dbt Semantic Layer updates and fixes for March 2024

The dbt Labs team continues to work on adding new features, fixing bugs, and increasing reliability for the dbt Semantic Layer and MetricFlow. This release note includes our work in March 2024:

New features

• Privatelink: The Semantic Layer services now support using Privatelink for customers who have it enabled.
• SSO support for Semantic Layer development: You can now develop against and test your Semantic Layer in the Cloud CLI if your developer credential uses SSO.

Updates

Entities are selectable in the Google Sheets app: You can select entities to Group By, Filter By, and Order By.

Bug fixes

• dbt parse no longer shows an error when you use a list of filters (instead of just a string filter) on a metric.
• join_to_timespine now properly gets applied to conversion metric input measures.
• Fixed an issue where exports in Redshift were not always committing to the DWH, which also had the side-effect of leaving table locks open.