1.9.0

• Allow to load big seed files
• Migrates the PySpark code for the Iceberg file format at a macro level, making the impl.py file more readable.
• Fixes the get_columns_in_relation function to work for both Iceberg and non-Iceberg tables without hard-coding the catalog name.
• Fixes the get_location table function to work for both Iceberg and non-Iceberg tables on macOS and Windows.
• Adds a helper function to retrieve the Iceberg catalog namespace from the profile.yaml file.
• Adds merge_exclude_columns and incremental_predicates features.
• Drop Python 3.8 support
• Upgrade default Glue version to 5.0
• Upgrade dependencies: dbt-core 1.9.0 and dbt-spark 1.9.0
  https://github.com/aws-samples/dbt-glue/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md

1.8.6

• Fix session provisioning timeout and delay handling
• Add write options for Delta format
• Add on_schema_change possibility
• Fix table materialization for Delta models
• Change GlueColumn parent from base Column to SparkColumn
• Fix unraised DbtDatabaseError
• Fix get_columns_in_relation function to stop returning additional partition columns
• Fix null values handling in seeds
• Fix exceptions import for FailedToConnectError and ExecutableError
• Fix the case-sensitive comparison on the seed name

https://github.com/aws-samples/dbt-glue/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md