- Apiserver adds two new metrics `etcd_requests_total` and `etcd_request_errors_total` that allow users to monitor requests to etcd storage, split by operation and resource type. ([#117222](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/117222), [@iyear](https://github.com/iyear)) [SIG API Machinery]

- [`KT-57401`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-57401) Native: Regex matching zero length should split surrogate pairs
- [`KT-57359`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-57359) Provide Common StringBuilder.append/insert with primitive type arguments

- Added support for split image filesystem in kubelet. ([#120616](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/120616), [@kannon92](https://github.com/kannon92))

- `PidPressure` now evicts pods from lowest priority to highest priority ([#72844](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72844), [@dashpole](https://github.com/dashpole))
- Split up the mondo `kubernetes-test` tarball into `kubernetes-test-portable` and `kubernetes-test-{OS}-{ARCH}` tarballs. ([#74065](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74065), [@ixdy](https://github.com/ixdy))

### VMware

  - The schema for the alpha `CSINodeInfo` CRD has been split into `spec` and `status` fields, and new fields `status.available` and `status.volumePluginMechanism` added. Clusters using the previous alpha schema must delete and recreate the CRD using the new schema. ([#70515](https://github.com/kubernetes/ku...

* CRDs support metadata.generation and implement spec/status split ([#50764](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50764), [@nikhita](https://github.com/nikhita))

assigned the return values of <code>g</code> that remain after
assignment of regular parameters.
</p>

<pre>
func Split(s string, pos int) (string, string) {
	return s[0:pos], s[pos:]
}

func Join(s, t string) string {
	return s + t
}

if Join(Split(value, len(value)/2)) != value {
	log.Panic("test fails")
}
</pre>

<p>

* CRDs support metadata.generation and implement spec/status split ([#50764](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50764), [@nikhita](https://github.com/nikhita))