v1.4.0rc1

Features

• Add dbt docs natively in Airflow via plugin by @dwreeves in #737
• Add support for InvocationMode.DBT_RUNNER for local execution mode by @jbandoro in #850
• Support partial parsing to render DAGs faster when using ExecutionMode.LOCAL, ExecutionMode.VIRTUALENV and LoadMode.DBT_LS by @dwreeves in #800
• Improve performance by 22-35% or more by caching partial parse artefact by @tatiana in #904
• Add Azure Container Instance as Execution Mode by @danielvdende in #771
• Add dbt build operators by @dylanharper-qz in #795
• Add dbt profile config variables to mapped profile by @ykuc in #794
• Add more template fields to DbtBaseOperator by @dwreeves in #786
• Add pip_install_options argument to operators by @octiva in #808

Bug fixes

• Make PostgresUserPasswordProfileMapping schema argument optional by @FouziaTariq in #683
• Fix folder_dir not showing on logs for DbtDocsS3LocalOperator by @PrimOox in #856
• Improve dbt ls parsing resilience to missing tags/config by @tatiana in #859
• Fix operator_args modified in place in Airflow converter by @jbandoro in #835
• Fix Docker and Kubernetes operators execute method resolution by @jbandoro in #849
• Fix TrinoBaseProfileMapping required parameter for non method authentication by @AlexandrKhabarov in #921
• Fix global flags for lists by @ms32035 in #863
• Fix GoogleCloudServiceAccountDictProfileMapping when getting values from the Airflow connection extra__ keys by @glebkrapivin in #923
• Fix using the dag as a keyword argument as specific_args_keys in DbtTaskGroup by @tboutaour in #916
• Fix ACI integration (DbtAzureContainerInstanceBaseOperator) by @danielvdende in #872
• Fix setting dbt project dir to the tmp dir by @dwreeves in #873
• Fix dbt docs operator to not use graph.gpickle file when --no-write-json is passed by @dwreeves in #883
• Make Pydantic a required dependency by @pankajkoti in #939
• Gracefully error if users try to emit_datasets with Airflow 2.9.0 or 2.9.1 by @tatiana in #948
• Fix parsing tests that have no parents in #933 by @jlaneve
• Correct root_path in partial parse cache by @pankajkoti in #950

Docs

• Fix docs homepage link by @jlaneve in #860
• Fix docs ExecutionConfig.dbt_project_path by @jbandoro in #847
• Fix typo in MWAA getting started guide by @jlaneve in #846
• Fix typo related to exporting docs to GCS by @tboutaour in #922
• Improve partial parsing docs by @tatiana in #898
• Improve docs for datasets for airflow >= 2.4 by @SiddiqueAhmad in #879
• Improve test behaviour docs to highlight warning feature in the virtualenv mode by @mc51 in #910
• Fix docs typo by @SiddiqueAhmad in #917
• Improve Astro docs by @RNHTTR in #951

Others

• Add performance integration tests by @jlaneve in #827
• Enable append_env in operator_args by default by @tatiana in #899
• Expose the dbt graph in the DbtToAirflowConverter class by @tommyjxl in #886
• Improve dbt docs plugin rendering padding by @dwreeves in #876
• Add connect_retries to databricks profile to fix expensive integration failures by @jbandoro in #826
• Add import sorting (isort) to Cosmos by @jbandoro in #866
• Add Python 3.11 to CI/tests by @tatiana and @jbandoro in #821, #824 and #825
• Fix failing test_created_pod for apache-airflow-providers-cncf-kubernetes after v8.0.0 update by @jbandoro in #854
• Extend DatabricksTokenProfileMapping test to include session properties by @tatiana in #858
• Fix broken integration test uncovered from Pytest 8.0 update by @jbandoro in #845
• Add Apache Airflow 2.9 to the test matrix by @tatiana in #940
• Replace deprecated DummyOperator by EmptyOperator if Airflow >=2.4.0 by @tatiana in #900
• Improve logs to troubleshoot issue in 1.4.0a2 with astro-cli by @tatiana in #947
• Fix issue when publishing a new release to PyPI by @tatiana in #946
• Pre-commit hook updates in #820, #834, #843 and #852, #890, #896, #901, #905, #908, #919, #931, #941