The latest release of Spark is Spark 1.2.1, released on February 9, 2015
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Note: Scala 2.11 users should download the Spark source package and build with Scala 2.11 support.
Spark artifacts are hosted in Maven Central. You can add a Maven dependency with the following coordinates:
groupId: org.apache.spark
artifactId: spark-core_2.10
version: 1.2.1
If you are interested in working with the newest under-development code or contributing to Spark development, you can also check out the master branch from Git:
# Master development branch
git clone git://github.com/apache/spark.git
# 1.2 maintenance branch with stability fixes on top of Spark 1.2.1
git clone git://github.com/apache/spark.git -b branch-1.2
Once you’ve downloaded Spark, you can find instructions for installing and building it on the documentation page.