Meltano

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Changes

- [2991](https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/2991) Remove support for python 3.6. Bumps the base docker image to 3.8.

Fixes

- [3024](https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/3024) Make `meltano upgrade` work when Meltano is installed with pipx.
- [3115](https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/3115) Ensure multi-yaml `include_paths` are correctly referenced even if Meltano is not called from the root directory.
- [3167](https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/3167) Add sub-schema for meltano.yml environments.
- [3024](https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/3024) Make `meltano upgrade` work when Meltano is installed with pipx.
- [3161](https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/3161) Make URLs in `--help` clickable.

[3161](https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/3161) Make URLs in `--help` clickable.

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New

- [3153](https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/3153) Published JSON Schemas for `meltano.yml` and `discovery.yml`. _Thanks to **[Zachary Wynegar](https://gitlab.com/zdwynegar)** for the initial [MR 1804](https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/merge_requests/1804) and inspiration this!_
- [3001](https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/3001) Always print log advice on ELT failure.

Fixes

- [3132](https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/3132) Bump `pyhumps` dependency to fix a bug in converting `SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE` variables in the API.
- [3116](https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/3116) Fix a unicode decode issue during discovery when debug logging is enabled.
- [2716](https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/2716) Add `--help `docs for all Meltano CLI commands and options.

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Fixes

- [3124](https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/3124) Fix an error in `meltano run` invocations where tap discover calls triggered an exception.

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New

- [2301](https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/2301), [#3043](https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/3043) Preview release of new [`meltano run`](https://docs.meltano.com/reference/command-line-interface#run) command.
- [2838](https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/2838) Adds the [`meltano test`](https://docs.meltano.com/reference/command-line-interface#test) command which defines first-class test and validation capabilities for Meltano plugins and projects.

Changes

- [2967](https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/2967) Set the `meltanolabs` variant as the default tap-google-analytics extractor.
- [3085](https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/3085), [#3111](https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/3111) Upgrade `target-bigquery` default variant `adswerve` to [`0.11.3`](https://github.com/adswerve/target-bigquery/releases/tag/0.11.3).
- [3113](https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/3113) Pin tag [`v1.4.27`](https://gitlab.com/meltano/tap-salesforce/-/tags/v1.4.27) of `tap-salesforce` default variant `meltano`.
- [3119](https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/3119) Bump `meltano` variant of `tap-salesforce` to tag [`v1.5.0`](https://gitlab.com/meltano/tap-salesforce/-/tags/v1.5.0).

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New

- [3060](https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/3060) Set `splitio` variant as the default tap-fastly extractor.
- [3076](https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/3076) Set `transferwise` as the default target-postgres loader.
- [2967](https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/2967) Set `meltanolabs` as the default tap-google-analytics extractor.

Changes

- [2772](https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/2772) Transition to a new structured log format with support for additional formats like JSON and key=value, configurable via stock python logging yaml configs.
- [2443](https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/2443) Bump dbt version to 0.21.1

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New

- [3021](https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/3021) Added CLI for high-level Environment management.

- [3003](https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/3003) Add `matatika` variant of tap-solarvista extractor.