v0.172.0

✨ Features

• Add execution context to signals (#4123) @tobymao

🪲 Bug fixes

• Make metadata_only a transitive property in Python objects (#4080) @georgesittas
• Metadata status should not overwrite non-metadata status of used macro (#4119) @georgesittas
• Propagation of the forward_only flag from dbt models when it's set to false (#4121) @izeigerman
• Properly support engines that can share a single connection instance across threads (#4124) @izeigerman

🧹 Chore

• Use information_schema in dbx _get_data_objects (#4111) @treysp
• Refactor out targets as early as possible (#4126) @benfdking