- Support a smooth upgrade from client-side apply to server-side apply without conflicts, as well as support the corresponding downgrade. ([#90187](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/90187), [@julianvmodesto](https://github.com/julianvmodesto)) [SIG API Machinery and Testing]

            return false;
        }
        return true;
    }

    /**
     * Validates if the canonical URL is valid relative to the original URL.
     * Specifically checks for HTTPS to HTTP downgrades.
     *
     * @param url the original URL
     * @param canonicalUrl the canonical URL to validate
     * @return true if the canonical URL is valid, false otherwise
     */

* Fix GCE etcd scripts to pass in all required parameters for the etcd migration utility to correctly perform HA upgrades and downgrades ([#61957](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61957), [@jpbetz](https://github.com/jpbetz))

- fluentd-elasticsearch is unchanged from 1.10: v2.0.4 ([#58525](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/58525))
- The fluent-plugin-kubernetes_metadata_filter plugin in fluentd-elasticsearch has been downgraded to version 2.0.0 ([#67544](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67544))
- fluentd-gcp is unchanged from 1.10: v3.0.0. ([#60722](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60722))