Weekly Release Highlights: 0.14.9✨ (a lot this week!) Software-defined assets • You can now point

dagit -m

or

dagit -f

at a module or file that has asset definitions but no jobs or asset groups, and all the asset definitions will be loaded into Dagit. •

AssetGroup

now has a

materialize

method which executes an in-process run to materialize all the assets in the group. • A short introductory tutorial for software-defined assets: https://docs.dagster.io/guides/dagster/asset-tutorial. Dagit • An “Open in Launchpad” button has been added to the run details page. • Fixed a bug where the Dagit homepage would claim that no jobs or pipelines had been loaded, even though jobs appeared in the sidebar. Misc • The dbt_cloud_resource has a new

get_runs()

function to get a list of runs matching certain paramters from the dbt Cloud API (thanks @kstennettlull!) • The contributor setup guide now includes instructions for Macs with M1 chips.