diff --git a/doc/rfcs/0001-separate-component-version-in-cluster.md b/doc/rfcs/0001-separate-component-version-in-cluster.md
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+# Separate Component Version in Cluster
+
+## Summary
+
+Add a version field to each component on topology file. Allow user to upgrade single component to given version.
+
+## Motivation
+
+- New component TiDB Dashboard need to deployed with TiDB but not release with TiDB. Need a way to specify Dashboard version when deployment and upgrade.
+- User want to upgrade node_exporter without upgrade TiDB cluster
+- Maybe it could replace tiup cluster patch function to provide patch version of single component
+
+## Detailed design
+
+1. ~~add "latest" alias to tiup download function.It cloud be used to download latest release package of component.~~ just use "" as latest alias
+
+2. add ComponentVersions struct to topology
+
+```
+// ComponentVersions represents the versions of components
+ComponentVersions struct {
+	TiDB         string `yaml:"tidb,omitempty"`
+	TiKV         string `yaml:"tikv,omitempty"`
+	TiFlash      string `yaml:"tiflash,omitempty"`
+	PD           string `yaml:"pd,omitempty"`
+	Dashboard    string `yaml:"tidb_dashboard,omitempty"`
+	Pump         string `yaml:"pump,omitempty"`
+	Drainer      string `yaml:"drainer,omitempty"`
+	CDC          string `yaml:"cdc,omitempty"`
+	TiKVCDC      string `yaml:"kvcdc,omitempty"`
+	TiProxy      string `yaml:"tiproxy,omitempty"`
+	Prometheus   string `yaml:"prometheus,omitempty"`
+	Grafana      string `yaml:"grafana,omitempty"`
+	AlertManager string `yaml:"alertmanager,omitempty"`
+}
+```
+
+3. add node_exporter and blackbox_exporter version to MonitoredOptions struct
+
+```
+MonitoredOptions struct {
+    ...
+	NodeExporterVersion     string    `yaml:"node_exporter_version,omitempty" default:"latest"`
+	BlackboxExporterVersion string    `yaml:"blackbox_exporter_version,omitempty" default:"latest"`
+    ...
+	}
+```
+
+4. Add CalculateVersion for each component struct. It returns cluster version if component version is not set for components like pd, tikv. It returns "" by default for components like alertmanager
+
+5. Add flags to specify component versions
+
+6. Merge ComponentVersion struct when scale-out
+
+7. apply those version to deploy,scale-out and upgrade command
diff --git a/pkg/cluster/spec/spec.go b/pkg/cluster/spec/spec.go
index c30ac7cecc..0ddfbee29b 100644
--- a/pkg/cluster/spec/spec.go
+++ b/pkg/cluster/spec/spec.go
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ type (
 		GlobalOptions     GlobalOptions        `yaml:"global,omitempty" validate:"global:editable"`
 		MonitoredOptions  MonitoredOptions     `yaml:"monitored,omitempty" validate:"monitored:editable"`
 		ComponentVersions ComponentVersions    `yaml:"component_versions,omitempty" validate:"component_versions:editable"`
-		ComponentSources  ComponentSources     `yaml:"component_sources,omitempty" validate:"component_versions:editable"`
+		ComponentSources  ComponentSources     `yaml:"component_sources,omitempty" validate:"component_sources:editable"`
 		ServerConfigs     ServerConfigs        `yaml:"server_configs,omitempty" validate:"server_configs:ignore"`
 		TiDBServers       []*TiDBSpec          `yaml:"tidb_servers"`
 		TiKVServers       []*TiKVSpec          `yaml:"tikv_servers"`