I'm unable to pull spark_2.10 v1.2.0 from Maven Central. It fails with a checksum validation exception. I noticed someone else experienced the same issue ( http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/Spark-core-maven-error-tc20871.html ).
I'm able to pull 1.1.1 fine. I've also tried blowing away local .m2 repo to ensure that it's not local corruption causing the issue. Comparing the contents of the Central repo dir between 1.1.1 ( http://central.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/spark/spark-core_2.10/1.1.1/) and 1.2.0 ( http://central.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/spark/spark-core_2.10/1.2.0/) shows there are some *.asc.md5 and *.asc.sha1 files in 1.1.1 that are missing in 1.2.0. This seems to indicate the push of 1.2.0 to Central was incomplete/corrupted or just different somehow. I'd be interested to hear if anyone able to successfully pull the latest spark libraries via maven.