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@@ -63,6 +63,16 @@ To build the Javadoc for all Java and Scala classes:
 mvn clean javadoc:aggregate -Pjavadocs
 ```
 
+### Build with Scala 2.12
+
+The default Scala version supported is 2.11. To build for Scala 2.12 version, after code checkout run dev/change-scala-version.sh 
+and build using `scala-2.12` profile
+
+```
+dev/change-scala-version 2.12
+mvn clean package -DskipTests -DskipITs -Pscala-2.12
+```
+
 ## Quickstart
 
 Please visit [https://hudi.apache.org/quickstart.html](https://hudi.apache.org/quickstart.html) to quickly explore Hudi's capabilities using spark-shell.