diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index 85b7feac41757..e5cb0ce682e53 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -245,8 +245,6 @@ This product includes code from Apache Spark
 
 * org.apache.hudi.AvroConversionHelper copied from classes in org/apache/spark/sql/avro package
 
-* dev/change-scala-version.sh copied from https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/branch-2.4/dev/change-scala-version.sh
-
 Copyright: 2014 and onwards The Apache Software Foundation
 Home page: http://spark.apache.org/
 License: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ae53e724484cc..6bb56597b3f20 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -65,12 +65,10 @@ 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
+The default Scala version supported is 2.11. To build for Scala 2.12 version, build using `scala-2.12` profile
 
 ```
-dev/change-scala-version 2.12
-mvn clean package -DskipTests -DskipITs -Pscala-2.12
+mvn clean package -DskipTests -DskipITs -Dscala-2.12
 ```
 
 ## Quickstart
diff --git a/dev/change-scala-version.sh b/dev/change-scala-version.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 151581def60e9..0000000000000
--- a/dev/change-scala-version.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,66 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-#
-# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-#
-
-set -e
-
-VALID_VERSIONS=( 2.11 2.12 )
-
-usage() {
-  echo "Usage: $(basename $0) [-h|--help] <version>
-where :
-  -h| --help Display this help text
-  valid version values : ${VALID_VERSIONS[*]}
-" 1>&2
-  exit 1
-}
-
-if [[ ($# -ne 1) || ( $1 == "--help") ||  $1 == "-h" ]]; then
-  usage
-fi
-
-TO_VERSION=$1
-
-check_scala_version() {
-  for i in ${VALID_VERSIONS[*]}; do [ $i = "$1" ] && return 0; done
-  echo "Invalid Scala version: $1. Valid versions: ${VALID_VERSIONS[*]}" 1>&2
-  exit 1
-}
-
-check_scala_version "$TO_VERSION"
-
-if [ $TO_VERSION = "2.11" ]; then
-  FROM_VERSION="2.12"
-else
-  FROM_VERSION="2.11"
-fi
-
-sed_i() {
-  sed -e "$1" "$2" > "$2.tmp" && mv "$2.tmp" "$2"
-}
-
-export -f sed_i
-
-BASEDIR=$(dirname $0)/..
-find "$BASEDIR" -name 'pom.xml' -not -path '*target*' -print \
-  -exec bash -c "sed_i 's/\(artifactId.*\)_'$FROM_VERSION'/\1_'$TO_VERSION'/g' {}" \;
-
-# Also update <scala.binary.version> in parent POM
-# Match any scala binary version to ensure idempotency
-sed_i '1,/<scala\.binary\.version>[0-9]*\.[0-9]*</s/<scala\.binary\.version>[0-9]*\.[0-9]*</<scala.binary.version>'$TO_VERSION'</' \
-  "$BASEDIR/pom.xml"
diff --git a/hudi-spark/pom.xml b/hudi-spark/pom.xml
index 320c19b01f496..511cd674ae147 100644
--- a/hudi-spark/pom.xml
+++ b/hudi-spark/pom.xml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
   </parent>
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
-  <artifactId>hudi-spark_2.11</artifactId>
+  <artifactId>hudi-spark_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
   <properties>
diff --git a/hudi-utilities/pom.xml b/hudi-utilities/pom.xml
index ed0b283f6ccfe..3c1e0fc8a0b75 100644
--- a/hudi-utilities/pom.xml
+++ b/hudi-utilities/pom.xml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
   </parent>
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
 
-  <artifactId>hudi-utilities_2.11</artifactId>
+  <artifactId>hudi-utilities_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
   <properties>
diff --git a/packaging/hudi-spark-bundle/pom.xml b/packaging/hudi-spark-bundle/pom.xml
index afce7741d5421..754b5cf8b47da 100644
--- a/packaging/hudi-spark-bundle/pom.xml
+++ b/packaging/hudi-spark-bundle/pom.xml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
     <relativePath>../../pom.xml</relativePath>
   </parent>
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
-  <artifactId>hudi-spark-bundle_2.11</artifactId>
+  <artifactId>hudi-spark-bundle_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
   <properties>
diff --git a/packaging/hudi-utilities-bundle/pom.xml b/packaging/hudi-utilities-bundle/pom.xml
index c794ff1f405c5..08620fe017d66 100644
--- a/packaging/hudi-utilities-bundle/pom.xml
+++ b/packaging/hudi-utilities-bundle/pom.xml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
     <relativePath>../../pom.xml</relativePath>
   </parent>
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
-  <artifactId>hudi-utilities-bundle_2.11</artifactId>
+  <artifactId>hudi-utilities-bundle_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
 
   <properties>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index e4cdbd220e6ef..afadbbf8bf985 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -1060,6 +1060,11 @@
         <scala.version>2.12.10</scala.version>
         <scala.binary.version>2.12</scala.binary.version>
       </properties>
+      <activation>
+        <property>
+          <name>scala-2.12</name>
+        </property>
+      </activation>
       <build>
         <plugins>
           <plugin>