The only obvious downside I'm aware of is not being able to benefit from the bugfixes in the client. We are essentially doing the same thing; we upgraded the broker side to 0.10.0.0 but have yet to upgrade our clients from 0.8.1.x.
On Tue, 2016-11-29 at 09:30 -0500, Tim Visher wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I have an install of Kafka 0.8.2.1 which I'm upgrading to 0.10.1.0. I > see > that Kafka 0.10.1.0 should be backwards compatible with client > libraries > written for older versions but that newer client libraries are only > compatible with their version and up. > > My question is what disadvantages would there be to never upgrading > the > clients? I'm mainly asking because it would be advantageous to save > some > time here with a little technical debt if the costs weren't too high. > If > there are major issues then I can take on the client upgrade as well. > > Thanks in advance! > > -- > > In Christ, > > Timmy V. > > http://blog.twonegatives.com/ > http://five.sentenc.es/ -- Spend less time on mail -- Tommy Becker Senior Software Engineer O +1 919.460.4747 tivo.com ________________________________ This email and any attachments may contain confidential and privileged material for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any review, copying, or distribution of this email (or any attachments) by others is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender immediately and permanently delete this email and any attachments. No employee or agent of TiVo Inc. is authorized to conclude any binding agreement on behalf of TiVo Inc. by email. Binding agreements with TiVo Inc. may only be made by a signed written agreement.