➔ Great Expectations 1.18.2 - Spark Connect Fix
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Great Expectations 1.18.2 was published on June 26, 2026, with a targeted Spark Connect compatibility fix for Spark distinct value metrics. The release also clears BigQuery and Python 3.13 maintenance friction, fixes scheduled CI noise, and updates the docs build stack. It is a small patch release, but it touches the kind of edges that show up in real data validation work.
➔ Great Expectations 1.18.1 - Data Docs Regex Fix and Doc Cleanup
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Great Expectations 1.18.1 is a patch release published on June 11, 2026. The change most teams will notice is a Data Docs bug fix: regex patterns that contain angle brackets were not HTML escaped, which could break or misrender validation reports. The rest of the release is documentation housekeeping and temporary CI test skips for BigQuery and Snowflake.