When will databricks runtime be released for Scala 2.13?

[qwerty1]

I see that spark fully supports Scala 2.13. I wonder why is there no databricks runtime with Scala 2.13 yet. Any plans on making this available? It would be super useful.

[Anonymous]

From my reading, it looks like engineering is going to target the DBR 14 release for Scala 2.13. It looks like azure events hub isn't compatible with 2.13 and that's going to cause some issues as we don't maintain that library at all. It's currently being worked on, but takes a little while.

[qwerty1]

Thanks for the response. Is there a tentative date for DBR 14 release?

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

There isn't a date for DBR13. There is usually a DBR version every 6 months, so maybe look at it in late 2023.

[source2sea]

I see db runtime 14 is out, but still 2.12, when would databricks plan to support 2.13 or 3 

thank you

[adrian_abreu]

Looks like its worth to open a new question. I'd like to know too

[777]

Currently, I can use databricks-connect only with scala 2.12. When a runtime and databricks-connect with Scala 2.13 are introduced, that would open the possibility to use Scala 3 with databricks-connect, and that would be amazing.

[guersam]

I agree with @777. As Scala 3 is getting mature and there are more real use cases with Scala 3 on Spark now, support for Scala 2.13 will be valuable to users including us.

I think the recent upgrade of Databricks runtime from JDK 8 to 17 was one of a prerequisites to adopt Scala 2.13 and it's a good news, because many important Scala libraries dropped JDK 8 support in these days.