v1.8.0a3

New Features

• Support customizing Airflow operator arguments per dbt node by @wornjs in #1339. More information.
• Support uploading dbt artifacts to remote cloud storages via callback by @pankajkoti in #1389. Read more.
• Add support to TestBehavior.BUILD by @tatiana in #1377. Documentation.
• Add support for the "at" operator when using LoadMode.DBT_MANIFEST or CUSTOM by @benjy44 in #1372
• Add dbt clone operator by @pankajastro in #1326, as documented in here.

Bug Fixes

• Fix the mock value of port in TrinoBaseProfileMapping to be an integer by @dwolfeu #1322
• Fix access to the dbt docs menu item outside of Astro cloud by @tatiana in #1312
• Add missing DbtSourceGcpCloudRunJobOperator in module cosmos.operators.gcp_cloud_run_job by @anai-s in #1290
• Support building DbtDag without setting paths in ProjectConfig by @tatiana in #1307
• Fix parsing dbt ls outputs that contain JSONs that are not dbt nodes by @tatiana in #1296

Enhancements

• Improve dbt command execution logs to troubleshoot None values by @tatiana in #1392
  Docs

• Remove extra ` char from docs by @pankajastro in #1345

• Add limitation about copying target dir files to remote by @pankajkoti in #1305

• Generalise example from README by @ReadytoRocc in #1311

Others

• Restore Jaffle Shop so that basic_cosmos_dag works as documented by @tatiana in #1374
• Remove Pytest durations from tests scripts by @tatiana in #1383
• Remove typing-extensions as dependency by @pankajastro in #1381
• Pin dbt-databricks version to < 1.9 by @pankajastro in #1376
• Refactor dbt-sqlite tests to use dbt-postgres by @pankajastro in #1366
• Remove 'dbt-core<1.8.9' pin by @tatiana in #1371
• Remove dependency eval_type_backport by @tatiana in #1370
• Enable kubernetes tests for dbt>=1.8 by @pankajastro #1364
• CI Workaround: Pin dbt-core, Disable SQLite Tests, and Correctly Ignore Clone Test to Pass CI by @pankajastro in #1337
• Enable Azure task in the remote store manifest example DAG by @pankajkoti in #1333
• Enable GCP remote manifest task by @pankajastro in #1332
• Add exempt label option in GH action stale job by @pankajastro in #1328
• Add integration test for source node rendering by @pankajastro in #1327
• Fix vulnerability issue on docs dependency by @tatiana in #1313
• Add postgres pod status check for k8s tests in CI by @pankajkoti in #1320
• [CI] Reduce the amount taking to run tests in the CI from 5h to 11min by @tatiana in #1297
• Enable secret detection precommit check by @pankajastro in #1302
• Fix security vulnerability, by not pinning Airflow 2.10.0 by @tatiana in #1298
• Fix Netlify build timeouts by @tatiana in #1294
• Add stalebot to label/close stale PRs and issues by @tatiana in #1288
• Pre-commit hook updates in #1394, #1373, #1358, #1340, #1331, #1314, #1301

Closes: #1193