diff --git a/lib/data/schema.js b/lib/data/schema.js
index c26fa01dc..6a8c4ad2c 100644
--- a/lib/data/schema.js
+++ b/lib/data/schema.js
@@ -610,11 +610,11 @@ const _addBranchIdAndTrunkVersion = (xml) => new Promise((pass, fail) => {
   parser.end();
 });
 
-const _updateEntityVersion = (xml, newVersion) => new Promise((pass, fail) => {
+const _updateEntityVersion = (xml, oldVersion, newVersion) => new Promise((pass, fail) => {
   const stack = [];
   const parser = new hparser.Parser({
     onattribute: (name, value) => {
-      if ((stripNamespacesFromPath(name) === 'entities-version') && (value === '2023.1.0')
+      if ((stripNamespacesFromPath(name) === 'entities-version') && (value === oldVersion)
         && (stack.length) === 2 && (stack[0] === 'html') && (stack[1] === 'head')) {
         const idx = parser._tokenizer._index;
         parser.reset();
@@ -636,10 +636,11 @@ const _updateEntityVersion = (xml, newVersion) => new Promise((pass, fail) => {
   parser.end();
 });
 
-const updateEntityForm = (xml, newVersion, suffix) =>
-  _updateEntityVersion(xml, newVersion)
+const updateEntityForm = (xml, oldVersion, newVersion, suffix) =>
+  _updateEntityVersion(xml, oldVersion, newVersion)
     .then(_addBranchIdAndTrunkVersion)
-    .then(x => addVersionSuffix(x, suffix));
+    .then(x => addVersionSuffix(x, suffix))
+    .catch(() => xml);
 
 module.exports = {
   getFormFields,
diff --git a/test/unit/data/schema.js b/test/unit/data/schema.js
index 725e4abd0..2037bc09b 100644
--- a/test/unit/data/schema.js
+++ b/test/unit/data/schema.js
@@ -2089,7 +2089,7 @@ describe('form schema', () => {
 
   describe('updateEntityForm', () => {
     it('should change version 2023->2024, add trunkVersion, and add branchId', () =>
-      updateEntityForm(testData.forms.updateEntity, '2024.1.0', '_upgrade').then((result) => result.should.equal(`<?xml version="1.0"?>
+      updateEntityForm(testData.forms.updateEntity, '2023.1.0', '2024.1.0', '_upgrade').then((result) => result.should.equal(`<?xml version="1.0"?>
 <h:html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms" xmlns:h="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:jr="http://openrosa.org/javarosa" xmlns:entities="http://www.opendatakit.org/xforms">
   <h:head>
     <model entities:entities-version="2024.1.0">
@@ -2110,6 +2110,12 @@ describe('form schema', () => {
     </model>
   </h:head>
 </h:html>`)));
+
+    it('should not alter a version 2022.1.0 form when the old version to replace is 2023.1.0', () =>
+      updateEntityForm(testData.forms.simpleEntity, '2023.1.0', '2024.1.0', '_upgrade').then((result) => result.should.equal(testData.forms.simpleEntity)));
+
+    it('should not alter a version 2024.1.0 form when the old version to replace is 2023.1.0', () =>
+      updateEntityForm(testData.forms.offlineEntity, '2023.1.0', '2024.1.0', '_upgrade').then((result) => result.should.equal(testData.forms.offlineEntity)));
   });
 });