
• Miscellaneous formatting and copy updates
• [community-contribution] [dagster-embedded-elt] Fixed get_asset_key API documentation (thanks @aksestok!)
• [community-contribution] Updated Python version in contributing documentation (thanks @piotrmarczydlo!)
• [community-contribution] Typo fix in README (thanks @MiConnell!)

Dagster Cloud

• Fixed a bug where an incorrect value was being emitted for BigQuery bytes billed in Insights.

1.7.0 (core) / 0.23.0 (libraries)

Major Changes since 1.6.0 (core) / 0.22.0 (libraries)

• Asset definitions can now have tags, via the tags argument on @asset, AssetSpec, and AssetOut. Tags are meant to be used for organizing, filtering, and searching for assets.
• The Asset Details page has been revamped to include an “Overview” tab that centralizes the most important information about the asset – such as current status, description, and columns – in a single place.
• Assets can now be assigned owners.
• Asset checks are now considered generally available and will no longer raise experimental warnings when used.
• Asset checks can now be marked blocking, which causes downstream assets in the same run to be skipped if the check fails with ERROR-level severity.
• The new @multi_asset_check decorator enables defining a single op that executes multiple asset checks.
• The new build_last_updated_freshness_checks and build_time_partition_freshness_checks APIs allow defining asset checks that error or warn when an asset is overdue for an update. Refer to the Freshness checks guide for more info.
• The new build_column_schema_change_checks API allows defining asset checks that warn when an asset’s columns have changed since its latest materialization.
• In the asset graph UI, the “Upstream data”, “Code version changed”, and “Upstream code version” statuses have been collapsed into a single “Unsynced” status. Clicking on “Unsynced” displays more detailed information.
• I/O managers are now optional. This enhances flexibility for scenarios where they are not necessary. For guidance, see When to use I/O managers.
  • Assets with None or MaterializeResult return type annotations won't use I/O managers; dependencies for these assets can be set using the deps parameter in the @asset decorator.
• [dagster-dbt] Dagster’s dbt integration can now be configured to automatically collect metadata about column schema and column lineage.
• [dagster-dbt] dbt tests are now pulled in as Dagster asset checks by default.
• [dagster-dbt] dbt resource tags are now automatically pulled in as Dagster asset tags.
• [dagster-dbt] dbt owners from dbt groups are now automatically pulled in as Dagster owners.
• [dagster-snowflake] [dagster-gcp] The dagster-snowflake and dagster-gcp packages now both expose a fetch_last_updated_timestamps API, which makes it straightforward to collect data freshness information in source asset observation functions.

Changes since 1.6.14 (core) / 0.22.14 (libraries)

New

• Metadata attached during asset or op execution can now be accessed in the I/O manager using OutputContext.output_metadata.
• [experimental] Single-run backfills now support batched inserts of asset materialization events. This is a major performance improvement for large single-run backfills that have database writes as a bottleneck. The feature is off by default and can be enabled by setting the DAGSTER_EVENT_BATCH_SIZE environment variable in a code server to an integer (25 recommended, 50 max). It is only currently supported in Dagster Cloud and OSS deployments with a postgres backend.
• [ui] The new Asset Details page is now enabled for new users by default. To turn this feature off, you can toggle the feature in the User Settings.
• [ui] Queued runs now display a link to view all the potential reasons why a run might remain queued.
• [ui] Starting a run status sensor with a stale cursor will now warn you in the UI that it will resume from the point that it was paused.
• [asset-checks] Asset checks now support asset names that include ., which can occur when checks are ingested from dbt tests.
• [dagster-dbt] The env var DBT_INDIRECT_SELECTION will no longer be set to empty when executing dbt tests as asset checks, unless specific asset checks are excluded. dagster-dbt will no longer explicitly select all dbt tests with the dbt cli, which had caused argument length issues.
• [dagster-dbt] Singular tests with a single dependency are now ingested as asset checks.
• [dagster-dbt] Singular tests with multiple dependencies must have the primary dependency must be specified using dbt meta.

{{
    config(
        meta={
            'dagster': {
                'ref': {
                    'name': <ref_name>,
                    'package': ... # Optional, if included in the ref.
                    'version': ... # Optional, if included in the ref.
                },
            }
        }
    )
}}

...

• [dagster-dbt] Column lineage metadata can now be emitted when invoking dbt. See the documentation for details.
• [experimental][dagster-embedded-elt] Add the data load tool (dlt) integration for easily building and integration dlt ingestion pipelines with Dagster.
• [dagster-dbt][community-contribution] You can now specify a custom schedule name for schedules created with build_schedule_from_dbt_selection. Thanks @dragos-pop!
• [helm][community-contribution] You can now specify a custom job namespace for your user code deployments. Thanks @tmatthews0020!
• [dagster-polars][community-contribution] Column schema metadata is now integrated using the dagster-specific metadata key in dagster_polars. Thanks @danielgafni!
• [dagster-datadog][community-contribution] Added datadog.api module to the DatadogClient resource, enabling direct access to API methods. Thanks @shivgupta!

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where run status sensors configured to monitor a specific job would trigger for jobs with the same name in other code locations.
• Fixed a bug where multi-line asset check result descriptions were collapsed into a single line.
• Fixed a bug that caused a value to show up under “Target materialization” in the asset check UI even when an asset had had observations but never been materialized.
• Changed typehint of metadata argument on multi_asset and AssetSpec to Mapping[str, Any].
• [dagster-snowflake-pandas] Fixed a bug introduced in 0.22.4 where column names were not using quote identifiers correctly. Column names will now be quoted.
• [dagster-aws] Fixed an issue where a race condition where simultaneously materializing the same asset more than once would sometimes raise an Exception when using the s3_io_manager.
• [ui] Fixed a bug where resizable panels could inadvertently be hidden and never recovered, for instance the right panel on the global asset graph.
• [ui] Fixed a bug where opening a run with an op selection in the Launchpad could lose the op selection setting for the subsequently launched run. The op selection is now correctly preserved.
• [community-contribution] Fixed dagster-polars tests by excluding Decimal types. Thanks @ion-elgreco!
• [community-contribution] Fixed a bug where auto-materialize rule evaluation would error on FIPS-compliant machines. Thanks @jlloyd-widen!
• [community-contribution] Fixed an issue where an excessive DeprecationWarning was being issued for a ScheduleDefinition passed into the Definitions object. Thanks @2Ryan09!

Breaking Changes

• Creating a run with a custom non-UUID run_id was previously private and only used for testing. It will now raise an exception.
• [community-contribution] Previously, calling get_partition_keys_in_range on a MultiPartitionsDefinition would erroneously return partition keys that were within the one-dimensional range of alphabetically-sorted partition keys for the definition. Now, this method returns the cartesian product of partition keys within each dimension’s range. Thanks, @mst!
• Added AssetCheckExecutionContext to replace AssetExecutionContext as the type of the context param passed in to @asset_check functions. @asset_check was an experimental decorator.
• [experimental] @classmethod decorators have been removed from dagster-embedded-slt.sling DagsterSlingTranslator
• [dagster-dbt] @classmethod decorators have been removed from DagsterDbtTranslator.
• [dagster-k8s] The default merge behavior when raw kubernetes config is supplied at multiple scopes (for example, at the instance level and for a particluar job) has been changed to be more consistent. Previously, configuration was merged shallowly by default, with fields replacing other fields instead of appending or merging. Now, it is merged deeply by default, with lists appended to each other and dictionaries merged, in order to be more consistent with how kubernetes configuration is combined in all other places. See the docs for more information, including how to restore the previous default merge behavior.

Deprecations

• AssetSelection.keys() has been deprecated. Instead, you can now supply asset key arguments to AssetSelection.assets() .
• Run tag keys with long lengths and certain characters are now deprecated. For consistency with asset tags, run tags keys are expected to only contain alpha-numeric characters, dashes, underscores, and periods. Run tag keys can also contain a prefix section, separated with a slash. The main section and prefix section of a run tag are limited to 63 characters.
• `AssetExecuti...

1.6.14 (core) / 0.22.14 (libraries)

Bugfixes

• [dagster-dbt] Fixed some issues with building column lineage metadata.

1.6.13 (core) / 0.22.13 (libraries)

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where an asset with a dependency on a subset of the keys of a parent multi-asset could sometimes crash asset job construction.
• Fixed a bug where a Definitions object containing assets having integrated asset checks and multiple partitions definitions could not be loaded.

1.6.12 (core) / 0.22.12 (libraries)

New

• AssetCheckResult now has a text description property. Check evaluation descriptions are shown in the Checks tab on the asset details page.
• Introduced TimestampMetadataValue. Timestamp metadata values are represented internally as seconds since the Unix epoch. They can be constructed using MetadataValue.timestamp. In the UI, they’re rendered in the local timezone, like other timestamps in the UI.
• AssetSelection.checks can now accept AssetCheckKeys as well as AssetChecksDefinition.
• [community-contribution] Metadata attached to an output at runtime (via either add_output_metadata or by passing to Output) is now available on HookContext under the op_output_metadata property. Thanks @JYoussouf!
• [experimental] @asset, AssetSpec, and AssetOut now accept a tags property. Tags are key-value pairs meant to be used for organizing asset definitions. If "__dagster_no_value" is set as the value, only the key will be rendered in the UI. AssetSelection.tag allows selecting assets that have a particular tag.
• [experimental] Asset tags can be used in asset CLI selections, e.g. dagster asset materialize --select tag:department=marketing
• [experimental][dagster-dbt] Tags can now be configured on dbt assets, using DagsterDbtTranslator.get_tags. By default, we take the dbt tags configured on your dbt models, seeds, and snapshots.
• [dagster-gcp] Added get_gcs_keys sensor helper function.

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug that prevented external assets with dependencies from displaying properly in Dagster UI.
• Fix a performance regression in loading code locations with large multi-assets.
• [community-contribution] [dagster-databricks] Fix a bug with the DatabricksJobRunner that led to an inability to use dagster-databricks with Databricks instance pools. Thanks @smats0n!
• [community-contribution] Fixed a bug that caused a crash when external assets had hyphens in their AssetKey. Thanks @maxfirman!
• [community-contribution] Fix a bug with load_assets_from_package_module that would cause a crash when any submodule had the same directory name as a dependency. Thanks @CSRessel!
• [community-contribution] Fixed a mypy type error, thanks @parthshyara!
• [community-contribution][dagster-embedded-elt] Fixed an issue where Sling assets would not properly read group and description metadata from replication config, thanks @jvyoralek!
• [community-contribution] Ensured annotations from the helm chart properly propagate to k8s run pods, thanks @maxfirman!

Dagster Cloud

• Fixed an issue in Dagster Cloud Serverless runs where multiple runs simultaneously materializing the same asset would sometimes raise a “Key not found” exception.
• Fixed an issue when using agent replicas where one replica would sporadically remove a code server created by another replica due to a race condition, leading to a “code server not found” or “Deployment not found” exception.
• [experimental] The metadata key for specifying column schema that will be rendered prominently on the new Overview tab of the asset details page has been changed from "columns" to "dagster/column_schema". Materializations using the old metadata key will no longer result in the Columns section of the tab being filled out.
• [ui] Fixed an Insights bug where loading a view filtered to a specific code location would not preserve that filter on pageload.

1.6.11 (core) / 0.22.11 (libraries)

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue where dagster dev or the Dagster UI would display an error when loading jobs created with op or asset selections.

1.6.10 (core) / 0.22.10 (libraries)

New

• Latency improvements to the scheduler when running many simultaneous schedules.

Bugfixes

• The performance of loading the Definitions snapshot from a code server when large @multi_asset s are in use has been drastically improved.
• The snowflake quickstart example project now renames the “by” column to avoid reserved snowflake names. Thanks @jcampbell!
• The existing group name (if any) for an asset is now retained if the_asset.with_attributes is called without providing a group name. Previously, the existing group name was erroneously dropped. Thanks @ion-elgreco!
• [dagster-dbt] Fixed an issue where Dagster events could not be streamed from dbt source freshness.
• [dagster university] Removed redundant use of MetadataValue in Essentials course. Thanks @stianthaulow!
• [ui] Increased the max number of plots on the asset plots page to 100.

Breaking Changes

• The tag_keys argument on DagsterInstance.get_run_tagsis no longer optional. This has been done to remove an easy way of accidentally executing an extremely expensive database operation.

Dagster Cloud

• The maximum number of concurrent runs across all branch deployments is now configurable. This setting can now be set via GraphQL or the CLI.
• [ui] In Insights, fixed display of table rows with zero change in value from the previous time period.
• [ui] Added deployment-level Insights.
• [ui] Fixed an issue causing void invoices to show up as “overdue” on the billing page.
• [experimental] Branch deployments can now indicate the new and modified assets in the branch deployment as compared to the main deployment. To enable this feature, turn on the “Enable experimental branch deployment asset graph diffing” user setting.

1.6.9 (core) / 0.22.9 (libraries)

New

• [ui] When viewing logs for a run, the date for a single log row is now shown in the tooltip on the timestamp. This helps when viewing a run that takes place over more than one date.
• Added suggestions to the error message when selecting asset keys that do not exist as an upstream asset or in an AssetSelection.
• Improved error messages when trying to materialize a subset of a multi-asset which cannot be subset.
• [dagster-snowflake] dagster-snowflake now requires snowflake-connector-python>=3.4.0
• [embedded-elt] @sling_assets accepts an optional name parameter for the underlying op
• [dagster-openai] dagster-openai library is now available.
• [dagster-dbt] Added a new setting on DagsterDbtTranslatorSettings called enable_duplicate_source_asset_keys that allows users to set duplicate asset keys for their dbt sources. Thanks @hello-world-bfree!
• Log messages in the Dagster daemon for unloadable sensors and schedules have been removed.
• [ui] Search now uses a cache that persists across pageloads which should greatly improve search performance for very large orgs.
• [ui] groups/code locations in the asset graph’s sidebar are now sorted alphabetically.

Bugfixes

• Fixed issue where the input/output schemas of configurable IOManagers could be ignored when providing explicit input / output run config.
• Fixed an issue where enum values could not properly have a default value set in a ConfigurableResource.
• Fixed an issue where graph-backed assets would sometimes lose user-provided descriptions due to a bug in internal copying.
• [auto-materialize] Fixed an issue introduced in 1.6.7 where updates to ExternalAssets would be ignored when using AutoMaterializePolicies which depended on parent updates.
• [asset checks] Fixed a bug with asset checks in step launchers.
• [embedded-elt] Fix a bug when creating a SlingConnectionResource where a blank keyword argument would be emitted as an environment variable
• [dagster-dbt] Fixed a bug where emitting events from dbt source freshness would cause an error.
• [ui] Fixed a bug where using the “Terminate all runs” button with filters selected would not apply the filters to the action.
• [ui] Fixed an issue where typing a search query into the search box before the search data was fetched would yield “No results” even after the data was fetched.

Community Contributions

• [docs] fixed typo in embedded-elt.mdx (thanks @cameronmartin)!
• [dagster-databricks] log the url for the run of a databricks job (thanks @smats0n)!
• Fix missing partition property (thanks christeefy)!
• Add op_tags to @observable_source_asset decorator (thanks @maxfirman)!
• [docs] typo in MultiPartitionMapping docs (thanks @dschafer)
• Allow github actions to checkout branch from forked repo for docs changes (ci fix) (thanks hainenber)!

Experimental

• [asset checks] UI performance of asset checks related pages has been improved.
• [dagster-dbt] The class DbtArtifacts has been added for managing the behavior of rebuilding the manifest during development but expecting a pre-built one in production.

Documentation

• Added example of writing compute logs to AWS S3 when customizing agent configuration.
• "Hello, Dagster" is now "Dagster Quickstart" with the option to use a Github Codespace to explore Dagster.
• Improved guides and reference to better running multiple isolated agents with separate queues on ECS.

Dagster Cloud

• Microsoft Teams is now supported for alerts. Documentation
• A send sample alert button now exists on both the alert policies page and in the alert policies editor to make it easier to debug and configure alerts without having to wait for an event to kick them off.

1.6.8 (core) / 0.22.8 (libraries

Bugfixes

• [dagster-embedded-elt] Fixed a bug in the SlingConnectionResource that raised an error when connecting to a database.

Experimental

• [asset checks] graph_multi_assets with check_specs now support subsetting.

1.6.7 (core) / 0.22.7 (libraries)

New

• Added a new run_retries.retry_on_op_or_asset_failures setting that can be set to false to make run retries only occur when there is an unexpected failure that crashes the run, allowing run-level retries to co-exist more naturally with op or asset retries. See the docs for more information.
• dagster dev now sets the environment variable DAGSTER_IS_DEV_CLI allowing subprocesses to know that they were launched in a development context.
• [ui] The Asset Checks page has been updated to show more information on the page itself rather than in a dialog.

Bugfixes

• [ui] Fixed an issue where the UI disallowed creating a dynamic partition if its name contained the “|” pipe character.
• AssetSpec previously dropped the metadata and code_version fields, resulting in them not being attached to the corresponding asset. This has been fixed.

Experimental

• The new @multi_observable_source_asset decorator enables defining a set of assets that can be observed together with the same function.
• [dagster-embedded-elt] New Asset Decorator @sling_assets and Resource SlingConnectionResource have been added for the [dagster-embedded-elt.sling](http://dagster-embedded-elt.sling) package. Deprecated build_sling_asset, SlingSourceConnection and SlingTargetConnection.
• Added support for op-concurrency aware run dequeuing for the QueuedRunCoordinator.

Documentation

• Fixed reference documentation for isolated agents in ECS.
• Corrected an example in the Airbyte Cloud documentation.
• Added API links to OSS Helm deployment guide.
• Fixed in-line pragmas showing up in the documentation.

Dagster Cloud

• Alerts now support Microsoft Teams.
• [ECS] Fixed an issue where code locations could be left undeleted.
• [ECS] ECS agents now support setting multiple replicas per code server.
• [Insights] You can now toggle the visibility of a row in the chart by clicking on the dot for the row in the table.
• [Users] Added a new column “Licensed role” that shows the user's most permissive role.