I believe your posted example is intended to be supported. There's no enforcement, for instance, that the master is upgraded before all RS's.
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 4:06 PM, Matteo Bertozzi <theo.berto...@gmail.com> wrote: > the book (http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#hbase.versioning) > talks about "only allow upgrading the server first" to use new APIs. > > what about a new client talking to an old server for "old" operations? > For example: If I have a 1.1 client, can I ask a 1.0 server to create a > table? >