It depends how you launch the slave. There is a good description on the wiki which can guide you.
See https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Distributed+builds#Distributedbuilds-Differentwaysofstartingslaveagents Mark Waite >________________________________ > From: zakyn <zakvladi...@gmail.com> >To: jenkinsci-users@googlegroups.com >Sent: Saturday, January 5, 2013 7:14 AM >Subject: Upgrade of Jenkins - is it necessary to upgrade slaves too? > > >Hello, > >I would like to upgrade my old Jenkins to the LTS Jenkins and I have a slave >too. Should I anyhow upgrade the slave agent too or not? > >Thanks a lot. > >Zakyn > >