# Is custom plugin creation methodology and code same for Kibana 7 and 8?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-custom-plugin-creation-methodology-and-code-same-for-kibana-7-and-8/313236>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** kibana-plugin-development\
**Created:** [August 30, 2022, 9:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-custom-plugin-creation-methodology-and-code-same-for-kibana-7-and-8/313236 "2022-08-30T09:39:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sheereen](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sheereen/32/122005_2.png) [@Sheereen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Sheereen)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2022, 9:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-custom-plugin-creation-methodology-and-code-same-for-kibana-7-and-8/313236/1 "2022-08-30T09:39:15Z")

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Hi,

I have already started creating a custom external plugin (using React) in Kibana 8.5 source code.

Can I install the same plugin in any version of Kibana, given I specify the same (version) when building the plugin?

In a document, I saw there are a couple of changes to me made in plugins.. when moving from version 7 to 8.

Are Kibana 8 plugins backward compatible?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2022, 9:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-custom-plugin-creation-methodology-and-code-same-for-kibana-7-and-8/313236/2 "2022-09-27T09:39:32Z")

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**Author:** ![cheiligers](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/cheiligers/32/73114_2.png) [@cheiligers](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cheiligers)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2022, 6:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-custom-plugin-creation-methodology-and-code-same-for-kibana-7-and-8/313236/3 "2022-09-28T18:23:25Z")

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@Sheereen,  
Kiaban doesn't support backwards compatibility between major versions, so if you try to install your 8.5 plugin in a 7.x version, it's not going to work out of the box.

If you really want to give it a try, then you could try to reverse engineer the breaking changes and code changes between 7 & 8 but it's probably going to take longer (and be more frustrating) than building the plugin from scratch directly in the 7.x code.

To summarize, no, Kibana 8 plugins aren't backward compatible across major versions.