In a perfect world, the answer would have been YES but sadly the answer is NO.
When you're upgrading your Cisco ASA FW (in stages), the configuration will auto convert. Please note that you may forsee configuration missing issues with object-groups and NAT commands.
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Ramraj Sivagnanam Sivajanam