Upgrade is not working on canister

tried stepping through the versions to see where it shows up

DFX_VERSION=0.9.3; no issue
DFX_VERSION=0.10.1; no issue deploying after upgrade but had to use --clean
DFX_VERSION=0.11.2; now issue shows up…
dfx upgrade; 0.12.0 same issue

is there a project specific upgrade call?