diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 1efa9045208f..d05190512f74 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -221,6 +221,18 @@
         <enabled>false</enabled>
       </snapshots>
     </repository>
+    <!-- TODO: remove this as soon as 1.1.0 is published on Maven central -->
+    <repository>
+      <id>spark-staging-1030</id>
+      <name>Spark 1.1.0 Staging (1030)</name>
+      <url>https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachespark-1030/</url>
+      <releases>
+        <enabled>true</enabled>
+      </releases>
+      <snapshots>
+        <enabled>false</enabled>
+      </snapshots>
+    </repository>
   </repositories>
   <pluginRepositories>
     <pluginRepository>
diff --git a/project/MimaBuild.scala b/project/MimaBuild.scala
index 034ba6a7bf50..0f5d71afcf61 100644
--- a/project/MimaBuild.scala
+++ b/project/MimaBuild.scala
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ object MimaBuild {
 
   def mimaSettings(sparkHome: File, projectRef: ProjectRef) = {
     val organization = "org.apache.spark"
-    val previousSparkVersion = "1.0.0"
+    val previousSparkVersion = "1.1.0"
     val fullId = "spark-" + projectRef.project + "_2.10"
     mimaDefaultSettings ++ 
     Seq(previousArtifact := Some(organization % fullId % previousSparkVersion),
diff --git a/project/MimaExcludes.scala b/project/MimaExcludes.scala
index 855d5cc8cf3f..46b78bd5c706 100644
--- a/project/MimaExcludes.scala
+++ b/project/MimaExcludes.scala
@@ -33,6 +33,18 @@ import com.typesafe.tools.mima.core._
 object MimaExcludes {
     def excludes(version: String) =
       version match {
+        case v if v.startsWith("1.2") =>
+          Seq(
+            MimaBuild.excludeSparkPackage("deploy"),
+            MimaBuild.excludeSparkPackage("graphx")
+          ) ++
+          // This is @DeveloperAPI, but Mima still gives false-positives:
+          MimaBuild.excludeSparkClass("scheduler.SparkListenerApplicationStart") ++
+          Seq(
+            // This is @Experimental, but Mima still gives false-positives:
+            ProblemFilters.exclude[MissingMethodProblem](
+              "org.apache.spark.api.java.JavaRDDLike.foreachAsync")
+          )
         case v if v.startsWith("1.1") =>
           Seq(
             MimaBuild.excludeSparkPackage("deploy"),