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Posted to users@kafka.apache.org by Chris Barlock <ba...@us.ibm.com> on 2016/07/12 19:32:30 UTC

Compatibility question

Can the kafka-clients Maven bundle at version 0.8.2.1 be used to 
communicate with a Kafka 0.10.0.0 server?

Chris

Re: Compatibility question

Posted by Dana Powers <da...@gmail.com>.

Yes. The expectation is that brokers are backwards compatible: new broker
releases should work with old clients (to 0.8, but not back to 0.7).

The opposite, backwards compatible clients, is generally not supported: new
clients may not always work with old brokers (except for, *cough* *cough*,
kafka-python, which does maintain backwards compatible client releases from
0.10 to 0.8).
On Jul 12, 2016 12:32 PM, "Chris Barlock" <ba...@us.ibm.com> wrote:

Can the kafka-clients Maven bundle at version 0.8.2.1 be used to
communicate with a Kafka 0.10.0.0 server?

Chris