Can I use BulkOutputFormat from 1.1 to load data to older Cassandra versions?

[Erik Forsberg]

Hi!

Can the new BulkOutputFormat 
(https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-3045) be used to load 
data to servers running cassandra 0.8.7 and/or Cassandra 1.0.6?

I'm thinking of using jar files from the development version to load 
data onto a production cluster which I want to keep on a production 
version of Cassandra. Can I do that, or does BulkOutputFormat require an 
API level that is only in the development version of Cassandra?

Thanks,
\EF