From 233e0cb8c3a723f57d578be2179284e4eb9d017d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Eads <deads@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 4 May 2022 15:47:03 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] enforce strict alpha handling for API serving

---
 staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/server/deleted_kinds.go | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/server/deleted_kinds.go b/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/server/deleted_kinds.go
index ab10774cbe0..d29831022dc 100644
--- a/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/server/deleted_kinds.go
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/server/deleted_kinds.go
@@ -54,7 +54,10 @@ type ResourceExpirationEvaluator interface {
 }
 
 func NewResourceExpirationEvaluator(currentVersion apimachineryversion.Info) (ResourceExpirationEvaluator, error) {
-	ret := &resourceExpirationEvaluator{}
+	ret := &resourceExpirationEvaluator{
+		// TODO https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/109799 set this back to false after beta is tagged.
+		strictRemovedHandlingInAlpha: true,
+	}
 	if len(currentVersion.Major) > 0 {
 		currentMajor64, err := strconv.ParseInt(currentVersion.Major, 10, 32)
 		if err != nil {