diff --git a/.bumpversion.cfg b/.bumpversion.cfg
index 6846cafdfd3..615f09c9498 100644
--- a/.bumpversion.cfg
+++ b/.bumpversion.cfg
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [bumpversion]
-current_version = 1.8.0a1
+current_version = 1.8.0b1
 parse = (?P<major>[\d]+) # major version number
 	\.(?P<minor>[\d]+) # minor version number
 	\.(?P<patch>[\d]+) # patch version number
diff --git a/.changes/1.8.0-b1.md b/.changes/1.8.0-b1.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..069ae318427
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changes/1.8.0-b1.md
@@ -0,0 +1,187 @@
+## dbt-core 1.8.0-b1 - February 28, 2024
+
+### Breaking Changes
+
+- Remove adapter.get_compiler interface ([#9148](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9148))
+- Move AdapterLogger to adapters folder ([#9151](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9151))
+- Rm --dry-run flag from 'dbt deps --add-package', in favor of just 'dbt deps --lock' ([#9100](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9100))
+- move event manager setup back to core, remove ref to global EVENT_MANAGER and clean up event manager functions ([#9150](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9150))
+- Remove dbt-tests-adapter and dbt-postgres packages from dbt-core ([#9455](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9455))
+
+### Features
+
+- Initial implementation of unit testing ([#8287](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8287))
+- Unit test manifest artifacts and selection ([#8295](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8295))
+- Support config with tags & meta for unit tests ([#8294](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8294))
+- Allow adapters to include package logs in dbt standard logging  ([#7859](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7859))
+- Enable inline csv fixtures in unit tests ([#8626](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8626))
+- Add drop_schema_named macro ([#8025](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8025))
+- migrate utils to common and adapters folders ([#8924](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8924))
+- Move Agate helper client into common ([#8926](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8926))
+- remove usage of dbt.config.PartialProject from dbt/adapters ([#8928](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8928))
+- Add exports to SavedQuery spec ([#8892](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8892))
+- Support unit testing incremental models ([#8422](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8422))
+- Add support of csv file fixtures to unit testing ([#8290](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8290))
+- Remove legacy logger ([#8027](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8027))
+- Unit tests support --defer and state:modified ([#8517](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8517))
+- Support setting export configs hierarchically via saved query and project configs ([#8956](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8956))
+- Support source inputs in unit tests ([#8507](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8507))
+- Use daff to render diff displayed in stdout when unit test fails ([#8558](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8558))
+- Move unit testing to test command ([#8979](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8979))
+- Support --empty flag for schema-only dry runs ([#8971](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8971))
+- Support unit tests in non-root packages ([#8285](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8285))
+- Convert the `tests` config to `data_tests` in both dbt_project.yml and schema files. in schema files. ([#8699](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8699))
+- Make fixture files full-fledged parts of the manifest and enable partial parsing ([#9067](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9067))
+- Adds support for parsing conversion metric related properties for the semantic layer. ([#9203](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9203))
+- In build command run unit tests before models ([#9128](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9128))
+- Move flags from UserConfig in profiles.yml to flags in dbt_project.yml ([#9183](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9183))
+- Added hook support for `dbt source freshness` ([#5609](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/5609))
+- Align with order of unit test output when `actual` differs from `expected` ([#9370](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9370))
+- Added support for external nodes in unit test nodes ([#8944](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8944))
+- Enable unit testing versioned models ([#9344](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9344))
+- Enable list command for unit tests ([#8508](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8508))
+- Integration Test Optimizations ([#9498](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9498))
+- Accelerate integration tests with caching. ([#9498](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9498))
+- Cache environment variables ([#9489](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9489))
+- Support meta at the config level for Metric nodes ([#9441](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9441))
+- Add cache to SavedQuery config ([#9540](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9540))
+
+### Fixes
+
+- For packages installed with tarball method, fetch metadata to resolve nested dependencies ([#8621](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8621))
+- Fix partial parsing not working for semantic model change ([#8859](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8859))
+- Handle unknown `type_code` for model contracts ([#8877](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8877), [#8353](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8353))
+- Rework get_catalog implementation to retain previous adapter interface semantics ([#8846](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8846))
+- Add back contract enforcement for temporary tables on postgres ([#8857](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8857))
+- Add version to fqn when version==0 ([#8836](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8836))
+- Fix cased comparison in catalog-retrieval function. ([#8939](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8939))
+- Catalog queries now assign the correct type to materialized views ([#8864](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8864))
+- Fix compilation exception running empty seed file and support new Integer agate data_type ([#8895](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8895))
+- Make relation filtering None-tolerant for maximal flexibility across adapters. ([#8974](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8974))
+- Update run_results.json from previous versions of dbt to support deferral and rerun from failure ([#9010](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9010))
+- Use MANIFEST.in to recursively include all jinja templates; fixes issue where some templates were not included in the distribution ([#9016](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9016))
+- Fix git repository with subdirectory for Deps ([#9000](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9000))
+- Use seed file from disk for unit testing if rows not specified in YAML config ([#8652](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8652))
+- Fix formatting of tarball information in packages-lock.yml ([#9062](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9062))
+- deps: Lock git packages to commit SHA during resolution ([#9050](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9050))
+- deps: Use PackageRenderer to read package-lock.json ([#9127](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9127))
+- Ensure we produce valid jsonschema schemas for manifest, catalog, run-results, and sources ([#8991](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8991))
+- Get sources working again in dbt docs generate ([#9119](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9119))
+- Fix parsing f-strings in python models ([#6976](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/6976))
+- Preserve the value of vars and the --full-refresh flags when using retry. ([#9112](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9112))
+- Support reasonably long unit test names ([#9015](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9015))
+- Fix back-compat parsing for model-level 'tests', source table-level 'tests', and 'tests' defined on model versions ([#9411](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9411))
+- Fix retry command run from CLI ([#9444](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9444))
+- Fix seed and source selection in `dbt docs generate` ([#9161](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9161))
+- Add TestGenerateCatalogWithExternalNodes, include empty nodes in node selection during docs generate ([#9456](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9456))
+- Fix node type plurals in FoundStats log message ([#9464](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9464))
+- Run manifest upgrade preprocessing on any older manifest version, including v11 ([#9487](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9487))
+- Update 'compiled_code' context member logic to route based on command ('clone' or not). Reimplement 'sql' context member as wrapper of 'compiled_code'. ([#9502](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9502))
+- Fix bug where Semantic Layer filter strings are parsed into lists. ([#9507](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9507))
+- Initialize invocation context before test fixtures are built. ([##9489](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/#9489))
+- When patching versioned models, set constraints after config ([#9364](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9364))
+- only include unmodified semantic mdodels in state:modified selection ([#9548](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9548))
+- Set query headers when manifest is passed in to dbtRunner ([#9546](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9546))
+- Store node_info in node associated logging events ([#9557](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9557))
+- Fix Semantic Model Compare node relations ([#9548](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9548))
+- Clearer no-op logging in stubbed SavedQueryRunner ([#9533](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9533))
+- Fix node_info contextvar handling so incorrect node_info doesn't persist ([#8866](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8866))
+- Add target-path to retry ([#8948](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8948))
+
+### Docs
+
+- fix get_custom_database docstring ([dbt-docs/#9003](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-docs/issues/9003))
+
+### Under the Hood
+
+- Added more type annotations. ([#8537](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8537))
+- Add unit testing functional tests ([#8512](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8512))
+- Remove usage of dbt.include.global_project in dbt/adapters ([#8925](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8925))
+- Add a no-op runner for Saved Qeury ([#8893](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8893))
+- remove dbt.flags.MP_CONTEXT usage in dbt/adapters ([#8967](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8967))
+- Remove usage of dbt.flags.LOG_CACHE_EVENTS in dbt/adapters ([#8969](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8969))
+- Move CatalogRelationTypes test case to the shared test suite to be reused by adapter maintainers ([#8952](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8952))
+- Treat SystemExit as an interrupt if raised during node execution. ([#n/a](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/n/a))
+- Removing unused 'documentable' ([#8871](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8871))
+- Remove use of dbt/core exceptions in dbt/adapter ([#8920](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8920))
+- Cache dbt plugin modules to improve integration test performance ([#9029](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9029))
+- Consolidate deferral methods & flags ([#7965](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7965), [#8715](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8715))
+- Fix test_current_timestamp_matches_utc test; allow for MacOS runner system clock variance ([#9057](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9057))
+- Remove usage of dbt.deprecations in dbt/adapters, enable core & adapter-specific event types and protos ([#8927](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8927), [#8918](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8918))
+- Clean up unused adaptor folders ([#9123](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9123))
+- Move column constraints into common/contracts, removing another dependency of adapters on core. ([#9024](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9024))
+- Move dbt.semver to dbt.common.semver and update references. ([#9039](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9039))
+- Move lowercase utils method to common ([#9180](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9180))
+- Remove usages of dbt.clients.jinja in dbt/adapters ([#9205](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9205))
+- Remove usage of dbt.contracts in dbt/adapters ([#9208](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9208))
+- Remove usage of dbt.contracts.graph.nodes.ResultNode in dbt/adapters ([#9214](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9214))
+- Introduce RelationConfig Protocol, consolidate Relation.create_from ([#9215](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9215))
+- remove manifest from adapter.set_relations_cache signature ([#9217](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9217))
+-  remove manifest from adapter catalog method signatures ([#9218](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9218))
+- Move BaseConfig, Metadata and various other contract classes from model_config to common/contracts/config ([#8919](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8919))
+- Add MacroResolverProtocol, remove lazy loading of manifest in adapter.execute_macro ([#9244](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9244))
+- pass query header context to MacroQueryStringSetter ([#9249](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9249), [#9250](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9250))
+- add macro_context_generator on adapter ([#9247](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9247))
+- pass mp_context to adapter factory as argument instead of import ([#9025](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9025))
+- have dbt-postgres use RelationConfig protocol for materialized views' ([#9292](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9292))
+- move system.py to common as dbt-bigquery relies on it to call gcloud ([#9293](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9293))
+- Reorganizing event definitions to define core events in dbt/events rather than dbt/common ([#9152](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9152))
+- move exceptions used only in dbt/common to dbt/common/exceptions ([#9332](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9332))
+- Remove usage of dbt.adapters.factory in dbt/common ([#9334](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9334))
+- Accept valid_error_names in WarnErrorOptions constructor, remove global usage of event modules ([#9337](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9337))
+- Move result objects to dbt.artifacts ([#9193](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9193))
+- dbt Labs OSS standardization of docs and templates. ([#9252](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9252))
+- Add dbt-common as a dependency and remove dbt/common ([#9357](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9357))
+- move cache exceptions to dbt/adapters ([#9362](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9362))
+- Clean up macro contexts. ([#9422](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9422))
+- Add the @requires.manifest decorator to the retry command. ([#9426](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9426))
+- Move WritableManifest + Documentation to dbt/artifacts ([#9378](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9378), [#9379](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9379))
+- Define Macro and Group resources in dbt/artifacts ([#9381](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9381), [#9382](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9382))
+- Move `SavedQuery` data definition to `dbt/artifacts` ([#9386](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9386))
+- Migrate data parts of `Metric` node to dbt/artifacts ([#9383](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9383))
+- Move data portion of `SemanticModel` to dbt/artifacts ([#9387](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9387))
+- Move data parts of `Exposure` class to dbt/artifacts ([#9380](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9380))
+- Start using `Mergeable` from dbt-common ([#9505](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9505))
+- Move manifest nodes to artifacts ([#9388](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9388))
+- Move data parts of `SourceDefinition` class to dbt/artifacts ([#9384](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9384))
+- Remove uses of Replaceable class ([#7802](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7802))
+- Make dbt-core compatible with Python 3.12 ([#9007](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9007))
+- Restrict protobuf to major version 4. ([#9566](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9566))
+- Remove references to dbt.tracking and dbt.flags from dbt/artifacts ([#9390](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9390))
+- Implement primary key inference for model nodes ([#9652](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9652))
+- Define UnitTestDefinition resource in dbt/artifacts/resources ([#9667](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9667))
+- Use Manifest instead of WritableManifest in PreviousState and _get_deferred_manifest ([#9567](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9567))
+
+### Dependencies
+
+- Bump actions/checkout from 3 to 4 ([#8781](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/pull/8781))
+- Begin using DSI 0.4.x ([#8892](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/pull/8892))
+- Update typing-extensions version to >=4.4 ([#9012](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/pull/9012))
+- Bump ddtrace from 2.1.7 to 2.3.0 ([#9132](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/pull/9132))
+- Bump freezegun from 0.3.12 to 1.3.0 ([#9197](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/pull/9197))
+- Bump actions/setup-python from 4 to 5 ([#9267](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/pull/9267))
+- Bump actions/download-artifact from 3 to 4 ([#9374](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/pull/9374))
+- remove dbt/adapters and add dependency on dbt-adapters ([#9430](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/pull/9430))
+- Bump actions/cache from 3 to 4 ([#9471](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/pull/9471))
+- Bump peter-evans/create-pull-request from 5 to 6 ([#9552](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/pull/9552))
+- Cap dbt-semantic-interfaces version range to <0.6 ([#9671](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/pull/9671))
+- bump dbt-common to accept major version 1 ([#9690](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/pull/9690))
+
+### Security
+
+- Update Jinja2 to >= 3.1.3 to address CVE-2024-22195 ([#CVE-2024-22195](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/pull/CVE-2024-22195))
+
+### Contributors
+- [@LeoTheGriff](https://github.com/LeoTheGriff) ([#9003](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9003))
+- [@WilliamDee](https://github.com/WilliamDee) ([#9203](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9203))
+- [@adamlopez](https://github.com/adamlopez) ([#8621](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8621))
+- [@aliceliu](https://github.com/aliceliu) ([#9652](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9652))
+- [@benmosher](https://github.com/benmosher) ([#n/a](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/n/a))
+- [@colin-rorgers-dbt](https://github.com/colin-rorgers-dbt) ([#8919](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8919))
+- [@courtneyholcomb](https://github.com/courtneyholcomb) ([#9507](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9507))
+- [@l1xnan](https://github.com/l1xnan) ([#9007](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9007))
+- [@mederka](https://github.com/mederka) ([#6976](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/6976))
+- [@ofek1weiss](https://github.com/ofek1weiss) ([#5609](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/5609))
+- [@peterallenwebb,](https://github.com/peterallenwebb,) ([#9112](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9112))
+- [@tlento](https://github.com/tlento) ([#9012](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/pull/9012), [#9671](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/pull/9671))
+- [@tonayya](https://github.com/tonayya) ([#9252](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9252))
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diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 9acba2135bd..6eb903c81d2 100755
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,195 @@
 - "Breaking changes" listed under a version may require action from end users or external maintainers when upgrading to that version.
 - Do not edit this file directly. This file is auto-generated using [changie](https://github.com/miniscruff/changie). For details on how to document a change, see [the contributing guide](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#adding-changelog-entry)
 
+## dbt-core 1.8.0-b1 - February 28, 2024
+
+### Breaking Changes
+
+- Remove adapter.get_compiler interface ([#9148](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9148))
+- Move AdapterLogger to adapters folder ([#9151](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9151))
+- Rm --dry-run flag from 'dbt deps --add-package', in favor of just 'dbt deps --lock' ([#9100](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9100))
+- move event manager setup back to core, remove ref to global EVENT_MANAGER and clean up event manager functions ([#9150](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9150))
+- Remove dbt-tests-adapter and dbt-postgres packages from dbt-core ([#9455](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9455))
+
+### Features
+
+- Initial implementation of unit testing ([#8287](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8287))
+- Unit test manifest artifacts and selection ([#8295](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8295))
+- Support config with tags & meta for unit tests ([#8294](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8294))
+- Allow adapters to include package logs in dbt standard logging  ([#7859](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7859))
+- Enable inline csv fixtures in unit tests ([#8626](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8626))
+- Add drop_schema_named macro ([#8025](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8025))
+- migrate utils to common and adapters folders ([#8924](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8924))
+- Move Agate helper client into common ([#8926](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8926))
+- remove usage of dbt.config.PartialProject from dbt/adapters ([#8928](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8928))
+- Add exports to SavedQuery spec ([#8892](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8892))
+- Support unit testing incremental models ([#8422](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8422))
+- Add support of csv file fixtures to unit testing ([#8290](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8290))
+- Remove legacy logger ([#8027](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8027))
+- Unit tests support --defer and state:modified ([#8517](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8517))
+- Support setting export configs hierarchically via saved query and project configs ([#8956](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8956))
+- Support source inputs in unit tests ([#8507](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8507))
+- Use daff to render diff displayed in stdout when unit test fails ([#8558](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8558))
+- Move unit testing to test command ([#8979](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8979))
+- Support --empty flag for schema-only dry runs ([#8971](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8971))
+- Support unit tests in non-root packages ([#8285](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8285))
+- Convert the `tests` config to `data_tests` in both dbt_project.yml and schema files. in schema files. ([#8699](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8699))
+- Make fixture files full-fledged parts of the manifest and enable partial parsing ([#9067](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9067))
+- Adds support for parsing conversion metric related properties for the semantic layer. ([#9203](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9203))
+- In build command run unit tests before models ([#9128](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9128))
+- Move flags from UserConfig in profiles.yml to flags in dbt_project.yml ([#9183](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9183))
+- Added hook support for `dbt source freshness` ([#5609](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/5609))
+- Align with order of unit test output when `actual` differs from `expected` ([#9370](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9370))
+- Added support for external nodes in unit test nodes ([#8944](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8944))
+- Enable unit testing versioned models ([#9344](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9344))
+- Enable list command for unit tests ([#8508](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8508))
+- Integration Test Optimizations ([#9498](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9498))
+- Accelerate integration tests with caching. ([#9498](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9498))
+- Cache environment variables ([#9489](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9489))
+- Support meta at the config level for Metric nodes ([#9441](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9441))
+- Add cache to SavedQuery config ([#9540](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9540))
+
+### Fixes
+
+- For packages installed with tarball method, fetch metadata to resolve nested dependencies ([#8621](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8621))
+- Fix partial parsing not working for semantic model change ([#8859](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8859))
+- Handle unknown `type_code` for model contracts ([#8877](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8877), [#8353](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8353))
+- Rework get_catalog implementation to retain previous adapter interface semantics ([#8846](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8846))
+- Add back contract enforcement for temporary tables on postgres ([#8857](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8857))
+- Add version to fqn when version==0 ([#8836](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8836))
+- Fix cased comparison in catalog-retrieval function. ([#8939](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8939))
+- Catalog queries now assign the correct type to materialized views ([#8864](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8864))
+- Fix compilation exception running empty seed file and support new Integer agate data_type ([#8895](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8895))
+- Make relation filtering None-tolerant for maximal flexibility across adapters. ([#8974](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8974))
+- Update run_results.json from previous versions of dbt to support deferral and rerun from failure ([#9010](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9010))
+- Use MANIFEST.in to recursively include all jinja templates; fixes issue where some templates were not included in the distribution ([#9016](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9016))
+- Fix git repository with subdirectory for Deps ([#9000](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9000))
+- Use seed file from disk for unit testing if rows not specified in YAML config ([#8652](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8652))
+- Fix formatting of tarball information in packages-lock.yml ([#9062](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9062))
+- deps: Lock git packages to commit SHA during resolution ([#9050](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9050))
+- deps: Use PackageRenderer to read package-lock.json ([#9127](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9127))
+- Ensure we produce valid jsonschema schemas for manifest, catalog, run-results, and sources ([#8991](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8991))
+- Get sources working again in dbt docs generate ([#9119](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9119))
+- Fix parsing f-strings in python models ([#6976](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/6976))
+- Preserve the value of vars and the --full-refresh flags when using retry. ([#9112](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9112))
+- Support reasonably long unit test names ([#9015](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9015))
+- Fix back-compat parsing for model-level 'tests', source table-level 'tests', and 'tests' defined on model versions ([#9411](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9411))
+- Fix retry command run from CLI ([#9444](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9444))
+- Fix seed and source selection in `dbt docs generate` ([#9161](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9161))
+- Add TestGenerateCatalogWithExternalNodes, include empty nodes in node selection during docs generate ([#9456](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9456))
+- Fix node type plurals in FoundStats log message ([#9464](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9464))
+- Run manifest upgrade preprocessing on any older manifest version, including v11 ([#9487](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9487))
+- Update 'compiled_code' context member logic to route based on command ('clone' or not). Reimplement 'sql' context member as wrapper of 'compiled_code'. ([#9502](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9502))
+- Fix bug where Semantic Layer filter strings are parsed into lists. ([#9507](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9507))
+- Initialize invocation context before test fixtures are built. ([##9489](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/#9489))
+- When patching versioned models, set constraints after config ([#9364](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9364))
+- only include unmodified semantic mdodels in state:modified selection ([#9548](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9548))
+- Set query headers when manifest is passed in to dbtRunner ([#9546](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9546))
+- Store node_info in node associated logging events ([#9557](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9557))
+- Fix Semantic Model Compare node relations ([#9548](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9548))
+- Clearer no-op logging in stubbed SavedQueryRunner ([#9533](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9533))
+- Fix node_info contextvar handling so incorrect node_info doesn't persist ([#8866](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8866))
+- Add target-path to retry ([#8948](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8948))
+
+### Docs
+
+- fix get_custom_database docstring ([dbt-docs/#9003](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-docs/issues/9003))
+
+### Under the Hood
+
+- Added more type annotations. ([#8537](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8537))
+- Add unit testing functional tests ([#8512](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8512))
+- Remove usage of dbt.include.global_project in dbt/adapters ([#8925](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8925))
+- Add a no-op runner for Saved Qeury ([#8893](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8893))
+- remove dbt.flags.MP_CONTEXT usage in dbt/adapters ([#8967](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8967))
+- Remove usage of dbt.flags.LOG_CACHE_EVENTS in dbt/adapters ([#8969](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8969))
+- Move CatalogRelationTypes test case to the shared test suite to be reused by adapter maintainers ([#8952](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8952))
+- Treat SystemExit as an interrupt if raised during node execution. ([#n/a](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/n/a))
+- Removing unused 'documentable' ([#8871](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8871))
+- Remove use of dbt/core exceptions in dbt/adapter ([#8920](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8920))
+- Cache dbt plugin modules to improve integration test performance ([#9029](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9029))
+- Consolidate deferral methods & flags ([#7965](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7965), [#8715](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8715))
+- Fix test_current_timestamp_matches_utc test; allow for MacOS runner system clock variance ([#9057](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9057))
+- Remove usage of dbt.deprecations in dbt/adapters, enable core & adapter-specific event types and protos ([#8927](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8927), [#8918](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8918))
+- Clean up unused adaptor folders ([#9123](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9123))
+- Move column constraints into common/contracts, removing another dependency of adapters on core. ([#9024](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9024))
+- Move dbt.semver to dbt.common.semver and update references. ([#9039](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9039))
+- Move lowercase utils method to common ([#9180](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9180))
+- Remove usages of dbt.clients.jinja in dbt/adapters ([#9205](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9205))
+- Remove usage of dbt.contracts in dbt/adapters ([#9208](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9208))
+- Remove usage of dbt.contracts.graph.nodes.ResultNode in dbt/adapters ([#9214](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9214))
+- Introduce RelationConfig Protocol, consolidate Relation.create_from ([#9215](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9215))
+- remove manifest from adapter.set_relations_cache signature ([#9217](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9217))
+-  remove manifest from adapter catalog method signatures ([#9218](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9218))
+- Move BaseConfig, Metadata and various other contract classes from model_config to common/contracts/config ([#8919](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8919))
+- Add MacroResolverProtocol, remove lazy loading of manifest in adapter.execute_macro ([#9244](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9244))
+- pass query header context to MacroQueryStringSetter ([#9249](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9249), [#9250](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9250))
+- add macro_context_generator on adapter ([#9247](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9247))
+- pass mp_context to adapter factory as argument instead of import ([#9025](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9025))
+- have dbt-postgres use RelationConfig protocol for materialized views' ([#9292](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9292))
+- move system.py to common as dbt-bigquery relies on it to call gcloud ([#9293](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9293))
+- Reorganizing event definitions to define core events in dbt/events rather than dbt/common ([#9152](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9152))
+- move exceptions used only in dbt/common to dbt/common/exceptions ([#9332](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9332))
+- Remove usage of dbt.adapters.factory in dbt/common ([#9334](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9334))
+- Accept valid_error_names in WarnErrorOptions constructor, remove global usage of event modules ([#9337](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9337))
+- Move result objects to dbt.artifacts ([#9193](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9193))
+- dbt Labs OSS standardization of docs and templates. ([#9252](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9252))
+- Add dbt-common as a dependency and remove dbt/common ([#9357](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9357))
+- move cache exceptions to dbt/adapters ([#9362](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9362))
+- Clean up macro contexts. ([#9422](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9422))
+- Add the @requires.manifest decorator to the retry command. ([#9426](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9426))
+- Move WritableManifest + Documentation to dbt/artifacts ([#9378](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9378), [#9379](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9379))
+- Define Macro and Group resources in dbt/artifacts ([#9381](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9381), [#9382](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9382))
+- Move `SavedQuery` data definition to `dbt/artifacts` ([#9386](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9386))
+- Migrate data parts of `Metric` node to dbt/artifacts ([#9383](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9383))
+- Move data portion of `SemanticModel` to dbt/artifacts ([#9387](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9387))
+- Move data parts of `Exposure` class to dbt/artifacts ([#9380](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9380))
+- Start using `Mergeable` from dbt-common ([#9505](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9505))
+- Move manifest nodes to artifacts ([#9388](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9388))
+- Move data parts of `SourceDefinition` class to dbt/artifacts ([#9384](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9384))
+- Remove uses of Replaceable class ([#7802](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/7802))
+- Make dbt-core compatible with Python 3.12 ([#9007](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9007))
+- Restrict protobuf to major version 4. ([#9566](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9566))
+- Remove references to dbt.tracking and dbt.flags from dbt/artifacts ([#9390](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9390))
+- Implement primary key inference for model nodes ([#9652](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9652))
+- Define UnitTestDefinition resource in dbt/artifacts/resources ([#9667](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9667))
+- Use Manifest instead of WritableManifest in PreviousState and _get_deferred_manifest ([#9567](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9567))
+
+### Dependencies
+
+- Bump actions/checkout from 3 to 4 ([#8781](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/pull/8781))
+- Begin using DSI 0.4.x ([#8892](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/pull/8892))
+- Update typing-extensions version to >=4.4 ([#9012](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/pull/9012))
+- Bump ddtrace from 2.1.7 to 2.3.0 ([#9132](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/pull/9132))
+- Bump freezegun from 0.3.12 to 1.3.0 ([#9197](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/pull/9197))
+- Bump actions/setup-python from 4 to 5 ([#9267](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/pull/9267))
+- Bump actions/download-artifact from 3 to 4 ([#9374](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/pull/9374))
+- remove dbt/adapters and add dependency on dbt-adapters ([#9430](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/pull/9430))
+- Bump actions/cache from 3 to 4 ([#9471](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/pull/9471))
+- Bump peter-evans/create-pull-request from 5 to 6 ([#9552](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/pull/9552))
+- Cap dbt-semantic-interfaces version range to <0.6 ([#9671](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/pull/9671))
+- bump dbt-common to accept major version 1 ([#9690](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/pull/9690))
+
+### Security
+
+- Update Jinja2 to >= 3.1.3 to address CVE-2024-22195 ([#CVE-2024-22195](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/pull/CVE-2024-22195))
+
+### Contributors
+- [@LeoTheGriff](https://github.com/LeoTheGriff) ([#9003](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9003))
+- [@WilliamDee](https://github.com/WilliamDee) ([#9203](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9203))
+- [@adamlopez](https://github.com/adamlopez) ([#8621](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8621))
+- [@aliceliu](https://github.com/aliceliu) ([#9652](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9652))
+- [@benmosher](https://github.com/benmosher) ([#n/a](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/n/a))
+- [@colin-rorgers-dbt](https://github.com/colin-rorgers-dbt) ([#8919](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/8919))
+- [@courtneyholcomb](https://github.com/courtneyholcomb) ([#9507](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9507))
+- [@l1xnan](https://github.com/l1xnan) ([#9007](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9007))
+- [@mederka](https://github.com/mederka) ([#6976](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/6976))
+- [@ofek1weiss](https://github.com/ofek1weiss) ([#5609](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/5609))
+- [@peterallenwebb,](https://github.com/peterallenwebb,) ([#9112](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9112))
+- [@tlento](https://github.com/tlento) ([#9012](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/pull/9012), [#9671](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/pull/9671))
+- [@tonayya](https://github.com/tonayya) ([#9252](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/issues/9252))
+
+
 ## Previous Releases
 
 For information on prior major and minor releases, see their changelogs:
diff --git a/core/dbt/version.py b/core/dbt/version.py
index dcfb070569e..516cf78f3a0 100644
--- a/core/dbt/version.py
+++ b/core/dbt/version.py
@@ -229,5 +229,5 @@ def _get_adapter_plugin_names() -> Iterator[str]:
             yield plugin_name
 
 
-__version__ = "1.8.0a1"
+__version__ = "1.8.0b1"
 installed = get_installed_version()
diff --git a/core/setup.py b/core/setup.py
index 34a444fb82b..46f08cd8756 100644
--- a/core/setup.py
+++ b/core/setup.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 
 
 package_name = "dbt-core"
-package_version = "1.8.0a1"
+package_version = "1.8.0b1"
 description = """With dbt, data analysts and engineers can build analytics \
 the way engineers build applications."""
 
diff --git a/docker/Dockerfile b/docker/Dockerfile
index 8fbda897fe5..8654304dfbc 100644
--- a/docker/Dockerfile
+++ b/docker/Dockerfile
@@ -14,12 +14,12 @@ ARG build_for=linux/amd64
 FROM --platform=$build_for python:3.10.7-slim-bullseye as base
 
 # N.B. The refs updated automagically every release via bumpversion
-ARG dbt_core_ref=dbt-core@v1.8.0a1
-ARG dbt_postgres_ref=dbt-postgres@v1.8.0a1
-ARG dbt_redshift_ref=dbt-redshift@v1.8.0a1
-ARG dbt_bigquery_ref=dbt-bigquery@v1.8.0a1
-ARG dbt_snowflake_ref=dbt-snowflake@v1.8.0a1
-ARG dbt_spark_ref=dbt-spark@v1.8.0a1
+ARG dbt_core_ref=dbt-core@v1.8.0b1
+ARG dbt_postgres_ref=dbt-postgres@v1.8.0b1
+ARG dbt_redshift_ref=dbt-redshift@v1.8.0b1
+ARG dbt_bigquery_ref=dbt-bigquery@v1.8.0b1
+ARG dbt_snowflake_ref=dbt-snowflake@v1.8.0b1
+ARG dbt_spark_ref=dbt-spark@v1.8.0b1
 # special case args
 ARG dbt_spark_version=all
 ARG dbt_third_party