In https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/85796 the `version.build_flavor` field was removed from the `/` API response. This API is marked as `stable` in the [API spec stub](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/blob/master/rest-api-spec/src/main/resources/rest-api-spec/api/info.json) and thus this removal should be considered a regression. The removal has started [causing issues for users of clients](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-java/issues/335) when they connect to 8.3.0+ of Elasticsearch.

My proposed fix is to add back the field with a static value of `default` and to change the removal of the field to the next major version instead.
server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/action/main/MainResponseTests.java
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package org.elasticsearch.action.main;
import org.elasticsearch.Build;
import org.elasticsearch.Version;
import org.elasticsearch.cluster.ClusterName;
import org.elasticsearch.common.Strings;
import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.Writeable;
import org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.XContentHelper;
import org.elasticsearch.test.AbstractSerializingTestCase;
import org.elasticsearch.test.VersionUtils;
import org.elasticsearch.xcontent.ToXContent;
import org.elasticsearch.xcontent.XContentBuilder;
import org.elasticsearch.xcontent.XContentFactory;
import org.elasticsearch.xcontent.XContentParser;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Date;
public class MainResponseTests extends AbstractSerializingTestCase<MainResponse> {