topic Runtime 18 / Spark 4.1 improvements in Community Articles https://community.databricks.com/t5/community-articles/runtime-18-spark-4-1-improvements/m-p/143397#M934 <P>Runtime 18 / Spark 4.1 brings Literal string coalescing everywhere, thanks to what you can make your code more readable. Useful, for example, for table comments #databricks</P> <P>Latest updates:</P> <P>read: <BR /><A href="https://databrickster.medium.com/databricks-news-week-1-29-december-2025-to-4-january-2025-432c6231d8b1" target="_blank">https://databrickster.medium.com/databricks-news-week-1-29-december-2025-to-4-january-2025-432c6231d8b1</A></P> <P>watch:<BR /><A href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLjoTkceKQI" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLjoTkceKQI</A></P> <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="coales.png" style="width: 759px;"><img src="https://community.databricks.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/22792i7CD5E968192DBBC7/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="coales.png" alt="coales.png" /></span></P> Thu, 08 Jan 2026 19:11:57 GMT Hubert-Dudek 2026-01-08T19:11:57Z Runtime 18 / Spark 4.1 improvements https://community.databricks.com/t5/community-articles/runtime-18-spark-4-1-improvements/m-p/143397#M934 <P>Runtime 18 / Spark 4.1 brings Literal string coalescing everywhere, thanks to what you can make your code more readable. Useful, for example, for table comments #databricks</P> <P>Latest updates:</P> <P>read: <BR /><A href="https://databrickster.medium.com/databricks-news-week-1-29-december-2025-to-4-january-2025-432c6231d8b1" target="_blank">https://databrickster.medium.com/databricks-news-week-1-29-december-2025-to-4-january-2025-432c6231d8b1</A></P> <P>watch:<BR /><A href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLjoTkceKQI" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLjoTkceKQI</A></P> <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="coales.png" style="width: 759px;"><img src="https://community.databricks.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/22792i7CD5E968192DBBC7/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="coales.png" alt="coales.png" /></span></P> Thu, 08 Jan 2026 19:11:57 GMT https://community.databricks.com/t5/community-articles/runtime-18-spark-4-1-improvements/m-p/143397#M934 Hubert-Dudek 2026-01-08T19:11:57Z