diff --git a/openedx/core/djangoapps/content/course_overviews/admin.py b/openedx/core/djangoapps/content/course_overviews/admin.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..17f8fa5e77
--- /dev/null
+++ b/openedx/core/djangoapps/content/course_overviews/admin.py
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+"""
+Django admin page for CourseOverviews, the basic metadata about a course that
+is used in user dashboard queries and other places where you need info like
+name, and start dates, but don't actually need to crawl into course content.
+"""
+from django.contrib import admin
+
+from .models import CourseOverview
+
+
+class CourseOverviewAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
+    """
+    Simple, read-only list/search view of Course Overviews.
+
+    The detail view is broken because our primary key for this model are
+    course keys, which can have a number of chars that break admin URLs.
+    There's probably a way to make this work properly, but I don't have the
+    time to investigate. I would normally disable the links by setting
+    `list_display_links = None`, but that's not a valid value for that
+    field in Django 1.4. So I'm left with creating a page where the detail
+    view links are all broken for Split courses. Because I only created
+    this page to manually test a hotfix, the list view works for this
+    purpose, and that's all the yak I have time to shave today.
+    """
+    list_display = [
+        'id',
+        'display_name',
+        'version',
+        'enrollment_start',
+        'enrollment_end',
+        'created',
+        'modified',
+    ]
+
+    search_fields = ['id', 'display_name']
+
+
+admin.site.register(CourseOverview, CourseOverviewAdmin)
diff --git a/openedx/core/djangoapps/content/course_overviews/models.py b/openedx/core/djangoapps/content/course_overviews/models.py
index b9af2cf470..b411be43cc 100644
--- a/openedx/core/djangoapps/content/course_overviews/models.py
+++ b/openedx/core/djangoapps/content/course_overviews/models.py
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ class CourseOverview(TimeStampedModel):
         """
         try:
             course_overview = cls.objects.get(id=course_id)
-            if course_overview.version != cls.VERSION:
+            if course_overview.version < cls.VERSION:
                 # Throw away old versions of CourseOverview, as they might contain stale data.
                 course_overview.delete()
                 course_overview = None
diff --git a/openedx/core/djangoapps/content/course_overviews/tests.py b/openedx/core/djangoapps/content/course_overviews/tests.py
index 7b1d33d410..6f4b88529e 100644
--- a/openedx/core/djangoapps/content/course_overviews/tests.py
+++ b/openedx/core/djangoapps/content/course_overviews/tests.py
@@ -374,3 +374,36 @@ class CourseOverviewTestCase(ModuleStoreTestCase):
                 # including after an IntegrityError exception the 2nd time
                 for _ in range(2):
                     self.assertIsInstance(CourseOverview.get_from_id(course.id), CourseOverview)
+
+    def test_course_overview_version_update(self):
+        """
+        Test that when we are running in a partially deployed state (where both
+        old and new CourseOverview.VERSION values are active), that we behave
+        properly. This assumes that all updates are backwards compatible, or
+        at least are backwards compatible between version N and N-1.
+        """
+        course = CourseFactory.create()
+        with mock.patch('openedx.core.djangoapps.content.course_overviews.models.CourseOverview.VERSION', new=10):
+            # This will create a version 10 CourseOverview
+            overview_v10 = CourseOverview.get_from_id(course.id)
+            self.assertEqual(overview_v10.version, 10)
+
+            # Now we're going to muck with the values and manually save it as v09
+            overview_v10.version = 9
+            overview_v10.save()
+
+            # Now we're going to ask for it again. Because 9 < 10, we expect
+            # that this entry will be deleted() and that we'll get back a new
+            # entry with version = 10 again.
+            updated_overview = CourseOverview.get_from_id(course.id)
+            self.assertEqual(updated_overview.version, 10)
+
+            # Now we're going to muck with this and set it a version higher in
+            # the database.
+            updated_overview.version = 11
+            updated_overview.save()
+
+            # Because CourseOverview is encountering a version *higher* than it
+            # knows how to write, it's not going to overwrite what's there.
+            unmodified_overview = CourseOverview.get_from_id(course.id)
+            self.assertEqual(unmodified_overview.version, 11)