Breaking changes
This topic describes breaking changes in SQL Server Replication.
This topic describes breaking changes in SQL Server Replication. These changes might break
applications, scripts, or functionalities that are based on earlier versions of SQL Server. You
might encounter these issues when you upgrade.
2016 (13.x) does not support replication to or from SQL Server 2005 (9.x) or SQL
Server Compact.
Replication Backward Compatibility