v0.97.0

✨ Features

• Unpin motherduck duckdb version (#2628) @treysp
• Print warning when except_ is used in @star, add exclude arg (#2639) @georgesittas
• Introduce support for 'pre ping' to detect stale or lost connections (#2632) @izeigerman
• Github CI/CD Bot Allow Overriding PR Environment Name (#2643) @eakmanrq

🪲 Bug fixes

• Disable analytics in tests (#2620) @izeigerman
• Do not visit nodes that are not tables during CLL generation (#2622) @vchan
• Don't lower selection (#2623) @eakmanrq
• Include virtual properties into the metadata hash (#2630) @izeigerman
• Take batch_size into account when filling snapshots for INCREMENTAL_BY_UNIQUE_KEY models (#2616) @erindru
• Hive version in the Airflow docker image @izeigerman

🛠️ Refactor

• Clean up some sections in the unit test module (#2619) @georgesittas
• Simplify conditional statement parsing (#2627) @georgesittas

🧹 Chore

• Add user agent to databricks connections (#2625) @eakmanrq
• Update databricks documentation wording (#2624) @eakmanrq
• Pass dialect in builders used within sushi python models (#2629) @georgesittas
• Bump sqlglot to v23.16.0 (#2633) @georgesittas
• Bump sqlglot to v23.17.0 (#2636) @georgesittas
• Enforce consistent indentation in docs (#2638) @georgesittas
• Refactor unit test docs (#2637) @georgesittas

👽 Other

• Add note about vscode widgets and ipywidgets version (#2621) @treysp
• Add model start default value to configuration reference (#2631) @treysp