Meltano

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New

- [2357](https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/merge_requests/2357) Use dbt [`v0.21.0`](https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt/releases/tag/v0.21.0) by default for new dbt installs
- [2363](https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/merge_requests/2363), [2360](https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/merge_requests/2360) Small branding and logo updates throughout - and introducing Melty to the community!

Fixes

- [2349](https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/merge_requests/2349) Fixes test extractor API endpoint to work with new PluginTestService. _Thanks, **[ReubenFrankel](https://gitlab.com/ReubenFrankel)**!_

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New

- [2647](https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/2647) Extend `meltano select` with flag to remove rules.

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Changes

- [2782](https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/2782) Switches all extractors and loaders in discovery.yml to `variants` syntax
- [2950](https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/2950) Update werkzeug to `2.0`. _Thanks, **[Keith Siilats](https://gitlab.com/siilats)**!_

Fixes

- [2881](https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/2881) Send CLI error messages to `stderr`.

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New

- [2609](https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/2609) Add `meltano config <plugin> test` command to test an extractor plugin's configuration. _Thanks, **[ReubenFrankel](https://gitlab.com/ReubenFrankel)**!_

Changes

- [2930](https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/2930) Update sqlfluff configuration to support DBT. _Thanks, **[Charles Julian Knight](https://gitlab.com/rabidaudio)**!_
- [2681](https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/2681) Now includes discovery log output when running `meltano elt` with `--log-level=debug`

Fixes

- [2866](https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/2866) Avoid running discovery when invoking a tap in a mode other than sync

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Fixes

- [2928](https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/2928) Fix tap discovery failure when tap produces IO on stderr

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New

- [2906](https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/2906) Increase speed of `meltano install` for already installed plugins

* [2906](https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/2906) Increase speed of `meltano install` for already installed plugins

Changes

- [2897](https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/2897) Refactor to move to asynchronous plugin executions and invocations

Fixes

- [2573](https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/2573) Fix misleading error about missing `airflow.cfg` instead of missing Airflow executable