Serverless for Apache Spark: Runtime version 3.0 is now generally available
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## Announcement
Announcement
**Serverless for Apache Spark:** Runtime version [3.0](https://docs.cloud.google.com/dataproc/docs/concepts/versioning/dataproc-release-3.0) is now generally available. This version simplifies onboarding, improves reliability, reduces startup latency, and adds support for Spark 4.0.
* Features and improvements:
* Regional and multi-zonal workloads are used by default to increase obtainability of compute resources
* Faster startup than previous runtimes
* Fast resource cleanup that allows faster release of VPC IPs after workload completion
* End-user credentials are used for all workloads by default
* New `bigquery` Spark catalog, pre-configured for out-of-the-box BigQuery native table interactions
* New Spark Serverless-specific IAM roles
* New `dataproc-rm.googleapis.com` API enablement is required