[@_ck_ Participant 16 years, 5 months ago]

There are only minor changes from bbPress 0.9 templates to 1.0 templates – you will just not have a few minor features that are new in 1.0 with a bbPress 0.9 template. You might have to make only a couple of minor adjustments after upgrading.

However the reverse is not true – a 1.0 template will not work with 0.9 – it breaks a great deal of backward compatibility.