Is kafka consumer 0.10 backwards compatible?
问题 Is the kafka consumer 0.10 compatible with 0.9 broker? If I'm not mistaken the 0.9 consumer is still considered beta whereas 0.10 is stable, right? That's why I'm interested in using the 0.10 version but my broker version is 0.9 and I wouldn't like to upgrade that yet. 回答1: If you want to use 0.10 clients you need to upgrade your cluster to 0.10. Kafka is backward compatible with regards to clients but not forward compatible. That is, a 0.9 client can use a 0.10 cluster but a 0.10 client can