Newer and older versions of Spotfire Analyst client can be used to connect to the current version of Spotfire Server, in order to upgrade or downgrade the client packages. This makes it easy to ensure the same version is used by clients and the selected deployment area on the server.

Even though it might be possible to connect without upgrading or downgrading (a setting is available to enforce it on the Deployments & Packages page, see Adding software packages to a deployment area for more information), it is recommended to run the same version of client and server in production environments. See System Requirements.

It is possible to downgrade all Spotfire installations after version 7.13 back to version 7.11 LTS. For example, if you are running 10.3 LTS, you could downgrade to 7.11, 7.12, 7.13, 10.0, 10.1 and 10.2. Note that if you downgrade to 7.12 you will not be able to downgrade from that version to 7.11 LTS, because the functionality to downgrade is not available in that version. First upgrade to a higher version than 7.12 and, from there, downgrade to 7.11 LTS if that is needed.