Backport fail shard w/o marking as stale PR to v6.3

Relates #28054

Author: dnhatn

server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/cluster/action/shard/ShardStateAction.java

@@ -365,7 +365,7 @@ public static class FailedShardEntry extends TransportRequest {
             primaryTerm = in.readVLong();
             message = in.readString();
             failure = in.readException();
-            if (in.getVersion().onOrAfter(Version.V_7_0_0_alpha1)) {
+            if (in.getVersion().onOrAfter(Version.V_6_3_0)) {
                 markAsStale = in.readBoolean();
             } else {
                 markAsStale = true;
@@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ public void writeTo(StreamOutput out) throws IOException {
             out.writeVLong(primaryTerm);
             out.writeString(message);
             out.writeException(failure);
-            if (out.getVersion().onOrAfter(Version.V_7_0_0_alpha1)) {
+            if (out.getVersion().onOrAfter(Version.V_6_3_0)) {
                 out.writeBoolean(markAsStale);
             }
         }
@@ -523,12 +523,12 @@ public static class StartedShardEntry extends TransportRequest {
             super(in);
             shardId = ShardId.readShardId(in);
             allocationId = in.readString();
-            if (in.getVersion().before(Version.V_7_0_0_alpha1)) {
+            if (in.getVersion().before(Version.V_6_3_0)) {
                 final long primaryTerm = in.readVLong();
                 assert primaryTerm == 0L : "shard is only started by itself: primary term [" + primaryTerm + "]";
             }
             this.message = in.readString();
-            if (in.getVersion().before(Version.V_7_0_0_alpha1)) {
+            if (in.getVersion().before(Version.V_6_3_0)) {
                 final Exception ex = in.readException();
                 assert ex == null : "started shard must not have failure [" + ex + "]";
             }
@@ -545,11 +545,11 @@ public void writeTo(StreamOutput out) throws IOException {
             super.writeTo(out);
             shardId.writeTo(out);
             out.writeString(allocationId);
-            if (out.getVersion().before(Version.V_7_0_0_alpha1)) {
+            if (out.getVersion().before(Version.V_6_3_0)) {
                 out.writeVLong(0L);
             }
             out.writeString(message);
-            if (out.getVersion().before(Version.V_7_0_0_alpha1)) {
+            if (out.getVersion().before(Version.V_6_3_0)) {
                 out.writeException(null);
             }
         }

server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/cluster/action/shard/ShardStateActionTests.java

@@ -423,7 +423,7 @@ private Exception getSimulatedFailure() {
 
     public void testShardEntryBWCSerialize() throws Exception {
         final Version bwcVersion = randomValueOtherThanMany(
-            version -> version.onOrAfter(Version.V_7_0_0_alpha1), () -> VersionUtils.randomVersion(random()));
+            version -> version.onOrAfter(Version.V_6_3_0), () -> VersionUtils.randomVersion(random()));
         final ShardId shardId = new ShardId(randomRealisticUnicodeOfLengthBetween(10, 100), UUID.randomUUID().toString(), between(0, 1000));
         final String allocationId = randomRealisticUnicodeOfCodepointLengthBetween(10, 100);
         final String reason = randomRealisticUnicodeOfCodepointLengthBetween(10, 100);