# AWS Glue adds automatic runtime upgrades for Spark jobs

_Published Thursday, November 12, 2026 at 8:06 PM EST · Infrastructure · Latest · Tier 2 — Notable_

AWS has made automatic version upgrades available for Apache Spark jobs in AWS Glue across all AWS Commercial Regions. Teams can select an "Auto" version setting to move jobs to newer runtimes, which provide security patches, performance improvements and support for evolving table formats.

AWS says the process checks compatibility, obtains consent before running a job on a newer version, and validates results against the job's established output schema, data volume, latency and format. Jobs requiring code changes stay on their current version and receive an upgrade analysis identifying fixes.

## Sources

- [Recent Announcements](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/11/glue-spark-auto-upgrades/)

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