if strings.HasPrefix(kubever.KubeadmVersion, "v0.0.0") {
		return nil, nil
	}

	kadmVersion, err := versionutil.ParseSemantic(kubever.KubeadmVersion)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, []error{errors.Wrapf(err, "couldn't parse kubeadm version %q", kubever.KubeadmVersion)}
	}

	k8sVersion, err := versionutil.ParseSemantic(kubever.KubernetesVersion)
	if err != nil {

	if err := configutil.NormalizeKubernetesVersion(&initCfg.ClusterConfiguration); err != nil {
		return err
	}

	// Use normalized version string in all following code.
	newK8sVersion, err := version.ParseSemantic(initCfg.KubernetesVersion)
	if err != nil {
		return errors.Errorf("unable to parse normalized version %q as a semantic version", initCfg.KubernetesVersion)
	}

		}
		if component.Name == constants.Kubeadm {
			beforeKubeadmVersion = component.CurrentVersion
			afterKubeadmVersion = component.NewVersion
		}
	}

	newK8sVersion, err := version.ParseSemantic(kubeVersion)
	if err != nil {
		return errors.Wrapf(err, "Unable to parse normalized version %q as a semantic version", kubeVersion)
	}

	unstableVersionFlag := ""
	if len(newK8sVersion.PreRelease()) != 0 {

	}

	cfg.KubernetesVersion = ver

	// Parse the given kubernetes version and make sure it's higher than the lowest supported
	k8sVersion, err := version.ParseSemantic(cfg.KubernetesVersion)
	if err != nil {
		return errors.Wrapf(err, "couldn't parse Kubernetes version %q", cfg.KubernetesVersion)
	}

func EtcdSupportedVersion(supportedEtcdVersion map[uint8]string, versionString string) (etcdVersion *version.Version, warning, err error) {
	kubernetesVersion, err := version.ParseSemantic(versionString)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, nil, err
	}
	desiredVersion, etcdStringVersion := uint8(kubernetesVersion.Minor()), ""

	min, max := ^uint8(0), uint8(0)

func getLatestClusterVersion(kubeAPIServerVersions map[string][]string) (*versionutil.Version, error) {
	var latestVersion *versionutil.Version
	for versionStr, nodes := range kubeAPIServerVersions {
		ver, err := versionutil.ParseSemantic(versionStr)
		if err != nil {
			return nil, fmt.Errorf("couldn't parse kube-apiserver version %s from nodes %v", versionStr, nodes)
		}
		if latestVersion == nil || ver.AtLeast(latestVersion) {
			latestVersion = ver

	// or the kubeadm preferred one for the desired Kubernetes version
	var desiredEtcdVersion *version.Version
	if cfg.Etcd.Local.ImageTag != "" {
		desiredEtcdVersion, err = version.ParseSemantic(
			convertImageTagMetadataToSemver(cfg.Etcd.Local.ImageTag))
		if err != nil {
			return true, errors.Wrapf(err, "failed to parse tag %q as a semantic version", cfg.Etcd.Local.ImageTag)
		}
	} else {