<!channel> 📢 Hello, Meltano community! Happy New Year 🎆 Hot off the press, we have our first new releases of 2023 for you! 🚢 meltano dragon Meltano v2.13.0

✨ New

• #7105 Support

meltano init

in a non-empty dir

• #7115 Allow top-level annotations in

meltano.yml

• #7123 Optionally ignore missing env vars during expansion

🐛 Fixes

• #7145 Setting nested setting key no longer clears sibling keys

• #7144 Check database version compatibility before migrations

• #7120 Support str values when deep-merging config

⚙️ Under the Hood

• #7069 Use a custom build backend

📚 Documentation Improvements

• #7139 Add Airbyte Source Connector FAQ

• #7140 Remove references to deprecated

MELTANO_CLI_*

aliases

• #7117 Change plugin variants to

meltanolabs

in Getting Started guide

singer logo Meltano Singer SDK v0.17.0

🐛 Fixes

• #1308 Replace hyphens with underscores when generating expected env var name

<PLUGIN_NAME>_LOGLEVEL

-- Thanks @stale-teacher-88067!

• #887 Make

conform_record_data_types

work on nested objects and arrays -- Thanks @straight-daybreak-55335!

• #1287 Targets to fail gracefully when schema message is missing the

properties

key -- Thanks @flat-bear-81546!

📚 Documentation Improvements

• #1293 Add link to EDK

Finally, in case you missed Office Hours this week, check out the new tap-airbyte-wrapper & corresponding FAQ, created and contributed by @many-breakfast-93857 🧪 The added connectors bumps the Hub to 550+ 🤯 What a way to start 2023 🚀