SP9 to SP14 patching question

Quick question:
We are -presently- developing via our NWDI under SP9 components. And we are about to patch it up to SP14.
Will there be issues for our applications that are developed in an SP14 environment?
Or SP14 should totally be backward compatible with all SP9 components?

so we are open to faults in our applications after the patching? we would eventually run a regression test after patching.
We have to bump it up to 14 to we can implement FPN with our BI-Portal -- so it's a must that we patch from 9 to 14.
Thanks for the reply Koti.
-Jan

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ak
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