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 ## Building
 
-Spark requires Scala 2.9.2 (Scala 2.10 is not yet supported). The project is
+Spark requires Scala 2.9.3 (Scala 2.10 is not yet supported). The project is
 built using Simple Build Tool (SBT), which is packaged with it. To build
 Spark and its example programs, run: