topic Runtime 18 GA in MVP Articles https://community.databricks.com/t5/mvp-articles/runtime-18-ga/m-p/144788#M22 <P>Runtime 18, including Spark 4.1, is no longer in Beta. You can start migrating now. Runtime 18 is available now only for classic compute. Serverless, or SQL warehouse, still using older runtimes. Once 18 is everywhere, we will be able to use identifiers and parameter makers everywhere.</P> <P><A href="https://databrickster.medium.com/databricks-news-2026-week-2-12-january-2026-to-18-january-2026-5d87e517fb06" target="_blank">https://databrickster.medium.com/databricks-news-2026-week-2-12-january-2026-to-18-january-2026-5d87e517fb06</A></P> <P><A href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LsC3l6twMw" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LsC3l6twMw</A></P> <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="18.jpg" style="width: 748px;"><img src="https://community.databricks.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/23185iECD7D134EA961BE9/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="18.jpg" alt="18.jpg" /></span></P> Wed, 21 Jan 2026 16:51:20 GMT Hubert-Dudek 2026-01-21T16:51:20Z Runtime 18 GA https://community.databricks.com/t5/mvp-articles/runtime-18-ga/m-p/144788#M22 <P>Runtime 18, including Spark 4.1, is no longer in Beta. You can start migrating now. Runtime 18 is available now only for classic compute. Serverless, or SQL warehouse, still using older runtimes. Once 18 is everywhere, we will be able to use identifiers and parameter makers everywhere.</P> <P><A href="https://databrickster.medium.com/databricks-news-2026-week-2-12-january-2026-to-18-january-2026-5d87e517fb06" target="_blank">https://databrickster.medium.com/databricks-news-2026-week-2-12-january-2026-to-18-january-2026-5d87e517fb06</A></P> <P><A href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LsC3l6twMw" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LsC3l6twMw</A></P> <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="18.jpg" style="width: 748px;"><img src="https://community.databricks.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/23185iECD7D134EA961BE9/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="18.jpg" alt="18.jpg" /></span></P> Wed, 21 Jan 2026 16:51:20 GMT https://community.databricks.com/t5/mvp-articles/runtime-18-ga/m-p/144788#M22 Hubert-Dudek 2026-01-21T16:51:20Z