The new consumer (0.9.0) will not be compatible with older brokers (0.8.2). In general you should upgrade brokers before upgrading clients. The old clients (0.8.2) will work on the new brokers (0.9.0).
Thanks, Grant On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 7:52 AM, Han JU <ju.han.fe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Just want to know if the new consumer API coming with 0.9 will be > compatible with 0.8 broker servers? We're looking at the new consumer > because the new rebalancing listener is very interesting for one of our use > case. > > Another question is that if we have to upgrade our brokers to 0.9, will > they accept producers in 0.8.2? > > Thanks! > > -- > *JU Han* > > Software Engineer @ Teads.tv > > +33 0619608888 > -- Grant Henke Software Engineer | Cloudera gr...@cloudera.com | twitter.com/gchenke | linkedin.com/in/granthenke