# Cassandra ScyllaDB Driver, which protocol version has support?

**URL:** <https://forum.scylladb.com/t/cassandra-scylladb-driver-which-protocol-version-has-support/4854>\
**Category:** ScyllaDB\
**Tags:** cassandra, drivers, community\
**Created:** [May 25, 2025, 4:06am UTC](https://forum.scylladb.com/t/cassandra-scylladb-driver-which-protocol-version-has-support/4854 "2025-05-25T04:06:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Guy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.scylladb.com/guy/32/9_2.png) [@Guy](https://forum.scylladb.com/u/Guy)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2025, 4:06am UTC](https://forum.scylladb.com/t/cassandra-scylladb-driver-which-protocol-version-has-support/4854/1 "2025-05-25T04:06:00Z")

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> [**Originally from the User Slack**](https://slack.scylladb.com/)
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> ![Joey_de_Waal](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/scylladb/original/2X/0/0f07b4ce980eb7d56ae2a39b5dba3c547e4f26d6.png) **@Joey\_de\_Waal:** Hi, for educational purposes I am writing a CassandraDB/ScyllaDB database driver and started implementing native protocol V5 while testing against cassandra db. Now I am trying to connect to scyllaDB (in Docker) it seems that V5 is not supported (and V4 is used in cqlsh). Will there be support for V5 or am I missing something?
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> ![avi](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/scylladb/original/1X/b5e08becda8d9df1abff1d3a2d9ffe1126ac3fc6.jpeg) **@avi:** v5 will come one day, but not being implemented now
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> ![Joey_de_Waal](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/scylladb/original/2X/0/0f07b4ce980eb7d56ae2a39b5dba3c547e4f26d6.png) **@Joey\_de\_Waal:** Thanks for the quick reply, I’ll implement V4 as well then!