What will break moving from DBT v1.1 to v1.6?

[edwrand]

Hello, I am working in DBT v1.1 for my company. I am writing an upgrade proposal for DBT v1.6. What potential complications might I face when doing this upgrade?

Things I know so far:

• package verions and dependent packages will need to be updated
• surrogate keys might change format?
• YAML version might change?

What other things will break when moving to the newer version?

[edwrand]

Circling back to answer my own question in case someone else needs this.

Steps to upgrade several DBT versions:

1. Update package versions (including unused but dependent packages)
2. Replace dbt-utils.surrogate_key with the newer version dbt-utils.generate_surrogate_key
3. dbt-utils.generate_surrogate_key takes in an array argument instead of strings like the deprecated version
4. Double check YML configuration as some indentation might change