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Which issue does this PR close?

Part of #1637

Rationale for this change

There has been good progress on enabling Spark SQL tests for Spark 4.

I propose that we stop saying that Spark 4 support is "experimental" and now just document the limitations.

What changes are included in this PR?

Docs changes.

How are these changes tested?

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Comet does not yet support the Variant data type introduced in Spark 4.0. All variant-related operations
will fall back to Spark. Tracking issue: [#2209](https://github.com/apache/datafusion-comet/issues/2209)
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I need to confirm the actual behavior for variant

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Confirmed in #4021

@andygrove andygrove marked this pull request as ready for review April 21, 2026 16:00
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I feel that we need to wait a bit before removing the experimental label (rest of the changes to the documentation are fine).

There is still ongoing work to resolve the ANSI mode and cast incompatibilities and there are new test failures : #4013.

My recommendation would be to remove the experimental label one release after the fixes are in.

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