diff --git a/NEXT_CHANGELOG.md b/NEXT_CHANGELOG.md
index 2328b3cc24..24ddb2b447 100644
--- a/NEXT_CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/NEXT_CHANGELOG.md
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 ### Bug Fixes
 
 * Fix spurious plan diffs in `databricks_model_serving` and `databricks_model_serving_provisioned_throughput` resources due to tag reordering ([#5120](https://github.com/databricks/terraform-provider-databricks/pull/5120))
+* Move Spark Version selector defaults to Terraform ([#5219](https://github.com/databricks/terraform-provider-databricks/pull/5219)).
 
 ### Documentation
 
diff --git a/clusters/data_spark_version.go b/clusters/data_spark_version.go
index 6261fe51d7..ae2a84d40f 100644
--- a/clusters/data_spark_version.go
+++ b/clusters/data_spark_version.go
@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ func DataSourceSparkVersion() common.Resource {
 	}, func(s map[string]*schema.Schema) map[string]*schema.Schema {
 		common.CustomizeSchemaPath(s, "photon").SetDeprecated("Specify runtime_engine=\"PHOTON\" in the cluster configuration")
 		common.CustomizeSchemaPath(s, "graviton").SetDeprecated("Not required anymore - it's automatically enabled on the Graviton-based node types")
+		common.CustomizeSchemaPath(s, "scala").SetDefault("2.12")
+		common.CustomizeSchemaPath(s, "latest").SetDefault(true)
+
 		common.NamespaceCustomizeSchemaMap(s)
 		return s
 	})