diff --git a/caffe2/serialize/inline_container.h b/caffe2/serialize/inline_container.h
index ae802d664f6..4f475e43887 100644
--- a/caffe2/serialize/inline_container.h
+++ b/caffe2/serialize/inline_container.h
@@ -133,6 +133,18 @@ constexpr uint64_t kMaxSupportedFileFormatVersion = 0x5L;
 //      when given bool or integer fill values.
 constexpr uint64_t kProducedFileFormatVersion = 0x3L;
 
+// the version we write when the archive contains bytecode.
+// It must be higher or eq to kProducedFileFormatVersion.
+// Because torchscript changes is likely introduce bytecode change,
+// if kProducedFileFormatVersion is increased, kProducedBytecodeVersion
+// should be increased too. The relationship is:
+// kMaxSupportedFileFormatVersion >= (most likely ==) kProducedBytecodeVersion
+//   >= kProducedFileFormatVersion
+constexpr uint64_t kProducedBytecodeVersion = 0x3L;
+
+static_assert(kProducedBytecodeVersion >= kProducedFileFormatVersion,
+    "kProducedBytecodeVersion must be higher or equal to kProducedFileFormatVersion.");
+
 // Writer-specific constants
 constexpr uint64_t kFieldAlignment = 64;
 
diff --git a/torch/csrc/jit/mobile/import.cpp b/torch/csrc/jit/mobile/import.cpp
index 25f812805e9..4eeac9815da 100644
--- a/torch/csrc/jit/mobile/import.cpp
+++ b/torch/csrc/jit/mobile/import.cpp
@@ -16,21 +16,18 @@
 
 // The import process to serialize the bytecode package.
 // An example for bytecode.pkl of a small mobile_module looks like:
-//  (('__torch__.m.add_it',
-//    (('instructions',
-//      (('STOREN', 1, 2),
-//       ('MOVE', 1, 0),
-//       ('GET_ATTR', 0, 0),
-//       ('MOVE', 2, 0),
-//       ('LOADC', 0, 0),
-//       ('OP', 0, 0),
-//       ('LOADC', 1, 0),
-//       ('LOADC', 0, 0),
-//       ('OP', 1, 0),
-//       ('RET', 0, 0))),
-//     ('operators', (('_aten::add', 'Tensor'), ('_aten::add', 'Scalar'))),
-//     ('constants', (1, 4)),
-//     ('register_size', 2))),)
+// (3,
+//   ('__torch__.m.forward',
+//     (('instructions',
+//       (('STOREN', 1, 2),
+//        ('DROPR', 1, 0),
+//        ('MOVE', 2, 0),
+//        ('OP', 0, 0),
+//        ('RET', 0, 0))),
+//      ('operators', (('aten::Int', 'Tensor'),)),
+//      ('constants', ()),
+//      ('types', ()),
+//      ('register_size', 2))))
 
 // Note that currently the backward compatibility is not supported by bytecode.
 // This format and process need to be revisted and redesigned if we want to
@@ -87,7 +84,28 @@ void print_unsupported_ops_and_throw(
 void parseMethods(
     const std::vector<IValue>& vals,
     mobile::CompilationUnit& mcu) {
-  for (const auto& element : vals) {
+  TORCH_CHECK(
+      vals.size() > 0,
+      "Bytecode has no elements. ");
+  // Initialized with the version number when kProducedBytecodeVersion was
+  // introduced. The old models (some of them already in production) without
+  // version number don't have to be re-generated.
+  int64_t model_version = 0x3L;
+  size_t method_i_start = 0;
+  if (vals[0].isInt()) {
+    model_version = vals[0].toInt();
+    method_i_start = 1;
+  }
+  TORCH_CHECK(
+      model_version == caffe2::serialize::kProducedBytecodeVersion,
+      "Lite Interpreter verson number does not match. ",
+      "The code version is ",
+      caffe2::serialize::kProducedBytecodeVersion,
+      " but the model version is ",
+      model_version);
+
+  for (size_t i = method_i_start; i < vals.size(); ++i) {
+    const auto& element = vals[i];
     const auto& m_tuple = element.toTuple()->elements();
     const std::string& function_name = m_tuple[0].toStringRef();
     IValue table = m_tuple[1];
@@ -136,7 +154,6 @@ void parseMethods(
             op_item[0].toString()->string(), op_item[1].toString()->string()));
       }
     }
-
     if (!unsupported_op_names.empty()) {
       print_unsupported_ops_and_throw(unsupported_op_names);
     };
diff --git a/torch/csrc/jit/serialization/export_module.cpp b/torch/csrc/jit/serialization/export_module.cpp
index 59dc4139317..5c7926eb898 100644
--- a/torch/csrc/jit/serialization/export_module.cpp
+++ b/torch/csrc/jit/serialization/export_module.cpp
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
 #include <torch/csrc/jit/passes/inliner.h>
 #include <torch/csrc/jit/runtime/instruction.h>
 #include <torch/csrc/jit/serialization/import_export_constants.h>
-#include <torch/csrc/jit/serialization/import_export_functions.h>
 #include <torch/csrc/jit/serialization/import_export_helpers.h>
 #include <torch/csrc/jit/serialization/pickle.h>
 #include <torch/csrc/jit/serialization/python_print.h>
@@ -301,6 +300,8 @@ class ScriptModuleSerializer {
 
   void writeByteCode(const Module& module) {
     std::vector<c10::IValue> elements;
+    elements.emplace_back(
+        static_cast<int64_t>(caffe2::serialize::kProducedBytecodeVersion));
     moduleMethodsTuple(module, elements);
     auto telements = Tup(std::move(elements));
     writeArchive("bytecode", telements);