gradle -PscalaVersion=2.11.8 clean releaseTarGz install
Gradle Tips
Building Kafka Distribution
It takes around 2 minutes (after all the dependencies were downloaded once).
After the command, you can unpack the release as follows:
tar -zxvf core/build/distributions/kafka_2.11-0.10.1.0-SNAPSHOT.tgz
Executing Single Test
gradle -PscalaVersion=2.11.8 :core:test --no-rebuild --tests "*PlaintextProducerSendTest"