Github user revans2 commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/414 @danny0405 That is very similar to what we want to move towards in our rolling upgrades. We have done a very good job of maintaining compatibility of LS and ZK once we moved to thrift for all of them. There were a few hiccups at the beginning, but none of those were officially released. Because of feature work we do/etc we typically don't run "official" releases of apache storm, but code that is based off of an official release + a bunch of other stuff. This is what bit us once as we were working on adding in support for rolling upgrades and had to start clearing the local state on the node. This should not be a problem, especially if you stick with official releases.
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