We need to track any changes to the mpich wire protocol. This new document in the mpich source describes a PMI 1.1 wire protocol that differs quite a bit from what we have now. However we have only found one interoperability problem between that version of mpich and flux so far.
https://github.com/pmodels/mpich/blob/main/src/pmi/maint/pmi-1.1.txt
See also pmodels/mpich#7050