[Automated] Merged prep-release/1.9.0b1_11136009699 into target main during release process

Author: FishtownBuildBot

.bumpversion.cfg

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 [bumpversion]
-current_version = 1.9.0a1
+current_version = 1.9.0b1
 parse = (?P<major>[\d]+) # major version number
 	\.(?P<minor>[\d]+) # minor version number
 	\.(?P<patch>[\d]+) # patch version number

.changes/1.9.0-b1.md

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+## dbt-bigquery 1.9.0-b1 - October 02, 2024
+
+### Features
+
+- Add configuration options `enable_list_inference` and `intermediate_format` for python models ([#1047](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-bigquery/issues/1047), [#1114](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-bigquery/issues/1114))
+- Add tests for cross-database `cast` macro ([#1214](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-bigquery/issues/1214))
+- Cross-database `date` macro ([#1221](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-bigquery/issues/1221))
+- Add support for base 64 encoded json keyfile credentials ([#923](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-bigquery/issues/923))
+- Add support for cancelling queries on keyboard interrupt ([#917](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-bigquery/issues/917))
+- Add Microbatch Strategy to dbt-spark ([#1354](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-bigquery/issues/1354))
+
+### Fixes
+
+- Drop intermediate objects created in BigQuery for incremental models ([#1036](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-bigquery/issues/1036))
+- Fix null column index issue during `dbt docs generate` for external tables ([#1079](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-bigquery/issues/1079))
+- make seed delimiter configurable via `field_delimeter` in model config ([#1119](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-bigquery/issues/1119))
+- Default `enableListInference` to `True` for python models to support nested lists ([#1047](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-bigquery/issues/1047), [#1114](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-bigquery/issues/1114))
+- Catch additional database error exception, NotFound, as a DbtDatabaseError instead of defaulting to a DbtRuntimeError ([#1360](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-bigquery/issues/1360))
+
+### Under the Hood
+
+- Lazy load `agate` ([#1162](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-bigquery/issues/1162))
+- Simplify linting environment and dev dependencies ([#1291](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-bigquery/issues/1291))
+
+### Dependencies
+
+- Update pre-commit requirement from ~=3.5 to ~=3.7 ([#1052](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-bigquery/pull/1052))
+- Update freezegun requirement from ~=1.3 to ~=1.4 ([#1062](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-bigquery/pull/1062))
+- Bump mypy from 1.7.1 to 1.8.0 ([#1064](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-bigquery/pull/1064))
+- Update flake8 requirement from ~=6.1 to ~=7.0 ([#1069](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-bigquery/pull/1069))
+- Bump actions/download-artifact from 3 to 4 ([#1209](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-bigquery/pull/1209))
+- Bump actions/upload-artifact from 3 to 4 ([#1210](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-bigquery/pull/1210))
+- Bump ubuntu from 22.04 to 24.04 in /docker ([#1247](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-bigquery/pull/1247))
+- Update pre-commit-hooks requirement from ~=4.5 to ~=4.6 ([#1281](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-bigquery/pull/1281))
+- Update pytest-xdist requirement from ~=3.5 to ~=3.6 ([#1282](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-bigquery/pull/1282))
+- Update flaky requirement from ~=3.7 to ~=3.8 ([#1283](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-bigquery/pull/1283))
+- Update twine requirement from ~=4.0 to ~=5.1 ([#1293](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-bigquery/pull/1293))
+
+### Contributors
+- [@d-cole](https://github.com/d-cole) ([#917](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-bigquery/issues/917))
+- [@dwreeves](https://github.com/dwreeves) ([#1162](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-bigquery/issues/1162))
+- [@robeleb1](https://github.com/robeleb1) ([#923](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-bigquery/issues/923))
+- [@salimmoulouel](https://github.com/salimmoulouel) ([#1119](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-bigquery/issues/1119))
+- [@vinit2107](https://github.com/vinit2107) ([#1036](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-bigquery/issues/1036))