I am using 0.8.2.2 producer with 0.8.1.1 brokers without problems. Version of scala matters if you are building with scala or some other components that use scala. Hope this helps.
---------- Andrey Yegorov On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Ewen Cheslack-Postava <e...@confluent.io> wrote: > Shlomi, > > You should always upgrade brokers before clients. Newer versions of clients > aren't guaranteed to work with older versions of brokers. > > For scala versions, there is no functional difference. Generally you only > need to worry about the Scala version if you are using the old clients > (which are in the core jar) and the rest of your app requires a specific > Scala version. > > -Ewen > > On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 6:31 AM, Shlomi Hazan <shl...@viber.com> wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > Does someone has experience / encountered any issues using a 0.8.2.2 > > producer against a 0.8.1.1 broker (specifically kafka_2.9.2-0.8.1.1)? > > I want to upgrade my existing producer (0.8.2-beta). > > Also, is there a functional difference between the scala versions > > (2.9.2,2.10,2.11)? > > > > Thanks, > > Shlomi > > > > > > -- > Thanks, > Ewen >