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Downgrade rabbitmq-server from version 3.8.9 to 3.7.11 #2735

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@anandtripathi5 RabbitMQ does not support in place downgrades. There are internal data store migrations, message store or Raft log format changes, and other kind of changes that are irreversible. You can use the Blue/Green deployment strategy to move from one cluster to another.

However, I strongly believe that it would be wrong for you to downgrade. First of all, the classic config format is absolutely supported by 3.8, from an additional advanced.config file to accompany the main rabbitmq.conf to the good old rabbitmq.config in the classic Erlang term config format. In fact, rabbitmq.conf is validated and then translated to the Erlang term format under the hood, so removing support for …

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This discussion was converted from issue #2734 on January 21, 2021 11:16.