v1.8.0

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Changes

• Author CTEs visually in the Model Wizard. Models that compile to WITH ... SELECT ... open with a draggable CTE list above the SELECT step. Click a CTE to edit its source, columns, filters, and framework artifact overrides in a side panel; the wizard validates the model as you type and surfaces any CTE errors before the Next step.

Dashboards as Code

• New dj.lightdash.restrictedProjects setting — flag Lightdash project UUIDs as block (the Upload tab refuses with an inline error) or warn (upload proceeds only after a confirmation dialog).
• Add path to .gitignore now defaults to on, overridable via the new dj.lightdash.defaultAddPathToGitignore setting (false keeps it opt-in). The written entry is now root-anchored (e.g. /lightdash/) so a same-named directory nested elsewhere isn't ignored.

Trino Query Control Center

• New Query Control Center (DJ: Query Control Center) — a master-detail panel that replaces the Query View for inspecting and triaging Trino queries. A Live tab (queries from your active coordinator, or the local Trino CLI when no profile is set, with a "dbt runs only" filter) and a History tab both support search, state, and user/source filtering. Selecting a query shows its summary, stage tree, slowest operators, failure details, and SQL, plus Jump to Model (opens the matching .model.json) and Analyze with AI, which saves sanitized JSON under .dj/diagnostics/ so analyzed queries reopen even after the coordinator evicts them (~15 min).
• Named Trino connection profiles. dj.trino.profiles and dj.trino.activeProfile define coordinator profiles (dev / staging / prod) you switch from the panel or DJ: Select Trino Connection Profile.... Each profile resolves its secret at request time from VS Code SecretStorage (set via DJ: Set Trino Credentials...), an environment variable, a password file, or your ~/.dbt/profiles.yml — never plain text in settings — and the panel shows a coordinator status indicator with one-click refresh for expired tokens.
• New dj-trino-analyzer agent skill (.agents/skills/dj-trino-analyzer/SKILL.md, written when dj.codingAgent is on) gives a coding agent operator-level heuristics for diagnosing slow or failed Trino queries from the sanitized JSON, plus a bundled Trino QueryInfo field reference (references/, verified against the Trino 479 source) for deep dives into the raw .dj/diagnostics/<id>.full.json — schema tables, enum gotchas, and ready-to-paste jq recipes. The sanitizer doubles as a tool firewall: payloads containing row data are rejected before they reach disk, so customer data never reaches an LLM prompt.

Agent skills

• convert-sql-to-model skill renamed to dj-convert-sql-to-model so every DJ skill shares the dj- prefix. The stale .agents/skills/convert-sql-to-model/ folder from earlier releases is removed automatically the next time skills are deployed.
• Resolve git merge and rebase conflicts the DJ way through your AI assistant. When dj.codingAgent is enabled, a new skill at .agents/skills/dj-resolve-merge-conflicts/SKILL.md teaches an IDE agent to merge only the .model.json / .source.json sources of truth and let the generated .sql / .yml regenerate instead of hand-merging them. When an incoming branch looks old or built on an older DJ schema, it flags the divergence and offers a guided port of just the models you need instead of a full merge.

Airflow script update

• Added dj_etl_run_chronological Airflow variable to allow chronological (oldest-first) backfills. This is an opt-in feature; no behavior change occurs unless it is explicitly enabled.

Bug fixes

• YAML reserved tokens round-trip safely. Values like OFF, ON, YES, NO (and lowercase variants) are now quoted on emit and tolerated on load, so time_intervals: OFF no longer turns into false in the manifest and crashes sync. Per-column meta failures also name the offending column.
• Sync errors surface the real cause. SQL/YML generation failures now show the underlying message instead of always pointing at expr syntax.
• Removed the empty Column Lineage panel. Column lineage lives in the Data Explorer's Column view; DJ: Column Lineage opens it as before.

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