# Filebeats and Kafka versions
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeats-and-kafka-versions/90677
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [June 23, 2017, 6:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeats-and-kafka-versions/90677 "2017-06-23T18:14:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@StivOstenberg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/StivOstenberg)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2017, 6:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeats-and-kafka-versions/90677/1 "2017-06-23T18:14:46Z")
When will 10.2.0 be supported? We were able to connect to it by lying about the version, but then SSL failed when we tried to enable. We are dropping back to a supported version, but causing some dependency ripples .
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### Author:  [@steffens](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/steffens)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2017, 11:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeats-and-kafka-versions/90677/2 "2017-06-26T11:19:04Z")
SSL failure should not depend on kafka version. The kafka protocol sits on top of the TLS/SSL protocol. There have been some updates to the wire protocol (which should not affect producers I think). Plus, the kafka brokers are normally backwards compatible in the kafka protocol usage as well (every protocol Message type is versioned).
You can follow progress on this [github issue](https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/4557).
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2017, 11:19am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeats-and-kafka-versions/90677/3 "2017-07-24T11:19:15Z")
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